Must Haves. Music Edition. Bowling For Soup.

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Known for their cheeky take on poppunk and melodic altpop, Texas fourpiece Bowling for Soup found mainstream success in the early 2000s with their breakout fourth album, Drunk Enough to Dance, which earned a Grammy nomination for its hooky pop culturereferencing single "Girl All the Bad Guys Want."

. During the course of their career, Bowling for Soup have managed a fairly diverse and prolific output within their tuneful poppunk confines, releasing three live albums (all recorded in the U.K.), two Christmas albums, a collection of movie and television themes, and an acoustic release they even wrote the theme song to the Disney cartoon Phineas and Ferb. After a decade with RCA`s Jive Records, they launched their own QueSo imprint and turned to their fans to help fund albums like 2014's Lunch. Drunk. Love. and 2016's Drunk Dynasty.

Bowling for Soup were formed in 1994 in Wichita Falls, Texas, featuring lead vocalist/guitarist Jaret Reddick, guitarist/vocalist Chris Burney, bassist Erik Chandler, and drummer Gary Wiseman. However, they didn't rise beyond local prominence until 1997, when a heavy touring schedule helped broaden their fan base and landed them opening spots for nationally prominent punk and ska bands. The following year, Bowling for Soup recorded a debut EP for the local FFROE label, titled Tell Me When to Whoa!; by this point, their base of operations had been moved to Denton, Texas, the site of the label's headquarters. Later in 1998, Bowling for Soup issued their first fulllength album, Rock on Honorable Ones!!! Both it and its predecessor proved to be popular around the state (Honorable Ones sold over 10,000 copies alone), and the band ended up scoring a deal with Jive/Silvertone.

GENRE Pop Punk, punk rock

ALBUMS. Songs People actually liked, A hangover you don't deserve, Lets do it for Johnny, Drunk Dinasty, Sorry For Partying, Drunk Enough to Dance, Fishin for Woos

HITS

1985, Punk Rock 101, Girl all the bad guys want, high school never ends, the bitch song, no hablo ingles, Ohio, Almost