What is emo? (2 Viewers)

[im an idiot]

http://www.fourfa.com/index.html
"emocore." Rites of Spring, Embrace, Gray Matter, Ignition, Dag Nasty, Monsula, Fugazi kind of, Fuel, Samiam, Jawbreaker, Hot Water Music, Elliot, Friction, Soulside, early Lifetime, Split Lip/Chamberlain, Kerosene 454.

"emo." Moss Icon, the Hated, Silver Bearings, Native Nod, Merel, Hoover, Current, Indian Summer, Evergreen, Navio Forge, Still Life, Shotmaker, Policy of Three, Clikatat Ikatowi, Maximillian Colby, Sleepytime Trio, Noneleftstanding, Embassy, Ordination of Aaron, Floodgate, Four Hundred Years, Frail, Lincoln, Julia, Shroomunion, some early Unwound, etc.

"hardcore emo." Heroin, Antioch Arrow, Mohinder, Honeywell, Reach Out, early Portaits of Past, Assfactor 4, Second Story Window, End of the Line, Angel Hair, Swing Kids, Three Studies for a Crucifixion, John Henry West, Guyver-1, Palatka, Coleman, Iconoclast, some Merel, some Clikatat Ikatowi, etc.

"post-emo indie rock" and post-emo post-hardcore. Sunny Day Real Estate, Christie Front Drive, Promise Ring, Mineral, Boys Life, Sideshow, Get-Up Kids, Braid, Cap'n Jazz, then later Joan of Arc, Jets To Brazil, etc. Lots of Caulfield and Crank! Records bands, more lately a lot of stuff on Jade Tree for instance.

luckily i have never heard of a single one of those bands

 

[thecurtainfalls]

Sofe that website sucks...
the creator doesnt have a clue

wikipedia is teh bestest

the creator does knows his shit. but you're probably just too arrogant, as well as ignorant, to say so.
wikipedia is okay but fourfa is more accurate and much more comprehensive.

 

[breaking]

http://www.fourfa.com/index.html
"emocore." Rites of Spring, Embrace, Gray Matter, Ignition, Dag Nasty, Monsula, Fugazi kind of, Fuel, Samiam, Jawbreaker, Hot Water Music, Elliot, Friction, Soulside, early Lifetime, Split Lip/Chamberlain, Kerosene 454.

"emo." Moss Icon, the Hated, Silver Bearings, Native Nod, Merel, Hoover, Current, Indian Summer, Evergreen, Navio Forge, Still Life, Shotmaker, Policy of Three, Clikatat Ikatowi, Maximillian Colby, Sleepytime Trio, Noneleftstanding, Embassy, Ordination of Aaron, Floodgate, Four Hundred Years, Frail, Lincoln, Julia, Shroomunion, some early Unwound, etc.

"hardcore emo." Heroin, Antioch Arrow, Mohinder, Honeywell, Reach Out, early Portaits of Past, Assfactor 4, Second Story Window, End of the Line, Angel Hair, Swing Kids, Three Studies for a Crucifixion, John Henry West, Guyver-1, Palatka, Coleman, Iconoclast, some Merel, some Clikatat Ikatowi, etc.

"post-emo indie rock" and post-emo post-hardcore. Sunny Day Real Estate, Christie Front Drive, Promise Ring, Mineral, Boys Life, Sideshow, Get-Up Kids, Braid, Cap'n Jazz, then later Joan of Arc, Jets To Brazil, etc. Lots of Caulfield and Crank! Records bands, more lately a lot of stuff on Jade Tree for instance.

and how many of those bands do you listen to Sofay

 

[Lu Lu]

Wow thanks guys that really helpful. I now don't feel so clueless. I think that Wikipedia was really good. The other site seemed that that guys opinion of emo.

 

[ameh]

Anyone who thinks Joy Division is emo, is fucked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth_rock


<3 Winston

 

[wanton-wonton]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth_rock


<3 Winston

Goth rock isn't emo.

<3 Amy

 

[Atticus.]

this thread makes me want to punch myself in the head... actually i will just to distract myself from some of the idiocy in here

 

[ameh]

Ok I detract the JD = emo statement


</3 Winston

 

[melimoo]

absolution*

 

[mthommo]

Angsty emotional I mean - Like the "I hate my life" "My dad still hates me" "why is this happening to me" kinda shit.

amen sister

 

[mthommo]

Can you actually believe that a magazine labelled Coldplay as 'Emo'! I was so pissedl...I sincerly know that Coldplay can not be Emo music. They may be emotional, put that doesn't come through as rage.

Emo music is so stereotyped, how the hell can My Chemical Romance be emo?! Emo is a great stream of music, and MRC are shit!

emo is fucked in the head

1.

A group of white, mostly middle-class well-off kids who find imperfections in there life and create a ridiculous, depressing melodrama around each one. They often take anti-depressants, even though the majority don't need them. They need to wake up and deal with life like everyone else instead of wallowing in their imaginary quagmire of torment.Emo conversation!

XxSlavetoAnguishxX: omg my gf just left me
acidburnedsoul: that sux man
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: i blame myself only i'm such an ass *cries*
acidburnedsoul: dude come over to my house and we can cut ourselves together
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: okay *cries*
acidburnedsoul: omg dashboard confessional has a new cd, i preordered it already
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: dude they're my favorite band to self-mutilate to
acidburnedsoul: i prefer to cut myself while watching Napoleon Dynamite on my bigscreen
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: dude that movie is so deep. i cry every time i see it
acidburnedsoul: me too. i hate myself
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: yeah we're such tortured souls, nobody understands how hard life is for us
acidburnedsoul: yeah we got it tough dude. pass the tissues

2.

"Emo" is not short for "Emotional." "Emo" does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. "Emo" is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. "Emo" is not the use of diluted, meaningless metaphors and similes such as "My arms are like pinecones," and most definitely is not the rampant use of words such as "autumn," "heart," "knife," "bleeding," "leaves," and "razorblade."

I just thought I'd clear that up after all of these "definitions" in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou bullshit. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."

Now, onto the real definition.

In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. That's right, "Emo" was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don't quite follow that philosophy.

Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so - that's nothing to make an issue of, since well shit, at least it's close.

Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, fuck, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."

Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.

Hope that helps.Taking Back Sunday, Senses Fail, and My Chemical Romance falls under the "horrible pop rock" genre, not the emo genre.

Rites of Spring is emo.

CONCLUSION: Emo's should be put in iron maidens

btw those defs were from urbandictionary.com...sorry if you assumed otherwise lol

 

[im an idiot]

CONCLUSION: Emo's should be put in iron maidens

"Put them in the iron maiden"
"Iron Maiden? Excellent!" (air guitar)

 

[Gavvvvvin]

Listen to iron maiden baby, with meeeeeee

 

[mthommo]

Listen to iron maiden baby, with meeeeeee

"Put them in the iron maiden"
"Iron Maiden? Excellent!" (air guitar)

check this baby out...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden_(torture_device)

this is where the name comes from (prob)

666 - the one for you and me...

 

[SilveryNightsky]

Ahaha, go you mthommo.

Wow metalheads, I presume? About time I bumped into someone here.

and yeah mthommo's definition sums it all up.

 

[Jimmy Pax]

Brand New. Great Emo/Rock band...

 

[AboveClevel]

Emo is mod, punk music right? Kinda 80's--you know, your emo if youre a guy that wears girl jeans--either that or a cross-dresser

 

[Atticus.]

my god you people suck...

 

[breaking]

http://dobi.nu/emo



lol

 

[callisto]

emo = myspace.com