Your top 5 least favorite rock sub-genres

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  • Them-Bones
    Them-Bones Posts: 518
    Christian Rock
    Glam Metal (cept for Skidrow they kick ass)
    Emo
    Screamo
    New Wave
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  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    soulsinging wrote:
    i love watching people like you try to rationalize things like this. if this lyrics isn't emo as shit i dont know what is:

    "i know you'll be a star... in somebody else's sky. but why? WHY? WHHHHIIIIINNNNEEEE cant it be mine?"

    a slightly different vocal register and you've got fall out boy's new hit. to say that grunge is somehow untouchably superior is bullshit. grunge was at times every bit as contrived and cheesy as emo can be now. and hair metal fans were saying the same things about whiny pussy depressed grunge fans that grunge fans are now saying about whiny pussy depressed emo fans.

    I think a lot of it is the delivery, and to a lesser extent, the image. I've tried to imagine being 16 again and I still think I would think it sucks. And this comes from someone who loves legendary "whiners" like Morrissey and The Cure. To me, they just seem like they really have nothing to say, it's all superficial and whiney. You can have one or the other but not both. Most of them sound like they're trying really hard to be Green Day but gave up and are targeting 15 year old girls instead. It's hard to fully explain, I just don't care for it.
  • DOSW
    DOSW Posts: 2,014
    gabers wrote:
    I think a lot of it is the delivery, and to a lesser extent, the image. I've tried to imagine being 16 again and I still think I would think it sucks. And this comes from someone who loves legendary "whiners" like Morrissey and The Cure. To me, they just seem like they really have nothing to say, it's all superficial and whiney. You can have one or the other but not both. Most of them sound like they're trying really hard to be Green Day but gave up and are targeting 15 year old girls instead. It's hard to fully explain, I just don't care for it.

    Yeah, delivery is the key. If you have two lyrics that are identical to one another, but you put them in different songs with different vocal styles, the impact can be MILES apart for a listener. It's that simple. That's the difference between grunge and emo (apart from the obvious musical differences).
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  • Arctangent
    Arctangent Posts: 614
    of course anyone who includes death metal in their list will burn for eternity in the firey pits of hades!
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    gabers wrote:
    I think a lot of it is the delivery, and to a lesser extent, the image. I've tried to imagine being 16 again and I still think I would think it sucks. And this comes from someone who loves legendary "whiners" like Morrissey and The Cure. To me, they just seem like they really have nothing to say, it's all superficial and whiney. You can have one or the other but not both. Most of them sound like they're trying really hard to be Green Day but gave up and are targeting 15 year old girls instead. It's hard to fully explain, I just don't care for it.

    fair enough. it's just one thing to say it doesn't appeal to you, another to claim uneqivocally that every grunge band/song is objectively superior to every emo song/band. there are a lot of bands out there that are tossed into the emo heap that are excellent, like bright eyes, jimmy eat world, and others. they're not all as affected and theatrical as panic at the disco... who are no more theatrical than of montreal who are somehow still credibly indie groups worthy of worship. it's just a truly annoying and hypocritical mindset.
  • darthvedder88
    darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    1. Emo
    2. Hair Metal
    3. Hardcore
    4. Pop Punk
    5. Screamo
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  • otis mcfluster
    otis mcfluster Posts: 536
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  • MLB5150
    MLB5150 Posts: 70
    jeff's_the_man wrote:
    here's a silghtly off topic but interesting question.

    when would you say that 'post grunge' started?
    and who were the first 'post grunge' band?

    I think post grunge started when Foo Fighters released their first album. It was sort of happy. Happier than Nirvana. So post grunge is really happy grunge. Just look at live or creed, happy grunge.
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  • Lifted
    Lifted Posts: 1,836
    MLB5150 wrote:
    I think post grunge started when Foo Fighters released their first album. It was sort of happy. Happier than Nirvana. So post grunge is really happy grunge. Just look at live or creed, happy grunge.

    happy grunge huh? i see what you're saying with the foo fighters, but i don't think i've heard too many happy songs from Live....and creed, i don't know what the fuck they're singing about half the time, when i hear them i usually try to block it out to save my ears. anyway i don't know when it started but i'd say the best example of one of these bands is puddle of mudd. i swear that guy thinks he is kurt cobain. what a garbage band though.
  • Blackeyedangel
    Blackeyedangel Posts: 262
    gabers wrote:
    I think a lot of it is the delivery, and to a lesser extent, the image. I've tried to imagine being 16 again and I still think I would think it sucks. And this comes from someone who loves legendary "whiners" like Morrissey and The Cure. To me, they just seem like they really have nothing to say, it's all superficial and whiney. You can have one or the other but not both. Most of them sound like they're trying really hard to be Green Day but gave up and are targeting 15 year old girls instead. It's hard to fully explain, I just don't care for it.
    so it basically comes down to whether you prefer your whiny vocalist with ripped jeans and flannel or tight jeans and eyeliner.
  • deadnothingbetter
    deadnothingbetter Posts: 2,202
    MLB5150 wrote:
    I think post grunge started when Foo Fighters released their first album. It was sort of happy. Happier than Nirvana. So post grunge is really happy grunge. Just look at live or creed, happy grunge.
    i always took the foo fighters as punk-alt... or something, but not grunge
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  • deadnothingbetter
    deadnothingbetter Posts: 2,202
    soulsinging wrote:
    fair enough. it's just one thing to say it doesn't appeal to you, another to claim uneqivocally that every grunge band/song is objectively superior to every emo song/band. there are a lot of bands out there that are tossed into the emo heap that are excellent, like bright eyes, jimmy eat world, and others. they're not all as affected and theatrical as panic at the disco... who are no more theatrical than of montreal who are somehow still credibly indie groups worthy of worship. it's just a truly annoying and hypocritical mindset.
    yes, you also forgot to include Juliana Theory a great emo band... well, not that great but i like some of their tunes.
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