The Get Up Kids
The Get Up Kids formed in Kansas City in 1995 and became one of the central bands in second-wave emo, shaping how later pop punk and indie rock would handle emotional urgency. Four Minute Mile introduced the band's fast, rough-edged melodic style, but Something to Write Home About became the landmark, with Matt Pryor and Jim Suptic's guitars, Rob Pope's bass, Ryan Pope's drums, and James Dewees's keyboards turning heartbreak and ambition into compact, propulsive songs. "Holiday," "Action & Action," "Ten Minutes," and "I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel" helped define a vocabulary of ringing guitars, strained vocals, and choruses that sounded like private anxiety made public. Later albums such as On a Wire, Guilt Show, There Are Rules, and Problems pulled the band toward indie rock, power pop, and more restrained textures without erasing the early emotional charge. The Get Up Kids are not heavy, but they are firmly inside the accepted emo and pop-punk scope. Their legacy rests on making vulnerability sound active, tense, and band-driven rather than soft or passive.
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The Get Up Kids Discography
11 tracks
- 1 Coming Clean 2:07
- 2 Don't Hate Me 2:54
- 3 Fall Semester 3:21
- 4 Stay Gold, Ponyboy 2:54
- 5 Lowercase West Thomas 1:58
- 6 Washington Square Park 3:08
- 7 Last Place You Look 2:30
- 8 Better Half 3:24
- 9 No Love 3:04
- 10 Shorty 3:22
- 11 Michelle with One "L" 6:04
12 tracks
- 1 Holiday 3:29
- 2 Action & Action 4:05
- 3 Valentine 4:19
- 4 Red Letter Day 2:56
- 5 Out of Reach 3:46
- 6 Ten Minutes 3:12
- 7 The Company Dime 4:07
- 8 My Apology 3:24
- 9 I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel 3:08
- 10 Long Goodnight 4:49
- 11 Close to Home 3:50
- 12 I'll Catch You 4:20
24 tracks
- 1 Holiday 3:29
- 2 Action & Action 4:05
- 3 Valentine 4:19
- 4 Red Letter Day 2:56
- 5 Out of Reach 3:46
- 6 Ten Minutes 3:12
- 7 The Company Dime 4:07
- 8 My Apology 3:24
- 9 I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel 3:08
- 10 Long Goodnight 4:49
- 11 Close to Home 3:50
- 12 I'll Catch You 4:20
- 13 Holiday - Live 3:44
- 14 Action & Action - Live 5:12
- 15 Valentine - Live 4:29
- 16 Red Letter Day - Live 3:31
- 17 Out of Reach - Live 3:56
- 18 Ten Minutes - Live 4:27
- 19 The Company Dime - Live 4:12
- 20 My Apology - Live 4:16
- 21 I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel - Live 3:58
- 22 Long Goodnight - Live 5:21
- 23 Close to Home - Live 3:55
- 24 I'll Catch You - Live 4:31
9 tracks
- 1 One Year Later 3:04
- 2 Red Letter Day 2:57
- 3 Forgive and Forget 3:26
- 4 Anne Arbour 3:32
- 5 Mass Pike 3:44
- 6 Woodson 4:14
- 7 Second Place 2:21
- 8 A New Found Interest in Massachusetts 3:30
- 9 Off the Wagon 2:38
17 tracks
- 1 Up on the Roof (7" Version) 2:45
- 2 Suffragette City 3:21
- 3 Central Standard Time (7" Version) 3:23
- 4 Close to Me 3:24
- 5 Forgive and Forget 3:25
- 6 Regret 5:01
- 7 Beer for Breakfast 1:37
- 8 New Found Mass (2000) 4:25
- 9 Alec Eiffel 3:01
- 10 Impossible Outcomes 3:31
- 11 On with the Show 3:37
- 12 Ten Minutes (7" Version) 3:06
- 13 Anne Arbour 3:29
- 14 Burned Bridges (7" Version) 3:02
- 15 I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel (7" Version) 2:55
- 16 Shorty (7" Version) 3:25
- 17 The Breathing Method (7" Version) 4:45
12 tracks
- 1 Overdue 2:58
- 2 Stay Gone 3:04
- 3 Let the Reigns Go Loose 3:42
- 4 Fall from Grace 3:38
- 5 Grunge Pig 4:07
- 6 High as the Moon 3:25
- 7 All That I Know 3:20
- 8 Walking on a Wire 5:16
- 9 Wish You Were Here 3:31
- 10 Campfire Kansas 3:03
- 11 The Worst Idea 3:22
- 12 Hannah Hold on 3:47
13 tracks
- 1 Man of Conviction 1:33
- 2 The One You Want 3:15
- 3 Never Be Alone 3:17
- 4 Wouldn't Believe It 3:47
- 5 Holy Roman 2:50
- 6 Martyr Me 3:26
- 7 How Long Is Too Long 2:24
- 8 Sick In Her Skin 4:25
- 9 In Your Sea 3:02
- 10 Sympathy 3:09
- 11 The Dark Night of the Soul 3:01
- 12 Is There a Way Out 6:20
- 13 Conversation 4:56
18 tracks
- 1 Coming Clean (Live) 2:12
- 2 The One You Want (Live) 3:06
- 3 Holiday (Live) 3:22
- 4 Action & Action (Live) 3:44
- 5 Stay Gone (Live) 2:50
- 6 Woodson (Live) 5:02
- 7 Martyr Me (Live) 3:12
- 8 I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel (Live) 3:11
- 9 Mass Pike (Live) 3:25
- 10 Campfire Kansas (Live) 3:18
- 11 Red Letter Day (Live) 3:30
- 12 Sick in Her Skin (Live) 4:33
- 13 No Love (Live) 3:38
- 14 Shorty (Live) 3:57
- 15 Ten Minutes (Live) 3:29
- 16 I'll Catch You (Live) 3:46
- 17 Don't Hate Me (Live) 3:25
- 18 Is There a Way Out (Live) 6:52
4 tracks
- 1 Your Petty Pretty Things 3:28
- 2 Keith Case 4:06
- 3 Tommy Gentle 2:32
- 4 How You're Bound 6:00
18 tracks
- 1 Tithe 3:39
- 2 Regent's Court 2:06
- 3 Shatter Your Lungs 2:49
- 4 Automatic 2:55
- 5 Pararelevant 3:37
- 6 Rally 'Round the Fool 5:17
- 7 Better Lie 4:18
- 8 Keith Case 4:05
- 9 The Widow Paris 3:37
- 10 Birmingham 2:36
- 11 When It Dies 4:04
- 12 Rememorable 2:56
- 13 Your Petty Pretty Things 3:28
- 14 Tommy Gentle 2:31
- 15 How You’re Bound 6:02
- 16 Past Is Past 3:53
- 17 Walk ’Em With Grace 2:33
- 18 Neverending 3:27
12 tracks
- 1 Satellite 2:54
- 2 The Problem Is Me 2:42
- 3 Salina 4:38
- 4 Now Or Never 3:05
- 5 Lou Barlow 2:16
- 6 Fairweather Friends 3:23
- 7 Common Ground 4:04
- 8 Waking Up Alone 3:27
- 9 The Advocate 3:12
- 10 Symphony Of Silence 2:56
- 11 Brakelines 2:21
- 12 Your Ghost Is Gone 3:48
24 tracks
- 1 Holiday - Remastered 2024 3:29
- 2 Action & Action - Remastered 2024 4:05
- 3 Valentine - Remastered 2024 4:19
- 4 Red Letter Day - Remastered 2024 2:56
- 5 Out of Reach - Remastered 2024 3:46
- 6 Ten Minutes - Remastered 2024 3:12
- 7 The Company Dime - Remastered 2024 4:07
- 8 My Apology - Remastered 2024 3:24
- 9 I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel - Remastered 2024 3:08
- 10 Long Goodnight - Remastered 2024 4:49
- 11 Close to Home - Remastered 2024 3:50
- 12 I'll Catch You - Remastered 2024 4:20
- 13 One Year Later - Demo 3:11
- 14 Close to Home - Demo 3:53
- 15 Out of Reach - Demo 3:43
- 16 Holiday - Demo 3:21
- 17 Valentine - Demo 6:18
- 18 My Apology - Demo 3:41
- 19 Red Letter Day - Demo 2:58
- 20 Ten Minutes - Demo 3:14
- 21 Central Standard Time - Four Track Demo 3:55
- 22 Long Goodnight - Four Track Demo 3:51
- 23 The Company Dime - Four Track Demo 3:40
- 24 I'll Catch You - Four Track Demo 2:32
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