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Tuesday I April 11, 2000 27 I SIGNAL raises some 'issues' 'Boobies' rule!

ing/These little printed. Tunesi girls, they make me In "Right Turn Clyde." The feel so God damn Tunesi the grade is 94% 98% spoofs Pink exhilarated/1 fill the grade is Floyd's classic "The Wall" with them up, I can't the words "All in all, you're just give it upThe pain another dick with no balls." Amye Walter that I'm just erasing "" mixes samples of Staff Writer ...All! wanna do is Amye W alter . , Frankie Goes get with you/And Staff Writer to Hollywood and Homer make the pain go Simpson. Now, that's talent! away/Why do I If "" keeps In today's musical poppy fields, have a con­ getting its current percentage which bloom with MTV and radio science .'/All it does of , some feminist titan friendly tunes, it is rare to pick any­ is fuck with me/ What would happen if will pick up on the 's thing with roots growing firmly in the Why do I have this Beavis and Butthead happened title and listen to phrases like rockiest cliffs of intense, heavy rever­ torment?/All I upon a Lords of Acid show and "I want my next chick beration. wanna do is fuck it it inspired them to form a band? anorexic the winner is the •Corn's latest release, Issues, de­ Special | Signal away/1 tell my lies, something similar to thinner." Then, Hooray for buted at #1 on Billboard's 'Top 200 and 1 despise every The Bloodhound Gang's Hoo­ Boobies will be strewn across " chart Issues was certified to create the current "Sick and second I'm with you" ray for Boobies. televised talk shows and news gold by selling over 575,000 copies, Twisted" tour's set list. Go to Davis provides additional drums is a hi­ for its crudeness and excessive in its first week. The album is now komweb.com/sickandtwisted/ if you on nearly half of Issues' tracks, cre­ larious album. One of those lack of PC (think ) triple platinum proving that Kom fans do not want to besurprised at the Phil. ating a full, drenched sound. The dis­ discs that can cure a bad mood, and, eventually, will be a know a good thing when they hear it. Issues begins with "Dead," a tinctly tuned, seven-string of like an older brother relentlessly collector's item, as stores will Critics are not overlooking Kom ei­ short, pretty (yes, pretty) ditty, show­ Head () and Munky tickling you on the living room be forced to pull it from their ther, the band's debut and sophomore casing ' vocal and bag­ (), along with Fieldy's rug. The tracks on Hooray are shelves for fear of losing ad­ albums received Grammy nomina­ pipe talents. This track's international five-string bass, complete Kom'ssig­ not just songs, but also some of vertisers and Christian Coali­ tions. flair reminds one of Kom's self-titled nature style. the funniest soundbytes out tion customers. Even with such overwhelming debut's closer "Daddy's" Gregorian- On a local note. Issues was there. On "Mama's Boy," the Only the strong will sur­ success, Kom remains astonishingly chant-like intra. mixed and partially recorded at Gang's mastermind vive a listening to Hooray for loyal to fans. Kom's bio was written Some adore and others scorn the 's Southern Tracks Recording. calls his mom for advice on the Boobies. No wimps here. In­ by Jeffrey Yates, a 17-year-old fan lyrics of Kom. Without doubt, Kom's Five songs from Issues will re­ song that follows the phone call. dividuals who like humor can from Montreal, Quebec. Issues' cover music has a message; from album art turn to Atlanta when Kom (minus Pop tells his mother he "is try­ see sarcasm as an excuse to art [there are four different designs] to lyrics, Kom speaks to the disen­ drummer , who is nurs­ ing to think of words that rhyme laugh and who like the bonus comes from artwork submitted to chanted . Davis writes autobio­ ing a wrist injury, and is being re­ with vagina. "He manages to of tight, groovy tunes will cer­ MTV's cover contest. Fans visited graphical songsabout the tortures and placed for remaining tour dates by make a song from that. Listen tainly dig The Bloodhound Kom's website and voted on their fa­ vexation of childhood. In 'Trash" he of ) and to "Three Point One Four" to Gang. The Bloodhound Gang vorite songs; the top five picks of whispers, "1 see flesh and it smells Mindless Self-indulgence haunt hear the outcome. Most of it will play the Roxy on Tuesday, Kom's four albums were compiled fresh/And it's just there for the tak­ Phillip'sArena on Thursday, April 13. probably does not be April 18.

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