The Get Up Kids - c/d?

i knew this would be your thread, jon.

i vote on DUD.

* ducks.

KILL!!!!

KILL!!!!

'If this is the world we helped create,' guitarist James Suptic said, after looking into the crowd at a reunion gig, 'then I apologise.'

we forgive but we don't forget

Hi kids. HUGE CHALLOPS but I really loved them as a 16 year old and surprisingly still really enjoy the albums. People on here saying they were hookless are nuts and they're also actually a lot LESS whiney than most of their emo contemporaries. Seriously give me these guys over Dashboard/Bright Eyes any fucking day. I also enjoy them a shitload more than any of the thousand fuzzy Wavves/Best Coasts of recent years.

The album after 'Something...', On A Wire is a lot more downbeat and totally ruined their momentum, but it's actually pretty fantastic. Here's a track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ3iUmYrE78

They also played some of my favourite gigs of my teen years. Anyone know if the reunion album was decent?

Oh and I only just realised the bassist from these guys is now in Spoon. This makes Spoon a lot cooler.

I like both of those bands [via being 15 once and 19 a few years later], and I am 100% certain that that association does not make Spoon any cooler

will agree with you about p.much everything else tho - I feel like TGUK had much stronger songwriting (less whiny, less misogynistic, more varied emotions) than e.g. Saves the Day (the other Vagrant Records band I loved for a summer in high school)

like, if you can't "feel this" on some level then you are, imho, as heartless as the robots on the album cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgc6DCvfdTw

and even when they *did* whine, they did it so well!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwaiSvohO6Y

i really liked 'on a wire' back in the day. the key change in 'the worst idea' is rockin'!

The reunion album pretty much sucks, it just lacks any of the spark of the early stuff. I totally agree wrt the excellence of On A Wire, really underrated album. I once saw these guys play the Courtyard Cafe in Champaign-Urbana (really just a mini stage in the middle of the student union) with At the Drive-In Opening. It was a good show.

like, if you can't "feel this" on some level then you are, imho, as heartless as the robots on the album cover

I wouldn't go that far, but "10 Minutes" is great IMO.

I'll second that. TGUK were great when they were on.

completely classic, "whiny" is a weird criticism to me because their first two records are pretty strictly "we are working in a recent emo/pop-punk tradition, but with a SYNTH" so the material reflects that

This was a big band for me in high school/early college and one of the few bands I can still listen to from that era without even cringing - in fact, I usually enjoy myself. Attended the "farewell" tour with two of my best friends from college and had an absolute blast. It's okay to hate on this music, I suppose, but it's kind of missing the point. FWIW these dudes said more to me about being a sensitive, socially awkward dude in a marginal/suburban upbringing than anything I've heard from The Arcade Fires.