Ascoltandolo la prima volta, magari distrattamente, si può forse avere l'impressione di trovarsi di fronte a degli pseudo Blink 182 o peggio ancora, a una versione più veloce e distorta di qualche orribile boy band. Niente di più lontano, a ben sentire, da quanto offrirono i Get up kids con quello che rimane il disco Emo per eccellenza.
Something to write home about" racconta storie di adolescenti sfigati, di chi è stato lasciato dalla ragazza, di vacanze e ritorni a casa, di lettere e messaggi mai scritti o mai spediti, ma ciò che conta è sopratutto come lo racconta: non immemori della lezione degli "adolescenti sfigati" per eccellenza, i Replacements, ma se possibile con ancora più estro, i Get Up uniscono energia punk, e qualche richiamo di Rock americano anni '80, con la malinconia pop della New Wave inglese più obliqua e meno definita, Smiths e sopratutto i Cure, da cui i get up non a caso riprendono "Close to me"(assolutamente da ascoltare nella loro versione!).
E miscelano il tutto con un intelligenza notevole e rara, che dimostrano sopratutto nello strutturare e arrangiare il brano, mai banale e derivativo, ma sempre sfuggevole e non ben definibile, dominato da continui cambi dinamici ("holiday", "Acton & acton"), irruente e distorto ma sempre smorzato dalla dolcezza della tastiera ( "Close to home" , "Red letter Day"), inconsueto e cangiante nella struttura ( "Company dime", "I'm a loner dottie, a rebel"), o semplicemente malinconico e sommesso, senza per questo apparire meno inventivo ("Valentine", "Out of Reach").
Ed è sopratutto la libertà espressiva dei singoli musicisti, la cui interpretazione è sempre ariosa e poco stilizzata, a rendere ogni pezzo sempre interessante e originalmente costruito e a far risultare "Something to write.." un piccolo gioiello dell' alternative americana anni '90. Unico rammarico, il fatto che i Get up kids non siano mai andati oltre questo notevole secondo album, chiudendo e stereotipando il loro stile invece che espanderlo, tirando cosi fuori un disco perlomeno mediocre come il successivo "On a Wire".
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01 Holiday (03:29)
What became of everyone I used to know?
Where did our respectable convictions go?
Your words don’t match the story that your actions show,
What do I know?
I’m sure you can’t help but remembering
I thought that you’d be one not to forget,
Remembering’s not helping you yet.
Say goodnight
Means goodbye.
I know that you think my life would stop when you’re away.
Maybe I can see you on the holidays,
You’re worlds away.
I’ve never forgotten all our yesterdays
I’m lucky if we’re speaking on the holidays.
The evidence presents itself accusingly,
Your absence speaking everything you think of me.
Now that I am faced with opportunity,
You’re not remembering.
I’m not asking you anyway.
Even if you ever could cave in,
I wouldn’t know where to begin.
Say goodnight
Means goodbye.
I know that you think my life would stop when you’re away.
Maybe I can see you on the holidays,
You’re worlds away.
I’ve never forgotten all our yesterdays
I’m lucky if we’re speaking on the holidays.
Holidays
(Repeat)
02 Action & Action (04:05)
You really think that you're bigger than this
To the tune of ten thousand lisps
Who would have thought we'd represent,
When I can't take a compliment?
Overexposure is the key
And any focus on me
Is appreciated,
As it should be.
No wonder now,
I finally found
The right formula for
You taught me how,
I play the fool.
Every mistake that I make,
I couldn't have made without you.
What's said is done
And plain to see,
You take it all too seriously.
What better way to make an honest mistake
Than a televised hand of fate.
When the world's closing in on you,
A decision would be overdue.
Now nothing left is out of hand,
A stronger jaded man stands.
If the world is ending
Then we toast to it.
I'm stronger now
But not without
The right formula for
You taught me how,
I play the fool.
Every mistake that I make,
I couldn't have made without you.
What's said is done
And plain to see,
Here's all you get from me.
Here's all you get from me.
I'm down for whatever.
What's there left to wait for?
I'm down for whatever.
What's there left to wait for?
Wait for?
I wait.
You taught me how,
I play the fool.
Every mistake that I make,
I couldn't have made without you.
What's said is done
And plain to see,
Here's all you get from me.
04 Red Letter Day (02:56)
You’ve got some nerve I never knew,
What with the world we gave away in front of you.
I see it all
Much clearer now.
You’re just a phase
I’ve gotten over anyhow.
It’s over,
I’m not giving in again.
We’re loyal like brothers,
Just us versus all the others.
You the one for
You the one for me?
I trusted misleading
Promises worth repeating.
How could you do this to me?
Red letter day that I learned
I’m sure you’ll get what you deserve.
I see it all
Much clearer since…
Far past the point of this.
It’s over.
We’re loyal like brothers,
Just us versus all the others.
You the one for
You the one for me?
I trusted misleading
Promises worth repeating.
How could you do this?
How could you do this to me?
… And if it’s a lie
I don’t want to be the one who signed.
I’m not the one who falls down,
It’s over now.
Over now.
If you want to try…
Try to forget it.
I’ll say it’s over,
I’m gone.
We’re loyal like brothers,
Just us versus all the others.
You the one for
You the one for me?
I trusted misleading
Promises worth repeating.
How could you do this?
How could you do this?
How could you do this to me?
05 Out of Reach (03:46)
Long way from home,
Lost by an echo
I’d never have known.
I’ve got pictures to prove I was there,
But you don’t care.
Here’s me overseas,
Across the pond by the Dover peaks.
I’ve smuggled myself into new nationalities,
You think you’d be proud of me.
There’s room to believe,
Out of sight,
Out of mind,
Out of reach.
Start over
Is no way to begin.
Long way from home,
Lost by an echo
I’d never have known.
I’ve got pictures to prove I was there,
But you don’t care.
There’s room to believe,
Out of sight,
Out of mind,
Out of reach.
Start over
Start over
Is no way to begin.
There’s room to believe,
Out of sight,
Out of mind,
Out of reach.
Start over
Start over
Is no way to begin.
No way to begin.
Way to begin.
06 Ten Minutes (03:12)
Ten minutes to downtown
Is ten minutes too far.
When my friends all say I'm crazy,
Maybe I'm being selfish.
(Maybe I'm being selfish.)
Maybe I'm just scared.
(Maybe I'm just scared. )
Don't be gone when I get home…
I need you there.
If I had to explain it
I wouldn't know where to start.
It's like you're falling in love while I just fall apart.
Ten minutes to downtown
Is ten minutes too far
When my heart is saying you're crazy.
Maybe things are getting better…
(Maybe things are getting better…)
Maybe things aren't so bad.
(Maybe things aren't so bad. )
Don't be gone when I get home…
You're all I have.
If I had to explain it,
I wouldn't know where to start.
It's like you're falling in love while I just fall apart.
Pockets empty.
How can you tell me that everything will work out…
A pointless fight
When you're always right.
Everything will work out.
It works out.
Sometimes, I miss you more
Whenever I'm at home.
I've been home all summer…
Now I'm leaving you alone.
Pockets empty.
How can you tell me that everything will work out…
A pointless fight
When you're always right.
Everything will work out.
Everything will work out.
Everything will work out.
07 The Company Dime (04:06)
I watched it all come crashing down
On the verge of a world profound.
Standing on unstable ground
Adding insult to irony.
I think it’s really gonna happen this time,
Our calls on the company dime.
Reluctance ties up the line
With irresponsibility.
No matter save for a friend
No argument can amend.
Irreplaceable but in the end,
One star player doesn’t save the team.
Now you’re open to attack,
Our burden rests on your back.
Replace, re-track
Responsibility.
I’m still waiting for
(I’m still waiting for )
You to get over this.
Still waiting for
(I’m still waiting for )
You to get over this.
Still waiting for
(I’m still waiting for )
You to get over this.
Anonymous until the ending,
Spent a long long time pretending.
And a longer day spent accepting
What the world ahead would store.
You only learn but not believing
That the industry is unforgiving.
Everything that you’ve been giving
Isn’t what it was before.
I’m still waiting for
(I’m still waiting for )
You to get over this.
Still waiting for
(I’m still waiting for )
You to get over this.
Still waiting for
(I’m still waiting for )
You to get over this.
Replace, re-track
Replace, re-track
Replace, re-track
I’m still waiting for
(I’m still waiting for )
You to get over this.
Still waiting for
(I’m still waiting for )
You to get over this.
Still waiting for
(I’m still waiting for )
You to get over this.
08 My Apology (03:24)
You’ll be accepting my apology
For taking things too seriously.
Sometimes I’m old enough to keep routines,
Sometimes I’m child enough to scream
For everything. I broke in two.
You’re barely missing me.
I’m missing you
And everything you do.
I really do.
I really do.
Sure I do.
My once photographic memory,
For recollections’s sake is failing me.
I can’t remember for the life of me.
Sometimes I can think to recite
Words that I read and rewrite.
My pens paint people that I’ve proven wrong.
Sometimes I can think to recite
Words that I read and rewrite.
My pens paint people that I’ve proven wrong,
We move on.
Get a job where I tell
All of my accounts of someone else.
I’m quick enough to judge that they were wrong
And that we knew it all along.
Sing a long long-winded song.
I would be content to hum along.
Humm
If I state that my fingers know where to show
What everyone should have known,
I’ll let it go.
Hopefully you’ll forget
Any words that I put in print.
My luck, you’ll change
Have strength enough to walk away.
Sometimes I can think to recite
Words that I read and rewrite.
My pens paint people that I’ve proven wrong.
Sometimes I can think to recite
Words that I read and rewrite.
My pens paint people that I’ve proven wrong,
We move on.
Sometimes I can think to recite
Words that I read and rewrite.
My pens paint people that I’ve proven wrong.
Sometimes I can think to recite
Words that I read and rewrite.
My pens paint people that I’ve proven wrong,
Read and rewrite it wrong.
09 I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel (03:08)
Come tomorrow I’ll be on my way back home.
In the morning call from a roadside telephone.
One night doesn’t mean the rest of my life.
If I go it’s not impossible
Possible is probably wrong.
So, let go
cause I’m afraid to try
Keep my hands by my side.
You won’t come back
I hope some day you’ll understand
I wanna try, make it right
Don’t know if I can.
Last night everything was right
The rain was gone.
One summer night’s the only time we’ve known.
So, shut your eyes
When you wake up I’ll be gone.
When you wake up I’ll be gone.
One night doesn’t mean the rest of my life.
If I go it’s not impossible
Possible is probably wrong.
So, let go
Because I’m afraid to try
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Di Monta_emo
Per me non è un semplice album emo ma è rivivere le mie emozioni sotto forma di musica.
Ascolterete questo disco tantissime volte quasi senza accorgervene, e arrivati alla fine vorrete di nuovo ricominciare da capo.
