CD Review: The Wonder Years – The Upsides, I’m not sad anymore
June 2, 2010 at 5:00 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
The Wonder Years - The Upsides (2010)
The Wonder Years - The Upsides (2010)
Being 23 has been as complicated as any of the five years before, except you’re further from teenagehood and closer to adulthood and, although you’re mostly independent, most days you wake up wondering if you’re ready for it. And most of the times, you end up convincing yourself you’re not.
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At this point in life, the easycore quintet from Philadelphia, The Wonder Years, has put out a record that is meant and truly makes you feel you’re not alone on those early mornings of laundries and hangovers.
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Billboard has put this record as high as #26 on Top Internet Album of the year, and there is no doubt that with half of 2010 gone by, this one seems way high on the rankings for best pop punk record of the year. It mixes the perfect amount of dropped D rhythms, occasional (contrary to the common overuse-and-abuse trend in the genre) gang vocals, and the catchiest of well-written verse melodies.
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Let’s quote:
“It took almost 13 months for me to be where I feel fine; I’m not as sad as I let myself believe sometimes”-Everything I own fit in this backpack [listen on YouTube]
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“I don’t think I love anything the way that some people love Morrissey”-It’s never sunny in south Philadelphia [listen on YouTube]
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“My friends, all say he’s just a broke-dick version of me, they’re just trying to help me get some sleep, I know he’s what you need”-Melrose diner [listen on YouTube]
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“I can’t believe I ended up here again watching a terrible band play songs I hate in a basement”-This party sucks [listen on YouTube]
I mean, all of us who believed in something back in high-school can relate or give a meaning of our own to all the clever lines Dan drops through this record.
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Cherries on top of the cake are the smooth (and again, not overplayed) song-to-song transitions and one of the best record closings out there: “All my friends are in bar bands”. Now, this song deserves a paragraph of its own.
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Whatever happened to the dudes you hung out every Friday night back in college? Well, this song is about them. It may just be the perfect timing it had to me, but maybe it just perfectly times a moment on everybody’s life: coming back “home” and catching up with old friends. Somehow High-school seems like the ride of your life, maybe ’cause you didn’t care about consequences back then, or maybe ’cause when you look back you realize that those days shaped who you became.
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