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Kansas City MO, United States

The Get Up Kids are a Kansas City-based American 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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  • diamond_tough

    Did anybody from the band ever explain why There are Rules is so awful? Like did they every issue and apology or explain why they decided to hype up some reunion shit and then put that god awful album out? I want answers damnit!

    17 May 5:36am Reply

  • Polariaz

    i just know two brazilians fans of this band cmonn

    23 Apr 8:57pm Reply

  • sunjay140

    Real emo :D

    11 Apr 8:13pm Reply

  • Accident_Pr0ne

    Something To Write Home About is one of my favorite 90s albums(:

    30 Mar 7:38pm Reply

  • Adthey

    @itschinatown. I think he is, yeah.

    22 Mar 1:49pm Reply

  • substancex

    Sorry for being an asshole. It's totally your business if you think that Sarah Palin glasses are a good look, so more power to you.

    10 Mar 3:41pm Reply

  • substancex

    I hope that answered your question.

    9 Mar 3:25pm Reply

  • substancex

    You WOULD think that, considering that you think black frame indie hipster glasses are still cool in 2013 when even people like Glenn Beck have taken to wearing them. Anyway - I was actually a big fan of the 90s wimp emo scene, and I think it started out with pure intentions. But by the end, most of the emo bands seemed to exist for the same insincere reason that pussyhound 80s hair-metal bands threw a saccharin "sensitive" ballad on every one of their albums.

    9 Mar 3:18pm Reply

  • itschinatown

    You're kinda a prick, huh?

    6 Mar 2:42am Reply

  • substancex

    I probably couldn't get into these albums if I hadn't listened to them when they came out though. But putting them on now evokes beautiful 90s autumns for me and I love it. Man though - I can't believe how cloyingly pussyfied some of the lyrics are. The 90s emo scene really was fucking gross in a lot of ways.

    3 Mar 10:40pm Reply

  • substancex

    I'm listening to this band for the first time since "Something to Write Home About" came out and I'm finding that I still really like their early stuff a lot. "Four Minute Mile" and everything before it was great. That whole insincere limp-wristed secret-date-rapist emo scene got really grotesque by the late 90s, but those earlier records still hold up.

    3 Mar 10:35pm Reply

  • AnthemPartThree

    I'm ok with the band changing styles, but "There are Rules" just wasn't very good, regardless of genre.

    2 Mar 5:53am Reply

  • forgetmenot

    v sadly I have to agree :(

    20 Feb 5:37am Reply

  • paoLAWL

    Guilt Show rules. There Are Rules does not.

    15 Feb 7:49am Reply

  • Radio_Flyer_

    For fans of Texas Is The Reason, Quicksand, Jawbreaker, Title Fight and Basement, check it out! http://killmoves.bandcamp.com/

    4 Feb 9:16pm Reply

  • I_vans

    96 to 99..get up kids was fantastic...!!!!

    4 Feb 11:37am Reply

  • ADH_00

    I did not like the last album (There Are Rules), does not have the signature sound of the band (Indie / Emo Rock), I prefer the "Four Minute Mile" or "Something To Write Home About"

    16 Jan 2:15am Reply

  • xNorbertx

    no There Are Rules is worse

    20 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Dyzphoria

    is it just me or does Guilt Show kinda suck compared to the rest?

    17 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Boxcarrace

    90s Emo <3 <3 More than music

    8 Nov 2012 Reply
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