It's a busy year for Bouncing Souls vinyl. First, the band is releasing a 20th anniversary edition of The Greenball Crew EP, self-released back on May 20, 1993 and limited to 1,000 copies. Says Bryan Kienlen on the EP:
The Greenball Crew EP is a lot of things, but mostly it's a snapshot of four guys learning how to play music. To be fair, this collection of songs does have it's moments, but we've generally regarded it as a real turd. But there's no accounting for taste and if anyone genuinely digs it, then more power tho 'em.. In addition to blindly feeling around in the dark for how to write songs, it was a real learning experience in the whole process of recording and releasing a CD on our own. By the time this thing came out, the songs were years old and we had already turned a corner as a band, finally finding ourselves with the writing of "Joe Lies" (our self-proclaimed "first good song"), among others, and wanted nothing to do with these weird old songs. Only 1,000 copies were pressed, most of them selling right away at the release party at Trenton's legendary City Gardens. We sold the remainder on our first U.S. tour (with our fellow New Brunswick punks and new friends, Lifetime), and decided never to re-press it. We even went so far as to start recording over the master copy to save money. Despite the demand, we thought is best that the world not be exposed to such sonic lameness. Had it not been for K8, we would never have re-released it; but it is hard to say no to K8 when she asks us all sweet and stuff.
The Greenball Crew EP will be available exclusive from the Chunksaah webstore. Chunksaah is also issuing vinyl versions of the band's The Good, The Bad, and the Argyle and Maniacal Laughter.
