Hopeless Romantic (The Bouncing Souls album)

Hopeless Romantic is the fourth full-length studio album by New Jersey punk band The Bouncing Souls. It was released in 1999 on Epitaph. The album finds the band experimenting with tempos and genres, all while maintaining the energetic punk sound of their previous albums. Hopeless Romantic contains fan favorites like "Kid", "¡Olé!", and the ballad "Night on Earth."

Hopeless Romantic
Studio album by
The Bouncing Souls
ReleasedMay 4, 1999 (1999-05-04)
Recorded1999
GenrePunk rock
Length39:58
LabelEpitaph
ProducerThom Wilson
The Bouncing Souls chronology
Tie One On
(1998)		 Hopeless Romantic
(1999)		 How I Spent My Summer Vacation
(2001)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

The album was included at number 31 on Rock Sound's "The 51 Most Essential Pop Punk Albums of All Time" list.[2]

Track listing

All tracks by The Bouncing Souls except where noted.

  1. "Hopeless Romantic" – 2:12
  2. "'87" – 3:27
  3. "Kid" – 2:50
  4. "Fight to Live" – 2:58
  5. "Bullying the Jukebox" – 3:48
  6. "You're So Rad" – 1:19
  7. "Night on Earth" – 4:54
  8. "Monday Morning Ant Brigade" – 2:24
  9. "¡Olé!" (Armath, J. Deja, The Bouncing Souls) – 3:04
  10. "Undeniable" – 2:37
  11. "Wish Me Well (You Can Go to Hell)" – 2:56
  12. "It's Not the Heat, It's the Humanity" – 2:14
  13. "The Whole Thing" – 5:13

Trivia
  • The song "Kid" contains a reference to the 1980s movie "The Breakfast Club"
  • ¡Olé! was the theme music for professional wrestler El Generico before he was signed to WWE. It was also used as an entrance theme for former WWE wrestler, CM Punk in his indies days. The song was also used as a goal song for the New Jersey Devils in the 2006-07 season, which was the final season that they played at the Meadowlands Arena before moving to Prudential Center the following season. The song was also used for the Vancouver Canucks as a goal song in the 2002-03, 2005-06, and 2006-07 seasons.
  • Seminal Australian punk radio show Bullying The Jukebox takes its title from track 5 of the disc.
  • ¡Olé! also appeared in NHL 11.
  • The song "Fight to Live" was featured on the CD-ROM of the Pocket PC Jornada series 500 from Hewlett-Packard, it was an mp3 file.

Personnel
  • Greg Attonito – vocals
  • Pete Steinkopf – guitar
  • Bryan Keinlen – bass, artwork
  • Shal Khichi – drums
  • Kara Weathington – vocals on "Wish Me Well (You Can Go To Hell)"
  • Thom Wilson – engineer
  • Chris Manning – assistant engineer
  • Eddy Shreyer – technician
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References
Citations
  1. Hopeless Romantic at AllMusic
  2. Bird, ed. 2014, p. 71
Sources
  • Bird, Ryan, ed. (September 2014). "The 51 Most Essential Pop Punk Albums of All Time". Rock Sound. London: Freeway Press Inc. (191). ISSN 1465-0185.
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