The Get Up Kids discography

The Get Up Kids discography

The Get Up Kids performing live in 2004
Releases
↙Studio albums 5
↙Live albums 1
↙EPs 7
↙Singles 5
↙Music videos 5

The discography of The Get Up Kids, an American rock band that formed in 1995, consists of four studio albums, five singles, one live album and seven extended plays.

Shortly after forming in their hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, the band signed to Doghouse Records and released their first EP, Woodson, along with their debut full-length studio album Four Minute Mile (1997). After the success of their first album, the band was picked up by then-underground label Vagrant Records, where they recorded Red Letter Day, their second EP, followed by their sophomore album Something to Write Home About. The album was a massive success, selling 134,000 copies in its first three years of release in the US.[1] They supported the album for three years with tours and two singles; "Ten Minutes" and "Action & Action". In order to capitalize on the success of the album, Vagrant released Eudora, a compilation of b-sides, covers and rarities in 2001.

In 2002, they released their third studio album On a Wire. The album was a large departure from their previous sound, and was considered a commercial failure. In 2004, they released their fourth album Guilt Show to better critical reception. A year later, they released Live! @ The Granada Theater, the band's first and only live album. Later that year, the band broke up after one final tour. However, in 2008 the band reunited, and announced a reunion tour for 2009 to coincide with a tenth-anniversary re-release of Something to Write Home About.

Contents

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions
US
[2]		 US Heat.
[3]		 US Indie
[2]
1997 Four Minute Mile
  • Released: September 30, 1997
  • Label: Doghouse
  • Formats: CD
 — — —
1999 Something to Write Home About
  • Released: September 21, 1999
  • Label: Vagrant
  • Formats: CD
 — 31 —
2002 On a Wire
  • Released: May 14, 2002
  • Label: Vagrant
  • Formats: CD
 57 — 3
2004 Guilt Show
  • Released: March 3, 2004
  • Label: Vagrant
  • Formats: CD
 58 — 3
2011 There Are Rules
  • Released: January 25, 2011
  • Label: Quality Hill Records
  • Formats: CD
 124 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

Year Album details US Indie
chart peak[2]
2005 Live! @ The Granada Theater
  • Released: May 24, 2005
  • Label: Vagrant
  • Format: CD
 26

Compilation albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions
US Heat.
[3]		 US Indie
[2]
2001 Eudora
  • Released: November 27, 2001
  • Label: Vagrant
  • Format: CD
 22 18

Extended plays

Year Title Record label
1997 Woodson Doghouse Records
1999 Red Letter Day
2004 iTunes Sessions EP Vagrant Records
2010 Simple Science Simple Psyence Recordings

Split extended plays

The Get Up Kids are widely considered to be one of the more prominent groups to take part in the second-wave Emo movement that took place in the mid-1990s. In their early years, they toured with such influential emo bands as Jimmy Eat World, The Promise Ring and Braid, later touring with such groups as Superchunk, The Anniversary and Hot Rod Circuit. During that time, they often collaborated with other groups, putting out Split EPs on 7" vinyl.

Year Title Split With Song featured Record label
1996 "Burned Bridges/I'm Giving Up On This One" Coalesce "Burned Bridges" Second Nature Recordings
1997 "Post Marked Stamps No. 4" Braid "I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel" Tree Records
1999 "Central Standard Time/Vasil + Bluey" The Anniversary "Central Standard Time" Vagrant Records
2001 "Devil in the Woods" Rocket From the Crypt "Up on the Roof"

Singles

Year Title Record label
1996 Shorty Huey Proudhon Recordings
1997 A Newfound Interest in Massachusetts Contrast Records
1999 Ten Minutes Sub Pop Records
2000 Action & Action Epitaph Records
2002 Wouldn't Believe It Victor Records

Music videos

Year Title Album
1999 "Action & Action" Something to Write Home About
2002 "Overdue" On a Wire
"Stay Gone"
2004 "Man of Conviction"[4] Guilt Show
"The One You Want"

Other appearances

Year Title Song featured Record label
1998 Post Marked Stamps "I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel" Tree Records
1999 I Love Metal "On With The Show" Triple Crown Records
Where Is My Mind? Tribute to the Pixies "Alec Eiffel" Glue Factory Records
Before You Were Punk 2 "Close to Me" Vagrant Records
2000 The Best Comp in The World "Newfound Mass (2000)" Fadeaway Records
Vagrant Summer Sampler "Holiday" Vagrant Records
Another Year on The Streets "Beer for Breakfast" and "I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel"
2001 No-Fi Trash "Red Letter Day" Suburban Home Records
Another Year on The Streets Vol. 2 "Central Standard Time" and "Newfound Mass (2000)" Vagrant Records
2004 Another Year on The Streets Vol. 3 "Like a Man Possessed"
Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 "Lion and the Lamb" Fat Wreck Chords
2005 Blue Collar Distro Summer Sampler "Lion and the Lamb" Vagrant Records
Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Volume 1 "Overdue" Maverick Records

References

General
Specific
  1. ^ http://www.billboard.com/news/get-up-kids-get-a-lift-from-superchunk-1481827.story#/news/get-up-kids-get-a-lift-from-superchunk-1481827.story
  2. ^ a b c d "The Get Up Kids Album & Song Chart History". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/the-get-up-kids/chart-history/246151. Retrieved 2009-09-25. 
  3. ^ a b "The Get Up Kids > Charts & Awards". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p275968. Retrieved 2009-09-25. 
  4. ^ http://www.thegetupkids.com/gs-downloads.html

External links

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Studio albums
EPs
Split 7"
Compilation albums
Live albums
Singles
Labels
Side projects
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