The Wonder Years
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 The Wonder Years on the 2013 Vans Warped Tour at Quail Run Park in Mesa , Arizona |
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| origin | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States |
| Genre (s) | Pop punk |
| founding | 2005 |
| Website | thewonderyearsband.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Dan "Soupy" Campbell | |
| Nick Steinborn | |
| Josh Martin | |
| Matt Brasch | |
| Casey Cavaliere | |
| Mike Kennedy | |
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| Mikey Kelly | |
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The Wonder Years is a pop-punk band from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, founded in 2005 .
history
The band was formed in 2005 by Dan Campbell, Matt Brasch and Nick Steinborn in Lansdale , Pennsylvania. It emerged from the disbanded group The Premier. The band name is based on the TV series Wonderful Years . The Wonder Years initially released two split singles with Emergency and I and Bangarang !. At the end of 2007 her first album Get Stoked On It! on the indie label No Sleep Records. There the following EP Won't Be Pathetic Forever (2008) and the split EP Distances (2009) with the British pop-punk band All or Nothing came out. At this time, keyboardist and singer Mikey Kelly left the band. In January 2010, The Wonder Years released the band's second album, The Upsides , on No Sleep Records , making it onto the Billboard charts for the first time . This allowed them to sign with the more important label Hopeless Records , where The Upsides appeared again with four bonus tracks. Nick Steinborn joined the band for the briefly retiring drummer Kennedy, who later switched to guitar and keyboard instead. The Wonder Years recorded their third studio album, Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing, with American producer Steve Evetts in 2011 , and their fourth, The Greatest Generation , in 2013 . The Greatest Generation rose to number 20 on the Billboard 200, making it the band's biggest chart success to date.
In the summer of 2013 The Wonder Years accompanied the post-hardcore band Silverstein on their support tour for their new album This Is How The Wind Shifts through Canada. The Wonder Years then performed on the 2013 Warped Tour .
Musical and lyric development
At the beginning of her career - on Get Stoked on It! and The Upsides - The Wonder Years played a modern form of pop punk that enjoyed a significant surge in popularity in the United States in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Get Stoked on It! contains here and there borrowings from harder genres, but at the same time the band distances itself sharply from this album ("[This] record is a trainwreck!") and ignores it during live performances. The roots in the modern pop-punk scene are particularly evident in the song All My Friends Are In Bar Bands , on which numerous singers from other well-known bands in the scene sing the song's coda. In contrast, Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing is characterized by a much rougher production. With The Greatest Generation at the latest, the band's style has increasingly moved away from pop-punk to alternative and indie rock.
What sets The Wonder Years apart from other bands of its genre is the focus on the lyrics of singer Dan Campbell. All albums since The Upsides are concept albums, which is unusual for the pop-punk genre. The albums from The Upsides to The Greatest Generation form a trilogy in which Campbell deals with growing up from early to mid-twenties. Such a topic, together with uncertainties, personal conflicts and love relationships, is typical of the pop-punk genre, but Campbell's texts show a strikingly detailed autobiographical proximity. This is mainly expressed in a high degree of intertextuality between the three albums. Details that are described in songs are taken up and continued on later albums. Lyrical leitmotifs also play a major role (such as the phrase "I'm not sad anymore!", Which is used in many songs on The Upsides ). Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing is also striking that it is largely based on the poem America by Allen Ginsberg ; even the album title is a variation of a line by Ginsberg.
In contrast, No Closer to Heaven and Sister Cities are looser concept albums. The former deals with the loss of a loved one and possible feelings of guilt, the latter with connecting properties between people across continents, languages and cultures and is significantly influenced by the international tours of the band.
Discography
Albums
- 2007: Get Stoked on It!
- 2010: The Upsides
- 2011: Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing
- 2013: The Greatest Generation
- 2015: No Closer to Heaven
- 2018: Sister Cities
EPs
- 2005: Split with Emergency and I
- 2006: Split with Bangarang!
- 2007: Tour EP
- 2008: Won't Be Pathetic Forever
- 2009: Distances (split with All or Nothing)
- 2009: I Refuse to Sink: A Collection of Prior Recordings
- 2010: Under the Influence, Vol. 13 (split with Fallen from the Sky)
- 2010: The Wonder Years vs. Heroes for Hire
- 2012: Punk Is Dead. Get a job. (Split with Stay Ahead of the Weather)
- 2013: Manton Street
Web links
- Official website
- The Wonder Years at Allmusic (English)
- The Wonder Years at Discogs (English)
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- ↑ a b US chart history (Billboard) / Official Charts (UK)
- ↑ Artist Biography by Tim Sendra allmusic.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ Cassie Whitt: Silverstein announce Canadian tour with the Wonder Years. In: Alternative Press , March 15, 2013. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Get Stoked on It! by The Wonder Years. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .