The Good The Bad And The Argyle - Bouncing Souls

'The Good, the Bad and the Argyle' is the collective name given to the songs making up the Bouncing Souls' first album, many of which were originally found on various E.P. releases prior to the full-length debut. Refusing to be pigeonholed outside of the vague notion that they're a punk band, this New Jersey group display clear contempt for the very idea of traditionally structured music, which makes this diverse and unpredictable album both hugely entertaining and inevitably awful at times. Most songs take a punk rock approach, but this only follows a traditional/commercial style in 'Joe Lies' and the beginning of 'Deadbeats,' before the latter song once ...

I’ve been a Bouncing Souls fan for a good few years now; I’ve gradually been trying to work my way up to get all of the Souls albums. Before they signed with BYO Records or Epitaph, they released this album on there own record label Chunksaah. The Bouncing Souls are: Greg Attonito: Vocals Pete Steinkopf: Guitar Bryan Kienlan: Bass Shal Khichi: Drums They are a punk rock band with humble beginnings that many bands may dream of. They started off living in many rented houses, not going to school and having house parties to raise the money to pay the rent. Of course it couldn’t always stay like this, and the Bouncing Souls have ...