Disco de Bloodhound Gang: “Hefty Fine [Edited]”

If you read Don Delillo watch Jackass and think this world is a big Ship of Fools, then BG is for you. This album rocks as BG usually does. Jimmy Pop didn't get over 1300(informed by the BG DVD) on his SATs(when that was a hard thing to do) for nothing; the man is a genius. He is the James Joyce of the Postmodern Suburban Existential Rock/Rap/Pop genre. In a topsy turvy world BG seem like they're all about doo-doo and sex...which they are; but their substance runs deeper so that repeated listenings reveal recursive layers of meaning about The Human Condition. It's like Shakespeare with beats, guitar, and vomiting. If you ever get a chance to see them play I recommend you go. So much more entertaining than the typical manufactured soulless crud that passes(italics) for entertainment nowadays.

The Bloodhound Gang has always been a secret love of mine. Yes, their stuff is a whole lot of juvenile, but the wordplay tends to be quick and their slicing and dicing of pop-culture usually lands on point. Hefty Fine, unfortunately, seems like a lost bit of meandering. It's like they had to come out with a new album to satisfy their contract, so they phoned one in. There are no really tight rhyme schemes working through the tracks with the exception of 3. Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo, which very obviously is set for their hit on this record and overall it's the closest they come to putting together a song worthy of their previous efforts. The rest of the album tends to favor them trying to put together pop songs with more traditional arrangements. Maybe if we are all lucky the BHG will listen to their own album and turn out something better next time around.

Hefty Find is a schlocky piece of work and should be avoided in favor of listening to One Fierce Beer Coaster a hundred more times.

i picked up the hooray for boobies cd for a doller at a pawn shop and love it, so i thought i might as well like this. I was surprised with the more rock sound it had. Foxtrot uniform charlie kilo is the single and stands out, the rest of the cd is great (the whole nine actual songs). it takes getting used to.

Being a fan of BHG since Use your Fingers, I was expecting a bit more than what I heard on the first few listens. After many listens over the last couple of days, (it's pretty short so I was able to listen th the whole thing all the way through more than a few times)it has grown on me. It is impossible to compare this to one fierce beer coaster or hurray for boobies, this is a completly different release. If you want a repeat of those, this cd is not for you. The songs may not be as clever or funny as the ones from the past (dissapointment at first) but they show a refinement that was missing from their earlier releases. This is still a funny album, but the humor isn't as "in your face" as the songs from their last releases. To the reviewers that gave this album a bad review on the first or second day of it's release......give it some time. The best things in life are those that are an acquired taste. While I agree that Heafty Fine was, at first, a bit of a let down......it will now reside in my CD player for awhile........and again in the months and years to come. This is the BloodHoundGang.....this is how they sound now. For a band to progress they must change. Anyone who would write a bad review on the first day of an album's release is not truely a fan.

One negative worth mentioning, in my opinion is the length of the album.....kinda short.

Buy Heafty Fine.......listen to it......listen to it again.....listen to it again.......then listen to it again.....you will see what I mean!

Why are you still reading this? Go buy the cd!

Just beucase George Dionne did not like it, do not think it is a bad albumn, it is great, very humorus, and very neat to hear after a few years of nothing from them. I live in the same state as them and there are some inside jokes about pa in this albumn, maybe that is why i like it more, but i was impressed.