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Seriously, with much of the shit that's around nowadays I occassionally have to remind myself that this genre was once good.
Why do I get the idea a certain someone is going to post something very immature and sardonic? (You know who you are).
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I understand why people hate them though. I really don't like Pete Wentz -_-
They're classed as emo even though their songs have never depressed me....
... someone explain what emo actually means plz :3
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I hope you didn't mean me, I really do ;~;
I think people are labeling other people 'emo' too quickly. I know a little too much 13 year old girls that dye their hair balck and drink themselfs to wasted only to make out with each other in their bra's. Me and some friends call them "Weemo's": wannaB-emo's.
When you've got the right onces, emo's can be cool. Really.
But sometimes it's much more fun to make fun of them.
Emo is short for "emotional", yet I wouldn't exactly know how to explain it either.
I can explain the stereotype: Wristcutting, scream-o-listening, crybaby wankers that think their life suck, make out with everyone that either wants to or is wasted and most probably meet up in groups to drink and cry about their sorrows.
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How did I know the first reply would feature those two?
Anyway, the term Emo came about because it was originally a more emotional form of Hardcore Punk. How in the hell it became what it is now is a mystery to me.
Incidentally, there are some good emo bands around still, in particular Say Anything are nothing short of stunning.
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Of course not. I put "you know who you are". You would have known if it was you.
When you've got the right onces, emo's can be cool. Really.
But sometimes it's much more fun to make fun of them.
This topic is to discuss the genre of music, not the trend.
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Okay, there goes:
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ENTER SHIKARI <3
BRING ME THE HORIZON <3
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BRING ME THE HORIZON <3
Neither of these bands are emo. Enter Shikari are a fusion of Hardcore Punk and Rave. Bring Me The Horizon are Deathcore.
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Angst Angstity ANGST
Angst Emo More Angst
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Emo Angst WHYYY?
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When I saw YGO XG, my respect for you dropped a little :'c.
Oeh, from the depths of hell I remembered some more emocrap 8D
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And is Good Charlotte also to be concidered Emo?
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When I saw YGO XG, my respect for you dropped a little :'c.
Oeh, from the depths of hell I remembered some more emocrap 8D
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And is Good Charlotte also to be concidered Emo?
OMG HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS. Emo to the extreme. They actually came from Ohio, where I live and one of the band members died... Anywho, more emo bands: Bayside, From First to Last, Silverstein, Thursday, Underoath(screamo)Dashboard Confessional,Something Corporate(those last two have been around for awhile, they were probably the first ones who mainstreamed emo).
I would consider Good Charlotte to be wannabe emo. Not emo enough, but wannabe's will pretend that it's the most emo band out there...
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When I saw YGO XG, my respect for you dropped a little :'c.
But it's an amazing fanfiction :3
(And I haven't done YGO in years. I just remember that fic b/c it's so freakin' amazing.)
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When I saw YGO XG, my respect for you dropped a little :'c.
Oeh, from the depths of hell I remembered some more emocrap 8D
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And is Good Charlotte also to be concidered Emo?
OMG HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS. Emo to the extreme. They actually came from Ohio, where I live and one of the band members died... Anywho, more emo bands: Bayside, From First to Last, Silverstein, Thursday, Underoath(screamo)Dashboard Confessional,Something Corporate(those last two have been around for awhile, they were probably the first ones who mainstreamed emo).
I would consider Good Charlotte to be wannabe emo. Not emo enough, but wannabe's will pretend that it's the most emo band out there...
*facepalm* you guys ... i get called Emo at my school
... basically, The Trafalgar School at Downton is a school filled with chavs and wannabe chavs. they think that anyone different from them is bad. me, i like things like MCR and Slipknot, who they consider to be Emo, so apparantly i AM Emo. 
unsuprisingly, anything i DO like, can be considered Emo too. 
wherever they get off kicking me on the bus and pulling my hair i DON'T know. but, with the whole 'Emo is bad. Maddy is Emo. Everything Maddy likes is Emo.' logic comes, they think that TOKYO MEW MEW and PHOENIX WRIGHT are EMO. what the HELL??? i just feel good for the enlightened souls like me ( 
), and feel bad for the pitiful barstards who call me names. Masque is out. 
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GASP! SOMEONE FINALLY NAMED SOME GOOD EMO BANDS!
... basically, The Trafalgar School at Downton is a school filled with chavs and wannabe chavs. they think that anyone different from them is bad. me, i like things like MCR and Slipknot, who they consider to be Emo, so apparantly i AM Emo.
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lol nahh, i really like Moss Icon.
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Not that I'm big fans of them, just I can't see why they're under that "genre".
If anything "emotional" is considered "emo" music, then most ballads by famous vocal artists that sing about heartache and breakups should be considered emo too. Like "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt. That's an emotional song, is that emo?
I really don't think there should be a genre called "emo".
But if the music we're describing is more "I hate myself and want to die", they should call it something else.
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Same here.
PATD's Pretty. Odd. is SOOO not what I'd call emo.
Oh and did you hear that apparently Jon and Ryan have left PATD? ;_;
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Same here.
PATD's Pretty. Odd. is SOOO not what I'd call emo.
Oh and did you hear that apparently Jon and Ryan have left PATD? ;_;
not apparently, they DID
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I think it was a bit of a gradual thing, although I think there was something of a junction around 2005/2006. It also changed somewhat in the mid-90's, but I really like mid 90's emo. That's probably my favourite kind.
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I seriously never heard of it until a few years ago I said I liked FOB and someone called me an emo.
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I seriously never heard of it until a few years ago I said I liked FOB and someone called me an emo.
It wasn't very well known until the aformentioned 2005/2006 junction, but it's been around since 1985, IIRC. Rites Of Spring are the oldest emo band I am aware of, anyway. Having said that, they are absolutely NOTHING like the Emo bands of today.
Mid-90's Emo consists more of bands like Weezer (circa 1996), Far, Sunny Day Real Estate, etc.
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Yeah, I like Sunny Day Real Estate too. ^_^ And then there's some screamo bands which aren't too bad either. Like Fugazi. :D
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Yeah, I like Sunny Day Real Estate too. ^_^ And then there's some screamo bands which aren't too bad either. Like Fugazi. :D
Fugazi aren't really what i'd call screamo... actually, Screamo is something entirely different. Or maybe that stuff was once called screamo. I'unno. I've heard what they do called Emocore... which, if i'm not mistaken, is a term older than Emo. Basically, "Emotional Hardcore".
And yes, I love Fugazi.
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Kolya? Never heard of them. Could you link me to some of their stuff? (Preferably on YouTube, my soundcard isn't working so I have to use Wiinternet for sound, and not a lot of sites work.) Preemptive thanks!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcxIE0LTV1A
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Now THAT is what i'm talking about.
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It kinda reminds me of At The Drive-In's Invalid Litter Dpt.
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And yes, I love Fugazi.
Yeah, sometimes it's tough to classify certain bands. Heh. ^_^;; Emocore might be a better word for them, I dunno.
Another emo band that I rather like is Thursday.
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And yes, I love Fugazi.
Yeah, sometimes it's tough to classify certain bands. Heh. ^_^;; Emocore might be a better word for them, I dunno.
Another emo band that I rather like is Thursday.
There's also Post-Hardcore, emo's sister genre. It does get a tad confusing sometimes.
And yes, Thursday are good.
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No... well, some might consider them Emo, but they aren't. They're Indie, I suppose. Either way, they certainly aren't emo.
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No... well, some might consider them Emo, but they aren't. They're Indie, I suppose. Either way, they certainly aren't emo.
Good. Because I don't want to like an EMO band...
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No... well, some might consider them Emo, but they aren't. They're Indie, I suppose. Either way, they certainly aren't emo.
Good. Because I don't want to like an EMO band...
I don't suppose you could list what you consider to be some Emo bands?
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Now THAT is what i'm talking about.
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I seriously never heard of it until a few years ago I said I liked FOB and someone called me an emo.
Yeah, emo's been around for awhile, but the genre didn't become more mainstream until like... Something Corporate or Dashboard Confessional(Screaming Infidelities, nuff said), I would say. Mostly because that was around the time when my sister got into those bands. I will say this again: Fall Out Boy is NOT emo. It's just interesting to me because when "Sugar, We're Going Down" became popular(I swear, the radio officially killed that song for me.), everybody LOVED FOB. Nobody considered them emo. It seems that now that hip hop music is popular right now, most people think that anything rock is just SO emo.
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Mid-90's Emo consists more of bands like Weezer (circa 1996), Far, Sunny Day Real Estate, etc.
Thanks for the lesson! I used to love Weezer and would never have considered them emo so.... I guess that's how much it's changed..
Agreeeeeed.
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