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damn that took awhile.

3/30/2007 7:34:14 AM

a new EP was released this year!?


a new full length album in 2011?



yes plz. i will never outgrow TGUK

11/5/2010 8:14:22 AM

i used to love these guys

tried to listen to Something to Write Home About earlier this year and it did not hold up well

11/5/2010 6:33:24 PM

I still love everything up to and including On A Wire. At least one of Four Minute Mile, Something to Write Home About, and On A Wire gets spun at least every month for me. Not sure what I'll think of the new album. Looking forward to checking it out though.

11/5/2010 9:12:20 PM

their new EP can be streamed on their myspace site. I dig it.

11/6/2010 11:42:58 AM

Valentine is probably the world's worst song. also whatever that super emo song that closes out the album is. second worst.

11/6/2010 1:31:07 PM

http://blurt-online.com/news/view/4323/

Quote :

"By Blurt Staff The Get Up Kids return in January with a new studio album, There Are Rules - the band's fifth full-length, and the first on their own Quality Hill Records imprint. A full set of U.S. tour dates is planned early in the new year to support the release. Read a BLURT interview from 2009 with the band. Seven years after what looked to be their final album Guilt Show, with the group disbanding a year later in 2005 after 10 years of constant touring, The Get Up Kids returned to the studio in 2009, sparked by a spur-of-the-moment decision to start writing songs together again, made while they were rehearsing to tour the tenth anniversary edition of their breakout album Something to Write Home About. Which in turn led to There Are Rules. The recording involved lots of analog 2" tape - live takes and a feel for the unexpected. Long time producer Ed Rose was once again seated behind the mixing desk, and the band even turned to Chicago luminary Bob Weston, who recorded their debut, Four Minute Mile, to master the album. "This record came together really organically. We'd throw out an idea and if it didn't work after 30 minutes we'd scrap it and move on to another one. We all wrote together really spontaneously and then fleshed it out with Ed in the studio," says bandmember Matt Pryor. Forming their own label was the band's attempt to reclaim its DIY roots. Says Pryor, "We had a really great relationship with Vagrant but we felt that with the proverbial rebirth of the band we wanted to start our own label. Do everything ourselves like we did in the beginning." And as to naming the imprint? "Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood in Kansas City. It's not far from where we first formed the band. It seems like an appropriate name for the label." Tracklisting: 1. Tithe 2. Regent's Court 3. Shatter Your Lungs 4. Automatic 5. Pararelevant 6. Rally 'Round the Fool 7. Better Lie 8. Keith Case 9. The Widow Paris 10. Birmingham 11. When It Dies 12. Rememorable"

11/6/2010 6:14:27 PM

is there a such thing as worst emo song?

11/6/2010 8:30:26 PM

disagree completely. I love I'll Catch You.

And yea I got their latest EP awhile back when it came out. I liked 1 song and the others were meh but I think the LP will be slightly different.

11/7/2010 1:04:22 AM

New article on stereogum and new song "Regent's Court" posted:

http://stereogum.com/583922/progress-report-the-get-up-kids/franchises/progress-report/

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/mp3/The%20Get%20Up%20Kids%20-%20Regents%20Court.mp3

I actually rather enjoyed the song. My main complaint is that it seems like it needed an extra hook or extra part. I guess basically it needed a good/better bridge in there.

It starts out strong and I really like the parts of the song that are actually there but it just seems pretty short/incomplete due to the same couple parts being played over and over.

I'm definitely happy to hear they are trying something different with their sound though because I realistically expected this to sound like The New Amsterdams part 2. This at least has me a little more interested in hearing the rest of it.

[Edited on November 23, 2010 at 3:00 PM. Reason : .]

11/23/2010 2:56:34 PM