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Irreverence was always the name of the game for The Bloodhound Gang. The Beastie Boys-inspired group took off with the rise of the alternative rock format, making appearances with Howard Stern, Ricki Lake, and Jenny McCarthy, and signing with major label Geffen Records. This Friday, the group’s Geffen long-player Hooray for Boobies will see a new vinyl reissue from UMe.  A streaming version is already available.

The album, released in the U.K. on October 4, 1999 and at home in the U.S. on February 29, 2000, yielded the international hit “The Bad Touch.” The floor-filler was popular on MTV’s Total Request Live and entered fourteen worldwide charts, making No. 1 on five of them. All told, five singles were released from the LP including “The Ballad of Chasey Lain,” “Mope,” “The Inevitable Return of the Great White Dope,” and a cover of the Tandyn Almer-penned Association hit “Along Comes Mary.”

UMe’s upcoming edition will be reissued as 2 LPs, pressed on clear vinyl. This edition adds one bonus cut, “The Bad Touch (Bully Mix),” adding a hard-rock edge to the hit tune. It originally appeared on a 12-inch single. While a CD is not in the offing, a digital edition now available adds eleven more bonus tracks including various remixes (including The Pet Shop Boys’ “Mope”) and “Jackass” from the soundtrack of writer-director Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

With such tracks as “Magna Cum Nada” and “A Lap Dance is So Much Better When the Stripper Is Crying,” it’s clear that the offbeat music of The Bloodhound Gang isn’t for everybody. But if you have fond memories of the zany group and their TRL heyday, these reissues just might be for you. You’ll find the track listing with discographical annotation below!

The Bloodhound Gang, Hooray For Boobies: Expanded Edition (Interscope/UMe, 2020)

Clear 2LP: uDiscoverMusic
Digital: Amazon U.S. / Spotify

1. I Hope You Die
2. The Inevitable Return Of The Great White Dope
3. Mama’s Boy
4. Three Point One Four
5. Mope
6. Yummy Down On This
7. The Ballad Of Chasey Lain
8. R.S.V.P.
9. Magna Cum Nada
10. The Bad Touch
11. That Cough Came With a Prize
12. Take The Long Way Home
13. Hell Yeah
14. Right Turn Clyde
15. This Is Stupid
16. A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying
17. The Ten Coolest Things About New Jersey
18. Along Comes Mary
19. The Choice Is Yours
20. Jackass
21. The Bad Touch (The Bully Mix) *
22. The Bad Touch (The God Lives Underwater Mix)
23. The Bad Touch (The K.F.M.D.M. Mix)
24. The Bad Touch (The Eiffel 65 Mix)
25. The Bad Touch (The Rollergirl Mix)
26. The Ballad Of Chasey Lain (The Flirt Mix)
27. The Ballad Of Chasey Lain (The Tease Mix)
28. The Ballad Of Chasey Lain (The Whore Mix)
29. Mope (The Swamp Remix)
30. Mope (The Pet Shop Boys Remix)

Tracks 1-18 from original album – Geffen GEFD-90455, 1999
Track 19 previously unreleased on an album
Track 20 from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: Music From The Motion Picture – Universal/Dimension Films/UMG Soundtracks 713-2, 2001
Tracks 21-25 from “The Bad Touch” 12″ single – Jimmy Franks Recording Company BG-005, 1999 (* on vinyl reissue)
Tracks 26-28 from “The Ballad Of Chasey Lain” U.K. CD single – Geffen 497 254-2, 2000
Tracks 29-30 from “Mope” U.K. CD single – Geffen 497 377-2, 2000