Bloodhound Gang

Sure it's juvenile, goofy and often pointless. But I'll take the music of the Bloodhound Gang over any other band practicing the tiresome knucklehead style of Rock/Rap any day. Lead dude Jimmy Pop has a blunted and stunted Rap style, too deadpan to criticize, and many of the band's songs actually are very well written, with catchy Pop/Punk melodies and plenty of genre hopping. Above all the band are hella fun -- on their latest album, Hooray For Boobies, Pop sings about stalking porn stars, the sexiness of missing children and searching for a word to rhyme with "vagina." See -- silly, silly stuff. But the funniest album I've heard since Hole's Celebrity Skin. Openers Nerf Herder, along with N Sync (it's a long story), call the Gang buds and also share the same sense of humor. The band's Punk/Pop songs on How To Meet Girls, in the tradition of their "Van Halen" song/roast, take on Jonathan Richman and '80s New Wave. But the best track is "Pantera Fans In Love," a love song that wonders "How come Slayer doesn't sing about this?"

At Bogart's on Saturday.

-- M.B.

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