The Get Up Kids...not Emo but good pop? (pop, The Cure)

Zealious · 02-19-2005, 09:51 PM

Well many hate this band, but I was listening to three of their CDs, which were Eudora, On a wire, and four minute mile. Though not emo, I think they're good at what they're doing. What do you think about this?

Maybe I should change the thread to bands that are mistaken for emo but sound damn catchy.

Porphyria Plan · 02-21-2005, 09:21 AM

I'll admit Four Minute Mile hits me pretty good. It's halfway because it reminds me of the time in my life when everything went to ****...but I was no longer homeless...YAY!

I recently aquired some On The Wire songs and somethings lacking. I can't quite put my finger on it but I think it just lost the ever so slight edge it had. I may be wrong. Point me to a good song so I can give a listen tonight.

spearmint · 02-21-2005, 04:19 PM

I like them, I really don't care what things are labelled as...if they're pop so be it, they're pretty good.

David Frost · 02-21-2005, 04:20 PM

its good.

riseagainstrocks · 02-21-2005, 04:41 PM

I don't care for them much. But they aren't bad.

ph34r_of_heights · 02-24-2005, 07:32 PM

The Get-up Kids are great. ^^ I like thier other band better, though. Reggie and the Full Effect. They also have another band. The New Amsterdams.

.angie. · 02-24-2005, 08:46 PM

the get up kids are pretty good. maybe they are a mix between emo and pop?

Urban Hat€monger ? · 02-25-2005, 08:48 PM

I remember walking into a record store & hearing them murder Close To You by the Cure

It was traumatic

jif4jif · 05-02-2005, 04:21 PM

beautiful stuff. i'm not sure they are emo, but they do move me... sometimes to tears... admittedly close to you doesn't quite live up to the cure version, but they do get it spot on in places. long goodnight, sympathy, don't hate me. i could list them. maybe i'm a sycophant. you gotta love their frankness though. sometimes i don't get much more 'close to home'... sorry.

oneandonlymea · 11-20-2005, 08:43 PM

get up kids are pretty good stuff but reggie adn the full effect > get up kids

if you like GUK type stuff .. try saves the day

02-19-2005, 09:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Zealious Skeptic Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: NJ Posts: 375	The Get Up Kids...not Emo but good pop? Well many hate this band, but I was listening to three of their CDs, which were Eudora, On a wire, and four minute mile. Though not emo, I think they're good at what they're doing. What do you think about this? Maybe I should change the thread to bands that are mistaken for emo but sound damn catchy.

02-21-2005, 04:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
spearmint Everything's eventual Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Norwich, england Posts: 173	I like them, I really don't care what things are labelled as...if they're pop so be it, they're pretty good. __________________ Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for sega

02-21-2005, 04:41 PM	#5 (permalink)
riseagainstrocks Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: DC Posts: 3,320	I don't care for them much. But they aren't bad. __________________ One note timeless, came out of nowhere...

02-24-2005, 08:46 PM	#7 (permalink)
.angie. contrast&compare. Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 661	the get up kids are pretty good. maybe they are a mix between emo and pop? __________________ Jesus Christ, I'm alone again, so what did you do those three days you were dead?

02-25-2005, 08:48 PM	#8 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I remember walking into a record store & hearing them murder Close To You by the Cure It was traumatic __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

02-24-2005, 07:32 PM	#6 (permalink)
ph34r_of_heights Groupie Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: San Francisico Bay Area Posts: 16	The Get-up Kids are great. ^^ I like thier other band better, though. Reggie and the Full Effect. They also have another band. The New Amsterdams.

05-02-2005, 04:21 PM	#9 (permalink)
jif4jif Groupie Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5	beautiful stuff. i'm not sure they are emo, but they do move me... sometimes to tears... admittedly close to you doesn't quite live up to the cure version, but they do get it spot on in places. long goodnight, sympathy, don't hate me. i could list them. maybe i'm a sycophant. you gotta love their frankness though. sometimes i don't get much more 'close to home'... sorry.

11-20-2005, 08:43 PM	#10 (permalink)
oneandonlymea Groupie Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: NJ Posts: 21	get up kids are pretty good stuff but reggie adn the full effect > get up kids if you like GUK type stuff .. try saves the day __________________ And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our soul. There walks a lady we all know Who shines white light and wants to show How ev'rything still turns to gold. And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last. When all are one and one is all To be a rock and not to roll. And she's buying a stairway to heaven