Track Listing

1. Indian Poker, Pt. 3
2. Pussyfootin'
3. Vincent Come on Down
4. This Little Piggy
5. Strung
6. Hot Seat Can't Sit Down
7. Vulgar Trade
8. Beekeepers Maxim
9. Kiss Me U Jacked up Jerk
10. 70 KG Man
11. Indian Poker, Pt. 2
12. Nothing Ever Changes
13. I Am a Cracked Machine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #164270 in Music
• Released on: 1996-03-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

No Brainer - it's great!
I just want to agree with Don Lethbridge. This is a great album; I only stumbled across Brainiac very recently but I'm hooked on their mix of straight-ahead rock with alternative/avant garde weirdness. My personal favourite on this album is 'I Am A Cracked Machine', which ust about sums up everything in 2008.

Brainiac's finest hour
A stunning piece of work from back in 1996. Back then Brainiac seemed to be somewhat in the shadow of their more famous label mates, Girls vs Boys. It is fairly easy to see why comparisons between the bands were made. Eli Janney from Girls vs Boys lends his superb production skills and both bands have managed to integrate keyboards, samples and bizarre fx processing into their music while retaining the energy rush associated with guitar based alt. rock. Hissing Prigs... is actually like nothing you have ever heard either before or since. Superbly paced throughout, the album opens (somewhat oddly on initial listens) with a fairly low key mid-tempo dirty guitar which is soon juxtaposed with fairly indecipherable yet weirdly beautiful vocals - and then bam! we're off - Brainaic stop pussyfooting around and launch into er... "Pussyfootin'".. Equal parts adrenalin rush, inpossibly cool rock swagger, crazy lyrics made even more ridiculous by being pitch shifted down to accompany the immense bass groove. "Vincent come on down" takes the tempo up another notch with its frenetic drumming and then just when you thought it couldn't get any more weird a computer generated voice sings on "This Little Piggy". I could carry on to describe every song but in reality if you haven't heard the album it won't make any sense. There is a theme here... it shouldn't work - but it does... and then some. Like all works of genius you can't even begin to comprehend what was going through their minds when they were making the album. As such it takes a fair while to decipher the whole thing. There are instantly accessible tracks like "Nothing Ever Changes" and "Hot Seat Can't Sit Down" but others such as "The Vulgar Trade" and "Beekeeper's Maxim" reveal their depth after many listens and it is these tracks which really give the album the variety and sense of completeness which mark out the truly great works. Buy it!!! You will not be disappointed.