The Get Up Kids- Something To Write Home About (25th Anniversary)
The Get Up Kids- Something To Write Home About (25th Anniversary)

The Get Up Kids- Something To Write Home About (25th Anniversary)

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Label: Polyvinyl

Reissued 9/20/2024, Originally released 1999

Records have the power to return us to places long since left. The Get Up Kids’ seminal sophomore album Something to Write Home About, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with the release of a deluxe, remastered edition, might send listeners back to cinder block dormitories, stuffy study halls, the driver’s seats of first cars, or their teenage bedrooms. For the 2024 reissue, the original album tracks were remastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound and the packaging features expanded artwork plus an album’s worth of demos, including four-track acoustic recordings by Pryor. This combined effort reveals the sturdiness of Something to Write Home About’s songs — a tracklist battle-tested in hundreds of live settings. The demos also reveal key changes to lyrics, as in opener “Holiday,” and abandoned instrumental ideas; Pryor points to a “twangy” guitar line in “Valentine” jettisoned by Suptic. “It’s so funny listening to it now,” Suptic says. “My better taste prevailed.” For the Get Up Kids, these demos also have the same transportative quality as the finished album, warping them right back to downtown Kansas City and the five-story decommissioned ROTC training facility that–for $100 a month–served as their practice space. “When I hear those particular demos,” says Rob Pope, “it takes me right back to that rehearsal room.” In both the early drafts and remastered tracks contained on this definitive version of Something to Write Home About, longtime fans will return to places familiar and formative, and rediscover plenty of moments as vivid as they were on first listen.

Track listing:

  1. Holiday (Remastered 2024)
  2. Action & Action (Remastered 2024)
  3. Valentine (Remastered 2024)
  4. Red Letter Day (Remastered 2024)
  5. Out of Reach (Remastered 2024)
  6. Ten Minutes (Remastered 2024)
  7. The Company Dime (Remastered 2024)
  8. My Apology (Remastered 2024)
  9. I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel (Remastered 2024)
  10. Long Goodnight (Remastered 2024)
  11. Close to Home (Remastered 2024)
  12. I'll Catch You (Remastered 2024)
  13. One Year Later (Demo)
  14. Close to Home (Demo)
  15. Out of Reach (Demo)
  16. Holiday (Demo)
  17. Valentine (Demo)
  18. My Apology (Demo)
  19. Red Letter Day (Demo)
  20. Ten Minutes (Demo)
  21. Central Standard Time (Four Track Demo)
  22. Long Goodnight (Four Track Demo)
  23. The Company Dime (Four Track Demo)
  24. I'll Catch You (Four Track Demo)