The Bloodhound Gang

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Image:BHGlive.jpgThe Bloodhound Gang are a comedic American rapcore synth-pop band, mixing an alternative/punk sound with hip-hop. They are originally from Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The group formed in 1992 (see 1992 in music).

1 Members
- 1.1 Current line-up
- 1.2 Former members
2 Infamy
3 Recent history
4 Discography
5 See also
6 External links

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Members

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Current line-up

Jimmy Pop - vocals, guitar, programming
DJ Q-Ball - turntables, vocals
Evil Jared Hasselhoff - bass, backing vocals
Lüpüs Thünder - guitars, backing vocals
The Yin - drums

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Former members

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Infamy

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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 we ain't nothin' but mammals so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel"
"If I wanted to be repeatedly shit on I'd go make Dutch porn"
"If I wanted to see stars, I'd watch the Academy Awards"
"I Brazilian wax poetic so pathetically, I don't want to beat around the bush."
"I was lonelier than Kunta Kinte at a Merle Haggard concert."
"Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo"
"I'm not a roll of Charmin, so don't give me any crap!"

The group's breakthrough single was The Bad Touch, which is a song made up of sexual euphemisms that also happen to be pop culture references. 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" which is featured on their album, 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, playing while showing a Bradley Fighting Vehicle firing stingers on a city.

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.

Bass player and nude enthusiast Evil Jared Hasselhoff recently stripped nude on a live German television appearance on the show TV Total on Pro7. Some in Germany have compared the appearance to the Janet Jackson Super Bowl controversy. [1]

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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. The title comes from an episode of Viva La Bam entitled "Scavenger Hunt" in which Evil Jared Hasselhof gets put in jail and Jimmy Pop is forced to pay a huge fine. 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." Recently, they have been on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio and are doing their own show on Howard 101.

A new album is already in the works and is hoped to be put out within a year.

Drummer Willie the New Guy was recently released from his position. The band and Willie agreed on him leaving.

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