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The Get Up Kids is tagged as: emo, indie, indie rock, rock, alternative

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...
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Top 10 The Get Up Kids Songs
Holiday
Ten Minutes
Red Letter Day
Valentine
I'll Catch You
Overdue
Out Of Reach
My Apology
Long Goodnight
Close To Home
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Top 10 The Get Up Kids Albums
Something To Write Home About
On A Wire
Four Minute Mile
There Are Rules
Guilt Show
Eudora
Red Letter Day
Simple Science
The EP's: Red Letter Day and Woodson
Live at the Granada Theater
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