The Bloodhound Gang and their Rise to Fame in Music

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The Indie music scene is very large, people like indie music because it’s different. One of the ruling indie bands is The Bloodhound Gang is so popular mainly because of the sexual innuendo in their music. Their most major titles include Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo, Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss, and Fire Water Burn.
Bloodhound Gang is an American band which began as a hip hop group but branched out into other genres, including alternative rock, punk rock, and electronic rock, as their career progressed. Their songs usually have humorous and off-beat, satirical lyrics that often deal with sexual subjects and contain many puns and innuendos.
They are best known for their singles "Fire Water Burn", "The Bad Touch", "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo", "Along Comes Mary", "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss" and "The Ballad of Chasey Lain". Formed in 1991, Bloodhound Gang has sold more than 6 million albums.
History
The Bloodhound Gang began as a small alternative band called Bang Chamber 8. It was made of James Moyer Franks and Michael Bowe, both graduates of Perkiomen Valley High School. They released a tape before changing their name to the Bloodhound Gang, a reference to "The Bloodhound Gang", a segment on the 1980s PBS kids' show 3-2-1 Contact that featured three young detectives solving mysteries and fighting crime.
Jimmy Pop and Jared Hennegan both attended Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
Unable to book shows anywhere else, the Bloodhound Gang first performed in an extra room at Evil Jared's house, in exchange for Schlitz, Marlboros, and a chance to hand out their first demo tape, entitled Just Another Demo.
In November 1994, the Bloodhound Gang released their first EP, Dingleberry Haze.
Use Your Fingers
In March 1995 the Blood...

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...ned on his Facebook profile page that the band is headed to Berlin to shoot a music video for the song, which will also be included on a greatest hits compilation album. The band's greatest hits album Show Us Your Hits was released on December 21, featuring their new songs called "Altogether Ooky" and "Disco Pogo" alongside the band's older hits.
In an interview in 2011 Evil Jared stated that the new album would be released in either 2012 or 2013. Q-Ball also mentioned on his Twitter that signs point to either late 2012 or early 2013 and that the album was moving along very nicely as well as that it was their best album up to date. Jimmy Pop has clarified that all the music has been recorded and that it "only needs some words". As of February 2014, the album has yet to be released. Jimmy Pop confirmed on Twitter that the new album will be called Fishin' For Hookers.

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