Better than The Gold Record or Ghosts on the Boardwalk. I think they recaptured some of the energy they lost after Anchors Aweigh.

Its a really good Souls album, the review is bogus. Baptized, Fast Times, Coin Toss Girl, Comet, and Ship in a Bottle are great Souls songs.

well, that was terrible. a few mediocre songs and a bunch of really crappy ones. can i get my money back for something i didnt pay for? maybe it's time for a brief hiatus, followed by some reunion shows for their 25th in a few years.

I really liked this record. Its a deconstruction and a throwback to older days, while keeping their new found sensibilities. It's a good solid record, and I think I might be the only person who actually REALLY, REALLY likes "WE LOVE FUN." It's not perfect, it's not new, but I don't want perfect or new. I want the Bouncing Souls and we got them. I'd give it a solid 4!

Oh and shameless self promotion: I interviewed the band in Denver, and we talked about the new album and how their 20th anniversary shows directly influences the writing process of the new album. We also talked Kids, Adulthood, Rise Records and Pete talked a little bit about a potential side project that would be very much in the vein of RISE RECORDS. All that and more at: http://mostlyharmlesspodcast.com/archives/407

I really really wanted to like it... but Its just ok.. a dissapointment for me.

Probably the blandest thing the Bouncing Souls have done. It's about even with Hopeless Romantic for me. It's just... there.

Solid album, I think their best since the self-titled record. Nice to hear them expanding into new territory pretty smoothly.

This one really grew on me. Even their good albums have a handful of tracks I have to skip over, this only has one. "We Love Fun" is an embarrassment.

Don't listen to anyone who thinks "The Pizza Song" is good.

Best since anchors. Really like the production on here

Best songs the least punk? This review is lame. Comet is the Souls' best since How I Spent My Summer Vacation hands down.

This album has some songs I'd like to marry (coin toss girl, fast times), some songs I'd like to bury (we love fun). Some great ones, but I doubt I'd ever let my iTunes play through the album as a whole again.

honestly.. I've read your recent reviews and you are an idiot!! Sorry you garage band didn't work out a**h***!! Your "Pennywise" review was terrible and this review is terrible!!! FIRE THIS GUY!!!

Good but not great. It wont see as much playing time in my car as The Gold Record did.

The first spin I didn't know if I was into it but by the third time the hooks had set in and I really started loving this.

Best since anchors

I think it would be cool to say I prefer this band's older work and generally I do hate it when bands slow down their songs. But although I've been listening to their releases since their early years, it's only in the last couple years with their last 3 releases that I really started to consider this as one of my favorite bands ever. I really like this album a lot again and maybe there is some poor lyrical content in songs like "We Love Fun" and "DFA", but hey, an old song like "Olé" by them hadn't either. Almost all of the songs on this new album just sound great to my ears once more.

I haven't heard this yet, nor do I think I will. Score is for the artwork.

This is a solid Bouncing Souls album. If you've ever liked them, I don't see how you couldn't at least like this a little. My only complaint is that it needs to be a little longer!

Not HISMSV or Anchors, however very good. Saw their Troc show and they were brilliant. Cheap Girls sucked however -oldpunker-

The Bouncing Souls always make me Smile.

Someone just learned how to use Illustrator...

We Love Fun is probably in their top 5 worst songs of all time. Maybe even the worst.

Baptized and Static are killer though that it doesn't matter. Good album.

plus i ran into pete on the street and he gave me a low fiive

they played 8 new songs at the troc show - but they also played 28 songs in total so that was alright by me

TOUR UPDATE:
Forgot to mention, leave your "Joe Lies" handmade sign at home, it wont end well...

TOUR UPDATE:::
Went to the tour opener last night at Black Cat in Washington DC, im happy to announce that the live show is still as fucking great as it has been the past years, they only played 1-2 new songs, so make shure to go support and go dance it up...

it's OK. problem with 10 track albums is even if there's only a couple duds, the album just isn't that great. and this does have a couple duds.

but there are some solid songs too. "baptized" rocks, "comet" is really cool, "coin toss girl" is indeed in their "gold record - so jersey/springsteenian" vein, and done quite well. "we love fun" and "infidel" are throwaways, but the last track is pretty cool too.

what is this, their 10th album? for a 10th album it's pretty good.

It's a bouncing souls album. Its not as great as "how I spent my summer vacation" but I certainly wouldn't call it their worst. Ah what do I know I'm a souls fanboy!

I prefer Comet to Ghosts On The Bordwalk. It's much faster and louder. I agree that some of the songs have similar structure, even though they still sound like good Bouncing Souls. The bigest weakness of this album is, that it's too short.

Drop "Coin Toss", "We Love Fun", and "DFA", and this is pretty solid.

i like it.

soooooooooooooooo bad...who knew all the metalcore kids talking shit when rise signed them were right??

Reasons why this is a fucking solid album:

Production: The Souls have never sounded so good. Bill Stevenson did a bang up job on this. It sound's sharp and punchy, such a "full" sound"

Cohesive: "Ghost's.." was a great album but it sounded like a bunch of singles thrown on a disc. The new songs from start to finish sound like they were all meant to be on the same album.

It sounds like the Bouncing Souls!!! I feel this album is getting shit on for the same reason people are trashing the new Pennywise. It's what you would come to expect. There aren't any real "risks" taken on the new album, and it isn't a departure from their "sound", if it was you'd probably hate it even more. Sure the songs are clean and catchy, the days of writing super-fast/sloppy songs are over. If you are looking for solid songs from one of the best punk bands you should listen to this. It's going to be on my summer soundtrack for sure.

horrendous album cover, lame music.

All Hail the Souls! This is a standard album for them and it still sounds pretty good. Stoked.

Even an okay Souls album is better than most of the other stuff I hear.

I like these songs about as much as the ones from "Ghosts on the Boardwalk," and they feel more cohesive as an album than "Ghosts."

Get the shit out of your ears/brain.

Thumbs up.

"Ole" wasn't written by a group of men in their forties.
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That actually makes "Ole" worse, does it not?

Comet is perfectly acceptable and an improvement over the Gold Record and 20th anniversary sessions.

Not great but not terrible by any stretch. I'll go more in depth later

Well, i do love fun.

Terrible album. We Love Fun? DFA? Give me a fucking break.

Back when they actually loved fun, they didnt sing about it, they sang about bmx bikes and 80s movies. Back when they were down for anything, they didnt sing about that either, they sang about throwing toilets off the fucking roof.

These guys are aging so disgracefully, and their lyrical content is so fucking lame you'd think it's a joke. No one expects them to be the same guys they were in their twenties. They act like every song needs to be a party anthem or a prom classic. What happened to fast songs about bullshit? They used to be so great back when they werent trying to be. Night on Earth killed this fucking band.

They need to reevaluate this shit heavily. And they should be outlawed from singing about the fucking radio.

so angry i bought this album. It's crap rehash of everything they have done before but shit. How many times can we have the same fucking riff/song structure? muted guitar before poppy song? yeah lets do that again! try and recapture former glories by doing the usual slow, anthemic final song? yeah why the fuck not?

and the "we like fun" song is horrible

it's like fuck all effort has gone into this record. I'll calm down about it soon. I should have learnt after seeing the same bollocks live set with greg not trying time and time again but i thought they may just pull something outta the bag.

ah well, football season starts in 2 months

I know labels don't mean much in this day and age but shit, even these guys are on Rise? I feel older than shit right now.

"Ole" wasn't written by a group of men in their forties.

we love fun is no dumber than ole and everybody loves that tune.

I agree with Bryne. And, like the Souls, I love Fun.

Joe makes some good points, but I think this record is a lot of fun.

I think I have aged.

this thing is a pile of HOT SHIT!!!!

maybe its not their best, but its a solid record and is easily better than any of the bands up on 'exclusive streams' right now...

Oh DFA is a classic song already

Looks like I am the only one who loves this album.

"We Love Fun" is nowhere near as bad as anyone is making it out to be.

This seems harsh. This is a lot better than Ghosts on the Boardwalk. It's not as good as the Gold Record. As far as new Souls goes I'll take it.

this is a good album

Maybe the b-sides in the vault for the Comet sessions will hit the web sooner then later and make up for the 10 tracks that even the most honest hardcore BS fans will have the balls to say are going to go down as the worst. Even if Comet may disappoint many of us long time Souls fans,these guys still fucking kick ass live and I will continue to see them live until they no longer got the gasoline in them to do it anymore. I still got faith in these guys and look forward to future albums that will make up for this part of there catalog.

Pretty "eh" record. The Bouncing Souls really fell off after Anchors Aweigh. The Gold Record and Ghosts On The Boardwalk have their moments, so does this one, but that doesn't mean they're good albums.

Oof dah.... I whole heartrendingly disagree with everything in this review.

" It doesn’t contain any embarrassing lows"

I think "We Love Fun" qualifies.

Shut the fuck up, renaldo. Go give Punk Goes Pop Volume 15 a seven.

Anchors Aweigh - brilliant. this record...not as...

but still not too shabby..

shevchenko pwned!

Yeah "DFA", "We Love Fun" and "Infidel" are some of the bands weakest songs but other than that it's fine and dandy by my standards.