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

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