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Bowling for Soup

Sorry for Partyin'

  • AMG Review of Sorry for Partyin'

    Amg
    Pemberton Roach
    All Music Guide

    Punky power pop pranksters Bowling for Soup have made a career out of matching catchy, unusually well-crafted pop music with clever, humorous lyrics suggesting that the band was eternally stuck in high school. With 2009's Sorry for Partyin', the group, whose members are quickly nearing middle age, seems to be regressing even further, trading in frequent references to cheerleaders and jocks for an extended penis metaphor ("My Wena") and a paean to shirking all manner of responsibility, including cleaning up dog doo ("No Hablo Inglés"). Elsewhere, the group makes a (mostly) tongue-in-cheek bid for chart success with "A Really Cool Dance Song," which matches a throbbing Lady GaGa-esque beat and electronic squiggles with the group's usual sarcastic flair, and delivers one of the best celebrations of all things brewski-related since Tom T. Hall's "I Like Beer" with the even more enthusiastically named "Hooray for Beer." As was the case with "Much More Beautiful Person" and "When We Die" on the unit's previous release, The Great Burrito Extortion Case, however, Bowling for Soup occasionally dispense with the silliness to get reflective; "Me with No You" is a midtempo, acoustic-based, straight-up sensitive heartbreak song that could easily be covered by any number of teen-pop or Nashville country singers. Throughout, the band varies little from its proven musical formula of catchy, snap-tight, and energetic guitar rock, but the primary focus on this album, as always, is on having fun, and Sorry for Partyin' makes forgiveness easy.

Album Review: Bowling For Soup – Sorry For Partyin’
about 1 month ago

Bowling For Soup open up their new album Sorry For Partyin’ with a trusty ballad… No who am I kidding? From the first note, and Jaret Reddick’s customary vocals cutting through, you know you’re in for another fist-pumping, smile-inducing bundle of fun from this now fully established pop-punk awesome foursome.No time is wasted in assaulting [...]

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Bowling For Soup: Sorry For Partyin'
about 1 month ago

Much like a tent marked "recreate that holocaust experience", if you don't know what you're going to get from a Bowling For Soup album, there's little we can do to help. Music and comedy have never had an easy alliance.

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Bowling For Soup: Sorry For Partyin'
about 1 month ago

Much like a tent marked "recreate that holocaust experience", if you don't know what you're going to get from a Bowling For Soup album, there's little we can do to help. Music and comedy have never had an easy alliance.

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Bowling For Soup eyeing My Wena video
4 months ago

From the album, Sorry for Partyin'.Jaret Reddick(vocals) is part of comedy troupe called Fourth Wall Comedy. Fans can see him and the group out of their base in Denton, Texas.Wow, this video is just, wow... For some reason I didn't notice the title of the song and after the first couple seconds, it clicked. A self gratuitous song about the male member that I'm surprised I've never come across. ...

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Album Review: Bowling For Soup – Sorry For Partyin’
about 1 month ago

Bowling For Soup open up their new album Sorry For Partyin’ with a trusty ballad… No who am I kidding? From the first note, and Jaret Reddick’s customary vocals cutting through, you know you’re in for another fist-pumping, smile-inducing bundle of fun from this now fully established pop-punk awesome foursome.No time is wasted in assaulting [...]

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