Dos Dedos Mis Amigos

Dos Dedos Mis Amigos
Studio album by Pop Will Eat Itself
Released	19 September 1994
Recorded	1993-1994
Genre	Grebo, industrial rock, rap rock, psychedelic rock
Length	47:03
Label	Infectious Records (UK) Nothing Records (US)
Producer	PWEI, Bryan "Chuck" New
Pop Will Eat Itself chronology
The Looks or the Lifestyle? (1992) Dos Dedos Mis Amigos (1994) New Noise Designed by a Sadist (2011)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
NME	6/10[2]
Hot Press	8/12[3]
Metal Hammer	6/7[4]
Alternative Press	positive[5]
Record Collector	[6]

Dos Dedos Mis Amigos is an album from UK alternative band Pop Will Eat Itself. The album was somewhat different from PWEI's other albums, as it had more of an industrial influence and fewer samples were used.

The album

The opening song "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" was based on the uprise of racial tension throughout Britain during 1994, and featured an over-the-top video of the bandmembers mocking the industrial scene dressed up very bizarrely, and guitarists Richard March and Adam Mole playing very large guitars. The album cover art was designed by famous British design firm The Designers Republic.

Reception

Record Collector said it was "arguably their best" album, adding that several songs on their later album Anti-Nasty League (2015) "credibly hark back to the Poppies at their hard-hitting, Dos Dedos-era best."^[7]

Track listing

1. "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" (Clint Mansell, Pance) – 3:59
2. "Kick to Kill" (Crabb) – 3:24
3. "Familus Horribilus" (Townshend, Crabb) – 4:03
4. "Underbelly" (Mansell, Pance) – 3:58
5. "Fatman" (Mansell, Pance) – 3:17
6. "Home" (Townshend, Crabb)– 3:36
7. "Cape Connection" (Crabb) – 4:59
8. "Menofearthereaper" (Crabb) – 6:27
9. "Everything's Cool" (Mansell, Pance) – 4:17
10. "R.S.V.P." (Crabb) – 3:32
11. "Babylon" (Crabb) – 5:04

Japanese edition bonus tracks

12. "Intense"
13. "C.P. I #2"
14. "Wild West"
15. "Let It Flow"

Notes

• Dos Dedos Mis Amigos translates as 'Two Fingers My Friends' in Spanish, which was the name of the follow-up remixed version of the album.
• "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" translates as 'I'm a foreigner' in German, but the word must be "Ausländer", with the umlaut.
• "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" contains a dry-sample guitar of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir", while "Everything's Cool" contains a sample from "Thieves" by Ministry. "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" also samples Brad Fiedel's theme tune to Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
• "Familus Horribilus" samples Black Sabbath's "Symptom of the Universe" from the album Sabotage.
• This was the only PWEI album (excluding the Amalgamation EP) released on Trent Reznor's Nothing Records, although Clint Mansell would collaborate with Trent Reznor on various future projects.
• In 2001 Information Society lead singer Kurt Harland created a track called Ausoween by combining "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" and "This is Halloween" from the film The Nightmare Before Christmas.
• Several tracks from this release were featured in the soundtrack to the PlayStation video game "Loaded."

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