Bowling for Soup - Drunk Enough to Dance

The band is called Bowling For Soup, the album's called Drunk Enough To Dance, and the cover features four guys in ugly power-blue tuxedos pulling funny faces. Gotta be awful, rightNULL Well, not so fast -- no one is going to call Drunk Enough To Dance one of the great records of our time, but these guys do happen to bat at a higher average than the majority of punk-pop acts who've emerged in the wake of Green Day's commercial breakthrough. Jarret Reddick's songs sound tight, sharp, and hooky and, compared to most of his peers, he seems more puzzled than contemptuous of women, which is a welcome switch (the post-breakup gloating anthem "Life After Lisa" is a lot snarkier than it needs to be, but it's hard to blame a guy for being happy to not listen to House Of Pain anymore). Read More