Something To Write Home About - Get Up Kids

2002 was a strange year for me, I had finished college the previous year, spent a good few months learning about the working world and I was in a situation of what I should be doing with my life, and then I discovered the Get Up Kids. But that’s not to say my life changed suddenly because I had discovered a pretty damn good band, but how the music matched my mood at the time can be summed up by this quote from High Fidelity “Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?” Do not get me wrong the Get Up Kids were not some depressing dirge band talking about the injustices of the song writers life, they ...  Read the complete review