Nor could Hooray For Boobies hope to raise too many parental eyebrows with The Slim Shady LP stuck in the CD tray a couple of years later.ДЇor all Slim's celebrated 'humour' and 'irony', he achieved much of his success precisely because he reined in these qualities, glowered, and allowed white kids in cul-de-sacs (and their parents) to believe that he was a menace to society. The notion of One Fierce Beer Coaster being the music to terrorise your suburb by just couldn't stand up to the eyeliner-and-amphetamine threat offered by its contemporary, Antichrist Superstar. You didn't pick it up? But it had A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying on it.

I don't know if you noticed, but the Bloodhound Gang released a compilation last year called Show Us Your Hits. More than quarter of a century after they formed, they are alternative icons, without a weak album to their name. The Beastie Boys' natural insouciance and sublime obnoxiousness - combined with the fact they were 'white boys doing black music' - caused bona fide moral panic when they toured Britain. Then Sid chased Nancy down a needle-hole and John Lydon formed the coldly glorious PiL. The Pistols arrived with the weight of a burgeoning movement behind them and burned brightly and beautifully for a number of months until their job was done. Nobody with any sense, then or now, would compare the impact of the Bloodhound Gang to the Sex Pistols or the Beasties. I'm sure you'll agree that this was a great day in the history of the press release.

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