The Bloodhound Gang

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This page is about the musical group. For information on the detective segment from 3-2-1 Contact see Bloodhound Gang (TV).

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The Bloodhound Gang performing live in Germany

The Bloodhound Gang are an American post-grunge rock-and-roll/circus-emo/ pseudo hip-hop synth-pop band, originally from Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The group formed in 1994 (see 1994 in music) and currently consists of Jimmy Pop (James Franks), DJ Q-Ball, Evil Jared Hasselhoff, Lüpüs Thünder, and Willie the New Guy. Former member Spanky G left the band in 1998.

1 Infamy
2 Recent history
3 Members
- 3.1 Current line-up
- 3.2 Former members
4 Discography
- 4.1 Albums
5 External links

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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 catalogue"
"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"

Perhaps the group's best known hit is "Fire Water Burn" which contains the memorable 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 done several apperances in MTV shows Jackass and Viva La Bam, because of their close relations to some of the cast members.

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Recent history

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Evil Jared Hasselhoff on the German TV show TV Total.

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. The second single is "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss", 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.

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

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