Sounds From The Junkshop #68 - Bowling For Soup
"Since when did Motley Crue become classic rock?/And when did Ozzy become an actor?" - Bowling For Soup - 1985 Similar to Lit a few weeks ago, I should by all rights have hated Bowling For Soup. I've mentioned in this column before how frat-punk, along with nu-metal, was pretty much the bane of my musical life in my early twenties. I mean, don't get me wrong, my 15-year-old self loved the Offspring's Smash and Green Day's Dookie , Insomniac and Kerplunk but by the time I hit my third year at Uni, the formula was wearing very very thin. Both of the abovementioned seemed to have been treading water with their late '90s efforts all generally feeling a bit less special than the one before and by 2001, the Offspring had well and truly bottomed out with the dismal Conspiracy of One while Green Day's Warning was the sound of a band without a rudder before they drifted off into ill-advised concept album territory on American Idiot (a frust...