''Hopeless Romantic'' is the fourth full-length studio album by American punk rock band

The Bouncing Souls The Bouncing Souls are an American punk band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, formed in 1989. By the time of their acknowledgment by the national punk rock scene, they had reignited a "pogo" element to New Jersey punk rock by playing fast light-h ...

. 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."

Release

''Hopeless Romantic'' was released in May 1999. The Bouncing Souls toured with H₂O, Vision, and

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on the east coast in November and December 1999. Drummer Shal Khich left the band in January 2000. Towards the end of the year, the band supported Green Day in Europe.

Reception

The album was included at number 31 on ''Rock Sound''s "The 51 Most Essential Pop Punk Albums of All Time" list.Bird, ed. 2014, p. 71

Track listing

All tracks by

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

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before he was signed to

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. It was also used as an entrance theme for current AEW 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

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before moving to

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the following season. The song was also used for the

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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 ''

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''. *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 –

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*Pete Steinkopf –

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*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

References

; Citations ;Sources * {{Authority control The Bouncing Souls albums 1999 albums Epitaph Records albums Albums produced by Thom Wilson