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Friday, October 26, 2007

Homecoming Mix

Oh my! It has been ten years since I started my senior year at Ursinus College. And those alumni people bombarded me with propaganda to go to homecoming this Saturday. Of course, I caved. Free beer tends to do that. So, in memory of some of the the most carefree years of my life (eventhough I remember only about half of them), I compiled some songs that are a propos to those years. Enjoy!

Gene - We Could Be Kings
G. Love and Special Sauce - I-76
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (bonus: Fatboy Slim remix)
Bloodhound Gang - You're Pretty When I'm Drunk
Catherine Wheel - Eat My Dust...
Morrissey - Satan Rejected My Soul
The Ocean Blue - Past Future Perfect
Pulp - Common People
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Chris Isaak - Graduation Day

Labels: Bloodhound Gang, Chris Isaak, Cornershop, G Love, Gene, Homecoming Mix, Jeff Buckley, Morrissey, Pulp, The Catherine Wheel, The Ocean Blue

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Throwback Thursday: The Bloodhound Gang

I am going to go against the norm for this edition of the Throwback and post a band that I have known of before they reached the big time. And they're local!

Unbeknownst to most everyone out there, The Bloodhound Gang has been around for about 15 years in some incarnation or another. I seriously doubt they will ever get Hall of Fame credentials. They are crude, rude, dirty, suggestive, blantantly nasty, but funny as hell. I first heard of them as a freshman at Ursinus with their EP Dingleberry Haze. It was different and made us laugh out loud. Then came Use Your Fingers, their first full length release, including an appearance by Rip Taylor and the best beer goggle song ever written (see below). I got to see them play a show at the famous Wismer Lower Lounge at Ursinus and meet some of the band members. Really fun guys. With the release of the next album, One Fierce Beer Coaster, (early editions had a real coaster. Joe, still have it?), they reached some sort of fame with the MTV staple Fire Water Burn. Then it seemed the band died. Four years later, BHG came back from the dead with Hooray for Boobies and the party staple The Bad Touch. After another hiatus, they show up with the same sophomoric humor in Hefty Fine.

WARNING: If you are easily offended, do not listen to these songs. If you enjoy the absolute silliness, click away!

Use Your Fingers (1994)

She Ain't Got No Legs

You're Pretty When I'm Drunk

One Fierce Beer Coaster (1996)

I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks

Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?

Hooray for Boobies (2000)

A Lap Dance is So Much Better When The Stripper is Crying

Hell Yeah

Hefty Fine (2005)

Balls Out