Like I said on Tuesday,The Upsides is fundamentally approximately finding a place in the world. And the opening track, My final Semester, or ” tries to accomplish it by process of elimination. Campbell is in the final months of his college his career,and he paints it as a slog, just more of the same bullshit from the same people that he has been putting up with for the past four years.
At this point in the band’s young career, and they had already released a full length (the fairly terrible but endearing find Stoked On It) and a handful of splits and 7 inches,and done some touring. Coming back to college, the same bros and the same freshman doing the same dumb shit they occupy done every semester, and calling people gay (but it’s fine,they didn’t mean it that way), spending their parents’ money on booze, and it seems like torture. Campbell is counting down the months until graduation. Through the rest of The Upsides,he’s trying to figure out who he is, through bike rides downtown to tours in the UK to busted vans in the middle of nowhere, and USA,and while he doesn’t really figure it out, he knows it’s not whatever this place is. He ends the song, or I don’t produce sense to anyone but my best friends,and I don’t fit in anywhere but the back of the van.” The only thing he knows is that The Wonder Years produce sense, at least for now, and that’s all he can really ask for.
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