'Boobies' earns cheers for Bloodhound Gang

The Bloodhound Gang is back with its third album.

The long-awaited follow up to "One Fierce Beer Coaster" is turning on a large new audience to the irreverent Bloodhound style.

"Hooray for Boobies," released in March on Geffen Records, features "The Bad Touch," the first single from the Gang in four years.

Continuing to mock popular music, the band rips off an '80s Depeche Mode riff for the catchy and danceable "Bad Touch."

The song shows the band's desire to have fun with music with lyrics such as "You and me baby, we ain't nothing but mammals/So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel/Gettin' horny now" and "We can do it doggy style/So we can both watch 'X-Files.' "
 

Sex seems to be a favorite theme in the band's music. "Boobies" is filled with songs about sex, both getting some and not getting any at all.

"The Ballad of Chasey Laine," one of the more salacious tracks, is about a guy obsessed with a porn star. "Vagina" is the culmination of singer Jimmy Pop's search for the perfect girl.

Even on "One Fierce Beer Coaster," this theme is explored over and over again. The lead track, "Kiss Me Where it Smells Funny," and "I Wish I was Queer So I Could Get Chicks" illustrates Pop's twisted type of lowbrow humor.

The great thing about the Bloodhound Gang is that you never know what to expect.

Lupus Thunder, Pop and the rest of the band come from so many different corners the music ranges over every genre. But what else would you expect from a band that is bicoastal, based in Philadelphia and Los Angeles?

Tracks on "Boobies" cover everything from the new metal style of Korn and Limp Bizkit on "I Hope You Die," "Magna Cum Nada" and "Yummy Down on This." This is a harder edge than the Gang had on the "Beer Coaster" disc, but the band pulls it off well.

That is the biggest setback for "Boobies" -- it is a little too hard.

The bouncy dance samples from "Hold Your Head up High and Blow your Brains Out" and "Your Only Friends are Make Believe" off of "Beer Coaster" are still there, but the metal and puck influences of Willy the New Guy, the Gang's new drummer, are felt on many of the songs.

Loaded with 17 tracks, "Boobies" is not for those easily offended by profanity, sexuality or just plain nonsense. But if you're into lowbrow, slapstick comedy and you like hip hop, heavy metal and punk rock all boiled together into one hilarious compact disc, then get down with the Bloodhound style.