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  Img Bouncingsoulspicjpg
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  Background group_or_band
  Origin New Brunswick <br> New Jersey <br>
  Genre Punk
  Years Active 1987 &ndash Present
  Label Epitaph Records <br /> Chunksaah Records
  URL wwwbouncingsoulscom
  Current Members Greg Attonito <br /> Pete 'The Pete' Steinkopf <br /> Bryan 'Papillon' Kienlen <br /> Michael McDermott
  Past Members Shal Khichi


The Bouncing Souls are a Punk Rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey formed in 1987 . By the time of their acknowledgment by the national punk scene, they had reignited a "pogo" element to New Jersey punk rock by playing fast light-hearted songs, a model followed by various other local bands (e.g. Blanks 77 and The Bristles ). In the early stages of their career, they played A Hybrid Of Punk, Funk, Metal , and just about anything else they felt like including. They were known for their energetic live shows, albeit with an amateurish element on their recordings at that stage.

The Bouncing Souls are one of the best selling and longest lived of the punk bands from New Jersey, following the legacy of previously successful punk bands Adrenalin OD and The Misfits .


HISTORY

After playing mostly parties and shows they put on themselves, they released their first full-length album, The Good, The Bad & The Argyle on Chunksaah Records in 1994 . The album was a compilation of several EPs the band had released previously. Two tracks of this record, "Candy" (popularized by Bow Wow Wow ) and "What Boys Like" (originally by The Waitresses ) served as homage to 1980s new wave while simultaneously striking a humorous jab at homophobia. Their next album, Maniacal Laughter was released in 1996 . Half the album was written in a week. It led to a high profile tour with Youth Brigade that got the attention of Epitaph Records.

The Bouncing Souls signed with Epitaph in which resulted in his departure from the band. He was replaced by former Skinnerbox , Mephiskapheles , and Murphy's Law drummer, Michael McDermott.

. 2002 brought a b-sides album, The Bad The Worse And The Out Of Print and an acclaimed split with Anti-Flag as part of the BYO Split Series . In 2003 , the band released their 6th album Anchors Aweigh , as well as their first DVD, Do You Remember? 15 Years Of The Bouncing Souls . In 2005 , they had two live releases, a double CD album, simply titled Live , as well as a DVD, titled Live At The Glasshouse , which was the 19th entry in Kung Fu Films ' '' The Show Must Go Off! '' series. The band released their 7th album, titled '' The Gold Record '' on June 6th, 2006, or 6/6/06 which the band has called 'The number of the release,' in reference to 666 , which is known as 'The Number Of The Beast.' Also, due to their first full-length record being a collection of previous releases, many fans also consider this to in fact be their 6th studio album, and thus 666 is also partly in reference to this. They will then head out on Warped Tour in support of their new record.

The band's name is a reference to an Advertising Slogan used by punk standards, Doc Martens shoes, in reference to their air-cushioned soles. To this day, tags on Doc Martens read "with Bouncing Soles".


TRIVIA


  • The Bouncing Souls song '' Sing Along Forever '' was featured on the soundtrack of the game, Burnout 3 , available for PS2 and Xbox .

  • The Bouncing Souls song '' Manthem '' was featured on the soundtrack of the game, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 , available for GameCube , PlayStation , PS2 , Xbox , and Game Boy .

  • The Bouncing Souls song ''Night Train'' was used by Professional Wrestler CM Punk as his Entrance Music at the Ring Of Honor event Punk: The Final Chapter.

  • The Bouncing Souls song ¡OLE! is used as Professional Wrestler El Generico's Entrance Music . It is also the song played after New Jersey Devils goals at the Continental Airlines Arena .

  • The Souls have made music videos (some more professionally than others) for the following songs: Joe Lies, Here We Go, East Side Mags, Fight To Live, True Believers, Gone, Kids and Heroes, Sing Along Forever, Anchors Aweigh, The Pizza Song and Lean on Sheena

  • The Souls credit Joe Lies (When He Cries) as their first good song.

  • Wrote most of '' The Gold Record '' in Kate's (of Kate Is Great fame) basement.

  • The Souls wrote the theme song for the TV show "American High," entitled "Overnight."

  • Cover Bruce Springsteen 's "Growin' Up" live, most of the time with Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg . His son is a big fan of the band.

  • The Bouncing Souls' song "I Like Your Mom" was featured in an iTunes/Pepsi commercial that aired during the 2005 Super Bowl in Jacksonville, FL. The commercial featured different people opening bottles of Pepsi, and hearing songs that represented what they were thinking about. One part of the commercial showed a guy visiting his girlfriend and meeting her attractive mom for the first time. When he opened his bottle of Pepsi, it played "I Like Your Mom."



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