Hefty Fine
Occupation
- Vocals, guitar: Jimmy Pop
- Background vocals, guitar: Lüpüs Thünder
- Drums: Willie The New Guy
- Bass: Evil Jared
- Background vocals, turntables, keyboards: DJ Q -Ball
Hefty Fine is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Bloodhound Gang. It was released on September 27, 2005 by Geffen Records and was the first album in six years.
Formation
After a long pause, the work went off on a new album in 2005. Actually, the album Heavy Flow should be called, but the idea was rejected because a song by Moby same name. In e-mails between Jimmy Pop and Lüpüs Thünder about the album name then was the running gag hefty fine, which was later used as the title.
On 26 July 2005 Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo appeared with the advance single, the album itself was released on 23 September 2005.
Cover
On the cover of a corpulent man is seen lying naked in a box. This served as a model Carlin Langley, the picture was taken by the German photographer Nela König. The cover of the album was chosen by laut.de number 7 of the worst cover of all time, the Süddeutsche Zeitung listed on the cover among the 99 worst covers of all time. In addition, the cover was settled as a poster of the CD.
Title list
Reception
The opinions of the critics varied widely.
Vicky Butscher awards on laut.de 2 of 5 stars and writes that the concept of Bloodhound Gang still rising very good, the album is musically but completely uninteresting.
Says Jochen Gedwin of plattentests.de that some people love the album and others will hate it, the latter is quite difficult. He forgives 7 of 10 points.
On in-your- face.de, the album 4 out of 10 points. There is criticism that nine real songs were too little and that Hefty Fine acts simply done the math.
Caroline Daamen says on the website of the Süddeutsche Zeitung that the album was not something true for everyone, but the album could spread especially for younger people a good mood.
Whiskey - soda.de awards the school grade 2 and referred to the plate as a typical album of the Bloodhound Gang. High owned the album for the upper third.
Matthias Reichel awards on cdstarts.de 3 of 10 points and referred to the song as incredibly weak and the lyrics as pointless.
Trivia
- The text of the song Ralph Wiggum consists of quotes The Simpsons Ralph Wiggum figurine.
- Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo is a coding in the NATO alphabet for "fuck".
- Bam Margera plays with Foxtrot Uniform Charlie in the video for pounds and is riding a banana car. He is also heard on the bonus track.
- Before the album's release, the band launched a campaign with the purpose to make their song Pennsylvania the official anthem of the state of the same name.
- HIM singer Ville Valo took over in the song Something Diabolical some vocals ..
Awards
In Germany and Austria, the album reached gold status