Free Language Demons / Up On the Roof is a split EP between Kansas City, Missouri emo band The Get Up Kids and the San Diego, California punk outfit Rocket From the Crypt. The album was released on colored vinyl in 2000 on Vagrant Records. There were seven different pressings of the album, with each pressing on different colored vinyl.[1] Each song was recorded separately; "Up On The Roof" was recorded at West Beach Recorders in the summer of 1999 while the band was recording their second full-length album Something to Write Home About. "Free Language Demons" was recorded at Big Fish Studios in San Diego, during the recording session for the band's Vagrant Records debut, Group Sounds.[2]
Track listing
Side A – Rocket From the Crypt
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Free Language Demons"
2:33
Side B – The Get Up Kids
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Up On the Roof"
2:45
Release Info
The EP was released on 7" colored vinyl, in four batches; The most widely available was the white vinyl, with 3,000 copies produced. There were also 800 orange copies made, 500 blue copies, and only 300 gray colored records.[3]The Get Up Kids re-released "Up on the Roof" on their B-Sides collection Eudora in 2000.
