The Bad Touch
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"The Bad Touch" is the first single by The Bloodhound Gang off their 1999 album Hooray for Boobies (titled "Along Comes Mary" and reached #6 in Germany). The song propelled the group into stardom, with lyrics such as "You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals / so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel". It was released in 1999 internationally and a year later in the US and UK. The song was also remixed by Eiffel 65, who also enjoyed a similar short-term success at the time. The music is based on the Pet Shop Boys song "In the Night" (the B-side of the "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" single from the album Please).
The song contains many cultural references. These include:
- Two-Hand Touch, a gentler variant of American football
- Prince, an American musician
- Siskel & Ebert, a popular movie-review duo
- Waffle House, a Southern United States restaurant chain
- FedEx, a shipping and courier company
- Coca-Cola, a popular soft drink
- Discovery Channel, a cable TV channel featuring science programming
- Battleship (game), a guessing game by Milton Bradley Company
- Mr. Coffee, a 1980's automatic coffee maker
- Tool Time, a show-within-a-show on the sitcom Home Improvement
- Lyle Lovett, an American singer-songwriter
- The X-Files, a popular sci-fi TV series
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