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“Fire Water Burn” by Bloodhound Gang
From the album One Fierce Beer Coaster (1996)
“Fire Water Burn” by Bloodhound Gang appears on 21 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 1996 and 2023. It was first released in 1996 on the album One Fierce Beer Coaster. Its best result is #31 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #117 alternative song of 1997 and #1,924 alternative song of all time.
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"Fire Water Burn" was the first single off One Fierce Beer Coaster, Bloodhound Gang's second album, from 1996, and it's the band at its most gleefully juvenile. The hook takes the party chant from "The Roof Is on Fire" by Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three and slows it to a sleepy, half-lidded crawl, turning a block-party shout into a slack-jawed dorm-room singalong over a loping hip-hop groove.
Jimmy Pop produced it, God Lives Underwater remixed it for the CD single, and the video parked the band in the cafeteria of a retirement home. It did modest business on the American rock charts but went off like a firecracker overseas, landing in the top 10 in Norway, the Netherlands, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and New Zealand and going platinum in the last two.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 94 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1996 | 101 |
| 1996 | 66 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996 | 99 |
| 1996 | 83 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1996 | 100 |
| 1997 | 31 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1997 | 99 |
| 1997 | 104 | 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO | 105.7 The Point Top 105.7 of 1997 | 106 |
| 1997 | 46 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 196 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 341 | 91X | 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 482 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 548 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2002 | 40 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) | 144 |
| 2004 | 55 | Q101 | Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) | 300 |
| 2004 | 428 | 107.7 The End | The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) | 500 |
| 2006 | 172 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) | 500 |
| 2007 | 308 | KROQ | KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) | 500 |
| 2020 | 181 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) | 420 |
| 2020 | 261 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
| 2021 | 450 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2021 | 205 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2021) | 420 |
| 2022 | 204 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) | 420 |
| 2023 | 213 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) | 420 |
Also listed as: Firewater Burn; Fire, Water, Burn.
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