Bowling For Soup, 'Sorry for Partyin''

Release date: October 13, 2009
Record label: Jive
Official Web site: http://www.bowlingforsoup.com/

The buzz: Hard to believe, but this pop-punk band from Denton, Texas, (who scored minor hits in the past with “1985” and “Girl All the Bad Guys Want,” thanks mainly to their goofy videos) is now over a decade old…and still churning out one-joke pop anthems. “Sorry for Partyin'” is the group’s seventh studio LP.
 
The verdict: Like most Soup records, “Partyin'” is a mish-mash of PG-rated ranting (“Hooray for Beer,” “I Don’t Wish You Were Dead Anymore”), cheesy satire (“A Really Cool Dance Song,” a thinly veiled attack on keyboard-y punk bands like Cobra Starship and 3OH!3) and, usually out of nowhere, some fairly decent, semi-serious power pop (“Only Young,” “Love Goes Boom”). The latter tunes are good enough to make you wish the group would keep the novelty songs to an enforced minimum, instead of 90 percent of their albums—it’s a rule that works well for the Offspring, who BFS desperately emulate in “No Hablo Inglés” and “I Can’t Stand L.A.”
 
Did you know? BFS took their name from an old Steve Martin stand-up routine, “Bowling for S---.”

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