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Bowling for Soup

Bowling for Soup is an American Grammy nominated, comedy influenced pop rock band who originally formed in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1994. Now based in Denton, Texas, the band is best known for their singles "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" (a 2003 Grammy Award nominee) "Almost","High School Never Ends", and "1985". They have sold over a million albums over the course of their career.[citation needed]

History

Bowling for Soup was formed in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1994 by Jaret Reddick (vocals, guitar), Erik Chandler (bass, vocals), Chris Burney (guitar, vocals) and Lance Morril (drums, vocals). Morril left the band in 1998 (on good terms) and was replaced by Gary Wiseman of Gary and the Wisemen. The band's name is derived from comedian Steve Martin's "Bowling for Shit" bawls from his 1978 comedy album, Wild and Crazy Guy, itself a reference to Bowling for Dollars. [2] In 1998, the band relocated to Denton, Texas and recorded their first studio album Rock on Honorable Ones!! (a reference to S.H. Rider's motto "ROHO"--Ride On Honorable Ones) in 1998 for Denton music label FFROE. Bowling for Soup released their second studio album, Tell Me When To Whoa!!!, through FFROE later that year. The album sold over 10,000 copies, prompting Jive Records to sign the band. Let's Do It for Johnny! , Bowling for Soup's major label debut, was released on Jive in 2000. The album mostly contained re-recordings of their previous material, but it also contained a few new tracks and a cover of Bryan Adams' song "Summer of '69." [1]

2002: Drunk Enough to Dance

In 2002, the band recorded their second major label album, Drunk Enough to Dance. The lead single from the album, "Girl All the Bad Guys Want", became a top 10 hit in the UK and a top 100 hit in the US. The next year, the single was nominated for the Grammy Award for "Best Pop Performance by a Group or Duo". The success of the single helped Drunk Enough to Dance reach #2 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers album chart, with a peak of #129 on the Billboard 200. The follow up single, "Emily" did not fare so well, climbing to a disappointing #67 in the UK Singles chart and not even charting in the US. Bowling For Soup's record label felt that a third single should be released, because of the success of "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" but did not feel any of the remaining songs on Drunk Enough to Dance were single material. So the band recorded a new song, "Punk Rock 101" to release as the third single. The song was included on a re-issue of the album Drunk Enough to Dance. The single was more successful than "Emily", climbing to #43 in the UK Singles Chart. In support of their album, Bowling For Soup embarked on a UK tour, being supported by such UK bands as [spunge].

2004: A Hangover You Don't Deserve

A Hangover You Don't Deserve followed two years later, and has become the band's only top 40 album. Sales of the album were driven in large part by the radio airplay of the single "1985", a song written by the band SR-71. Mitch Allan, lead singer of SR-71, contributed background vocals to the song and also appeared in the music video. "1985" became Bowling for Soup's biggest hit in the US, reaching #23 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second single from A Hangover You Don't Deserve, titled "Almost", charted at #100 on the UK Singles Chart, #46 on the US Top 100, and #23 on US Pop 100. Ohio, better known as "Come Back to Texas", was also released as a radio single in the US, but was not as popular as "1985" or "Almost", reaching only #59 on the US Pop 100.

Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies, a compilation album of cover songs and contributions to movie soundtracks, was released by the band in 2005. Later that year, Jaret Reddick and Chris Burney made several appearances on VH1's "I Love the '90s: Part Deux".

2006: The Great Burrito Extortion Case

Following the release of their covers album, Bowling for Soup spent most of 2006 readying their seventh studio album, entitled The Great Burrito Extortion Case, which was released on November 7, 2006. They released the first single off that album, "High School Never Ends", to iTunes on September 19, 2006. The UK release of the album was February 5th 2007. Bowling For Soup have confirmed that they will begin recording an 8th album in early 2008, which is hoped to be released before 2009. [3].

  • It has become a running gag in Bowling for Soup's music videos to feature previous songs of theirs as an intro for the video. This can be seen in "Girl all the Bad Guys Want", "Emily," and "High School Never Ends," which each feature music for "The Bitch Song," "Girl all the Bad Guys Want," and "1985" respectively.

The Get Happy Tours

Bowling For Soup toured the USA over the summer and autumn of 2006 with the Get Happy Tour. This was followed by a UK tour in early February 2007. Coinciding with this UK tour was the UK release of "High School Never Ends". The tour included Bowling For Soup as main headliners, Wheatus, Son of Dork and Army of Freshmen on the 12 date trek, which concluded at Hammersmith Pallais in London, on the 18th February.

Bowling For Soup confirmed during the Get Happy Tour that they would be performing another tour of the UK in October 2007, called the Get Happy Tour 2, also gracing the USA over the summer and featuring support acts Melee, Quietdrive, and Army of Freshmen. The UK tour bands were confirmed at the Download Festival (Army Of Freshmen who played in the morning announced it first, and Bowling For Soup announced it later that afternoon), along with the line-up in Kerrang! on an advertisement poster for the new tour. The line up consisted of Bowling For Soup, Bloodhound Gang, Zebrahead and Army of Freshmen. Their upcoming live DVD was recorded at the Manchester show on the 24th October.

On the 25th September 2007 it was announced in the official Bowling For Soup forums that "When We Die" would be released as a download only single in the UK on the 22nd October 2007. Following this, the music video was added to the Kerrang tv playlist and has also been played on Scuzz tv.

Associations

Bowling for Soup are good friends with the band SR-71. In fact, Bowling for Soup's hit song "1985" was originally written by SR-71's Mitch Allan. According to Jaret, Mitch showed the song to him and instructed him to take it as his own, as it seemed more of a BfS song than an SR-71 song.

Bowling For Soup are also good friends with Army of Freshmen. In the video for "high school never ends" the boy clapping can be seen wearing an AOF t-shirt. Jaret also does guest vocals on some tracks on AoF's album 'Under The Radar'. AoF is also featured as part of the BHS Marching Band in the "High School Never Ends" music video.

Jaret Reddick appeared on MC Lars' single "Download This Song".

New Zealand band 48May ran into legal issues and had to take their song "Leather and Tattoos" off their debut album. The album was taken off of shelves and replaced with a "tour edition" of the cd with the questionable song missing. The melody was exactly the same as Punk Rock 101.

In the song Much More Beautiful Person off the album The Great Burrito Extortion Case, Irish pop rock singer Lesley Roy is featured singing towards the end of the song. Both are on the same record label.

Members

Current members

Former members

In Concert

  • Bowling for Soup never prepares a set list. In 2007, Jaret said they decide what to play as the show progresses. "It's been that way for 13 years," meaning that they've done it for as long as they've been a band. [citation needed]
  • During slow periods on tour, the band passes time by playing washers.
  • The band now often plays a cover of The Ramones song "I Wanna Be Sedated" replacing the word "sedated" with "naked," similar to the Screeching Weasel song "I Wanna Be Naked". They have played this at the first UK Get Happy tour and Download Festival in the UK.
  • The band has also been known to play a pop punk version of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" as an encore to their show.
  • Chris has a front tooth that was knocked out and at a Playland concert (Rye, NY) August 9th, 2007 the band decided to call the prosthetic tooth in its place, "Byron." Other choices included "Bartholomew" and "Stevie."

Discography

Albums

EPs

Singles

Year Title Chart Positions Album
UK Singles Chart US Modern Rock US Hot 100 US Pop 100
1998 "Scope" - - - - Rock on Honorable Ones!!
2000 "The Bitch Song" - - - - Let's Do It for Johnny!
2000 "Suckerpunch" - - - - Let's Do It for Johnny!
2002 "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" 8 38 64 - Drunk Enough to Dance
2002 "Emily" 67 - - - Drunk Enough to Dance
2003 "Punk Rock 101" 43 - - - Drunk Enough to Dance (Reissue Only)
2004 "1985" 35 - 23 - A Hangover You Don't Deserve
2005 "Almost" 100 - 46 23 A Hangover You Don't Deserve
2005 "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" - - - 59 A Hangover You Don't Deserve
2006 "I Melt with You" - - - - Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies
2006 "High School Never Ends" 40 - 97 79 The Great Burrito Extortion Case
2007 "When We Die" - - - - The Great Burrito Extortion Case
2007 "London Bridge" - - - - Download-only single of Live "Fergie" cover
2007 "I'm Gay" - - - - The Great Burrito Extortion Case

Other appearances

References

  1. ^ [1]

External links

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bowling_for_Soup&oldid=188311595

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