Get Up and Go

Preface

Get Up and Go is a song written by early 80s “hardcore” punk band, the Teen Idles . The Teen Idles were four young men from Washington, D.C. who started the band to keep themselves out of trouble, as a response to the lack of positive recreation available for young people in D.C. The members were all underage skateboarders living in the Georgetown area, the eldest being sixteen years old, and they took it upon themselves to start a band. Ian MacKaye, lead singer and a founding member of the group, went on to found Dischord Records , which he operated out of his grandmother’s basement. Dischord is to-date the largest, longest-running, and most successful DIY record label in history; MacKaye’s other projects on Dischord have gone on to sell more than eleven million records alone. Get Up and Go perfectly

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