At 02:02 PM 5/19/2004 +0800, KEVIN MATHEWS wrote:
>I'm sitting here dumb founded listening to the new album from The Get Up
>Kids, whom I'd assume were noisy, tuneless emo punkers or something
>miserable like that
>
>So when did they become first class power poppers?!!!

All along, or at least since 1999's excellent SOMETHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT
(which includes the classic single "I'm A Loner, Dottie, A Rebel") -- the
album before that, FOUR-MINUTE MILE, is also pretty much straight-ahead
power pop, but it's indifferently recorded and more lo-fi than I think the
band intended for it to be.

S