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Bowling For Soup: Sorry For Partyin'

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Bowling For Soup 

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Aidan Williamson

08th October 2009
At 18:00 GMT

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Much like a tent marked "recreate that holocaust experience", if you don't know what you're going to get from a Bowling For Soup album, there's little we can do to help.

Music and comedy have never had an easy alliance. While film or the stage is the most well-suited medium to the craft, many have tried to apply comedic effect to songs. As part as a stand-up show (see Bill Bailey & Tim Minchin) it can be funny; it can even work by itself (see: Flight of the Conchords). The main issue with Bowling For Soup is that they just aren't that funny. With their humour being rooted in predictable, one-note jokes with the band trying to cover up their shortcomings by , which sees a girl dressed in a six-foot penis costume, spitting milk in front-man Jaret Reddick's face. And Americans wondered why we all laughed when they said they wanted to do comedy. Well, no one's laughing now!

Rating:  6 / 10

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