Bowling for Soup

Bowling for Soup is an American pop punk band which originally formed in 1994. The band is best known for its singles "Girl All the Bad Guys Want", "Almost", "Punk Rock 101", "High School Never Ends", and SR-71 cover "1985". They have release eleven studio albums, one live album/live DVD, four compilation albums, three extended plays, eighteen singles, and eighteen music videos.

Bowling for Soup was formed in 1994 by Jaret Reddick, Chris Burney, Erik Chandler and Lance Morrill. Morrill left the band in 1998 and was replaced by Gary Wiseman of Gary and the Wisemen. In 1998, the band relocated to Denton, Texas and recorded their second studio album, third overall, Rock on Honorable Ones!!. Their first EP, Tell Me When to Whoa, was released later that year.

Let's Do It for Johnny!!, Bowling for Soup's major label debut, was released in 2000. The album mostly contained re-recordings of their previous material along with a few new tracks and a cover of Bryan Adams' song "Summer of '69".

Drunk Enough to Dance was released in August 2002. One of the album's two singles, "Girl All The Bad Guys Want", was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2003 in the "Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal" category. A re-release in 2003 added "Punk Rock 101", a cover of 1980s new wave band A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)", and "Star Song". An acoustic version of the song "Belgium" exists at the end of the album, as well as at the very end of the initial release.

A Hangover You Don't Deserve was released in 2004 and has become the band's only Top 40 album. "1985" became Bowling for Soup's biggest hit in the U.S., reaching #23 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second single from A Hangover You Don't Deserve, "Almost", charted on the UK Singles Chart, #46 on the U.S. Top 100, and #23 on U.S. Pop 100. "Ohio", better known as "Come Back to Texas", was released as a radio single in the U.S.

Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies, a compilation album of cover songs and contributions to movie soundtracks, was released by the band in 2005. Their cover version of Modern English's "I Melt With You" was used in the Disney movie Sky High and was on the movie's soundtrack.

Their seventh studio album, The Great Burrito Extortion Case, was released in November 2006. They released the first single off of that album, "High School Never Ends", to iTunes in September 2006. The UK release of the album was in February 2007. The band released "I'm Gay" as the second UK single in early 2007.

The band's first live DVD, Bowling for Soup: Live and Very Attractive was filmed over the course of the UK Get Happy Tour October 2007.

Sorry for Partyin' was released on October 12, 2009. "My Wena" was the first promotional single from the album and the song was released to iTunes on July 28, 2009. Bowling for Soup released their first holiday album, Merry Flippin' Christmas Volume 1, digitally on November 26, 2009.

Bowling for Soup released an acoustic album in the UK in April 2010. The band released "Let's Pretend We're Not in Love" via their fansite in November 2010. Fishin' for Woos, was released in April 2011. In October 2011, Bowling for Soup released a three-track single which included the new single "I've Never Done Anything Like This", which features Kay Hanley on vocals from their album Fishin' for Woos, as well as a re-recorded version of "The Bitch Song" and a cover version of "Stacy's Mom".