One Fierce Beer Coaster

One Fierce Beer Coaster
Studio album by Bloodhound Gang
Released	December 3, 1996
Recorded	March – June, 1996
Genre	Alternative rock, Post-punk, Crossover, Rapcore
Length	47:00
Label	Republic Records, Geffen Records
Producer	Jimmy Pop
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Bloodhound Gang chronology
Use Your Fingers (1995) One Fierce Beer Coaster (1996) Hooray for Boobies (1999)

One Fierce Beer Coaster is a 1996 album by alternative rock band Bloodhound Gang.

Music

3 minutes into "Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out)", Jimmy Pop says "Rewind and let me reverse it backwards like Judas Priest first did." Immediately after this, a four-second segment of backwards vocals repeats four times.

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. "Fire Water Burn", features the lyrics 'I am white like Frank Black is / So if man is five and the devil is six then that must make me seven / This honkeys gone to heaven' reference the post-1993 stage name of Black Francis who wrote the Pixies song "Monkey Gone to Heaven" of which the lyrics allude.

And finally the album includes "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 features an appearance by Robert "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle, who later incorporated his verse into the song "Prozac", which appeared on the album Hard to Swallow. The song also samples from the Depeche Mode song "People Are People".

Release and reception

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, Geffen Records picked up on the band after two months. The original packaging included a tchotchke beer coaster as a compliment to the album's title.

Controversy

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 Lüpüs Thünder), a phone call from a drunk friend of Jimmy's, and other assorted oddities.

Track listing

1. "Kiss Me Where It Smells Funny" – 3:08
2. "Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out)" – 4:58
3. "Fire Water Burn" – 4:54
4. "Yellow Fever" - 4:42 (Only present in some versions)
5. "I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks" – 3:49
6. "Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?" – 3:22
7. "It's Tricky" (Run-D.M.C. Cover) – 2:37
8. "Asleep at the Wheel" – 4:05
9. "Shut Up" – 3:15
10. "Your Only Friends Are Make Believe" – 7:02
11. "Boom" (ft. Vanilla Ice) – 4:06
12. "Going Nowhere Slow" – 4:22
13. "Reflections of Remoh" – 0:53
14. "Fire Water Burn (Donkey Version)" – 4:10 (Only present in some versions)
15. "Fire Water Burn (Jim Makin' Jamaican Mix)" – 5:00 (Only present in some versions)
16. "Hidden Track" - 8:00

Credits

Bloodhound Gang

• Jimmy Pop - lead vocals
• Lüpüs Thünder - backing vocals, guitar
• Spanky G - drums
• Evil Jared - bass
• DJ Q-Ball - backing vocals, turntables, samples, keys, programming

Additional musicians

• Rich Gavalis - Engineer, Editing, Mixing
• Rob Van Winkle - Guest vocals on "Boom"

Personnel

• Ave - Producer
• Joseph M. Palmaccio - Mastering

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