The Get Up KidsBest The Get Up Kids Albums Ranked

Something to Write Home About (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

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7.6

“A 25th anniversary reissue of the Kansas group’s 1999 breakthrough looks back at a crucial turning point for Midwestern emo—but a dozen demos offer a glimpse of paths not taken.”

Something to Write Home About

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7.6

“The cover depicts slumberous robots snuggling on a sofa, presumably watching banal television. Perhaps they’re sluggishly digesting a Biggie Meal in a fast-food booth. A mechanized cupid hovers over their shoulders. Hues of gray and pastel depict the scene with high school strokes. It’s fitting, since the music contained within merely cranks the greaseless gears of insipid, mind-numbingly uninspir”

Kicker - EP

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6.7

“After nearly 20 years of playing against their strengths, the Get Up Kids jump on the “adult emo” bandwagon and recapture the punk immediacy of their late-’90s heyday.”

There Are Rules (Deluxe Edition)

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5.4

“For their latest album, the Kansas City emo outfit again drafts the help of producer Bob Weston (Mission of Burma, Shellac).”

On a Wire

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3.3

“Is it just me, or were The Get Up Kids a whole lot less obnoxious back before they were trying so hard? Sure, they were annoying little brats back in the early lo-fi days, too. But I assure you, they were but a mere shadow of their current selves, irritant-wise. Usually, change is a positive thing for a young band, but with *On a Wire*, change just means putting the keyboard higher in the mix and ”

Eudora

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3.1

“We don't like the Get Up Kids much around these parts, but not for the usual reasons we tend to rough up their sort. It isn't because they're fey little rockers with penchants for intolerable whimpering; it isn't because their songs are overwrought with empty frustration; and it isn't because their fashion sense is anally pre-meditated and accessorized (though all three certainly apply). No, our c”