Bowling For Soup - Sorry For Partyin'

Bowling for Soup
Sorry for Partyin'
2/5


Every time I put on a Bowling for Soup album, I instantly feel like I'm 10 again, remembering listening to the first few albums and being overcome with mirth. However, with Sorry for Partyin', that didn't last the whole album. If anything, I felt older by the end.

The problem with this album isn't that it isn't funny (I defy anyone who says they can listen to 'No Hablo Inglés' without at least a smirk), but the hooks aren't as catchy as you'd expect in the whole from the 15 year strong Texas quartet. There's nothing even close to their earlier successes such as 'Girl All the Bad Guys Want' or 'High School Never Ends' and the first single, 'My Wena', a thinly veiled double entendre comparing the male member to a girl, is probably the least memorable on the album. The album opens with what I suspect may be the biggest success, 'Really Cool Dance Song', a song that not surprisingly is an attempt to make a poppy dance song which will be played everywhere in a few weeks.

If you dig around, there's certainly enough here to warrant a listen, such as 'America (Wake Up Amy)' a pop punk rally call for America to 'wake up' to all it's problems, 'BFFF' about loving a man (in a heterosexual way) and 'I Can't Stand L.A.', however, the people who should be buying this in droves are young teenagers more interested in a cheap laugh than music. Not a bad album by any means, but for me there's too much effort spent on the lyrics and not enough on the music. In the words of Danny Glover, "I'm too old for this sh*t."

(Edited version originally printed in Student Direct: Mancunion - Issue 3 - October 2009)