Defiance (2002)
I will never claim to be the biggest Get Up Kids fan in the world, but man oh man did I just love the Woodson EP and the other assorted singles that came out before and right around the time of their first album. I like their first record Four Minute Mile just fine, but it's the stuff that came out leading up to it that really is what got my attention. By the time that second album with the robots on the cover came out, they had changed into something I didn't really have any interest in.
But let's get back to Woodson. I have the two 7"s that make up the Woodson CD EP, but let's be honest, it is something of a hassle to pull out two 7"s in order to listen to four songs. I recently discovered this German vinyl release of Woodson and the Red Letter Day EP. I had Red Letter Day as a 10" on green vinyl, but I sold it, probably about ten to fifteen years ago. Pretty sure I got a decent amount for it, but I hadn't listened to it in ages.
When this record came in I relistened to the Red Letter Day side and you know what, those songs are pretty decent. They're not as good as the ones from Woodson, but they're probably just as good as the first album, which I also haven't listened to in forever. The four Woodson songs still rule. I only wish they put the version of "I'm A Loner Dottie, a Rebel" from the Braid split on here too, then it would have been perfect.
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