Album Love: A Hangover You Don't Deserve - Bowling For Soup

I really got into Bowling For Soup back in the day of Punk Rock 101 and Girl All the Bad Guys Want, but i didn't actually buy Drunk Enough To Dance until after this album. It was just by chance, i'd known it was coming out and had thought about getting it, and the day it was released they had it nicely sitting on display on the chart shelves in hmv and i thought "why not?" Why not indeed.... :D


# Almost - Bowling For Soup

I think i was in love after this first track. It's a great bouncy opener, which is one of my favourite opening tracks of all the albums i own. A lot tend to try slow little intro numbers or instrumental pieces, but Almost really just throws you straight into the Soup, as it were. And that's the great thing about this album, It's very much BFS the whole way through, even the 'odd' stuff (the most notable being track 45's Belgium) still sounds very much like them, and the whole thing manages to mix solid emotion with tongue in cheek humour. Tracks like Get Happy and A-Hole don't seem out of place at all in their emotional seriousness despite being mixed in with stuff like Shut Up and Smile ("All we need is ice cream and a hug"). Okay, so, we're not talking serious along the lines of 'porverty strikens our world whilst we live in a deluded state of blance in the west' (snappy! I should write songs...) but it's good enough for the average people!


# Ohio (Come Back to Texas) - Bowling For Soup

I just feel, after now listening to 3 previous BFS albums that this is definately their peak of album-ness (that A-level in English really paid off) and is a real pleasure to listen to. You can get lost in their generally laid-back view on everything. It's very relationship focused, but it never seems repetitive. All the songs look at very different sides of this, from wanting your mum (Somebody Get My Mum) to malicious criminal damage (Two-Seater).
Oh, and, for those who noticed my reference to track 45 - tracks 19-44 are a roughly 6 minute outro split into a load of pieces. That still leaves 19 full tracks. Not bad huh?


# Belgium - Bowling For Soup

This song has now featured on the last three albums (not including the latest outing which hasn't been released in the uk yet as far as i'm aware) starting with the original on Let's Do It For Johnny! before making an acoustic appearance at the end of Drunk Enough to Dance, and now features as a, well, 'boyband incarnation' is the only way i can think to describe it, which i thought i'd share with you here :P I know a lot of people don't like it, but i think it's funny and a nice addition. And hey, it's track 45! You don't *have* to lsiten to it!