Emo? WTF?
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- peteski0
a buncha emos,
who don't know who emo is.this
is emo.
geez.
- ********0
what about 'Pavement'?
- jevad0
no. indie
- fifty500
my idea of Emo is Weezer, Get Up Kids, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World...
- mg330
Dashboard Confessional is crap.
Time magazine wrote this idiotic article basically praising him as the creator of emo. Gross...
Music has been written with emotion as long as it's existed. Motzart did it, Bach did it, who's to say whether or not their music was created with the emotions of a girl in the back of their minds?
Chris Carabba and all his followers make me want to vomit blood.
- mg330
Good to see Sunny Day listed. Great great band. Seen them three times and was lucky enough to see Jeremy Enigk when he did the Return of the Frog Queen solo album. That show was one of the best I've ever seen. If you've heard that album, the song "Abigail"-when they were done playing it no one clapped, it was just this simultaneous moment of the crowd all saying "Wow."
Not even kidding you in the slightest. Still gives me chills to think about it.If you like Sunny Day and have never heard his solo album, try and find it. A little too much like the Beatles, some say, but it's excellent.
The song "Shade And The Black Hat" is amazing.
- benfal990
The Used, Thursday
you have to sream to make emo.
also you need tight t-shirt with 70's colors on it. and you need to wear skate shoes... stuff like that.you must look like you are 17 years old with 6 months of experience of playing electric guitare...
Be cool, stay in school.
cool cool cool... cool tool!
- xaoscontrol0
ALL of this 'punk' stuff that comes out these days makes me ill. The punk I know is Ramones, Black Flag, Exploited, early Suicidal Tendencies, Agent Orange...THAT is PUNK.
The stuff that I'm hearing now...it's like theses guys wanted to write punk music to appeal to 14 year old girls. In that respect, it's very much like going from early 70s heavy metal to the hair-band era of hard rock. How the hell do you go from Black Sabbath to Winger? The result was darker more raw music came about....the whole seattle thing...and hair-metal was wiped off.
That's what's going to happen...emo's going face it's untimly death by being taken over by the next evolution in punk.
Don't get me wrong..I like all kinds of music...partial to the metal thing, but that's because I grew up listening to the fore-fathers of metal and thier fore-fathers as well.
- benfal990
Rock is almost dead
- mg330
If talking about punk music, you need not say much more than "Blink 182 are called a punk band" to bluntly show how misguided and moronic the people are who cast labels on all things pop culture and music in the US.
People who drive Mercedes and BMW's and live in million $$ homes are not punks.
- ********0
is flea a true punk?
stop hatin'
- fingercore0
EMO=Rites of Spring and other mid-80's Dischord stuff.
- xaoscontrol0
Rage against the machine was that way too....they loved making politcal statements and bashing on the system and slamming the 'rich republicans' but you don't see them moving out of the bel air homes after speaking out against NAFTA.
This is why I prefer instrumental music. There's nothing to say....just play.
- mg330
Well, flea may have some cash now, plenty of it, but he wasn't that way starting out. no comparison between the beginnings of RHCP and Blink 182.
I really hope you weren't defending Blink 182?
- necro0
isn't emo a description of an item on ebay...
that is ALL I FRICKIN SEE on ebay please stop the madness...*tear
- fingercore0
I'm not really interestd in defending Rage against the Machine, but how do you know they live in Bel Air homes?!?
- ********0
I am defending anyone who gets to create the art form of their choice and be successful at it...
- xaoscontrol0
the actual location of the homes is of no importance...they could have homes in the hamptons or the carribe for all I care...
how about I say million doller homes?
- arench0
>>EMO=Rites of Spring and other mid-80's Dischord stuff.
right on. here's the 1st paragraph from AMG's write-up on Rites of Spring:
"Because the term emo has come to define a sensibility more than a particular sound, it can be difficult to pin down even if you're not an outsider. Yet there's a general consensus -- by no means universal, but fairly solid -- that Washington, D.C.'s Rites of Spring were the first true emo band."
- xaoscontrol0
sucess is great when someone is being creative..I'll give that...but when you look at it....there are many levels of success...some are successful just to get beyond the garage band stage or the cover band stage...to release an album nationally and get support from a major lable can be a big deal..
so if you look it, every band/artist that releases an album is successful. Some just make more money than others.
being a musician,myself....and I don't claim to be a great one either...I'm looking at music from a musical standpoint....whereas most will look or hear it from the standpoint of being a fan...we're just all into a different level of music...you can bash on 80's music...i can bash on emo...
ain't no thing