Any discount on these premium true wireless earbuds is something to write home about.
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Their success continued with the release of Something To Write Home About, which was a masterful follow-up to their unfussy debut.
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You walk until you can't feel your legs, and are forced to be nice to awful customers, and the pay isn't always something to write home about.
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An extra couple of dollars in your bank account isn't easy to spot if you're not looking for it — and it's hardly something to write home about.
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Mr. Tillotson thought that if he offered the news media phone lines and something to put on television, he could turn his fledging township's nine registered voters into something to write home about.
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After being slammed on social media, the Wisconsin Republican apparently figured out the amount isn't exactly something to write home about — let alone highlight as a major feature of a $1.5 trillion tax cut.
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My eyelids can be oily, so I relied on a primer to prevent the shadow from creasing during sweaty, humid summer days, but the color pigmentation and smooth blending is something to write home about.
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The Moog-style Bass Station synth on the track also foreshadowed the synth-enhanced sound the band would eventually master (with the help of Coalesce's James Dewees) on their follow-up, 1999's Something to Write Home About.
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"While 4Q was not something to write home about, the SQ story is likely far from over as new products and services can provide a second wind to growth as the year progresses," Nomura Instinet analyst Dan Dolev said in a note to clients Wednesday.
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James recorded keyboard for the band on their Red Letter Day EP, and after its release, joined the band full-time. After the release of the band's second album Something to Write Home About, The Get Up Kids began receiving much greater national attention. In order to capitalize off of the success of Something to Write Home About, as well as bridge the gap between their next album, the band released a collection of B-sides and rarities, entitled Eudora, in 2000.
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Red Letter Day is an EP by American rock band The Get Up Kids. It was released before their second full-length album Something to Write Home About. It featured James Dewees on the keyboard. Shortly after the album was released, Dewees joined the band full-time.
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Action & Action is the second single from The Get Up Kids' album Something to Write Home About. The single was only released in Europe, and is the first Get Up Kids single released on CD on March 24, 2000 in North America and November 24 elsewhere.
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IT is something to write home about with the school more than adequately connected to the net and all centres having either Wi-Fi or optical-fibre net connectivity. A Resource Centre with 24 hi-tech computers allows staff to carry out research work related to their subject.
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A year later, they released Live! @ The Granada Theater, the band's first and only live album. Later that year, the band broke up after one final tour. However, in 2008 the band reunited, and announced a reunion tour for 2009 to coincide with a tenth-anniversary re-release of Something to Write Home About.
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The band played their album Something To Write Home About from beginning to end, as well as a six song encore. In the summer of 2009, they returned to Black Lodge studios to record their first new material in five years, recording twelve tracks intended to be released as three EPs over the course of a year.
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"Something to Write Home About" is a debut song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Craig Morgan. It was released in February 2000 as the first single from the album Craig Morgan. The song reached #38 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by Morgan and Tony Ramey.
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Something to Write Home About is the first Get Up Kids album to include James Dewees on keyboards. After The Get Up Kids' previous album, Four Minute Mile brought major label offers, the band decided to remain with an indie label and signed with Vagrant Records for their next album after a short period with Mojo Records.
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Sharpe-Young 2005, p. 318 A remastered version of the album was released by Doghouse Records in 2001. This was largely a way of capitalizing on the recent success of the band's second album, 1999's Something to Write Home About, which rocketed the band to international stardom. In December 2008, Doghouse re-pressed the album on vinyl.
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In August and September 1999, the group went on a European tour; the tour was planned to last a month, however, the group only got to play six shows over eight days. Following this, the band appeared at the CMJ MusicFest. Something to Write Home About was released on September 28 through Vagrant and Heroes & Villains Records. The vinyl version was released through Doghouse Records.
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The Get Up Kids had sold over 15,000 copies of their debut album Four Minute Mile (1997) before signing to Vagrant Records, who promoted the band strongly and put them on tours opening for famous pop punk acts like Green Day and Weezer.Greenwald, pp. 77–78. Their album Something to Write Home About (1999) was a major success, reaching No. 31 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart.
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She revised the book over the next ten years. Kearney established Writing Our World (WOW) Press in 2004, and published "Cotton Field of Dreams" that same year. In November 2008, Kearney published her first novel, Onece Upon a Time There Was A Girl: A Murder at Mobile Bay. She also published the second installment of her memoir following Cotton Field: Something to Write Home About: Memories of a Presidential Diarist.
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Suptic soon co-founded Curb Appeal Records in early 2006 with other local entrepreneurs and musicians including Alex Brahl. Alex had produced Something to Write Home About, the album that gave The Get Up Kids much of their success. On June 20, 2006 Blackpool Lights' debut album This Town's Disaster was released, becoming the first release for the label. The day of the release, Spin Magazine named the band the "Artist of the Day".
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Designing a Nervous Breakdown has been described as an emo indie rock and synth-pop release, with new wave and Blink-182-styled punk rock influences. The band drew comparisons to Devo, Sonic Youth, the Get Up Kids (specifically their album Something to Write Home About) and the Rentals. It incorporated frequent synthesizer usage, alongside electronic drums and group vocals. Berwanger likened their sound as a cross between Guns N' Roses and New Order.
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Craig Morgan is the self-titled debut album of country music singer Craig Morgan. Released in 2000 as his only album for the Atlantic Records label, it produced the singles "Paradise", "I Want Us Back", and "Something to Write Home About", which peaked at number 39 on the U.S. country charts. "Everything's a Thing" was later recorded by Joe Nichols (who co-wrote the song as well) on his 2003 album Man with a Memory.
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After touring extensively to support Something to Write Home About, the band was looking to depart from their high-energy powerpop style in lieu of a slower, more mellow sound. In 2000, vocalist/guitarist Matt Pryor moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and drummer Ryan Pope moved to Los Angeles, California. As a result, the members only saw each other when they embarked on tours. After a US tour in October and November, the group began working on a new album.
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Something to Write Home About is the second studio album by American rock band The Get Up Kids, released on September 28, 1999. The album was produced by The Get Up Kids themselves, with co-producers Chad Blinman and Alex Brahl. Blinman also recorded and mixed the album, with Brahl assisting with additional engineering. The album was a financial success, peaking at #31 on Billboards Heatseekers 200 albums chart in North America, and earned positive reviews.
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Upon his return home to Tennessee, he worked various jobs to support his family, including as a construction worker, a security guard and a Wal-Mart employee. He would later land a job in Nashville singing demos for other songwriters and publishing companies. The demos led to releasing his first album with Atlantic Records, the self-titled Craig Morgan in 2000. It produced three singles including "Something to Write Home About", which reached number 39 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts.
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Something to Write Home About charted at number 31 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart. By the end of 2000, it had sold over 100,000 copies. In 2015, it charted at number 16 on the Vinyl Albums chart. Reviewing the album for MTV News, critic Kembrew McLeod wrote that the band are "certainly not purveyors of bubble-punk in the same mold as Green Day or Blink-182, but they never forget the sheer pleasure that the right sequence of notes or the perfect harmony brings".
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Years later, guitarist Jim Suptic even apologized for having the influence they did on many of the modern third-wave emo bands, commenting that "[t]he punk scene we came out of and the punk scene now are completely different. It's like glam rock now ... If this is the world we helped create, then I apologize." Due to internal conflicts, the band broke up in 2005. Three years later, the band reunited to support the tenth anniversary re-release of Something to Write Home About, and soon afterward entered the studio to write new material.
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After three years of touring for Something to Write Home About, the band was beginning to feel burned-out, and wished to depart from the upbeat power-pop sound with which they had become associated. They also wanted to find a new producer to challenge them creatively, approaching Nigel Godrich and Gil Norton with offers, although both declined. Finally, the band settled on Scott Litt, best known for his work with R.E.M. and Nirvana. The band's third studio album, On a Wire was released on May 14, 2002, debuting a more measured, alternative style.
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"Free Language Demons / Up On the Roof" is a split EP between Kansas City, Missouri emo band The Get Up Kids and the San Diego, California punk outfit Rocket From the Crypt. The album was released on colored vinyl in 2000 on Vagrant Records. There were seven different pressings of the album, with each pressing on different colored vinyl. Each song was recorded separately; "Up On The Roof" was recorded at West Beach Recorders in the summer of 1999 while the band was recording their second full-length album Something to Write Home About.
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Loses Control has been described as an indie rock, pop punk and power pop release, which shifted away from the group's earlier emo stylings. It was compared to the likes of Something to Write Home About by the Get Up Kids, Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World, and Guided by Voices. The band utilized bigger and thicker sounding guitars for the record. Nanna's vocals are double-tracked for the majority of the album, drawing a comparison to Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba on that band's Good Mourning (2003) album.
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In 1999, Vagrant Records signed Kansas City, Missouri, band, The Get Up Kids, and the band's Vagrant debut, Something to Write Home About, was released in September 1999. Egan and Cohen borrowed $50,000 from Cohen's parents to fund the recording of the Get Up Kids album, derived from the mortgaging of the family house.Alternative Press Issue 204 "Say Goodnight, Mean Goodbye: The Oral History of The Get Up Kids" The album was wildly successful, and single- handedly made Vagrant Records one of the top independent labels in the country.
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Drive-Thru's unabashedly populist, capitalist approach to music allowed its bands' albums and merchandise to sell in stores such as Hot Topic. Independent label Vagrant Records signed several successful late-1990s and early-2000s emo bands. The Get Up Kids had sold over 15,000 copies of their debut album, Four Minute Mile (1997), before signing with Vagrant. The label promoted them aggressively, sending them on tours opening for Green Day and Weezer. Their 1999 album, Something to Write Home About, reaching number 31 on Billboard Top Heatseekers chart.
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The album was produced by Buddy Cannon and Norro Wilson, with co-writing credits from Cannon, Bill Anderson and Harley Allen among others. The album's final track, "I Wish I Could See Bakersfield", included a recitation from Merle Haggard. Country Standard Time critic Jon Weisberger gave the album a mixed review, saying that Morgan had a strong singing voice but that most of the songs were "by-the-numbers". Jim Patterson of The Ledger said that lead-off single "Something to Write Home About" was "pedestrian", but that the rest of the album was "an uncommonly assured hard- country effort".
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While the imprint was started to release albums by The Get Up Kids, it served as a launching pad for several side-projects such as The New Amsterdams and Reggie and the Full Effect. Their second album Something to Write Home About remains their most widely acclaimed album, and is considered to be one of the quintessential albums of the second- wave emo movement. Like many early emo bands, The Get Up Kids sought to dissociate themselves from the term, "emo." The band departed heavily from their established style with the release of their 2002 album On a Wire, which saw the band take on a much more layered, alternative rock sound.
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The album's lyrics reflected the record label strife the band had experienced and their distance between friends and family back home after their move to Los Angeles. Something to Write Home About has been singled out as the band's only 'true' emo album, as the album's aesthetic fit more into the contemporary definition of the genre. Furthermore, the album single- handedly turned the struggling Vagrant label into one of the top indie labels in the country, selling over 140,000 copies after its release. Not only did the album make The Get Up Kids the poster children for emo, but it also launched the genre into a public consciousness broader than the scattered local scenes that had previously embraced it.
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The cleaner, more focused sound of the EP provided the chance to experiment with the inclusion of keyboards and acts as a sonic bridge between the raw sound of Four Minute Mile and the more dynamic, produced style of their next studio album. After the release of Red Letter Day, Dewees became a full-time member as the band began recording their second studio album in Los Angeles in June 1999 with producer Alex Brahl. Before the album went into production, Vagrant Records co-owner John Cohen borrowed money from his parents, who had mortgaged their house in order to fund the production of the album. On September 21, 1999, the band released Something to Write Home About on Vagrant Records.
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Amidst the near-total absence of bohemianism and counterculture, Gibson finds no trace of dissidence, an underground, or slums. In the place of a sex trade, the author finds government-sanctioned "health centers" – in fact massage parlours – and mandatory dating organized and enforced by government agencies. "[T]here is remarkably little", he writes of the city-state "that is not the result of deliberate and no doubt carefully deliberated social policy." The creative deficit of the city-state is evident to the author also in the Singaporeans' obsession with consumerism as a pastime, the homogeneity of the retailers and their fare, and in what he characterizes as their other passion: dining (although he finds fault with the diversity of the food, it is, he remarks "something to write home about").
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The discography of The Get Up Kids, an American rock band that formed in 1995, consists of six studio albums, five singles, one live album and seven extended plays. Shortly after forming in their hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, the band signed to Doghouse Records and released their first EP, Woodson, along with their debut full-length studio album Four Minute Mile (1997). After the success of their first album, the band was picked up by then-underground label Vagrant Records, where they recorded Red Letter Day, their second EP, followed by their second album Something to Write Home About. The album was a massive success, selling 134,000 copies in its first three years of release in the US. They supported the album for three years with tours and two singles; "Ten Minutes" and "Action & Action".
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