*U.S pressing.
Country: U.S.AGenre: Alternative Rock, Nü-Metal
Label Number: 490 466-2
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
☠: Selected by Lass
© 2000 Geffen RecordsAllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
On one hand, it's easy to hate the Bloodhound Gang.
They're vulgar, obnoxious, lunk-headed, awkward, offensive, and
defiantly stupid. On the other hand, you almost have to admire the
lengths that they go to be, well, defiantly stupid. It's not just in the
words -- the music is as dumb and dopey as Jimmy Pop's ridiculous lyrics. This is really, really, really dumb music. Pop
doesn't care about being cool, he just wants to make dirty jokes and
sing silly songs. Granted, that's not for everyone, but if you find the
very title of their third album, Hooray for Boobies, funny, you'll find that this is their masterpiece. Pop
isn't just a white rapper, he also has a fondness for white-trash metal
and a fetish for early-MTV one-hit wonders. He's also partial to jokes
about puke, coughing, and sex. He never wastes an opportunity to be
obvious. Instead of telling the story of Vivid girl Chasey Lain in "The
Ballad of Chasey Lain," he writes the song from the point of view of a
mock-stalker. Never mind that that doesn't constitute a ballad -- it's
unclear what it is, actually -- and it's not really funny either, which
an actual ballad about Chasey's rise to power could have been. Then
again, that's too much thought to expend on a group whose catchiest hook
is "You and me baby ain't nuthin' but mammals/So let's do it like they
do on the Discovery Channel" ("Bad Touch"). Clearly, a song like that,
set to a robotic new romantic beat, isn't made for an audience that
wishes "Take the Long Way Home" was a Supertramp cover. The thing of it is, given his musical and lyrical allusions, Pop
is smarter than he seems. Of course, he enjoys playing to the lowest
common denominator, and depending on your mood (or your level of
resistance), there's almost charm to its dumbness, particularly since
the group reaches beyond the white-boy rap-metal that is their
foundation. Does that make Hooray for Boobies
a good album? Well, yes, at least for adolescent boys. It's the kind of
record that sounds good at parties and in the car, and it will
certainly shock some parents, even though anyone with a taste for the
truly outrageous and extreme will find this tame and dorky.
She's dead Jim :(
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