Mit Gas
Released: October 30, 2001
Best songs:Capt. Midnight, May Day, Aktion F1413
This album has a more electronic feel to it. More synthesizers are used, and it loses some of the western-vibe that went with the first album. Mike still loves his megaphone throughout many songs. It seems to have more Mike influences with some odd sounding songs, but it is still fairly straight-forward compared to other Mike projects. It doesn’t have as many stand out songs as the first one album though.
While touring, they decided to play in cop and security guard outfits.
Song: Birdsong
Appropriately, the song has bird noises before kicking into the song itself. The song covers how people tell lies to each other, and how they need the lies to function like how a bird regurgitates when feeding its young.
Song: Rape This Day
I believe this was the only single released from the album. There was a video made for it, at least. It has a single guitar line through the verses of the song, while it explodes during the chorus. Jocks would be a fan of this song, even though it is making fun of them.
Song: You Can’t Win
Very minimal song instrument-wise. It could be about police brutality or just a racist police officer in general. The police like to start riots as an excuse to beat the crap out of anyone not white. When you think the song is over, it isn’t. More minimal sounds are made for another minute before moving onto the next song.
Song: May Day
Continuing with the police theme, it starts out sounding like police sirens a bit. The verses are sung in and out of a megaphone with the singing coming from one speaker for one line and out the other speaker for another one. Nice effect. It is also the first time on this album that I have run into some lyrics that I love: “I’m putting in my two weeks notice, as of two fucking weeks ago.”
Song: Rotgut
You really can’t beat the first line in the song, “In the scrotum of your dreams, you turn your first trick for free.” I guess that’s another way of saying the bottom of your dreams? The rest of the song is very visual in its lyrics too. It doesn’t have a lot of melody though so it isn’t one of my favorites.
Song: Capt. Midnight
I love this song the most. It would be the one I would save from the burning fire. The one thing that makes me crazy though is that I want it to repeat the chorus again. It is only sung once and the song is fairly short. I am waiting for it after the second verse, but then the song is over. So sad. 
As for the song, it seems to be about unrequited love and the one not getting what he wants is a tad angry about it.
Song: Desastre Natural
It is entirely in Spanish. It seems to be about a volcano. That must be the natural disaster. It’s a slow and pretty song.
Song: When the Stars Begin to Fall
Sung very quickly about a girl falling (or murdered?) and her boyfriend seems to think it should have been him.
Song: Harelip
It appears that Mike is singing from the point of view of a harelip that has been removed through surgery and how it feels about it. In case anyone was wondering.
Song: Harlem Clown
Not much of a song. Instrumental for the most part with a listing of musical artists towards the end. Nothing too special and I usually skip it.
Song: Aktion F1413
A robotic voice lists the basic principles of hand-to-hand combat. In between the principles is pretty singing. I really like the singing so I’ll listen to the crazy robotic voice in between. The song also reminds me of Mr. Bungle’s Merry Go Bye Bye since half way through the song is distorted noises and what sounds like record scratching. I do like the pretty singing though.
