The Get Up Kids Mixtape

This entry deals with one of my all-time favourite bands, who also recently reformed and began putting out new material. Often considered to be among the founding fathers of emotional hardcore punk, and with a handful of the most influential early albums from that subgenre, including Four Minute Mile and Something To Write Home About, The Get Up Kids found a niche writing energetic, raw punk rock in the late 1990s, and began to pursue other sounds and influences as with 2004's gloriously poppy Guilt Show and the acoustic folk of 2002's On A Wire. The Kansas City 5-piece released a handful of EPs and LPs, a rarities compilation and a live record over a ten-year period before ultimately disbanding in 2005. Upon reforming in 2008, they began to record material for a new EP, Simple Science, which came out earlier this year.

This playlist spans the lifespan of the GUK through all their flirtations with different styles, but nonetheless represents a catalogue which remains remarkably cohesive.

1. Last Place You Look (Four Minute Mile)
2. The One You Want (Guilt Show)
3. I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel... (Something To Write Home About)
4. Close To Me (Eudora)
5. Man Of Conviction (Guilt Show)
6. Don't Hate Me [Live] (Live! @ The Granada Theater)
7. Action And Action (Something To Write Home About)
8. Woodson (Woodson)
9. Your Petty Pretty Things (Simple Science)
10. Washington Square Park (Four Minute Mile)
11. Sympathy (Guilt Show)
12. Coming Clean (Four Minute Mile)
13. The Breathing Method (Eudora)
14. Overdue (On A Wire)
15. Shorty (Four Minute Mile)