''The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move... It's the Infectious Grooves'' is the debut album by

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, released in 1991. The song "Therapy" featured vocals from

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. The album introduces the character Sarsippius.

Reception

Some of the songs received airplay on

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, including "Therapy" and "Punk It Up". Steve Huey from

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praised the album, calling it "an unabashed good-time party record". The album charted at 198 on the

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and 6 on the

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Track listing

# "Punk It Up" (Muir/Trujillo) – 3:51 # "Therapy" (Muir/Trujillo) – 3:25 # "I Look Funny?" (Muir/Sarsippius) – 0:26 # "Stop Funk'n with My Head" (Dunn/Muir/Trujillo) – 3:23 # "I'm Gonna Be My King" (Dunn/Muir/Trujillo) – 5:23 # "Closed Session" (Muir/Sarsippius) – 1:19 # "Infectious Grooves" (Dunn/Muir/Trujillo) – 4:13 # "Infectious Blues" (Muir/Trujillo) – 0:43 # "Monster Skank" (Muir/Trujillo) – 3:42 # "Back to the People" (Infectious Grooves) – 2:46 # "Turn Your Head" (Muir/Sarsippius) – 1:19 # "You Lie...And Yo Breath Stank" (Muir/Trujillo) – 2:55 # "Do the Sinister" (Muir/Trujillo) – 4:15 # "Mandatory Love Song" (Muir) – 0:09 # "Infecto Groovalistic" (Muir/Trujillo) – 5:05 # "Thanx But No Thanx" (Muir/Sarsippius) – 1:54

Credits

* Greg Calbi – mastering *

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– percussion, conga, drums * Mark Dodson – producer, mixing * Dave Dunn – keyboards *

Rocky George Leonard F. George (born January 9, 1965), best known by his stage name Rocky George, is an American guitarist who has been a member of several notable musical acts, including Suicidal Tendencies, where he was their lead guitarist from 1984 to th ...

– guitar * Phil Kettner – guitar * Kenny Komisar – executive producer *

Dave Kushner David Kushner (born November 16, 1966) is an American musician perhaps best known as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver. Kushner has also been a member of Wasted Youth, Electric Love Hogs, Loaded, Danzig, Jane' ...

– guitar *

Mike Muir Michael Allen Muir (born March 14, 1963) is an American singer who is the lead vocalist and the only sole continuous member of Los Angeles-based bands Suicidal Tendencies, Los Cycos, and Infectious Grooves. He has also released several solo al ...

– vocals, producer *

– vocals on "Therapy" *

Stephen Perkins Stephen Andrew Perkins (September 13, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter. A drummer and percussionist, he currently plays with Jane's Addiction and Hellride. Following the dissolution of Jane's Addiction, Perkins continued to play ...

– percussion, drums, timbales *

Dean Pleasants Dean Pleasants (born May 18, 1965) is an American guitarist. He has been the lead guitarist for Suicidal Tendencies since 1996,http://metalstorm.ee/bands/band.php?band_id=399&bandname=Suicidal%2BTendencies Metal Storm and is their longest-standi ...

– guitar *

Adam Siegel Adam Siegel (born March 9, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and graphic designer (he has provided artwork and design for several releases by L.A. groups) from Venice, California, United States. KISS, B ...

– guitar, artwork *

Robert Trujillo Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz (; born October 23, 1964) is an American musician, best known as the bassist for Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Metallica since 2003. He first rose to prominence as the bassist of cr ...

– bass, producer * Joel Zimmerman – art direction

Charts

References

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