emo???
 

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

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?

Hidden In Plain View
Spitalfield
Senses Fail
Hawthorne Heights
Copeland

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

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.

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

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

Nirvana were alternative but moreso Grunge.

Grunge was considered alternative.

I know, but I was just being specific.

emo is gay. that's what it is.

silverstein
yellowcard
new found glory

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

Yeah Silverstein is. Yellowcard and NFG, not really.

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

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.

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

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:

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

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

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

Oh yeah and the movielife.

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. :(

Armor For Sleep :love:

Like I mentioned earlier, Copeland could go with those.

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.

For sure. :love:

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Lucky git. I envy you.

I love Sunny Day Real Estate :D

Emo doesnt exist.

What a sweeping remark.

Real Emo = Bright Eyes :heart: