Matt and Andrew's CD a Day project

Since the Get Up Kids' new album is coming out Tuesday, I thought I'd take a nice stroll through their two previous albums. I'm a fan of the band; not a huge fan — I don't own the first super-indie album, which I think is horribly underproduced and obviously written before the band discovered melodies, and I don't have the recent B-sides collection, though my brother has both these, plus a couple of semi-rare EPs — but I have seen them live three times now: once opening for Green Day in Tulsa on the night of the OSU plane crash, once in Fort Worth and once at the Diamond Ballroom in OKC, where I was easily the oldest person in the crowd other than the members of the band by five years.
So anyway, this is their "breakthrough" second album from '99, and it sort of set the template for "emo" - that's right, kids, but please don't blame the GUK for Dashboard Confessional, huh? Listening to it again, I'm reminded of how fresh and energetic I thought it was when I first heard it, but I also notice that the duelling lead singers haven't quite learned how to sing yet; the voices are more ragged than I remember. A good album for Leap Day? Maybe not. But a good album nonetheless.