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Kansas City MO, United States

The Get Up Kids are a Kansas City-based American rock band. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-90’s emo scene, otherwise known as the “second wave” of emo music. As they gained prominence, they began touring with bands such as Green Day and Weezer before becoming headliners themselves, eventually embarking on international tours of Japan and Europe. They founded Heroes & Villains Records, an imprint of the successful indie rock label Vagrant Records. While the imprint was started to release albums by The Get Up Kids, it served as a launching pad for several side-projects such as The New Amsterdams and Reggie and the Full Effect.
The Get Up Kids were viewed throughout their existence as a prototypical emo band, having been major players in the Midwest emo movement of the mid-1990s.[4] However, like many early emo bands, The Get Up Kids sought to dissociate themselves with the term, as it was considered dismissive to be seen as an “emo band.”Years later, guitarist Jim Suptic even apologized for having the influence they did on many of the modern third-wave emo bands, commenting that “the punk scene we came out of and the punk scene now are completely different. It’s like glam rock now . . . If this is the world we helped create, then I apologize.”

Influential Kansas City five piece, The Get Up Kids, return in January 2011 with a new studio album,There Are Rules – the band’s fifth full-length collection, and the first on their own Quality Hill Records imprint.

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-Trail-

Users like you making comments that aren't even remotely relevant to the band or their music ruin shoutboxs.

Wednesday morning
Maxymale

Every shoutbox is going shit someday.

Tuesday evening
jorrando

ain que fofuxinhos

Monday morning
Vote4cake

Oh. You were just kidding around with me. Carry on. ^.^

last week
-Trail-

Sigh. "Stop listening to fake emo bands" I'm not even going to try and begin to tell you what's wrong with that request. Also, location and origin does in fact make a difference, look at britpop or NYHC, bands tagged with those tags have a very distinct sound, their location played a big part in their sound. The same could be said for a genre like Reggae.I refer you back to something I posted earlier, "there is more than one emo sound". You seem to be having trouble understanding that statement. "emo" is just a word. That word can have any number of different meanings. Also MTV hasn't been interested in music for about 15 years.

last week
Vote4cake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26InIAbAf7Y Go to 37:00 and watch that part.

last week
Vote4cake

Of course you didn't understand it because you don't know Emo. Stop listening to fake Emo bands. | The reason why that term "Midwest Emo" is funny because it's implying a location. Location/Origin does not make up a genre. | Oh, so you're actually arguing over the fact that there IS Emo in mainstream? Are you that stupid? Of course you are. You don't listen to any Emo bands. How about you take a look at this site: http://web.mac.com/macinthetosh/Site_2/Emo.html That'll help a little. | "Who is "They"?" Ever heard of common sense? We're obviously talking about MTV. | Who ever said that a band doesn't want people to hear their music? I just said that Emo is a DIY thing, if that makes it clear.

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Vote4cake

i don no lol

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-Trail-

I'm going to guess that English isn't your first language because that paragraph was nigh on impossible to read and make sense of. What exactly are you trying to argue? If you think the term "midwest emo" is funny then you are obviously a bit clueless about the genre. This band is from Kansas so it makes perfect sense for them to take some Midwestern influence in their music. I'd like to see where you got this "0% emo in the mainstream" fact from. Or did you just make that up? "They would never give out emo music to the public" Who is "They"? And if a band doesn't want the public to hear their music, then what's the point in being in a band? You're just fucking with me aren't you?

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DJohnDoe

what the fuck are you on about

last week
Vote4cake

Just as I said before, there's 0% Emo in mainstream. They would never give out Emo music to the public. Come on man. Even many people say there are no Emo bands on MTV. Lol, Midwest Emo? Even the name is quite funny. The word "Emo" in it doesn't have a meaning either. It's like Mall Emo. It has no meaning in it either. Comparing with an Emo band and a non-Emo band obviously is a valid point. It's self-explanatory, unless ignorance runs through your brain, that is. Obviously there is more than one "Emo" sound, but it shouldn't be mistaken either. I've only gave out one Emo band after all.

last week
Vote4cake

@ValkyrieMissle, When ignorance occurs, we have to make that stop happening.

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-Trail-

Just because a band is mainstream, doesn't mean they can't have emo influences. And TGUK had obvious midwest emo influences when they started out. Comparing them to another band doesn't validate your opinion. There is more than one "emo" sound.

last week
ValkyrieMissle

@Vote4cake who gives a shit? It's music just listen to it.

last week
Vote4cake

Emo is not mainstream. There are no MTV bands that are Emo. Also, The Get Up Kids has Punk influences, but occasionally. This is Emo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWopwUi6baA

last week
-Trail-

Actually, this band did have some pretty obvious emo influences in their music back in the day.

last week
tropospherik

Nothing like some valentines day get up kids

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Vote4cake

The tags are so messed up. The Get Up Kids isn't Emo and never was. Some people in here are messed up too...causing arguments with no valid reason. Even that logic goes against the Punk community.

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ashorizonsfade

Why have I not listened to these before >.>

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jjmini

Overdue [2]

23 days ago