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what is emo
I dunno, I personally find it hilarious how people get so butthurt when a band they like is labelled as "emo". I mean bands like Senses Fail and such, I thought that was basically what an "emo band" was. lol, no idea. I don't understand why people even care. So what is emo anyway, since apparently no band EVER EVER is emo, according to angry nerds on the internet.
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emo has been a catchall for a lot of different styles of music over the years. right now i really don't know where it stands. frankly, it doesn't matter.
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emocore started in the 80s and it was hardcore bands like stilllife then it started being applied as emo to bands like sunny day real estate. then it was appplied to everything by the masses, some bands call themeselves emo and these are mainly bands taht don't whine as much as you'd think but have like really slow music with interspersed vocals. I'll post a link to the an album I picked up of a collection of modern emo in a minute, i really don't like those bands actuallly. I threw the cd away.
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Senses Fail is obviously "emo". People just don't want to say it because emo has a negative connotation now. It is cooler to just say they are "indie rock".
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indie means they aren't on a major label. Although Indie rock is a style now so I see what you are saying. But I would never call senses fail indie rock, i'd call them emo.. or hardcore or.. i dunno
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I know. I am just syaing in general. Nobody wants to be called "emo" anymore.
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There's a few bands who don't mind the moniker:
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If it ain't metal it is emo :mad:
Slayer, ftw. |
If the song deals with any emotion besides blind and absolute hate and anger, it is emo.
Slayer, ftw. |
There are at least two bands whom I consider emo, that are not on that list.
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Oh, and country songs about drinking and driving trucks and ownership of dogs and wives/girlfriends running away are not emo.
BTW, if a country song is not about anything in afore mentioned list, it isn't a country song, or if it is sung by a woman, it isn't country and goes right back to being emo bullshit not worth listening too. |
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do you consider blitz and hermaphrodites emo? by emo i mean fuckable? |
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He's got a gimmick you see, Juan.
BDC has an ignorant loveable Redneck gimmick FANGEL has an ignorant Canadian Gimmick. |
Here is a serious question, and I am in no way setting anyone up for a punchline that I am going to deliver (though if another poster does I will not be held accountable) and I have asked this of my friends, but they have failed everytime...perhaps the music-saavy TPWW can answer it...here goes:
Can you direct me to some emo that does not suck copious amounts of testicle? I am serious, I will give it a listen, link that shit up. |
the movielife are not emo
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AppleSeed cast is pretty amazing
check out low level owls. |
Pick like 5-10 songs from different bands that are definitely "emo." Also, none of the songs had better be Fall Out Boy or Hawthorne Heights.
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Sunny Day Real Estate - Pillars
Further Seems Forever - Just Until Sundown The Early November - I want To Hear You Sad |
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Brand New - Me vs Maradona vs Elvis But everyone will probabaly disagree with me on all of these. |
Okay, I will give them a fair shake and get back to you.
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Protip: When the name of the song sounds as retarded as the name of the band, 93.45% of the time, Its emo.
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You should leave the music forum forever.
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Sunny Day Real Estate - Pillars - This was good, it actually prompted me to listen to a second song by the band which I liked until they did that thing where they have the chorus and the guy (the guitar player who isn't lead singer) just kind of yells the chorus which I do not like. I could kind of make a comparison between them and the Smashing Pumpkins if the Pumpkins got took a bunch of downers maybe.
Further Seems Forever - Just Until Sundown This song wasn't on youtube, so I listened to "Light Up Ahead" instead. Great drumming, that's one thing that I seem to notice about this genre is that the drummers aren't afraid to earn their keep. I actually liked this song because the video was cool and the guy wasn't excessively whiny. The Early November - I want To Hear You Sad - Catchy little riffs, but the guy's voice kind of had that whiny miscellaneous sound that sounds too much like every emo guy's voice. I think that is my main hurdle is when their voice get like that. Brand New - Me vs Maradona vs Elvis - Good song, has a bit of Elliot Smith quality to it. Is this why people say emo is so sad? Because this sounded pretty sad, or does it get sadder? All in all, I didn't hate it. Does anybody ever do a solo? Also, I would like an answer to the original question of "What is emo?". Anybody feel free to recommend more non-testicle sucking emo. |
TheD, Your asking almost the impossible.
I have not heard an emo song that made me not want to slit my own wrists by the end of it. |
fuck i hate emo
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I am just trying to become more cultured. Does that mean I want to put on eyeliner, take off my girl pants and go balls deep into a black nailed chick while she is cutting her wrists and posting on her livejournal? No, but I at least want to hear the cream of the genre because all I've heard is what comes off the radio.
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I blame clear channel
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czech out cursive's the ugly organ. great album.
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I wouldn't consider that emo, really though... if it is it's like really hard emo with a cello
maybe cellmo |
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The Early November - Ever So Sweet http://youtube.com/watch?v=hudTeKIP8lQ Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down http://youtube.com/watch?v=KOoKMIZhFI4 Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness http://youtube.com/watch?v=wU3KBI5qyEY Brand New - Jude Law And A Semester Abroad http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ter_DbNHLwA Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without The E (Cut From The Team) http://youtube.com/watch?v=JduO4OGZKY8 Songs that you will probably find easy. |
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