Defend the Indefensible: The Get Up Kids

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Critically reviled, unpopular among the post-pubescent these days - but I listened to Four-Minute Mile and Something To Write Home About today, and they're not still not that bad, compared to most rock music.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

sounds like Superchunk

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup, just like Superchunk.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

like Superchunk if they were physically incapable of writing great singles, maybe. The Get Up Kids are horrific writers, but they are FINE covers band. Their versions of "Close To Me" and "Alec Eiffel" are way fun.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Correct. They sounded like Superchunk w/o the hooks.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Indefensibly bland and insignificant. They exist solely to make Braid look better.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

bland and insignificant

So that's the secret ingredient.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I was way more entertained by them live than Superchunk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw them with Weezer and someone else on the Yahoo-sponsored tour. They were much better than whoever the opener was, and I'd say they were better than Weezer, but Weezer was too awful to compare anyone to.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Alec Eiffel" is one of the better Pixies covers I've heard. That's really the only good thing about them. Even Jimmy Eat World is better than them.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

jimmy eat world write nice hooks

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if they're that bad. I bought "Eudora" on a whim and I like a lot of it. Granted the covers ("Alec Eiffel", "Regret", "Close to Me") are the best songs on the album but "Forgive and Forget" is a pretty good tune and I also like "Anne Arbour".

Pretty boring live though. I kept waiting for something to happen, and it never did.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I was horrified by the sheer insipidity (is that a word?) or Four Minute Mile the first time I heard it. Is this the same GUK people always associate with, how you say, being good? And I bear no grudge against sappy pop-punk, per se.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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