THE WONDER YEARS The Upsides (No Sleep)
I often tell myself that as far as music is concerned I’m never going to experience the “generation gap” of not understanding the music of subsequent generations. Well, when it comes to emo pop-punk, I must confess that I really be guilty of just that. The genre is a little too juvenile (and puerile) for my tastes.
Whilst it retains the energy of punk, it totally eschews the inflammatory irony that made bands like Sex Pistols so special. I detest the day that punk rock become the favoured music of the US college frat boy and share the sentiments Kurt Cobain articulated so succinctly in In Bloom – you know, “but he don’t know what it means…”.
Which brings me to The Upsides, the sophomore album of pop-punk outfit The Wonder Years.
I DON’T GET IT.
There you go…