Yeah I heard about these guys solely from reading the Upsides review on AP which gave it a glowing recommendation.
I got a comp at a fest that had "Don't Open the Fridge" on it, which I didn't think was that good. If I had liked them at the time, I could have seen them at that fest in front of like fifteen people playing GSOI stuff and censoring the swear words (it was a Christian fest). A couple years later, I heard "Washington Square Park" from an AP.net news post and they were my favorite band within a few months.
My sister put “When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong” on a mixed CD for me in 2008 and I’ve never looked back. If anyone has to listen to a GSOI song it should be that one, a real pre-cursor to what was to come
I was introduced to GSOI by my lifelong friend/roommate in college because they were playing a small hardcore venue a few towns over and he wanted me to go. I wasn't into the joke songs, or the other bands on the bill and it was snowing. I declined. He wound up breaking his nose in a pit that night and Dan brought him a towel in the bathroom. The Upsides came out two months later, I fell in love with it instantly, and they've been my favorite band ever since. I still regret not going to that show, and in fact, it remains the only time they've ever played Maine until this upcoming tour.
I can't remember how I discovered AP, but I found them on there sophomore year of high school circa 2011-2012. I was too cheap to buy The Upsides on Itunes so I got Won't Be Pathetic Forever instead.
When Yellowcard signed with Hopeless for their reunion everyone was commenting about how they hoped TWY would open for them. When I ordered my YC reunion shirt, I also added The Upsides to my cart based on those comments.
That lyric is in the ending of the extended "Summer Clothes" as a background vocal thing, I believe. This is something different though.
Is this definitely something different? Maybe I'm not remembering the extended version correctly but that sounds just like it to me
It might just be that. I thought I remembered that lyric as behind the big full band part, but maybe this clip is the very end or something.
Yeah, that is definitely the very end of the extended Summer Clothes cut- I get why it may not have made sense to include a slow build and extended outro on the album, but I much prefer the extended version!
I want to live in the world where this is on the album and the version we got is listed as a “single version” This build up happening smack in the middle of the album would’ve been a real moment
I'm definitely giving this a go in a Spotify playlist EDIT: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DHwnAKlsvppoWktyjWeKy?si=9d7972ba79cb492b