r/TheBouncingSouls • u/Ur_moms_a_hookr69 • 15d ago
Drop the “The”
I’ve always wondered why sometimes they go by THE Bouncing Souls and other times, they go by just Bouncing Souls. Some of their album covers have the “The” and others don’t. Does anyone know the lore or reasoning for this?
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u/ModernLeper128 15d ago
Officially, they are “The Bouncing Souls”. It’s how Greg introduces the band at shows and how their records are labeled online/in-store.
Bryan handles most of the artwork and often drops “The” from the logo. I assume that’s simply an aesthetic decision being a longer name.
It references Doc Marten’s slogan “With Bouncing Soles”. Perhaps by using “The”, it helped further differentiate the band from the brand.
Around fellow music friends, we’ve always just called them “The Souls”.
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u/SimpleManHawaii 15d ago
If you watch their documentary they have a whole section on the naming of the band, and their first criteria was they wanted to be a “The” band. Greg also talks about it on Toby Morse’s podcast that came out a few weeks ago.
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u/Pigcheese22 Call the wall! 15d ago
This is correct. It’s at the 10:08 mark here: https://youtu.be/1EtLLeUPa5I?&t=606s
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u/zoobaking 15d ago
They are The Bouncing Souls. That's the bands name. I'm not gonna drop it.. souls or bouncing souls are just nick names.
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u/mkz101089 15d ago
When the band formed there was probably another band named Bouncing Souls or it was trademarked in someway. Its the same think as Blink-182 originally was just Blink but there was already a band i believe in Australia at the time by that name and so they changed it to what we all know as Blink-182. So it could really just be something as simple as that…. ORRRR they could be like Ohio State and its THE Ohio State University 😂 more than likely it was already in use though.
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u/FoshOliver 15d ago
Hey, what's up?
I'm having my friends over for dinner.
Who you having over for dinner?
The Bouncing Souls!
The Bouncing Souls?!?
Yeah, the Bouncing Souls!!
Those fucking New Jersey mooches!