{"product_id":"how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation","title":"How I Spent My Summer Vacation","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e BOUNCING SOULS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Import\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 01-10-2004\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Amazon.ca\n\n\n As the third track on \nHow I Spent My Summer Vacation makes abundantly clear, The Bouncing Souls are \"True Believers\", utterly uncompromising stalwarts of punk. By \"punk\", they do not mean the art-school flamboyance or anarcho-posturings of the Sex Pistols, or the heartfelt, in-your-face ragings of Henry Rollins and Black Flag. Rather, this is the simple peacetime punk of kids with energy to spare. It's about sunny days, pretty girls, BMX bikes and playful pogo-ing. It's about loneliness, alienation and the desperate conviction of teenage love. And, above all, it's about music as a force for good. The Bouncing Souls deliver a positivist, anthemic pop that's specifically designed to raise depressed spirits, as evicted lyrically by the two openers, \"That Song\" and \"Private Radio\" and the closing \"Gone\". In this respect, they have much in common with Green Day and Offspring but they carefully avoid the deliberate frivolity of those bands, evidently aiming to reflect the lives and feelings of their fans, rather than becoming rock \u0026amp; roll personalities themselves. Unfortunately, this realism makes \nHow I Spent My Summer Vacation increasingly samey and inconsequential as the tracks pass. But in short bursts it is what it intends to be--great fun.\n --Dominic Wills\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eUPC:\u003c\/b\u003e 045778660629\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 0045778660629\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e english\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Audio CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e Used Good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ID Shop.ca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42548713292035,"sku":"68-NOPZ-WH8U","price":8.98,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0030\/9765\/7390\/products\/61xkQ1LcDML.jpg?v=1646657173","url":"https:\/\/idshop.ca\/en\/products\/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation","provider":"ID Shop.ca","version":"1.0","type":"link"}