Get Up Kids, The "Something to Write Home About" 2xLP

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

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 four core members of The Get Up Kids, the album transports them to Mad Hatter Studios in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood, where they spent six weeks in the summer of 1999 recording what would be their genre-defining outing. “I can hear that studio that we recorded in,” says bassist Robert Pope. “A lot of it was the environment.”

Compared to their 1997 debut Four Minute Mile–recorded over a whirlwind weekend in Chicago on a shoestring budget–their follow-up was given the time and resources to be fully realized, thanks to a freshly signed agreement with Vagrant Records that concluded an arduous label search. “We spoke with nearly every major-label A&R person that was out in the world,” says Pope. “They had weird expectations for our band, and I think we aimed a little higher than the major labels did.”