THE GREAT BURRITO EXTORTION CASE - Bowling For Soup

THIS comedy influenced pop punk band that bought you the 2003 Grammy Award nominee single Girl All the Bad Guys Want is now back with its ninth album, The Great Burrito Extortion Case.

Bowling For Soup comprises Jaret Reddick (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Erik Chandler (bass, backing vocals), Chris Burney (lead guitar, backing vocals) and Gary Wiseman (drums).

Starting off the album, High School Never Ends, with its Banana Splits-meet-Green Day vibe, is a pop-punk rant against the nation's fascination with pop culture, likening it to the obsessive cliques in high school.

As their ninth album in over a decade demonstrates, the band has mastered its domain: Cheeky lyrics set to viscously addictive pop punk.

In the song I'm Gay, they mean the roaring 20s definition of the word and they sing "Don't hate us `cause we're happy".

The final song, If You Come Back to Me/Outro contains two things:

One, the song If You Come Back to Me, followed by two minutes of silence, followed by about 13 minutes of the "la la la's" from I'm Gay in in the background, with audio of the bandmates talking.

You most appreciate Bowling for Soup if you don't take them too seriously. - NST 29/07/2007