One Fierce Beer Coaster
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| One Fierce Beer Coaster | ||
 |
||
| Studio album by The Bloodhound Gang | ||
| Released | December 3, 1996 | |
| Recorded | March – June, 1996 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 46:24 | |
| Label | Republic Records | |
| Producer(s) | Ave | |
| Professional reviews | ||
|---|---|---|
| The Bloodhound Gang chronology | ||
| Use Your Fingers (1995) |
One Fierce Beer Coaster (1996) |
Hooray for Boobies (1999) |
One Fierce Beer Coaster is a December 3, 1996 (see 1996 in music) album by alternative rock band The Bloodhound Gang. The album includes one of their best-known singles, "Fire Water Burn", a diatribe against a white boy who attempts, and fails, to act like a black thug. Its chorus is taken from "The Roof Is on Fire" by Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three. [1]
Among the tracks on the album include "It's Tricky", a Run DMC cover (featuring the rapping debut of DJ Q-Ball; this album was also the first to feature him as a member of the band), and "Boom" which mentions "The Bloodhound Gang and Rob Van Winkle, together on this track." Rob Van Winkle is the real name of Vanilla Ice, who raps on the track with Jimmy Pop. Vanilla Ice later took his part of the song and expanded it to his own called "Prozac" on his album Hard To Swallow.
One Fierce Beer Coaster was originally released on Republic Records, which is the label the band previously released material on when it was under the name Cheese Factory Records. Due to word-of-mouth, however, DGC Records picked up on the band after two months.
The original release featured two extra tracks, one was "Yellow Fever" which was about having sex with Asian women and later deemed too offensive by the label, and the other was a hidden track on position number 69 on the original release, it consisted of an audio collage featuring a televangelist, Howard Stern talking about peanut butter, a news broadcast on the disease Lupus (an obvious reference to the bandmate of the same name), and other assorted oddities. It ends with the sound of Jimmy Pop farting. It also came with an actual beer coaster to go with the name of the album.
[edit] Track listing
- "Kiss Me Where It Smells Funny" – 3:10
- "Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out)" – 4:58
- "Fire Water Burn" – 4:52
- "I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks" – 3:49
- "Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?" – 3:22
- "It's Tricky" – 2:35
- "Asleep At The Wheel" – 4:05
- "Shut Up" – 3:15
- "Your Only Friends Are Make Believe" – 7:02
- "Boom" (ft. Vanilla Ice) – 4:06
- "Going Nowhere Slow" – 4:20
- "Reflections Of Remoh" – 0:50
- "Fire Water Burn (Donkey Version)" * – 4:10 (The word "motherfucker" is censored with a soundbyte of a donkey braying)
- "Fire Water Burn (Jim Makin' Jamaican Mix)" * – 5:00
- Tracks only present in some versions.
[edit] Personnel
- Joseph M. Palmaccio - Mastering
- Jimmy Pop Ali - Producer, Mixing
- The Bloodhound Gang - Performer
- Ave - Producer
- Brett Alperowitz aka "He of the Pretty Mouth"
- Eric Fargiorgio
- Rich Gavalis - Engineer, Editing, Mixing
- Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice) - Guest vocals on "Boom"
[edit] Chart positions
Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album
1997 The Billboard 200 No. 57 1997 Heatseekers No. 2
Billboard (North America) - singles
1997 Fire Water Burn Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 28 1997 Fire Water Burn Modern Rock Tracks No. 18
