Hopeless Romantic is the fourth full length album by New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 punk

Punk rock

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 band The Bouncing Souls

The Bouncing Souls

The Bouncing Souls are a punk rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, formed in 1987. 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-hearted songs, a model followed by various other local...

. This 1999 release 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."

Track listing

All tracks by The Bouncing Souls

The Bouncing Souls

The Bouncing Souls are a punk rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, formed in 1987. 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-hearted songs, a model followed by various other local...

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1. "Hopeless Romantic" – 2:12
2. "'87" – 3:27
3. "Kid" – 2:50
4. "Fight to Live" – 2:58
5. "Bullying the Jukebox" – 3:48
6. "You're So Rad" – 1:19
7. "Night on Earth" – 4:54 mp3
8. "Monday Morning Ant Brigade" – 2:24
9. "¡Olé!" (Armath, J. Deja, The Bouncing Souls) – 3:04
10. "Undeniable" – 2:37
11. "Wish Me Well (You Can Go to Hell)" – 2:56
12. "It's Not the Heat, It's the Humanity" – 2:14
13. "The Whole Thing" – 5:13

Trivia

• The song "Kid" contains a reference to the 1980s movie "The Breakfast Club"
• ¡Olé! is the theme music for professional wrestler El Generico
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• Seminal Australian punk radio show, Bullying The Jukebox, takes its title from track 5 of the disc.
• ¡Olé! also appeared in NHL 11
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  . Also, it was used as an entrance theme for WWE wrestler, CM Punk
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Personnel

• Greg Attonito – vocals
• Pete Steinkopf – guitar
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• Bryan Keinlen – bass
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• Shal Khichi – drum
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• Kara Weathington
  Katalina
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  – vocals on "Wish Me Well (You Can Go To Hell)"
• Thom Wilson – engineer
• Chris Manning – assistant engineer
• Eddy Shreyer – technician