The Bloodhound Gang

[Ja'moke]

I'm not sure how much love Jimmy Pop and his gang of bloodhounds get here, I've seen the odd post in the past from people who enjoy their lyrics that range from the sick, the strange, the witty and the incredibly funny. But I thought hey if Girls Aloud can have a thread of their own then why not the Bloodhound Gang.

They are one of my favourite bands, definitely the band that makes me laugh the most and it seems every time I go back to an old track I pick up on a new line that I'd missed before. A recent example of this is the the line, "Could a blind man mistake his complexion for braille?" from the track 'Life Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out)'. They've changed a lot over the years, their first album 'Use Your Fingers' was very Beastie Boys style of hip hop but with goofier lyrics, very child like. Their second album 'One Fierce Beer Coaster' was a massive improvement with some absolute classic tracks such as 'Fire Water Burn', 'Why's Everybody Always Picking On Me' and one of my personal favourites 'Your Only Friends Are Make Believe'.

Why's Everybody Always Picking On Me
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0ePHcz4V0xE[/youtube]

Their next album effort 'Hooray For Boobies' once again provided some brilliantly funny and inventive tracks. Obviously the hit record 'Bad Touch' aka 'The Discovery Channel Song', as well as tracks like 'I Hope You Die', 'Mope', 'Hell Yeah' and 'Take The Long Way Home' which features the line "Life is like a penis most people don't know it, but most people suck so they usually blow it".

Mope
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=OCYJTdSbYWw[/youtube]

It was around 7 years before we got the next album in 2005, titled 'Hefty Fine'. Although it was a fun album it lacked some of the wit and silliness of previous albums, the style also has changed slightly, more band orientated rather than the great monotone rhymes from Jimmy Pop. But saying that the album still includes some great tracks like 'I'm The Least You Could Do', 'Ralph Wiggum' and 'Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss'.

Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=KNDCONuJq2k[/youtube]

Which brings me to their latest single, 'Screwing You On A Beach At Night'. The video is a remake of the Chris Isaak hit 'Wicked Game'. The song is very catchy and is full of the traditional Bloodhound Gang silliness. Not sure if they have a new album to follow, but I hope so.

Screwing You On A Beach At Night
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAe4NlITtKE[/youtube]

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (for comparison purposes)
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=XXmlJQN5Pm8[/youtube]

[Canted_Angle]

I think hooray for boobies is by far there most solid album, followed by one fierce beer coaster...their first album is pretty cack and their latest has Bam Margera in it and that guy from HIM...it also tries to be way too serious but has some pretty good production.

[Ja'moke]

I think hooray for boobies is by far there most solid album, followed by one fierce beer coaster...their first album is pretty cack and there latest has Bam Margera in it and that guy from HIM...it also tries to be way too serious but has some pretty good production.

Yeah I agree completely. 'Hefty Fine' just lacks the silliness and the lyrics upon lyrics full of great comedic lines. The production is good though which still makes it a decent album.

[gigolo aunts aren't gentlemen]

Hooray for Boobies is by far the best of my 12-13 year old self's favourite albums, over Offspring, NOFX etc (a hollow victory you say? Well that's because you're rubbish).  A Lapdance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying is great, probably my favourite piece of sick comedy, Along Come Mary is a mad cover, all the samples and skits are great, so yep, solid album.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

They are fucking gash though. As this early attempt at Beastie Boys/wiggidy-wack-style demonstrates.
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=fwEwc3B6e7g[/youtube]

I can't really see why anyone over the age of 13 might like them and even more why anyone in the year 2007 would like them.

The only song that's okay is a song built up entirely of Raplh Wiggum quotes which is enjoyable solely because of that.
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=EaGFPdP0-ug[/youtube]

[Famous Mortimer]

One great album and a fair smattering of rubbish. That single "F.U.C.K." (or whatever the hell it was called) was so poor I didn't bother listening to the album it was attached to.

Still, one of my favourite memories involving them was on German MTV, where Jimmy Pop interviewed the International Noise Conspiracy and they got on like a house on fire. Good times.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

Oh, International Noise Conspiracy, I'd forgotten about them. "We're gonna bring down capitalism with some third-rate retro-rock. WOOo fight the power!"

[Gulftastic]

I'm a fan of One Feirce Beer Coaster and Hooray For Boobies and quite like some of the tracks on Use Your Fingers, like One Way and Go Down, and I think they rocked Kids In America.

Hefty Fine, as people have said was a big disappointment lacking the flow of lyrics referencing everything from wrestling to Voltaire.

'Asleep At The Wheel' is just about my favourite track of all.

[Identity Crisis Ahoy!]

test!

[Famous Mortimer]

Oh, International Noise Conspiracy, I'd forgotten about them. "We're gonna bring down capitalism with some third-rate retro-rock. WOOo fight the power!"

At least they tried. And their albums were rather good, if slightly too much towards that trend we had a few years ago that culminated in the Strokes. Anyway. Back on topic. "Fire Water Burn" is a great video.

[TC Raymond]

How ANYONE can say I deserve to be kicked off the board as much as a fan of the bullshollocking Bloodhound Gang is beyond me.

[Neil]

How ANYONE can say I deserve to be kicked off the board as much as a fan of the bullshollocking Bloodhound Gang is beyond me.

Safety-in-numbers 'eh lads' playing-to-the-gallery BULLYING!

[TC Raymond]

Safety-in-numbers 'eh lads' playing-to-the-gallery BULLYING!

That had better not be Noel Fielding in your avatar.

[gigolo aunts aren't gentlemen]

This is good (sorry for posting all the lyrics):

Why try? I'm that guy
Holden Caulfield from "Catcher In The Rye"
Put away 'cause he wasn't all there
Like a jigsaw puzzle you might compare
Me to him not a liver but wurst
Been much better off as a still birth
Big let down unparalleled
Like the last episode of "Seinfeld"
Or Jack Lemmon in "Glengarry Glen Ross"
Pepsi Challenge took it lost
Just fizzed out with my wires crossed
Buttons pushed but never went off
Like Martha I will self-destruct
The name's Dunnstock it's not Dumptruck
Just cursed as fuck with no such luck
My future plans include not much

Never gonna be never gonna be never gonna never gonna be
Nothin' more than me
Never gonna be never gonna be never gonna never gonna be
Nothin' more than me
Never gonna be never gonna be never gonna never gonna be
Nothin' more than me
Always gonna be always gonna be always gonna always gonna be
Most likely to s*ck

Wanna be a Ghostbuster
First black President owner of "Hustler"
Got shot down like Larry Flynt
Felt like sh*t like a bowel movement
Have you seen my will to live?
Because I seem to have lost it
Lovelife? No but Mom thinks I'm handsome
Couldn't get off if I held a pimp for ransom
Feel like Jimmy Stewart no one sees my Harvey
Toxic Shock Syndrome gets more girls than me
Like Pee Wee Herman spermin' I can
See the future in the palm of my hand
Psychic Friends Network loser
Large phone bill in my very near future
Dealt nothing and bluffing hard
Playing poker with a joker and some Uno cards

Never gonna be never gonna be never gonna never gonna be
Nothin' more than me
Never gonna be never gonna be never gonna never gonna be
Nothin' more than me
Never gonna be never gonna be never gonna never gonna be
Nothin' more than me
Always gonna be always gonna be always gonna always gonna be
Most likely to s*ck

Most likely to s*ck
Most likely to s*ck
Most likely to s*ck
Most likely to s*ck
Most likely to s*ck

I'd take that over 'fuckgoodies' and 'shitwho' anyday.
Edit: What sort of lyric site censors 'suck'?

[Neil]

That had better not be Noel Fielding in your avatar.

It's Alex Harvey.

[TC Raymond]

It's Alex Harvey.

Well thank fuck for that.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

That had better not be Noel Fielding in your avatar.

[TC Raymond]

That had better not be Noel Fielding in your avatar.

This is what Noel Fielding will look like in 2037...



He's the one in front, obviously.

[Huzzie]

That had better not be Noel Fielding in your avatar.

Tis this guy (below), innit?

[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zqx5j-FuqeI[/youtube]

EDIT: Aye.

[Ja'moke]

This is good (sorry for posting all the lyrics):I'd take that over 'fuckgoodies' and 'shitwho' anyday.

Yeah "Magna Cum Nada" is one of the best songs on "Hooray For Boobies". I think a lot of people write Bloodhound Gang off as some crap novelty band, but some of their lyrics are extremely witty, clever and hilarious.

Did you ever read voltaires candide?
He says live life at benny hill freak out speed
Not a quote of what he wrote but a paraphrase
Make it up as you go keyser soze
Highlights yes but dont underline em
Just live for n.o.w. like gloria steinem
Life is like marion barry
Its not all that its cracked up to be
Like fred sanford when the big one comes
Find the meaning of life is there is none
Its twenty-four hours when you call it a day
Be frank and say I did it my way
Dont give a flying nun no dont give a gidget
Just have more fun than a well-oiled midget
If life were picture perfect you could frame it
But the world is a diaper so let someone else change it

[thugler]

How ANYONE can say I deserve to be kicked off the board as much as a fan of the bullshollocking Bloodhound Gang is beyond me.

Fuck off. You're tedious.

I like one Fierce Beer Coaster and Hooray for boobies and Hefty fine is okay. They are pretty entertaining live too.

[Famous Mortimer]

Fuck off. You're tedious.

I like one Fierce Beer Coaster and Hooray for boobies and Hefty fine is okay. They are pretty entertaining live too.

This is one of his better efforts - comparing a comedian he doesn't like to a paedophile.

[23 Daves]

They always seemed like a slightly less witty, more artless version of Australian band TISM to me.  Which gives me an excuse to post some TISM lyrics and a video, I suppose...

Tism - Fuck 'em, Fuck 'em - The Lot Of 'em Lyrics

Who needs one more tortured artist
Whingeing about the pain
Of being a creative genius
And the heavy burden of fame?
O! The struggles they have nightly
Let's them understand completely
The tragedy of Brett Whitely -
Shame they're more like Glenn Wheatly.
Here's an exhausted actor
Complaining about the shoot -
When we're all shovelling guano
For half the fucking loot -
And the life of top fashion models
Isn't all parties and glamour;
But it ain't so fucking great either
Working with a chisel and hammer.
Come, everybody, let's get together
And shout, "Well, hip hip hooray"
'Cos Sebastian the theatre director
Just put in another creatively draining day.
And, fuck me, let's fall over backwards
'Cos some snivelling rock star jerk
Calls snorting cocaine in a studio
The same thing that we all call "work".
Fuck 'em - fuck 'em, the lot of 'em -
You know, there's a harder job
Than being a creative genius -
It's being your garden style slob.
And going to work every morning;
And catching that peak hour train -
Two hours pushing a wheel barrow
Hurts more than metaphysical pain.
You want to understand Kafka
And his tortured soul, never at rest?
Forget about reading his novels -
Get a job like him: behind a desk.
Artists are beyond good and evil;
For them, morality is just crud -
There's a bouncer who thinks the same thing
When he's bashing heads down at the pub.
So put down those paints and brushes;
Give up your creative fight -
Die totally anonymous,
And teach your kids to be polite.

Greg, The Stop Sign:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTm9aititM[/youtube]

[Famous Mortimer]

Sorry, but

Mom & Dad, this is TC..., ..TC, this is Mom & Dad, ..now, mention the Goodies

single-handedly justifies the tag system. As you were.

[alan nagsworth]

Judging by the lyrics posted on here by various people, and songs I've heard by them before, they make a lot of metaphoric comparisons to famous people and fictional characters, don't they? That's not a bad thing in small doses because they're very smart with it, but it'd get on my nerves after a bit I reckon. You know, just to stay on the topic for a bit and all that.

[Ja'moke]

Sorry, but

single-handedly justifies the tag system. As you were.

Yes, that tag made me a laugh a lot.

[Huzzie]

Yes, that tag made me a laugh a lot.

I just hope it was written by a real life American though.

[Steve Lampkins]

single-handedly justifies the tag system. As you were.

Oh, that is glorious.

[boki]

I just hope it was written by a real life American though.

It's paraphrased from 'The Ballad Of Chasey Lain', Huz.  The original version is:

Mom and Dad, this is Chasey,
Chasey, this is my mom and dad...
...Now show 'em them titties

I'm sort-of ashamed to say I laughed for about three minutes solid the first time I heard it.

[The Plunger]

Utter pish wean-rock. I'm sorry, but if you listen to this stuff over the age of 13 you're probably a bit slow.