EMO music is cool.....

South of Seattle

reversedarwinism wrote:

thats not so bad, doesn't inspire me to buy a cd or anything.

That was old AFI. Here is the emo version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhhK5U14wcA&mode=related&search=

reversedarwinism

South of Seattle wrote:

That was old AFI. Here is the emo version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhhK5U14wcA&mode=related&search=

sounds like eighties pop rock to me.
i guess one band member didn't get the memo about the flock of seagulls hair cut coming back. lol.

reversedarwinism

Echoes wrote:

wave one
Rights of spring, Moss Icon, Antioch Arrow

2nd
Get Up Kids, Sunny Day Real Estate, Braid, Promise Ring, Elliot, Jawbox

SInce we're riding high the third wave of emo and emo labelled pop punk acts (blame Dashboard Confessional for starting this round, I guess), looking on youtube is going to give you things on the now and not at all indicitive of the history of it.

what i've found of these bands doesn't sound anything like what i think these kids are liking now. sounds more like alternative-lite, as we used to call it.

reversedarwinism

ok i found the band that the kids are considering to be a good emo band. they're called From First to Last, and it sounds just like i would think of emo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC6xYEje7Eo

and now i'm satisfied with my discovery, and i'm not a fan of most of the music. but to each their own. you know the fans of poison couldn't understand why we liked pj and soundgarden.

genie

reversedarwinism wrote:

my best friend here in vegas was unaware of the whole emo thing and thought i was saying nemo, so as were walking through town the last few days and see that rediculous haircut we point and say "look, its Nemo" - amusement for us.

That's funny, it could be a good new name for them

Binaural

How many EMO's does it take to change a lightbulb?

A - None they'd all rather sit in the dark and cry

harmless_little_f***

genie wrote:

That's funny, it could be a good new name for them

'Excuse me, I've lost my father. Have you seen him?' *SOB*

Yeah, that'd work

pineapplesandwaves

I have to agree with those who say that you can't simply describe emo music as being emotional or angst-ridden, as most musicians are emotional and several bands have written angst-ridden songs, notably some of our favourite bands from the '90s. Emo is a label to describe how certain bands express their emotion. Whiny, wussy, suicidal, empty, pathetic are terms that come to mind.

Of course, just like grunge and punk (etc.), emo has become a fashion and has spawned a group of teenagers known as emo kids.

Sadly, I have a teenage brother and am a teacher, so I hear about emo all the time. Thankfully, my brother is not emo and continuously complains about it. Although, does his complaining make him emo?


The ABC's of "emo"

A-is for Alone, (and complaining A LOT about it)

B-is for Bracelets and lots of them

C- is for Crying and/or Cutting yourself

D-is for Dyed black hair

E-is for Emotion, and Exagerating every one you have

F- is for how much I'd like to FLOORPUNCH your sorry emo asses

G- is for Glasses, with think black rims

H-is for Heartbreak...oh Boo hoo, go kill yourself already

I- is for Intense pain, you feel everyday, because, well...your emo...

J-is for Jaded...

K- is for Kissing, and whining about how you dont do it..Kill yourself!

L- is for Labels, such as "emo" and "scene"

M-is for Mood swings, first your laughing in a mosh pit, then, your killing yourself (again)

N-is for Never having friends that care for you ... go kill yourself

O- is for Old man pants... go play in traffic (i cant stress that enough)

P-is for Picked last in gym class....

Q-is for Questioning your self worth...what are you worth? NOTHING!

R-is for Remembering your great past times, then crying because now, as an emo kid, your life SUCKS

S-is for Sweaters...enough said...

T-is for Thrift Stores, so you can make up your clothes.

U-is for Underdeveloped muscles..see how skinny emo's are..COME ON

V-is for Vegan, maybe that's why you're skinny and no girl/boy likes you

W-is for Whining, about how your parents make six figures, but cant afford to buy you love OR new clothes

X-is for X-girl/boyfriends, I dunno, you write enough songs about how sad they made you...GOD...go kill yourself...

Y-is for You are SO stupid.... and Y, Y are you emo? Is it making you a better person or changing the world? No! So, stop talking about killing yourself and actually do it!

Z- is for Zooming in with your camera, because your a photographer ... although you only take one kind of stupid senseless picture and there's THOUSANDS of you...

soulsinging

South of Seattle wrote:

I remember the days when emo was just listening to Sunny Day Real Estate.

That's when I actually liked emo.

SDRE & And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead are the only 2 I can listen to.

this is what im talking about... trail of the dead is emo?

fanch75

I wonder what it's like when two emo peeps are doing it?

Collin

Emo is so ridiculous, I mean stop crying and whining, we get it, you're a loser, your dad is a real meanie and the beautiful girl you love doesn't want to be with a whiny loser who sits and the dark and paints his eyes black.

Binaural wrote:

How many EMO's does it take to change a lightbulb?

A - None they'd all rather sit in the dark and cry

The Cure fuckin' rocks by the way.

MCG

pearljam_addiction wrote:

but there are some emo bands that arent that bad Include:
Thursday
Thrice
The Early november
Brand New
Coheed and Cambria
Sparta

Sparta? Really? Not a band I would consider emo. I think I saw Jawbox in here somewhere too. So very confused.

stu gee

fanch75 wrote:

I wonder what it's like when two emo peeps are doing it?

Emotional im sure.

I dont really know what all this emo stuff is about. I saw someone posting on here that bloc Party were emo and i love them. I dont like MCR/panic/Fallout boy though.

pearljam_addiction

MCG wrote:

Sparta? Really? Not a band I would consider emo. I think I saw Jawbox in here somewhere too. So very confused.

Sparta is very emo, especially Wiretap Scars, even itunes specifies them as an emo band, not that iTunes is the anaswer to all questions

seanw1010

restlesssoul wrote:

i wish my grass was emo so it would cut itself

i wish my hair was emo so i wouldnt have to pay to get it cut

bharQ

dangerboy wrote:

don't forget the girl jeans

i blame all this on the cure. they sucked in the 80's, but for some reason chicks liked them. i think emo boys turned into pussies to emulate that robert what's-his-nuts in hopes of scoring with chicks

Don't compare the fucking cure to bullshit emo music.. the cure were original and great songwriters in their day.. these emo kids wish they were the fucking cure

bharQ

Answers_In_Playdoh wrote:

Apart from the music, I think the worst thing about emo's is that stupid fucking haircut.

http://www.bighassle.com/publicity/paramore_rgb_1.jpg

They all have the same haircut! Why? Why? What's wrong with just being individual?? About 99.9% of kids at my school have the same wonky hair and they still think it's cool :rolleyes:

they dont relize it now but they are the same thing as skids and hair metal bangers in the 80s.. fucking losers

pjalive21

what gets me about EMO is you have 16 year old kids talking about losing the love of their life and singing about relationships and how they want to end their life and all they do is cry, cut themselves, and write poetry to ease their pain...here is some advice grow some balls, get a hair cut, a shirt that fits and get over it, it wont be the first time and wont be the last you get screwed over by a woman...haha

soulsinging

pjalive21 wrote:

what gets me about EMO is you have 16 year old kids talking about losing the love of their life and singing about relationships and how they want to end their life and all they do is cry, cut themselves, and write poetry to ease their pain...here is some advice grow some balls, get a hair cut, a shirt that fits and get over it, it wont be the first time and wont be the last you get screwed over by a woman...haha

you mean like in that song black where the singer is moaning about how he'll have to live with the knowledge that the love of his life will be happier with another man?

fanch75

bharQ wrote:

they dont relize it now but they are the same thing as skids and hair metal bangers in the 80s.. fucking losers

Yeah but the 80's kids were awesome.