me too! i saw this band last week called rexmanningday. that totally made me miss this sound. ive been listening to them and old school guk since! why dont more people try and sound like this?!?
The fact that they were around 18-19 when wrote and recorded this still amaze me. Sound is meh but everything else is so mature. Love early Get Up Kids, they seriously were an amazing project and an inspiration. Something to Write Home About still sound so fresh. Timeless band.
I know about these guys only because the were an influence on Fall Out Boy's first two releases: Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend and Take This To Your Grave. Any music that brings people here is good music. XD Unless the music has been created by Donald Trump. Now that's some bad music. ;)
Gregory, it's just a matter of taste. I didn't like Patrick Stump's vocals at first, but their first album is very pop punk and fun to listen to. I'm also a sucker for screaming and crafty lyrics, so there's that. Their newer material is decent, but not very good. I am, however, a fan. I'm willing to support them no matter how shitty their music becomes, just because of the memories and fun I had listening to their first releases.
used to jam this every day. still pretty good! nice. thanks. never did get into their other stuff. also, i wonder if all these current bands even know about things like this, braid... i feel like they haven't done their research, or their research only goes back to like 2006. whatever. life. cheers.
no way man... Chris Carraba wasn't playing in playing in The Vacant Andy's until about the same time this was out. Chris joined Vacant Andys in late 94 and was recording by 95.. Get Up Kids was already around before FSF. www.discogs.com/Vacant-Andys-Spork/release/7012431
So this was basically when emo was acceptable for even high school jocks to listen to, I like it, emotional, but not so whiny that you cringe and stuff.
It sounds like a recorder too much to be feedback, but I want to believe that it's feedback because it's the only time I've ever heard feedback that gave me good chills