The Good, The Bad & The Argyle
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The Good, the Bad, and the Argyle is the debut full length release from New Jersey punk band, The Bouncing Souls
. Released on November 1, 1994, the album runs 31 minutes and 18 seconds, and has 13 songs including covers of The Strangeloves
' "I Want Candy," which was renamed to just "Candy", and The Waitresses
' "I Know What Boys Like." The album got its title from the fact that some of the tracks were taken from EPs that the band released prior to the release of the full length. These 7" include Neurotic and Argyle. The song title "Lay 'Em Down And Smack 'Em, Yack 'Em" comes from the jive conversation
in the movie "Airplane!
". The song "These Are The Quotes From Our Favorite 80's Movies" contains quotes from various 80's movies
, like Valley Girl
, Breakfast Club, Better Off Dead, Some Kind of Wonderful, Rambo
, and Say Anything....
except where noted.
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...
. Released on November 1, 1994, the album runs 31 minutes and 18 seconds, and has 13 songs including covers of The Strangeloves
The Strangeloves
The Strangeloves were the creation of an American songwriting/production team in the 1960s who were from New York, but pretended to be from Australia. Their biggest hits were "I Want Candy," "Cara-Lin" and "Night Time"....
' "I Want Candy," which was renamed to just "Candy", and The Waitresses
The Waitresses
The Waitresses were an experimental new wave band from Akron, Ohio. The group was led by guitarist/songwriter Chris Butler with lead vocals performed by Patty Donahue.-Career:...
' "I Know What Boys Like." The album got its title from the fact that some of the tracks were taken from EPs that the band released prior to the release of the full length. These 7" include Neurotic and Argyle. The song title "Lay 'Em Down And Smack 'Em, Yack 'Em" comes from the jive conversation
African American Vernacular English
African American Vernacular English —also called African American English; less precisely Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular , or Black Vernacular English —is an African American variety of American English...
in the movie "Airplane!
Airplane!
Airplane! is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures...
". The song "These Are The Quotes From Our Favorite 80's Movies" contains quotes from various 80's movies
1980s in film
The decade of the 1980s in film involved many significant films.----Contents1 Events2 Top Grossing films3 Trends4 List of films: # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.-Events:...
, like Valley Girl
Valley Girl (film)
Valley Girl is a 1983 romantic comedy film, starring Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Cameron Dye, and Joyce Heiser. The film was the directorial debut of Martha Coolidge, and was the first film in which Nicolas Coppola was billed as Nicolas Cage.The American release of Valley Girl...
, Breakfast Club, Better Off Dead, Some Kind of Wonderful, Rambo
Rambo
Rambo is an action film series based on the David Morrell novel First Blood and starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled Vietnam War veteran and former Green Beret who is skilled in many aspects of survival, weaponry, hand to hand combat and guerrilla warfare...
, and Say Anything....
Track listing
All songs written by The Bouncing SoulsThe 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...
except where noted.
- "I Like Your Mom" – 0:47
- "The Guest" – 2:16 mp3
- "These Are The Quotes From Our Favorite 80's Movies" – 1:57
- "Joe Lies (When He Cries)" – 3:50
- "Some Kind Of Wonderful" – 2:35
- "Lay 'Em Down And Smack 'Em, Yack 'Em" – 1:38
- "Old School" – 3:48
- "Candy" (Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard GottehrerRichard GottehrerRichard Gottehrer is an American songwriter, record producer and record label executive.-Career:Gottehrer came to prominence as a songwriter in the 1960s with his most notable songs being "My Boyfriend's Back" and "I Want Candy". As Feldman-Goldstein-Gottehrer , he wrote various songs including...
) – 2:36 - "Neurotic" – 2:54
- "Inspection Station" – 1:56
- "Deadbeats" – 2:42
- "I Know What Boys Like" (Chris ButlerChris Butler (musician)Chris Butler is an American musician led the experimental new wave 1980s band The Waitresses . Butler grew up in the U.S. state of Ohio and majored in sociology at Kent State University...
) – 3:15
Personnel
- Greg Attonito – vocals
- Pete Steinkopf – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Bryan Keinlen – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, artwork - Shal Khichi – drumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s - Jeffrey Riedmiller – engineer