Bowling for Soup, the self-titled, debut studio album

Studio album

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 from the pop punk

Pop punk

Pop punk is a fusion music genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music, to varying degrees. Allmusic describes the genre as a strand of alternative rock, which typically merges pop melodies with speedy punk tempos, chord changes and loud guitars...

 band

Band (music)

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 Bowling for Soup

Bowling for Soup

Bowling for Soup is an American pop-punk band which originally formed in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1994...

. The album was recorded at C & L Studios in Summer 1994, and was released the following September on the band's own self-formed record label Que-so Records

Que-so Records

Que-so Records is an independent record label created by the band Bowling for Soup. The band has released three albums on the label: Bowling for Soup , Cell Mates , which was a joint record with fellow Denton-based band The V.I.M.s, and most recently Fishin' for Woos ....

. This release was limited to 3,000 copies and is currently out of print. The band released digitally remastered versions of Bowling for Soup, Cell Mates, and Tell Me When to Whoa

Tell Me When to Whoa

Tell Me When to Whoa is the fourth studio album by Bowling for Soup released in June 1998, and later re-released in 1999, on the local Denton music label FFROE. The album is currently out of print...

through iTunes

ITunes

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 and Amazon.com

Amazon.com

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 in October 2011.

Track listing

Video for "Thirteen"

The video of "Thirteen" shows the band playing the song in different places. Lance Morril appears. Erik Chandler and Jaret Reddick had long hair, and Chris Burney had hair.

Personnel

Bowling for Soup:

• Chris Burney — guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  s, backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
  
• Erik Chandler — bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , backing vocals
• Lance Morril — drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , backing vocals
• Jaret Reddick
  Jaret Reddick
  Jaret Ray Reddick is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and voice actor, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and lead songwriter for the Grammy Award-nominated pop punk band Bowling for Soup. He plays a Music Man Axis that has a flag of Texas design on...
  
   — vocals
  Lead vocalist
  The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
  
  , guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  s

• Produced
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   by James Chavez and BFS
• Mixed
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
   by James Chavez and Jaret Reddick
• Mastered
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
  at Outback Studios, Wichita Falls, TX by Chris and Johnny Devine
• Photography by Wayne Wagner and Cody Garcia
• Manufactured and printed by Disc Makers, New Jersey, U.S.A.