Emo bands

[BrokenHeart]

Which ones do you like?

My favorite are;
~Boyslikegirls
~Coheed and Cambria (I know their rock and all as well, but the story that Claudio bases their music off is entirely emo)
~A Skylit Drive
~Hawthorne Heights
~Panic! At the Disco
~My Chemical Romance
~Dance Gavin Dance
~Echo Screen (I'm from the same town as them and grew up four houses away from their old guitarist^_^)

[w0lf]

LOL.

MTV pussy pop "music" not emo.

I recommend Circle takes the square, Raein, efra, comadre. and so on.

[Holden Caulfield]

EMO IS COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY

instead of wanting to chage the shitness of their miserable lives this genre tells them not to but lavish in it, to wear black and write poetry, where is the anger and the demand for change?

try some punk put some fire in ya belly, lol

[BrokenHeart]

"Pussy pop"? I really doubt that as a form of describing it. And defining emo isn't really something definite anyway, especially since post-emo has elements of all types of music in it; rock, screamo, hardcore, tech, etc:. So I ain't even digging your insult :X

And I just downloaded some Circle and its pretty sick:-P


EMO IS COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY
No one ever said it was politically inspiring, its just a genre type that some people get into, some people don't. And, also, what your saying there is Point of View, which, when used as dogma, defines secular self-righteousness, which is downright counter revolutionary.

instead of wanting to chage the shitness of their miserable lives this genre tells them not to but lavish in it, to wear black and write poetry, where is the anger and the demand for change?
It doesn't tell anyone anything other then the lyrics of their songs. Music markets define the things that people will buy to take that look, but, either way, it doesn't really matter.
And just whats wrong with feeling sorry for your self sometimes? A lot of us bottle shit in, all the time, and I think I know more friends with parents who are drug heads who get "weird" all the time around their kids. It fucks with their heads, and sometimes the arts is where people go to relax/relapse.
Also, whats up with slashing poetry? Just because someone is inspired by music to write their feelings or whatever it is doesn't exclude them from "real" poetry, as I hear so often. I've read plenty of poems inspired by emo culture that were incredible sounding to me.
And anger and demand; A lot of modern day emo is based off rage and discontent. Theres plenty of anger and demand for change in lots of emo.


try some punk put some fire in ya belly, lol
When I first heard punk I was younger, and I didn't like the sound and bashed it with my little friends until finally I got it so stuck in my head that punk sucks. I feel that even when I listen to it now I hold a prejudice so I don't listen to it that often, only so I don't give a slanderous opinion on it to others.
But I like some of it ^_^

[Holden Caulfield]

you might have culture and you might not be so easily effected by the media, but at this point in time you are in the enlightened 20%, the other 80% just gobble up all the bullshit they hear, read, etc..

my comment was 'tounge in cheek' i meant what i said but i dont care enough to argue this point, i listened to some 'emo' back in the day and i still listen to people like the Smiths now (even though morrissey is a PRICK) but our generation is apathetic compared to those in the past and i think that it is partly to do with the music (art immitating life, life immitating art? who cares)

punk is bloody good my son,

also on the subject of emo, it annoyed the fuck outa me when all these emo bands turn into 'pussy-pop' (i liked his words) wtf is the black parade all about, what is the latest FOB album trying to achieve? now these guys are shit and over produced, when in the past i liked them,

in conclusion everybody knows the best bands are DK, Nirvana, and Gogol Bordello (these arent ideological choices these are phonological choices)

[More Fire for the People]

The Nation Blue, Fugazi, Rites of Spring. I like Panic! and FOB but they're not 'emo': they're new wave pop.

[RedAnarchist]

I don't understand the point of emo music. I know theres a lot of depressing stuff in the world but it won't change by moping around and being all gloomy.

[BrokenHeart]

my comment was 'tounge in cheek' i meant what i said but i dont care enough to argue this point, i listened to some 'emo' back in the day and i still listen to people like the Smiths now (even though morrissey is a PRICK) but our generation is apathetic compared to those in the past and i think that it is partly to do with the music (art immitating life, life immitating art? who cares)
Won't deny it, but I still like post-emo :)


I like Panic! and FOB but they're not 'emo': they're new wave pop.
Panic! isn't emo?! I write sins not trajedies is about some guy moping about how his to-be wife is cheating on him, which seems pretty stereotype but still emo. Check out these lyrics from, Its time to dance
she's not bleeding on the ballroom floor
Just for the attention.
Cause that's just ridiculously on.
Well, she sure is gonna get it
Here's the setting
Fashion magazines line the walls now
The walls line the bullet holes

Have some composure
Where is your posture?
Oh, no, no
You're pulling the trigger
Pulling the trigger
All wrong
[x2]

Give me envy, give me malice, give me a-a-attention
Give me envy, give me malice, baby, give me a break!
When I say "Shotgun", you say "Wedding"
"Shotgun", "Wedding", "Shotgun", "Wedding"

Come on, Panic! is Emo to hell. Suicide for attention... @[email protected]

As for Fall Out Boy; maybe, though they still retain some of their apathetic lyrics.



I don't understand the point of emo music. I know theres a lot of depressing stuff in the world but it won't change by moping around and being all gloomy.
I don't think that the more core-emo people think it will change, its just sort of like if you feel like shit and want to continue feeling like shit, you put on emo music. It sounds dumb but I do it all the time and its kind of soothing almost. Like, you feel important almost because your miserable and, for me, the music kind of makes me feel alone in my emotion, though I know millions, if not billions, of other people are miserable. Same for cutting as well.

[BrokenHeart]

Punk is bloody good my son,
Throw some recommendations for punk bands! I'm all ears.

[Coffee Mug]

Throw some recommendations for punk bands! I'm all ears.

I can do that.

Bad Religion, NOFX, Social Distortion, Less Than Jake, Goldfinger, Reagan Youth, Operation Ivy, Anti-Flag, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Descendents, The Bouncing Souls, Rancid, AFI [Early], Against Me!, Against All Authority, Ramones, Propagandhi, Rise Against, 7 Seconds, Screeching Weasel, Political Justice?, Naked Raygun etc.


Emo doesn't accomplish anything or even attempt to accomplish anything; it just promotes wallowing in your own self-pity.

[Holden Caulfield]

I can do that. Emo doesn't accomplish anything or even attempt to accomplish anything; it just promotes wallowing in your own self-pity.

i agree,

anyhoo, is Nirvana ideologically acseptable to us,
yes they did rake in loads of money, bum MTV and whore out merch,

BUT he killed himself coz he didnt want to be a rich cock rocker (partly) and came from very humble roots and was anti-rascist/sexist, etc

[Holden Caulfield]

. I like Panic! and FOB but they're not 'emo': they're new wave pop.

do you like the latest FOB album coz i used to have a real soft spot for their music but the new album was shit, i mean JZ on the intro? fuck that

[RedAnarchist]

Rise Against are emo?:confused:

[Holden Caulfield]

rise against are class and not emo, they are just post-hardcore if we can call them that,

'give it all' is a real good tune for getting some fire built up

[RedAnarchist]

Sorry, I misread the post above where they are mentioned.:o

[More Fire for the People]

do you like the latest FOB album coz i used to have a real soft spot for their music but the new album was shit, i mean JZ on the intro? fuck that
That's why I like them. :rolleyes: I enjoy their extensive collaboration with hip hop artists.

[Rage]

I don't really like using the term "emo" to describe anything other than like Rites Of Spring, Jawbreaker, and Sunny Day Real Estate music (all those bands are very good).

I do listen to a lot of music that you listed as emo (Coheed, Skylit Drive, and Dance Gavin Dance). Some other "emo" bands I like:

akissforjersey
Alesana
The Beautiful Mistake
Blessthefall
Blinded Black
Chiodos
Circa Survive
The Devil Wears Prada
The Fall of Troy
Saosin
Underoath

I'm seeing A Skylit Drive next friday.:D

edit: Good (leftist) political-charged emo music: With Engine Heart

-Fawkes

[BrokenHeart]

I've heard of a lot of those bands actually:)



Emo doesn't accomplish anything or even attempt to accomplish anything; it just promotes wallowing in your own self-pity.
That, my friend, was a cheap shot with opinionated words:(.
Stress, anxiety, sorrow, abuse, fear, regret, anger; Maybe emo promotes peoples self indulgence in these things, but have you ever really been in that mode of total sadness, where nothing is good, no matter how hard people try and make it better or you try and "look at the bright side?" Common opinion has bashed self indulgence so much that I think people forgot that wallowing can go hand in hand with thinking, and sometimes thinking about something sad is all you can do to get over it. I think "Emo" can accomplish much, though I wouldn't deny its obvious harsh effects as well.

[BrokenHeart]

akissforjersey
Alesana
The Beautiful Mistake
Blessthefall
Blinded Black
Chiodos
Circa Survive
The Devil Wears Prada
The Fall of Troy
Saosin
Underoath

I haven't heard of a few of those bands, but Circa is def. a favorite of mine as well:) I can't get too into the screamo emo sometimes though, like Devil Wears Prada. Its just kind of bothers me, and I didn't even like their lyrics, or Chiodos' for that matter.
Fall of Troy rips too! I saw them with Coheed!:D:D:D:D

[Invader Zim]

Bronekheart you listen to a load of popmusic riding the pop-punk wave. Not saying its all shit, but Hopscotch Anthill is absolutely correct, what you have listed is not 'emo'. But don't get me wrong, I don't actually mind some of this, admittedly, generic pop-punk passing its self off as emo. For example, in addition to my Fugazi, etc, I have a couple of Jimmy Eat World records in my collection.

[Patchd]

Urgh, Panic and MCR

Saosin, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Chasing Victory

[#FF0000]

When I hear "emo" I expect people to bust out a list of some DC hardcore.

I'm disappointed again.

And at this point I don't like using the term "emo" since it doesn't seem to mean anything at all anymore. I mean, if Panic! At the Disco can be called Emo alongside The Fall of Troy and Coheed and Cambria, then what isn't emo?

(psst if you like P!ATD you should listen to the Dresden Dolls and the World/Inferno Friendship Society. Panic is something like a watered-down and bastardized version of these guys).

[Rage]

BrokenHeart: Co&Ca with The Fall of Troy was one of the best shows I have ever seen. I did not like the souther rock style of clutch though :/

Rorscharh: I tottaly agree man! I'm reading a book that is bascialy saying that even in the Rites of Spring/Indian Summer/Jawbreaker days that emo was a term that was constantly misused!
I saw Dresden Dolls last week! My friend told me to go to their show because I would like them. I liked them a lot, I should pick up their album!

-Fawkes

[AAFCE]

Fugazi and Rites of Spring are nice.

[Angry Young Man]

~Boyslikegirls - sound like a bunch of schoolboys

~Coheed and Cambria (I know their rock and all as well, but the story that Claudio bases their music off is entirely emo) - are a bit metallier than emoey

~A Skylit Drive - return of the schoolboys

~Hawthorne Heights - radio-friendly-unit-shifter

~Panic! At the Disco - moreso

~My Chemical Romance - were good, sold out

~Dance Gavin Dance - the schoolboy strikes back

~Echo Screen - the phantom schoolboy

I like the stuff a few years ago like FFAF's first album and Finch and MCR's old album. I hate scene. I don't even know where "scene" came from. The early 00s bands didn't dress like this... they had mopsy hair and baggy jeans, like skateboarders. See this year's most open heartbreak (FFAF) and Letters to You (finch) both vids on youtube.
Oo beating heart baby by head automatica too. gotta love it.

I still hate scenesters with their stupid hair and checkered vans. They just don't pull off the little-boy-lost look in the same way that, say, Kurt Cobain did or Davey Havoc. There's more to that look than eyeliner and mopesing
[/rantage]

[jaffe]

When I hear "emo" I expect people to bust out a list of some DC hardcore.

:cool:

[Angry Young Man]

I like errr

Mypuppydiedwheniwassix, Painunending, ipretendtobebi-curioussopeoplethinki'mvulnerable, Anxiety Attack! On the Dancefloor, Itscoldinjanuary, black summer, In search of lost times, Iquoteliteratureinmybandnametolookcultured, Whippingboy, littleboylost, Barren wasteland, Sylvia, Rusty razor, SylviaPlathQuote, OliverTwist and FacultiesMalfunction

[Angry Young Man]

I'd like to point out that none of these bands exist, except maybe in a year 9 class somewhere in Newport.
You can't deny that they have stupid names...

[Rage]

Jawbreaker is getting back together :D

[agent orange murder]

Pop: Mcr, Fall Out Boy, Boys Like Girls.
Pop that has added a bad neo-scream sound: Bless the Fall, Greeley Estates, Underoath.
Emotional Hardcore: Rites of sping, Fugazi, At the drive-in, Antioch Arrow, Moss Icon

[agent orange murder]

Jawbreaker is getting back together :D

If your joking, I'll hurt you. If not I love you.

[Lector Malibu]

Stop this sillyness right now !

[Coffee Mug]

Bronekheart you listen to a load of popmusic riding the pop-punk wave. Not saying its all shit, but Hopscotch Anthill is absolutely correct, what you have listed is not 'emo'. But don't get me wrong, I don't actually mind some of this, admittedly, generic pop-punk passing its self off as emo. For example, in addition to my Fugazi, etc, I have a couple of Jimmy Eat World records in my collection.

Not even good PopPunk at that!

Bands like:
Descendents, Bouncing Souls, Less Than Jake, Screeching Weasel
are much better.

[Rage]

If your joking, I'll hurt you. If not I love you.

Not joking at all! Check on wikipedia!

-fawkes

[RHIZOMES]

Coheed and Cambria, Rites of Spring.

Only ones I like.

[Coffee Mug]

Fugazi is okay & Itunes calls Avail and Finch Emo; so there's three.

[Bandito]

For me,emo sounds like a mixture of Ramones in their sissy phases,metal at his unmusical phase and Justin Timberlake at his best.

[Orange Revolution]

Oh dear! My youngest daughter, aged 13 purports to being an Emo, I must admit, even as an old original punk rocker I hadn't the faintest idea what she meant, but now I can tell her that Fall Out Boy is Pop, Panic! at the Disco is a radio friendly unit seller, and My Chemical Romance sold out!

And think of the Kudos I will get when you guys give me the names and links of the latest happening emo bands, please?

ps. Do emos listen to Nirvana or Joy Division?

[Rage]

Not Nirvana, but many emos will listen to Joy Divison (espically if they are the artsy hipster type emos.)

-Fawkes

[crimsonzephyr]

I have never been able to see the thrill in emo. It all seems too depressing and screams about not changing anything in your life but moaning and whining about it.

[Orange Revolution]

Not Nirvana, but many emos will listen to Joy Divison (espically if they are the artsy hipster type emos.)

-Fawkes

well, saw them live in london in about 1979, at the Marquee or was it the Electric Ballroom?It was the year before Ian Curtis killed himself , my favourite track, is atmosphere, link below... much better than the 'She's Lost Control' 'Love will Tear us apart' anthems..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0We9d5J3BLQ

[Coffee Mug]

I have never been able to see the thrill in emo. It all seems too depressing and screams about not changing anything in your life but moaning and whining about it.

Yeah that's about it. No motivation; all it is is depressed singer's whining about something. It doesn't promote striving for the better, only, in a masochistic fashion, wallowing in your own self-pity and depression [invoked usually after listening to the music]