The Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
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Artist: The Bouncing SoulsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-05-22
Music Label: Epitaph / Ada
Soundtracks:
- That Song
- Private Radio
- True Believers
- Better Life
- The Something Special
- Broken Record
- Lifetime
- Manthem
- Break-Up Song
- Streetlight Serenade
- Late Bloomer
- No Comply
- Gone
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Free Music Review: Fun Fun Fun
Hit: 4 Stars
I love my pop/punk fun fast, furious and full of life, not cool produced and prepared in a studio like Avril or the influx of boys hitting the MTV circuit. Luckily Bouncing Souls is one of a handfull of bands that not only continues to record new CDs but actually seems to have fun doing them.
Combining all the young angst of boys younger than them, they still manage to come up with songs about BMX bikes, girls and music, all the elements of the fun side of punk pop. How I Spent My Summer Vacation was my first foray into the bouncing world of Bouncing Souls and being released on May 22nd in 2001, (one of my birthdays) adds a little something to it - but most importantly it's just fun, fast and schock full of melody.
"That Song" is catchy, "Lifetime" is melodic, "Manthem" is fun; and I love songs about music and its influences on one's own youth - and Bouncing Souls addresses this idea a lot particularly in the closing number (and my fav) "Gone". As a whole, it's all kind of like Blink-182 but with a little less production and it's always fun.
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation sets its tone on its first track 'That Song', an ode to all the songs, which hold the power to define our lives. Through out the album the themes of joy and belief repeat themselves, illustrating that feeling of true freedom that can only be found in a punk rock. Tracks like 'True Believers' and 'Better Life' are battle cry's for those who seek the freedom and control that punk rock brings, while 'Streetlight Serenade' is a ballad dedicated to a BMX bike 'and everything else that I like,' The album's powerhouse closer is the song 'Gone' which offers up one of those hooks that is destined to stick with you for a life time. 13 tracks. 2001 release.As the third track on How I Spent My Summer Vacation makes abundantly clear, the Bouncing Souls are "True Believers," utterly uncompromising stalwarts of punk. By "punk," they do not mean the art-school flamboyance or anarcho-posturings of the Sex Pistols, or the heartfelt, in-your-face raging of Henry Rollins and Black Flag. Rather, this is the simple peacetime punk of kids with energy to spare. It's about sunny days, pretty girls, BMX bikes, and playful pogoing. It's about loneliness, alienation, and the desperate conviction of teenage love. And, above all, it's about music as a force for good. The Bouncing Souls deliver a positivist, anthemic pop that's specifically designed to raise depressed spirits, as evinced lyrically by the two openers, "That Song" and "Private Radio," and the closing tune, "Gone." In this respect, they have much in common with Green Day and the Offspring, but they carefully avoid the deliberate frivolity of those bands, evidently aiming to reflect the lives and feelings of their fans instead of becoming rock & roll personalities themselves. Unfortunately, this realism makes How I Spent My Summer Vacation increasingly inconsequential as the tracks pass. But, in short bursts, it is what it intends to be--great fun. --Dominic Wills
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