Mindless Self Indulgence Never Wanted to Dance Dance Revolution In Latest Video

Written by 2.o | January 19, 2009

I’ve been following the band Mindless Self Indulgence for the last 12 years or so, but there’s a good chance you may have never heard of them. They came out of the NYC techno/industrial scene of the late 1990s, but MSI has never really broken into the mainstream (except for that time when Lyn-Z married Gerard from My Chemical Romance), and has happily sat on the fringe of pop-culture generally describing their sound as Industrial Jungle Pussy Punk. While I’ve never really been able to really describe what that sound is, they’re a welcome break from any form of mainstream music, with a wholly unique sound, and put on some of the best live shows … evar.

If my memory serves me correctly, most of the members of the band are gamers, and they make that pretty apparent in one of their newest music videos for their song “Never Wanted To Dance” which owes most of its’ inspiration to Konami’s “Dance Dance Revolution.” While it’s not the first time the band has shown some love for video games (I believe their first album, Tight was mixed on an old skool Atari computer), it’s definitely one of the most blatant.

The song is pretty great, and so are most of the “DDR” dancers in the game, and it’s at this point in the article, that I would issue some kind of a last-man-standing type challenge to any members of MSI to play me in “DDR,” but I’m certain I’d get destroyed. I’ll leave those kinds of challenges to my old boss.

I personally think the band is amazing (and it’s not just because I may have shot their DVD cover), and while you and the other guys at TGH might not agree with me, the video is still pretty impressive. It’s not often that two things I love collide in such an awesome display of awesomeness, and the video is totally worth checking out.

“Never Wanted To Dance” Music Video from Mindless Self Indulgence on Vimeo.