Good Emo Bands

[Nark Order]

I want to buy lots of music for some reason. Tell me some good bands

[Cactus Sid]

Try Coheed & Cambria

Either In Keeping Secret Of Silent Earth: 3 or Second Stage Turbine Blade, either's good

[The Destroyer]

Far, New End Original, Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas Is The Reason.

And get some Fugazi. Not exactly emo, but good.

[Silent]

Yes, Sunny Day Real Estate kicks the ass..

Coheed and Cambria is also great.

I also like Saves the Day

[Loose Cannon]

Get Up Kids

[BigDaddyCool]

no such thing

[The Icon of Elisim]

I like the Get Up Kids, Taking Back Sunday and Brand New.

I don't know if TBS and Brand New are true emo though

[Elements]

Isn't "Good Emo Band" a contradiction in terms?

[The Destroyer]

Isn't "Good Emo Band" a contradiction in terms?
I bet that seemed so funny when you first thought of it.

[Silent]

I bet that seemed so funny when you first thought of it.

LOL I can see him giggling to himself while he typed it up

[asphyXy]

<font color=969696>Bon Jovi
Skid Row
Darkthrone
Poison
Thorns
Warrant
Boston
Trail of Tears
Edge of Sanity
Children of Bodom
Scorpions
Dio
Hammerfall
Megadeth
Vio-lence
DragonForce</font>

[Gertner]

A good Emo band. Isn't that an oxymoron.

[Triple A]

A good Emo band. Isn't that an oxymoron.
Wow.

[road doggy dogg]

Isn't "Good Emo Band" a contradiction in terms?

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[Triple A]

You will like these CDs:

Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Dashboard Confessional - So Impossible EP or Swiss Army Romance
Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave
Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity (DEFINITELY get this one)
Saves the Day - Through Being Cool (best "emo" album ever)
Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (definitely get this too)
Thursday - Full Collapse
Weezer - Pinkerton

[Tranny]

lmao. three times.

[Rob]

I know I have completely lost touch with what the kids like these days but what the hell is emo?

[Kane Knight]

Pussies with guitars.

[Kane Knight]

;)

[The Destroyer]

I know I have completely lost touch with what the kids like these days but what the hell is emo?
The proper definition of it is "emotional hardcore", but the meaning's become massively distorted lately. So now it applies to any old band who are vaguelly punkish, melodic and sing about getting dumped or something...

[Elements]

Shit. I forgot. You're dicks

[The Destroyer]

Shit. I forgot. You're dicks
No, that would be you. And an unoriginal one at that.

[Rob]

The proper definition of it is "emotional hardcore", but the meaning's become massively distorted lately. So now it applies to any old band who are vaguelly punkish, melodic and sing about getting dumped or something...

So it sucks then? :p

Fu</>ck genres anyways. Good music is good music.

[Nark Order]

You will like these CDs:

Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Dashboard Confessional - So Impossible EP or Swiss Army Romance
Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave
Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity (DEFINITELY get this one)
Saves the Day - Through Being Cool (best "emo" album ever)
Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (definitely get this too)
Thursday - Full Collapse
Weezer - Pinkerton

I have TBS, Saves the Day, Starting Line, Dashboard, Jimmy Eat World, and Brand New. Like All of thier CDs. But I'll check out the others, you seem to listen to the same stuff I do...

[FakeLaser]

MORE CDS:

Armor For Sleep - Dream To Make Believe
Brand New - Deja Entendu (Possibly my all time favorite CD)
Midtown - Save The World, Lose The Girl
The Early November - The Room's Too Cold (This CD ****ing owns it like no other)

[Tranny]

Check out Wakefield, dont remember the name of their cd though

[MVP]

Thrice - The Artist and the Ambulance

[The Destroyer]

Thrice are not fu</>cking emo.

[MVP]

Thrice are not fu</>cking emo.Well more or less.

They're always on tour with emo bands.

THEY'RE ALL THE SAME TO ME. :rant:

[Kane Knight]

What the Hell is Thrice, anyways?

[Silent]

Pop Punk?

[asphyXy]

<font color=969696>The bands that are considered to be "emo" are the only bands that put emotion into their music. Depression and teenage love are the only real emotions.

Elements is stupid. He listens to metal. The only thing they do is scream about how much they hate the world.</font>

[Bad Company]

My advice is to ditch the emo crap and get the real deal.
Download some No Use For a Name, Lagwagon, 10 Foot Pole, NOFX etc.

[Kane Knight]

Pop Punk?
Okily Dokily.

Prolly not gonna be my cup o tea then. About the only "punK" acts I listen to are the Ataris (Have So Long Astoria), Taking Back Sunday (They had a couple songs that caught my ear), and the Dropkick Murphys (Blackout: :love: )

[Kane Knight]

Oh yeah, and since "emo" is supposed to be "punk," Coheed and Cambria, since they're supposed to be "emo."

Though one thing I must confess, I've never once actually LISTENED to the lyrics of their album...I might very well hate them if I did.

[Bad Company]

Emo is not Punk. Emo Pop Cultured wannabe punk.
That is all.

[Penner]

me and tidus listened to all on black by alk3 for the first time in months

i forgot how much i loved that song

[Kane Knight]

Emo is not Punk. Emo Pop Cultured wannabe punk.
That is all.
To be fair, 99% of what's being called "Punk" or "Punk Rock" isn't punk either.

Since Punk was coined for bands like the VU, and Punk Rock originated with bands like the Sex Pistols or Ramones...

[Krow]

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[Krow]

Sorry, couldn't think of any.

[Kane Knight]

Actually, both Bowie and the Beatles have solid claims to punk as well. :D

[Bad Company]

To be fair, 99% of what's being called "Punk" or "Punk Rock" isn't punk either.

Since Punk was coined for bands like the VU, and Punk Rock originated with bands like the Sex Pistols or Ramones...
Somehow I dont see bands that play that style of music surviving in modern culture, don't get me wrong, I'm a big Sex Pistols, Ramones, The Clash fan etc.
I feel the the fast paced high energy punk that took its place in the early - mid 90's was a suitable replacement for the "punk" phrase. This new Emo crap isn't.

[Kane Knight]

Somehow I dont see bands that play that style of music surviving in modern culture, don't get me wrong, I'm a big Sex Pistols, Ramones, The Clash fan etc.
I feel the the fast paced high energy punk that took its place in the early - mid 90's was a suitable replacement for the "punk" phrase. This new Emo crap isn't.
Well, the new stuff still ties back to the 70s and 80s.

The high energy punk of today is based in large part on New Wave. See also: Cars, the; Ocasek, Ric. It's also got a lot to do with the Beach Boys. Theory student whose father is a music historian, so I've got a lot of shit in my head.

I've never seen the Clash as Punk. That's just me (And a lot of other people).

Still, I'll take the Post-Punk of the Neighborhoods or Mission of Burma, or the power punk the Neighborhoods later did, combined with Naked Raygun, anyday.

[Bad Company]

I've always seen the Clash as punk, must just be me.
I found the Cars slightly more poppy than Punk.
I still :heart: Iggy Pop though!

[Kane Knight]

Question: How much of the Car's stuff have you heard?

[Bad Company]

Quite a lot.
My Dad is a big fan.

[Kane Knight]

Hmmmm...

I dunno...It's all subject to opinion, of course, but I mostly get that reaction from people who have mostly heard likle "Drive" and "Just what I needed" and "My Best Friend's Girl."

But since they were part of what brought the punk/new wave sound into the mainstream, it makessense you'd define 'em as pop.

[Bad Company]

Yeah, I dont define them as pop as such. But they do have a poppy sound to them.
Have you heard much Ultravox? Not really Punk, but good music!

[Kane Knight]

Tell me about this Ultravox...

[Kane Knight]

Yeah, there are different shades of pop. A lot of people are poppy without being pop.

the Cars had some REALLY poppy stuff. Some of it is even good. Some of it's crap. I hate Drive, for example. Moving in Stereo...:cool:

[Bad Company]

Ultravox was "new wave"
Kind of like electro rock music... Pretty weird, but cool!

[Kane Knight]

Can you recommend a couple songs? I'm trying to conserve HD space (down to 6% free tilI clear some up), so I don't wanna DL too many.

[Bad Company]

Vienna is a bit of a classic from them.
Now you either like them, or just find it complete crap. But I find em good.

[Silent]

Yeah KK I highly doubt you would like Thrice, don't even bother.

[MVP]

http://www.fourfa.com/

All the emo information you need.

[Kane Knight]

http://www.fourfa.com/

All the emo information you need.
Someone beat ya to it. :p