The Bouncing Souls are a punk band, formed in 1987. They are originally fro… Read Full Bio ↴The Bouncing Souls are a punk band, formed in 1987. They are originally from New Brunswick, New Jersey. By the time they were recognized by the national punk 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 bands (e.g. Blanks 77 and the Bristles). In the early stages of their career, they played a hybrid of punk, funk, metal, and just about anything else they felt like including. They were known for their energetic live shows, albeit with an amateurish element on their recordings at that stage. Soon, they had whittled it down to their own brand of punk, and become one of the most popular bands in the punk scene.

They made a name for themselves by consistently touring over the United States. Rather than signing with a known label, they initially decided to found their own, Chunksaah Records (named after their long-time friend Timmy Chunks), but are now releasing their albums on Epitaph Records.

The Bouncing Souls are one of the best selling and longest lived of the punk bands from New Jersey, following the legacy of previously successful punk bands Adrenalin OD and the Misfits.

DISCOGRAPHY

Studio albums

The Good, The Bad & The Argyle (1994)
Maniacal Laughter (1996)
Bouncing Souls (1997)
Hopeless Romantic (1999)
How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2001)
Anchors Aweigh (2003)
The Gold Record (2006)
Ghosts on the Boardwalk (2010)
Comet (2012)

Live and Compilation albums

The Bad the Worse and the Out of Print (2002)
Live (2005)

Splits

BYO Split Series, Vol. 4 (With Anti-Flag) (2002)

EPs

The Greenball Crew (1993)
Tie One On (1998)
Fight to Live (1999)
Gone (2001)

DVDs

Do You Remember? 15 Years of the Bouncing Souls (2003)
Live at the Glasshouse (2005)

""7" Records"

Ugly Bill (1991) (pressed on black and also transparent green wax)
"The Argyle e.p. (1993) (pressed on black, yellow, green, and red wax, some had green and yellow covers)
"Tales Of Doomed Romance" (1994) (split ep with the band Buglite pressed on red and black wax)
"Neurotic" (1994) (pressed on black and yellow wax)
"Bouncing Souls/Weston split" (1994) (pressed on black and red wax)
"Split EP" (1995) (pressed on black with the bands basic skills, youth gone mad, and the reviled, some have red stamped cover some black)
"Johnny X" (1995) (pressed on black wax)
"Fight to Live" (1999) (pressed on orange wax, distributed by epitaph europe)
"Tales Of Doomed Romance" (2001) (reissued split ep with the band ZeroZero pressed on yellow and black wax)
"Bouncing Souls/Lucky Stiffs Split" (2005) (pressed on splatter wax and 1500 picture disks)

Code Blue
The Bouncing Souls Lyrics

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I never got along with the girls at my school
Filling me up with all their morals and their rules
They'd pile all their problems on my head

I'd rather go out and fuck the dead
Cause I can do what I want and they won't complain

I wanna fuck

I wanna fuck the dead

Middle of the night so silently I creep on over to the mortuary
Lift up the casket and fiddle with the dead
Their cold blue flesh makes me turn red
Cause I can do what I want and they won't complain

I wanna fuck
I wanna fuck the dead

And I don't even care how she died
But I like it better if she smells of formaldehyde

Never on the rag or say leave me alone
They don't scream and they don't moan

Don't even cry if I shoot in their hair
Lying on the table she smiles and she star

Overall Meaning

The Bouncing Souls' Code Blue reflects on the singer's inability to connect with the girls at his school. He finds their morals and rules suffocating and instead directs his attention towards necrophilia. The singer has no interest in the living, preferring to engage with the dead bodies in the mortuary. He is unapologetic about his desires and enjoys the freedom of being able to do what he wants without any repercussions. The singer also seems to fetishize death, finding the smell of formaldehyde and the cold, blue flesh of the dead to be sexually arousing. Despite the disturbing nature of the lyrics, the song serves as an exploration of taboo desires that are often kept hidden or repressed.

Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management
Written by: Jack Grisham, Mike Roche, Ron Emory, Todd Barnes

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