The Leftovers EP is the hip hop group Ugly Duckling's second EP. Released shortly after the second album, Taste the Secret, this EP completes the story followed in that album. It explains what happens to Meat Shack and its employees after the events of Taste the Secret, culminating in the three employees mentioned in the album being fired and deciding to create a hip-hop group called Ugly Duckling.
Although originally released as a separate release, The Leftovers EP was later packaged together with Taste the Secret and released in 2004 as Combo Meal: Taste the Secret/The Leftovers EP on the Emperor Norton/Rykodisc record label.
The Leftovers may refer to:
The Leftovers were an American pop punk band from Portland, Maine, made up of Kurt Baker (bass, vocals), Andrew Rice (guitar, vocals), Matt Anderson (guitar, vocals), and Adam Woronoff (drums).
The band formed in 2002, and gained a following by releasing an E.P. entitled Mitton Street Special. Two years later they released their first full-length album, 2004's Stop, Drop, Rock n Roll. In 2007 the band released their third album On the Move. The album was recorded at Butch Vig's Smart Studios and was produced by Ben Weasel.
The band has recently finished recording their upcoming album Eager To Please, due out on Oglio Records in the spring of 2009. To promote the album the band went on a Summer tour where they opened for Bowling For Soup and Teen Idols.
In addition to playing with The Leftovers, drummer Adam Woronoff has also played in The Queers.
The Leftovers is a 2011 novel by American author Tom Perrotta chronicling life on earth after a rapture-like event takes some and leaves others behind. The billions left behind are all touched by the loss of loved ones in the "Sudden Departure," compounded by the significant social and philosophical concerns and implications of what it means to be left behind, when others were chosen.
A television adaptation premiered on HBO on June 29, 2014.
Several years after a rapture-like event in which millions of people world-wide suddenly vanish without explanation, the citizens of Mapleton, NY are still struggling to cope with the massive loss and resulting culture shift. The story is told episodically, revolving around the four members of the Garvey family, who have each begun an unlikely relationship following the event.
Kevin Garvey – The patriarch of the Garvey family, Kevin is a prominent local business man enjoying early retirement during the event. Afterwards, he is compelled to run for mayor of Mapleton to replace the psychologically compromised incumbent. Kevin stresses the importance of returning to normality as a way for the survivors to cope through initiatives like survivor’s mixers and adult recreation leagues. The other major policy of his tenure in office is an effort to ease tension between the town and the Guilty Remnant, an ascetic religious group that aims to provoke people into remembering the losses of the event and how meaningless life is. Following a violent conflict between police and the GR, Kevin has taken a hands off approach to their existence, preferring to ignore them entirely.
In the morning
I was weary
In the morning
I was lost
But in the evening
I was dreaming
Of our love
And the way it carries on
In the city
I was working
Feeling busy
Chasin time
But when I'm tired
She's my fire
Cause I know that her love is always mine
She assures me
That when life hurts me
Our love will carry on
In the afternoon
I was worried
About the future and where I'd go
But when I'm thinking
My fears start sinking