The Wonder Years celebrate 10 years of The Greatest Generation with new anniversary box set
The Wonder Years are celebrating a decade of their phenomenal fourth album The Greatest Generation with a limited-edition anniversary box set, and the release of brilliant bonus track GODDAMNITALL.
While we’re still very much spinning last year’s excellent The Hum Goes On Forever record, The Wonder Years are throwing things back to 2013.
Specifically, the Philly pop-punk titans are celebrating a whole decade of their phenomenal fourth album The Greatest Generation, which is getting the limited-edition box set treatment featuring rare demos and voice memos, and a 32-page booklet of essays, photos and more.
It also contains ‘new’ tune GODDAMNITALL, which is part-TGG and part-recently finished, and has been unveiled today with a video featuring some awesome footage from the time of The Greatest Generation’s release.
Says vocalist Dan Campbell: “GODDAMNITALL is a song that almost was, and then, for a long time, categorically was not, and now is.
“When it came time to find bonus content for this box set, we went grave digging in old hard-drives to find the demos from TGG that didn’t get finished and then exhumed and reanimated this one. It was the closest to being done at the time. All of the music was there. The chorus had lyrics and melody but, for budget and time constraints it got abandoned before it had verses and a bridge.
“Now, a decade later, it’s finally finished. We asked Steve Evetts to produce it the same way he would have if it were on the original album and it now stands as a spiritual and somewhat literal B-side to The Greatest Generation.”
Watch the video for GODDAMNITALL below:
The Wonder Years’ The Greatest Generation 10th anniversary vinyl box set is due out on September 8 via Hopeless Records.
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