Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
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Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy (often abbreviated FGWSSS or just Frankenstein Girls) is the second album by New York City
New York City
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 band Mindless Self Indulgence
Mindless Self Indulgence
Mindless Self Indulgence is an American musical group formed in New York in 1997. Their music has a mixed style including rap, punk rock, alternative rock, electronica, techno and industrial...

 released in 2000
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. The album is the follow-up to the album Tight
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. The original album name, according to the few promo discs released, is Frankenstein Girls That Seem Strangely Sexy.

It is the last studio album to feature Vanessa YT as their bass player, as well as the only album featuring her to still be in print as of late, and the last album by them to feature a message from their answering machine ("M", in which the caller accuses them of homosexuality) as one of the tracks. However, answering machine samples are present on The Left Rights' 2010 album Bad Choices Made Easy.

The track listing on the back cover has all the vowels replaced with asterisks, even in those words that wouldn't generally be considered offensive, as a form of protest against censorship
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. The tracks of this album are also in alphabetical order.

The cover of the album was drawn by Jamie Hewlett
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, the artist known for Tank Girl
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, and more recently, Gorillaz
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. Hewlett offered to make a music video for a song on the album but was rejected by Elektra
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.

Promo/Advance copies of the album featured slightly different "skit" tracks from those featured on the final version.

Track listing

All songs by Little Jimmy Urine except when noted.
  1. "Backmask" – 3:01
  2. "Bitches" (Urine, Steven Severin
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    , Siouxsie Sioux
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    ) – 2:44
    • Features samples from Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Happy House"
  3. "Boomin'" – 1:23
  4. "Clarissa" – 1:57
  5. "Cocaine and Toupees" – 1:52
  6. "Dicks Are for My Friends" (Urine, Righ?) – 1:15
  7. "F" – 0:13
  8. "Faggot" – 2:46
  9. "Futures" – 1:27
  10. "Golden I" – 2:07
  11. "Harry Truman" – 1:39
  12. "Holy Shit" (Urine, Righ?) – 1:45
  13. "I Hate Jimmy Page
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    " - 3:35
  14. "I'm Your Problem Now" – 1:56
  15. "J" – 0:24
  16. "Keepin' up with the Kids" – 1:45
  17. "Kick the Bucket" (Urine, Righ?) – 1:45
  18. "Kill the Rock" – 2:04
  19. "Last Time I Tried to Rock Your World" – 1:47
  20. "London Bridge" – 1:51
  21. "M" – 0:14
  22. "Masturbates" – 2:50
  23. "Planet of the Apes" – 2:12
  24. "Played" – 2:19
  25. "Ready for Love" – 2:06
  26. "Royally Fucked" – 1:52
  27. "Seven-Eleven" (Urine, Righ?) – 1:33
  28. "Step up, Ghetto Blaster" – 2:23
  29. "Whipstickagostop" (Righ?) – 2:38
  30. "Z" (Righ?) – 0:50

Personnel

  • Little Jimmy Urine — Lead vocals, programming
  • Steve, Righ? — Lead guitar, backup vocals
  • Vanessa YT — Bass guitar
  • Kitty — Drums
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