In the two and a half decades since the release of this landmark album, the four core members of The Get Up Kids — Matt Pryor, Jim Suptic, Rob Pope, and Ryan Pope — have explored side projects, helmed solo ventures, and held stints in high-profile bands. They’ve also started businesses, found spouses, and raised kids. Still, run into them on the streets of Lawrence, Kansas, these days, and you’ll find that — perhaps beneath a beard — each has retained the high-spirited, unwavering authenticity that fans stood feet from at basement shows before the band’s sophomore breakthrough.
*Something to Write Home About* has landed in a similar place: recognizable
as the same electrifying, scrappy album it was upon release, but also
transformed by time into one of the most seminal records of the band’s
scene. The album has been established as an important late-millennium
rock-and-roll document; a convergence of power pop, alternative rock, and
punk, it provided the parameters for emo’s Midwest-centered second wave.
as the same electrifying, scrappy album it was upon release, but also
transformed by time into one of the most seminal records of the band’s
scene. The album has been established as an important late-millennium
rock-and-roll document; a convergence of power pop, alternative rock, and
punk, it provided the parameters for emo’s Midwest-centered second wave.
Today, *Something to Write Home About* still sounds like the lodestar it
was for its fleet of followers, but it also retains something singular: an
affecting, unaffected quality richer than its genre associations, bigger
than its hooks, and deeper than mere twentysomething turmoil. The
anniversary tour will be a chance for fans to rediscover the album or to
revel in a classic they’ve never forgotten, and experience it live with the
brash, big-hearted band that loves it as much as them. “Anybody can start a
band when you're 20 and go on tour and have a couple of years of fun with
that. But what it became, at least to us, is the reason that we can still
do this now,” says Pryor. “We are doing this as a celebration, and we're
going to have a party every night on stage.”
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