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i like emo music and i get joked on for liking it but i cant help it!! it speaks to me

what are your favorite emo bands?

There are no good emo bands

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:rolleyes: ANOTHER thread relating to emo. Oh dear. Three possible outcomes...1. the thread will quickly die 2. It'll turn into a discussion about how people who like it are losers etc or 3. How emo isnt actually emo, it meant something different in the old days. BTW i like it as well, but i predict mucho hostility from the emo-hating hoards aaaaany minute now...

I Hate Emo!!!

Franberry Hate!!!

Grrrr!!!!!

Stompety-stomp-stomp!!!!!

:rolleyes: ANOTHER thread relating to emo. Oh dear. Three possible outcomes...1. the thread will quickly die 2. It'll turn into a discussion about how people who like it are losers etc or 3. How emo isnt actually emo, it meant something different in the old days. BTW i like it as well, but i predict mucho hostility from the emo-hating hoards aaaaany minute now...

Will this make you sad?

I have to ask, WTF is emo?

I keep hearing this term, and I dont know, maybe it's because I've been out of the UK for 9 years, but I dont understand what 'emo' is supposed to mean?

Is it puppy punk? Is it try hard bands? Is it people who dress all goth but dont really understand it?

Someone, please, enlighten me.

What bands are referred to by the term "emo"?

I Hate Emo!!!

Franberry Hate!!!

Grrrr!!!!!

Stompety-stomp-stomp!!!!!
^ made me L-O-L :p


gah, there's a lot of anti-emo sentiment on these boards... as the OP will undoubtedly find out :-S

Will this make you sad?

LOL! But emo fans cant be MADE sad, they're permanently that way. Seriously, I like some of the music people call "emo", but the term is somewhat difficult to define so i wouldnt call myself a "fan" as such i guess, cos i wouldnt know strictly what i was saying i liked;)

I have to ask, WTF is emo?

I keep hearing this term, and I dont know, maybe it's because I've been out of the UK for 9 years, but I dont understand what 'emo' is supposed to mean?

Is it puppy punk? Is it try hard bands? Is it people who dress all goth but dont really understand it?

Someone, please, enlighten me.

It encompses pop punk stuff aswell hardcore screamo type music. Bands and people are usually called emo by the way they dress.

Fucking emo fans.

"I have low self-confidence, and I'll show this by wearing far-too-small jeans that give me a fatally low sperm count and wearing stupid eye make-up. Like... the world can't get any darker, man... yeah... it's like an abyss, man... and... like... I'm... like... suffering like an upside down turtle... *takes stupid picture of themself looking downwards from above, to show that they're 'oppressed' or possibly they're feeling 'small', which is what you'd expect with 7-year old's jeans, really."

"Get the fuck off of MySpace and make some real friends" is my advice.

Grrrr... whiney little shits...

Bands and people are usually called emo by the way they dress.
If that were so, "Boys in small girls' jeans and tight tops and girls in short skirts and corsets like some kind of gothic prostitutes" would be more appropriate than "emos".

Fucking emo fans.

"I have low self-confidence, and I'll show this by wearing far-too-small jeans that give me a fatally low sperm count and wearing stupid eye make-up. Like... the world can't get any darker, man... yeah... it's like an abyss, man... and... like... I'm... like... suffering like an upside down turtle... *takes stupid picture of themself looking downwards from above, to show that they're 'oppressed' or possibly they're feeling 'small', which is what you'd expect with 7-year old's jeans, really."

"Get the fuck off of MySpace and make some real friends" is my advice.

Grrrr... whiney little shits...

Here we go again...

It encompses pop punk stuff aswell hardcore screamo type music. Bands and people are usually called emo by the way they dress.

Ok, I like this, I'm learning.

Give me an example of an emo band and I'll be set!

Here we go again...
Damned fucking right.

The OP - how does emo "Speak to you"?

"OOOOOoh my girlfriend left me to cut myself,
I took her photo off my bedroom shelf"

Amongst some quick fits of tears is the usual level of wordcraft involved in emo tracks... eugh... I'm full of anger... so full of it...

The red mist is descending...

Ok, I like this, I'm learning.

Give me an example of an emo band and I'll be set!

Depends on if you mean whiny, eyeliner-heavy modern emo (in which case a good example would be something like Aiden or Jimmy Eat World), or the "stfu n00b, emo = emoshunal hardc0re" type of emo, in which case listen to something like Rites of Spring.

Ok, I like this, I'm learning.

Give me an example of an emo band and I'll be set!
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=41267452

There... a search for music in the emo genre with "red" in the title worked like magic...

Urgh...

*edits*

Even better example!

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=417529

:rolleyes:

I actually like emo MUSIC too, but actual emos... :headbang: They annoy me. Hate them, hate their Myspaces, hate their style, but for some reson love their music. *shrug*

:D Ooh, options 2 and 3 of my prediction of how this thread would go seem to be coming true. Worship my awesome prediction making powers, mere mortals, WORSHIP! Please?

I don't see the point in moaning
I never met these whiny cut myself emos
I don't go on myspace
And if I don't like the music I switch it off or throw a bottle at the lead singers head

Emo bands are generally easy to avoid because of their very long band names

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=41267452

There... a search for music in the emo genre with "red" in the title worked like magic...

Urgh...

ah.. i'm thinking mcfly, busted, that kind of thing

ah.. i'm thinking mcfly, busted, that kind of thing
Edited it, now there's a better example.

:rolleyes: ANOTHER thread relating to emo. Oh dear. Three possible outcomes...1. the thread will quickly die 2. It'll turn into a discussion about how people who like it are losers etc or 3. How emo isnt actually emo, it meant something different in the old days. BTW i like it as well, but i predict mucho hostility from the emo-hating hoards aaaaany minute now...

Put me down for a number 3.

Blah ... Rites Of Spring ... blah blah ... Moss Icon ... yadda yadda ... Portland Scene ... blah ... Jawbreaker ... und so weiter.

Edited it, now there's a better example.

yeah that's not good.... *click*.. ahh.. silence

and on that note, i should head to bed...although i've been having trouble sleeping

Emo bands are generally easy to avoid because of their very long band names
Sadly some respectable indie bands are blighted with crap names, so it's always hard to tell.

And if I don't like the music I switch it off or throw a bottle at the lead singers head

Yeah, sure you do. What music really needs now is more teenaged testosterone fuelled fantasies of violence.

ah.. i'm thinking mcfly, busted, that kind of thing

Pretty much there, except McFly and Busted keep saccharine smiles on their faces, while emo band members prefer to cry into their mascara. The music is the same in style, but the lyrics and image are polar opposites.

Yeah, sure you do. What music really needs now is more teenaged testosterone fuelled fantasies of violence.

Hey, whats wrong with heavy metal?

ah.. i'm thinking mcfly, busted, that kind of thing

One of the singers of Busted was in Wimbledon recently and there was a type of 10 metre radius from him and everyone else.

Hey, whats wrong with heavy metal?

Nothing, as such*. My problem is with people claiming they use violence as a form of musical criticism.



* or, indeed, plenty, but we needn't go into my personal dislikes concerning the way it is marketed here.

I actually like emo MUSIC too, but actual emos... :headbang: They annoy me. Hate them, hate their Myspaces, hate their style, but for some reson love their music. *shrug*

I like emo music about as much as Darknovae would like being raped by a razor-lined dildo.

Nothing, as such*. My problem is with people claiming they use violence as a form of musical criticism.



* or, indeed, plenty, but we needn't go into my personal dislikes concerning the way it is marketed here.

At festivals alot of people do throw plastic bottles at bands as "a form of musical criticism" but I've never done it, it is rather sad

I had an emo girlfriend once. It was horrible.

I love emo music. Like Senses Fail... And then the rock bands such as AFI and whatnot.

I love emo music. Like Senses Fail... And then the rock bands such as AFI and whatnot.
GRRRRR!

Senses Fail - Even the name speaks of self-pitying shite... ggrrrr...

Hey, whats wrong with heavy metal?

Nothing in metal of old, early metallica, megadeth, pantera etc. But NU-Metal...*vomits*

I like emo music about as much as Darknovae would like being raped by a razor-lined dildo.

Owch... :( I take it you don't like it then?

Music is fine, just don't make a whole style out of it. That's what's happened to pretty much every genre- hip hop is another fine example of that. :headbang:

And I like hip hop just as much as you like emo music.

I like some of the music like Motion City Soundtrack and Kyo (French band but they are pretty damn emo). Screamo stuff is just annoying though.

And as for Fall Out Boy and Jimmy Eat World (other than Hear You Me, I like that one track of theirs).

Nothing in metal of old, early metallica, megadeth, pantera etc. But NU-Metal...*vomits*

Nu-metal has died on its arse & very few have survived

you dont have to insult emos ok we like our music and thats it.

and emo is a break off genre of punk consisting of hard cords to mellow acoustic at times with emotional lyrics, occasionally there will be screaming which goes into melodic hardcore aka screamo.

Anarchy land34']you dont have to insult emos ok we like our music and thats it.

and emo is a break off genre of punk consisting of hard cords to mellow acoustic at times with emotional lyrics, occasionally there will be screaming which goes into melodic hardcore aka screamo.

To me, it seems only British singers sound good when they scream. Or sing for that matter.

wait there have been other emo threads?

Anarchy land34']wait there have been other emo threads?

Beats me.

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Nu-metal has died on its arse & very few have survived

Which is a good thing considering the quality of Nu-metal as a genre. Slipknot are about the only one I like, apart from a couple of Bullet for my Valentine tracks (probably metal/emo cross, but I see them as metal). :)

To me, it seems only British singers sound good when they scream. Or sing for that matter.

British make the best punk bands.

I'm British but The Ramones and the Dead Kennedys kick the shit out of The Clash and The Sex Pistols.

I'm British but The Ramones and the Dead Kennedys kick the shit out of The Clash and The Sex Pistols.

I prefer The Clash. I know some current punk bands in UK. I just think British have best vocal ability for that genre.

I prefer The Clash. I know some current punk bands in UK. I just think British have best vocal ability for that genre.

Such as? I haven't found many punk bands around recently

Such as? I haven't found many punk bands around recently

One who recently broke up was the Filaments (check their "What Happens Next" album). They broke up and some of them started a group called Black Radio which have yet to get properly going, but look out for them as they're pretty good (and I don't like punk as a rule).

I like the Smiths, which is close to emo. Morrissey basically started the whole Emo movement with his theatrical voice, ridiculous attitude and self-pitying lyrics. Morrissey, however, was a bit more subtle about the emotional bit.
Compare:

"And though I walk home alone,
and I walk home alone,
but my faith in love is still devout."
OR
"And if a double-decker bus
crashes into us,
to die by your side,
oh, the pleasure, the priveledge is mine."

WITH anything by an EMO band.

Nothing, as such*. My problem is with people claiming they use violence as a form of musical criticism.



* or, indeed, plenty, but we needn't go into my personal dislikes concerning the way it is marketed here.

Clearly you have never seen the original Blues Brothers movie.

"Chicken wire?" :p

Clearly you have never seen the original Blues Brothers movie.

"Chicken wire?" :p
:D
rollin' rollin' rollin' :p

Yeah, I like emo. Mostly screamo though. Things like Jimmy eat world and Fallout boy is a little too soft for me.

Emo music is too down, it's sad and depressing.

Real music is fast paced, hard core, great rock. A7x, Offspring, Sum 41, Revielle/Genuflect, etc.

gah I'm gonna get my head ripped off for this but I just flat out don't like Punk, when it's done right it's violent, when it's done wrong it's depressing, I mean just take a look at Punks track record, in the 60's it created the Mods who sparked wave after wave of violence and drugs, in the 70's it made the Anarchists and corrupted the Hippies sparking a wave of anti-socialist sentiment, in the 80's it made dance music and again the Rockers paid the price, in the 90's it created the rave scene which caused the massive gun and drugs problem England faces, and I'm not talking pot I'm talking the shit which turns people all dead like, and now its the 00's and it's now created Emos and Chavs, Punk rules the world like a benevolent dictatorship, bring back the Greebs and the Townies, that was a class division I could have gotten used to.

gah I'm gonna get my head ripped off for this but I just flat out don't like Punk, when it's done right it's violent, when it's done wrong it's depressing, I mean just take a look at Punks track record, in the 60's it created the Mods who sparked wave after wave of violence and drugs, in the 70's it made the Anarchists and corrupted the Hippies sparking a wave of anti-socialist sentiment, in the 80's it made dance music and again the Rockers paid the price, in the 90's it created the rave scene which caused the massive gun and drugs problem England faces, and I'm not talking pot I'm talking the shit which turns people all dead like, and now its the 00's and it's now created Emos and Chavs, Punk rules the world like a benevolent dictatorship, bring back the Greebs and the Townies, that was a class division I could have gotten used to.

Rockers were more punk than the Mods were. Punk isn't about violence, yes Sex Pistols mainly kicked off the whole anarchist punk bit. Punk has nothing to do with dance music, chavs, guns or drugs, it's not related to chavs (you deserve your head ripping off for that one) groups like blazing squad create chavs which are a bad attempt at hip-hop. If I wanna get really technical punk is an ethos and is expressed by people through their music, but punk is not music itself in the same way house is.

Emo music, I can tolerate, as it is the soundtrack to the all-so-entertaining intarwab emodrama.

Glassjaw are the only 'Emo' group I like, though I loath the label.

gah I'm gonna get my head ripped off for this but I just flat out don't like Punk, when it's done right it's violent, when it's done wrong it's depressing, I mean just take a look at Punks track record, in the 60's it created the Mods who sparked wave after wave of violence and drugs, in the 70's it made the Anarchists and corrupted the Hippies sparking a wave of anti-socialist sentiment, in the 80's it made dance music and again the Rockers paid the price, in the 90's it created the rave scene which caused the massive gun and drugs problem England faces, and I'm not talking pot I'm talking the shit which turns people all dead like, and now its the 00's and it's now created Emos and Chavs, Punk rules the world like a benevolent dictatorship, bring back the Greebs and the Townies, that was a class division I could have gotten used to.

Um...

I hate to point it out to you... But only the 70's had a thing to do with punk in that entire list. Modern "Emo" has nothing to do with punk in any way shape or form any more (if you go look at the interviews with the bands that "started" Emo, you'll see that they weren't trying to be any more or less emotional than bands before them. Guy Piccioto basically denied that Emo existed within punk).

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Modern Emo bothers me, but I love the stuff that "sparked" it. Rites of Spring, Fugazi, Embrace, Nation of Ulyses, and the post HarDCore bands are simply amazing.

Um...

I hate to point it out to you... But only the 70's had a thing to do with punk in that entire list. Modern "Emo" has nothing to do with punk in any way shape or form any more (if you go look at the interviews with the bands that "started" Emo, you'll see that they weren't trying to be any more or less emotional than bands before them. Guy Piccioto basically denied that Emo existed within punk).

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Modern Emo bothers me, but I love the stuff that "sparked" it. Rites of Spring, Fugazi, Embrace, Nation of Ulyses, and the post HarDCore bands are simply amazing.

Yeah these guys rock! good old dischord! I would ahve to add the 'emocore' bands too like hoover, crownhate ruin, regulator watts, abiline and four hundred years and a band that took a more jazzy take on such 'emocore' were June of '44... in my opinion these guys also rock and most in the list have had strong associations with dischord records. That's where it is at. The best punk revolution ever!

Rockers were more punk than the Mods were. Punk isn't about violence, yes Sex Pistols mainly kicked off the whole anarchist punk bit.

Yep, watch Qaudrophenia.

Punk has nothing to do with dance music, chavs, guns or drugs, it's not related to chavs (you deserve your head ripping off for that one) groups like blazing squad create chavs which are a bad attempt at hip-hop.

watch 24 hour party people.

If I wanna get really technical punk is an ethos and is expressed by people through their music, but punk is not music itself in the same way house is.

I have no movie to pimp in this bit which links to what you just said there but I'm sure I'll be able to get away with pimping Saving Grace, Bill Bailey, hoho funny man...

I don't like emo music. One of the only genres of music I don't like.

I like emo, as well as alot of other hardcore. :D

None of this MTV-whinecore, just Orchid and Heroin and Usurp Synapse goodness.