"Hooray For Boobies." Let's face it: the title gracing the Bloodhound Gang's most recent release pretty much says it all. These guys aren't Steely Dan, or Radiohead, or some other artsy band of brainiacs, and that's the way they like it. They're more than happy playing the nasty clown princes of pop, inspiring boycotts and bans as well as comparisons to the early incarnation of the boundary-busting Beastie Boys.

On closer inspection, the band isn't just a one-note wonder. (Perhaps the schizoid nature of the band's Philly/L.A. home base is to "blame.") Funky, well-versed in a variety of musical styles, and as happy to poke fun at themselves as at anyone else, the Bloodhound boys come perilously close to being taken seriously. Then out come the fart jokes, and it's all over.

Two of the group's lead knuckleheads, singer Jimmy Pop and DJ Q-Ball, recently chatted with Meridith Gottlieb of the MTV Radio Network. The discussion covered the war in Chechnya, the questionable economic policies of the World Bank, the... oh, forget it. They mostly talked about sex. Happy now?

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MTV Radio Network: Who came up with the idea to dress as monkeys in Paris for the "Bad Touch" video?

Q-Ball: Well, Jimmy kind of liked this girl, and he thought maybe if he put her in the video that she would go out with him, but it didn't work out.

Jimmy Pop: I met her when she was younger, and she became a soap opera star in France, and I thought, "Wow! I'm in a band, she's on TV, this is going to be great. This is going to be like Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts." So, we put her in this video, and we flew this American director over, and English film crew, and French production team, and then she showed up at the video with her boyfriend, and that kind of ruined the whole thing.

MTV: So, did you ever think a video of you dressing up as monkeys and dancing around would make it to "TRL?"

Q-Ball: That just shows that the quality of music in the U.S. has declined and allowed us to be on there, I guess. So we want to thank all the artists out there for making crap music and allowing us to get ahead of them.

MTV: We don't get to see them, but you've done quite a few videos for the last record and the new one. Are you going to release them?

Q-Ball: Oh yeah, we'll actually put out a home video in a couple months that has all the videos that MTV never played.

Jimmy: Yeah, there's a reason MTV didn't play them. They weren't very good.

Q-Ball: MTV has taste.

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