Bloodhound Gang
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The Bloodhound Gang are an American rap/rock synth-pop band, originally from Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The group formed in 1994 (see 1994 in music).
Members
Current line-up
- Jimmy Pop Ali - vocals, guitar, programming
- DJ Q-Ball - turntables, vocals
- Evil Jared Hasselhoff - bass, backing vocals
- Lüpüs Thünder - guitars, backing vocals
- Willie the New Guy - drums
Former members
- Bubba K Love
- Blue
- Byron
- Daddy Long Legs
- Foof
- Lazy I
- M.S.G.
- Piddly B
- Skip O'Pot2Mus
- Slave One
- Spanky G
- Tard-E-Tard
- White Steve
Infamy
Known for their humorous, obscene, and often offensive, perhaps even Zappaesque lyrics, the Bloodhound Gang is not afraid to make quips about taboo subjects such as ethnicities, child abductions and incest in bizarre, stream-of-consciousness, hip-hop influenced lyrics. A common theme in the band's lyrics are elaborate pop culture references, metaphors, similes, and puns such as:
- "You came twice last year like a Sears catalog"
- "Times New Roman, you know the type"
- "Like the Jim Jones cult, I'll take you out with one punch"
- "You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel"
- "Put your hands down my pants, and I'll bet you'll feel nuts"
- "If I wanted to be repeatedly shit on I'd go make Dutch porn"
Perhaps the group's best known hit is "The Bad Touch", which shows the band members parading in monkey costumes; it became a staple on MTV's Total Request Live and propelled the album Hooray for Boobies to platinum sales status. The band is also known for the single "Fire Water Burn" off of One Fierce Beer Coaster which contains the chorus of "The roof/The roof/The roof is on fire/We don't need no water/Let the motherfucker burn/Burn motherfucker burn." (This lyric was borrowed from the 1985 hit "The Roof is On Fire" by Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three.) In 2004, it was featured in the film Fahrenheit 9/11 being played by an American soldier in Iraq.
The band has also made several appearances on the MTV shows Jackass and Viva La Bam, because of their close relations to some of the cast members.
Recent history
In 2003, the band released a DVD entitled One Fierce Beer Run, which chronicles their One Fierce Beer Coaster tour of 1997.
The band's newest album, Hefty Fine, was released on September 27, 2005. Its original title, Heavy Flow, was scrapped when it was noticed that fellow musician Moby had a song with the same name. The first single, "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo," has already gained heavy rotation on music video channels. Although the track "No Hard Feelings" recently broke into the Modern Rock Top 50, their second single is "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss" (which is featured in a Blaupunkt ad), and it has recently started radio circulation with a music video underway. Another song from the new album is part of a campaign by the Bloodhound Gang to change the Pennsylvania state anthem into their appropriately titled "Pennsylvania."
A new album is already in the works and is hoped to be put out within a year.
Discography
- Dingleberry Haze (1994)
- Use Your Fingers (1995)
- One Fierce Beer Coaster (1996) US #57
- Hooray for Boobies (Europe: 1999, US: 2000) US #14, UK #37
- Hefty Fine (2005) US #24
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