The Gold Record
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Studio album by The Bouncing Souls
Released June 6, 2006
Recorded January 2006
Genre Punk rock
Length 44:24
Label Epitaph
Producer Ted Hutt
The Bouncing Souls chronology
Live
(2005)
The Gold Record
(2006)
20th Anniversary Series
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars link
ThePunkSite.com 4.5/5 stars link

The Gold Record is the seventh full-length album from The Bouncing Souls. It was released on June 6, 2006 which the band deemed 'the number of the release', and also deemed the album 'the release of the beast'. This is due to its release date (6/6/06), the fact that it is their sixth album of previously unreleased material, and in reference to the number of the beast (666). Despite the title, the album has not achieved Gold status.

The album includes two covers, of "Lean on Sheena" by Avoid One Thing and "Better Things" by The Kinks. "Letter from Iraq" is based around a poem sent to the band by Garett Reppenhagen, a soldier serving in Iraq.

Track listing [link]

All songs by The Bouncing Souls unless otherwise noted.

  1. "The Gold Song" – 3:16 mp3
  2. "So Jersey" – 4:01
  3. "Sounds of the City" – 2:42
  4. "The Pizza Song" – 3:43
  5. "Sarah Saturday" – 3:46
  6. "Better Things" (Ray Davies) – 3:27
  7. "The Messenger" – 4:20
  8. "Lean on Sheena" (Joe Gittleman) – 3:20
  9. "Letter from Iraq" (The Bouncing Souls, Garett Reppenhagen) – 2:57
  10. "The New Thing" – 3:11
  11. "Midnight Mile" – 2:52
  12. "For All the Unheard" – 6:49

Credits [link]


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The number of sales or shipments required for these awards depends upon the population of the territory in which the recording is released. Typically, they are awarded only to international releases and are awarded individually for each country in which the album is sold. Different sales levels, some perhaps 10 times lower than others, may exist for different music media (for example: videos versus albums, singles, or downloads).

History

The original gold record awards were presented to artists by their own record companies to publicize their sales achievements. The first of these was awarded by RCA Victor to Glenn Miller in February 1942, celebrating the sale of 1.2 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo". Another example of a company award is the gold record awarded to Elvis Presley in 1956 for one million units sold of his single "Don't Be Cruel". The first gold record for an LP was awarded by RCA Victor to Harry Belafonte in 1957 for the album Calypso (1956), the first album to sell over 1,000,000 copies in RCA's reckoning.

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The Gold Record

by: Bouncing Souls

On a dark street on a cold night pizza's cooking in a storefront oven
on the corner a boy is waiting the moonlight feels cold and desperate
some hidden sadness is bound down
attention is all over town
ready to burst open into driving burning exploding sound
If these walls could sing, they'd sing us a hundred songs
If these walls could talk they'd say they'd seen it coming all along
All along
Tony's making sliced pies for the lunch rush stirring the sauce pounding out the dough
his brother left town with his girl she ain't his girl no more
and some days they seem to never end
so mundane in this old town
ready to burst open into driving burning exploding sound
And If these walls could sing they'd sing us a hundred songs
And if these walls could talk they'd say they'd seen it coming all along
All along, all along...
May all these walls we've made in our wasted years and days
not stand in our way that we may feel the winds of change
(change, change [3x])
And if these walls could sing they'd sing us a hundred songs
And if these walls could talk they'd say they'd seen it coming all along
And if these walls could sing they'd say they'd seen it coming, coming, coming, coming, coming all along
(And if these walls could talk)
All along [5x]




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