emo???

[Marc the Smark]

Can someone please tell me what "emo" is, and give me some examples of some current bands/songs that are emo? Thanks!

[Triple A]

It is softcore punk music. Short for "emotional".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo&r=f

Emo bands:

Brand New (more or less)
Dashboard Confessional
Early November
Fall Out Boy
Further Seems Forever
Jimmy Eat World
Juliana Theory
Matchbook Romance
Saves the Day
Story of the Year
Taking Back Sunday
The Used (first album)

[Marc the Smark]

It is softcore punk music. Short for "emotional".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo&r=f

Emo bands:

Brand New (more or less)
Dashboard Confessional
Early November
Fall Out Boy
Further Seems Forever
Jimmy Eat World
Juliana Theory
Matchbook Romance
Saves the Day
Story of the Year
Taking Back Sunday
The Used (first album)

Green Day? Eve 6? Good Charlotte? Blink 182? Any of those?

So is "emo" an insult?

[Looking for boobies.]

Hidden In Plain View
Spitalfield
Senses Fail
Hawthorne Heights
Copeland

[Looking for boobies.]

Blink 182 - Punk
Green Day - Punk
Good Charlotte - Who knows what they are these days?!?
Eve 6 - Rockish kinda.

[Triple A]

Green Day? Eve 6? Good Charlotte? Blink 182? Any of those?

So is "emo" an insult?
Not really. They are more "pop punk" than emo. Blink 182 would be closest to emo, but they aren't really.

Emo has turned INTO an insult I guess. Nobody wants to be known as emo anymore.

[Marc the Smark]

Okay, so what's alternative? Is it just modern rock? Like Blink and Green Day?

[Triple A]

I guess. It is like "not normal rock". Nirvana and Stone Temple Pilots and shit were called alternative at the time.

[Looking for boobies.]

Nirvana were alternative but moreso Grunge.

[Triple A]

Grunge was considered alternative.

[Looking for boobies.]

I know, but I was just being specific.

[Gertner]

emo is gay. that's what it is.

[Penner]

silverstein
yellowcard
new found glory

[road doggy dogg]

Green Day? Eve 6? Good Charlotte? Blink 182? Any of those?

So is "emo" an insult?

No, it's only an insult when used by retarded internet elitests who think they're the man because they listen to metal, and even then it's still not much of an insult.

[road doggy dogg]

silverstein
yellowcard
new found glory

no
no
no


Just because a band is poppy and has a whiney singer, doesn't mean they are emo. (this coming from someone who's a fan of both YC and NFG)

[Silent]

Silverstein is emo, well, screamo/post-hardcore.

[road doggy dogg]

Ok well maybe them, I dunno I don't care much for them so w/e

[Triple A]

Yeah Silverstein is. Yellowcard and NFG, not really.

[Silent]

Yellowcard and NFG are just pop-punk, yeah. They have sorta emo lyrics, but it's pop-punk musically.

[Kane Knight]

Okay, so what's alternative? Is it just modern rock? Like Blink and Green Day?
Alternative is a term used by record companies to dress up the same mainstream rock as something "edgy" and different. Alternative is, essentially, mainstream rock, and people will argue back and forther over who's alternative and isn't because there's no real defining trait, nor has there been since like 1986.

People not wanting to be known as emo isn't a bad thing. It's about as legit a genre as nu-metal, considering half the nerds who are "emo" can't even agree. Throw a bunch of acts together under one genre, and market it to dumb kids.

...Much like alternative, come to think of it.

[mitchables]

Fall Out Boy, while being the sex, are pop punk.

[Hollywood Red]

Ahahaha, I got reading some of those entries I realised how emo I was.

The dyed hair (which used to be long, it's now a fauxhawk which is pretty emo in its own right), the scarfs, the skinny, borderline anorexic frame, tight shirts and sweaters, crying over love and listening to emo music.

But I just laughed about it.

Yeah I'm emo, so what?

So I started blogging about it on MySpace, posting my favourite definitions and then I found this:

27. emo
myspace.com and all the fucks on it

myspace is a great place for emo fucks to post gay messages to each other and comment about their gay pictures where theyre usually looking down
Source: fecal matter, Jan 29, 2005

So of course it went at the top of the list.

[Danny Electric]

Mitch is right, I would agree that Fall Out Boy are awesome but not emo.
Could also add Sunny Day Real Estate.

[Looking for boobies.]

I've just came to the conclusion that a lot of you have great music tastes.

[Danny Electric]

Oh yeah and the movielife.

[mitchables]

Mitch is right, I would agree that Fall Out Boy are awesome but not emo.
Could also add Sunny Day Real Estate.

Could? :P You'd be a right bastard not to add them. And Rites of Spring, Still Life and Fugazi.

If you want to take the mellow branch of emo, you have your Death Cab for Cutie, Last Days of April, The Postal Service, The Good Life, Bright Eyes, Criteria, Appleseed Cast, etc.

Very broad genre, from the emo-core to the screamo. :(

[mitchables]

Armor For Sleep :love:

[Looking for boobies.]

Could? :P You'd be a right bastard not to add them. And Rites of Spring, Still Life and Fugazi.

If you want to take the mellow branch of emo, you have your Death Cab for Cutie, Last Days of April, The Postal Service, The Good Life, Bright Eyes, Criteria, Appleseed Cast, etc.

Very broad genre, from the emo-core to the screamo. :(

Like I mentioned earlier, Copeland could go with those.

[Danny Electric]

Armor For Sleep :love:
I would love to see them live.
I've also been listening to alot of Bright Eyes lately, he's touring at the end of the month. Bit wary of seeing them in a big venue though.

[mitchables]

For sure. :love:

[mitchables]

Armor For Sleep :love:
I would love to see them live.
I've also been listening to alot of Bright Eyes lately, he's touring at the end of the month. Bit wary of seeing them in a big venue though.

Yeah I have some videos of AFS live, they look like they rock the kazbah. :heart:

[Danny Electric]

I've got 'Being Your Walls' live on video, looks awesome.
Armor For Sleep and Sasoin are the two bands I'd love to see this year.

[FakeLaser]

I've seen Armor like 10 times live. They put on a great show.

[Danny Electric]

I was checking their site, doesn't look like their playing the UK anytime soon but I hope with the new album that they come over here to tour it.

[FakeLaser]

I'm seeing them twice on the 25th. I'm going to the record release party then they're playing down in Asbury Park later on at night.

[Danny Electric]

Lucky git. I envy you.

[Silent]

I love Sunny Day Real Estate :D

[JJ Moore]

Emo doesnt exist.

[The Destroyer]

What a sweeping remark.

[Kris]

Real Emo = Bright Eyes :heart:

[Loose Cannon]

STRAYLIGHT RUN

[Danny Electric]

:y: :heart:

[Penner]

Yeah Silverstein is. Yellowcard and NFG, not really.well whatever

[JJ Moore]

Emo does not exist.

[The Destroyer]

Holy redundant deja vu style posting Batman.

[asphyXy]

Real emo = power ballads.

[JJ Moore]

You could feel emotional listening to Acid Bath's Scream of the butterfly but that doesnt make Acid Bath Emo!