Get Up Kids – Something to Write Home About (25th Anniversary) – Silver Nugget Vinyl Record

Description

• Embossed Gatefold Jacket with Silver Foil.
• Includes large format 28-page booklet with handwritten lyrics, photos, and other ephemera from the era.

Records can transport us to long-gone places. The Get Up Kids seminal sophomore album Something to Write Home About, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with a deluxe, remastered edition, may evoke memories of dormitories, study halls, first cars, or teenage bedrooms. For the core members, it brings back Mad Hatter Studios in Los Angeles Silver Lake, where they spent six weeks recording in summer 1999. I can hear that studio, says bassist Robert Pope. A lot of it was the environment. Unlike their 1997 debut Four Minute Mile, recorded in a hectic weekend in Chicago on a shoestring budget, their follow-up benefited from time and resources, thanks to a new deal with Vagrant Records after a challenging label search. We spoke with nearly every major-label A&R person, says Pope. They had strange expectations for us; we aimed higher.