The Get Up Kids will be reissuing two long out of print LPs in that of 2002's "On A Wire" and compilation LP "Eudora". Both LPs are now available for preorder and will be released on September 17th.
The band's third studio album, On a Wire was released on May 14, 2002, debuting the band's new sound. Just as Something to Write Home About alienated fans with its more produced sound, On a Wire was criticized by fans who were disappointed with the album's softer musical direction. Specifically, the reviewer for Alternative Press wrote "Unfortunately, the visceral energy of their early days is lost in their newfound maturity."
The poor public reception of the album had a larger impact on the band's popularity as a whole. The band embarked on a tour to promote the album in the late spring soon after the album was released, only to find that they had far less support from both their fans and their record label. Using the financial and critical success of previous album 'Something to Write Home About', Vagrant signed several other headlining emo bands such as Alkaline Trio, Dashboard Confessional, and Saves the Day. The Get Up Kids were no longer the label's top priority, and certainly not after the lukewarm reception of On a Wire.
In an interview with Alternative Press, lead singer Matt Pryor considered the dramatic change in style on On a Wire seriously dented the momentum the band had built up since Something to Write Home About, allowing later bands such as Dashboard Confessional to take much of the fan base that The Get Up Kids had previously earned. In an interview, Pryor confessed that he didn't think that "anyone, including Vagrant, gave that record a chance". Even though they had avoided the term since its inception, it was at this point the band actively began trying to shed the term "emo", a word that had defined them for years but had come to mean something different. Pryor commented on the album, saying "We really didn't give two shits if anyone liked the record or not, we were really confident that we were going to kill this 'emo' stigma that we had and take the people with open minds with us and leave everyone else in the dust."
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Track Listing
Overdue
Stay Gone
Let the Reigns Go Loose
Fall From Grace
Grunge Pig
High as the Moon
All That I Know
Walking on a Wire
Wish You Were Here
Campfire Kansas
The Worst Idea
Hannah Hold On
Released on November 27, 2001, Eudora is a collection of B-sides, rarities, and covers released on Vagrant Records.
Named after the Kansas town Eudora, the release contains a number of cover songs which had been recorded for singles or compilations, by artists such as David Bowie, The Pixies, and The Cure. The song "Central Standard Time" originally appeared on a split 7" with The Anniversary, and the song "Burned Bridges" is a cover of the song "Harvest of Maturity" by the metalcore band Coalesce, and the song originally appeared on a split 7" between the two groups, each band choosing one of the other bands' songs and re-working it.
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Track Listing:
Up On The Roof
Suffragette City
Central Standard Time
Close To Me
Forgive And Forget
Regret
Beer For Breakfast
Newfound Mass (2000)
Alec Eiffel
Impossible Outcomes
On With The Show
Ten Minutes
Anne Arbour
Burned Bridges
I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel
Shorty
The Breathing Method