I love emo..... Just wondering some bands you guys like?

I have no favorite bands.

ive never listened to emo before.. but i like rock, some r&b, and some hip hop

im not the best at classifying music. gimme some examples of emo bands.

I could live on emo alone.

Er.. Try listening to Jade Tree or Saddle Creek bands.

xo, Pauline

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SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE.
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE.
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE.

Emo is great.
Taking Back Sunday, The Used, and My Chemical Romance are great bands..

Mae, Anberlin, Matt Pond PA, Daphne loves Derby..
EMO & INDIE is what makes the world go round.

she's the only one who even has it close to being right. seriously, do some research before putting random bands into a genre.
here, here, and here.

You know what's funny, I never quite understood what EMO was. What is it? PM me xD.

look at those links i gave above.

i hate emo.

Who made you the king of emo..

Mae » Rock / Emo / Indie
Daphne loves Derby » Indie / Rock / Emo
Matt Pond PA - his band is underground so you probably
have never heard of them but they are indeed Emo
Anberlin » Rock / Emo / Alternative

...no one, i've researched it and most current bands that are considered emo really aren't in the historical sense. i don't want to turn this into an arguement though; if you like a band you shouldn't care what genre it's in. i'll stop posting in this thread because i don't want to start anything, but you guys should read those websites . and sorry if i came off like an ass, but for some reason this subject pisses me off.

never had heard of emo...but i have heard their name somewhere...

idk reallyknow, everyone tells me I'm an "emo kid" cuz of all the stuff I listen too. So i guess I do if Takign Back Sunday, AFI, BRand New, Dashboard Confessional, Hawthorne Heights, My Cehmical Romance, The Used, Funeral for a Friend, Damien Rice, and stuff is emo lol

simple plan is emo/punk right?

actually...
i have the mae cd (gives me a headache), i've listened to daphne loves derby on purevolume (bad), and i just ordered emblems (matt pond pa) yesterday morning from bn.com (and already downloaded about 20 of their songs off bearshare earlier this month; they're the only band you listed that i actually like). i've heard OF anberlin, but haven't actually listened to them.
and where did you get those genres? purevolume? because the bands get to choose what genre they believe they fit in.
here is a sound clip of rites of spring, considered the first emo band. does that sound ANYTHING like daphne loves derby, or any of the other bands? no. of course genres change, but whiny acoustic rock doesn't have any relation to the d.c. punk sound that emo originated from.

oh my god are you kidding me go stuff yourself in a toilet.

I thought you said you were not going to post in here anymore. Of course none of those bands are going to sound like "rites of spring" They have their own sound that they have developed. Wait.. but emo bands are all supposed to sound like "rites of spring" because they were like the FIRST emo band ever [ notice the sarcasm ].

I was just going by what genre those bands consider themselves because I think it is obivious that only "they" can place themselves into the genre they think they belong too. It doesn't even matter.. Why are you getting all hot and bothered up there. I don't want to argue with you because it's useless progress. If this subject pisses you off then why did you reply again ? EH ?

If you decide to reply to this, don't expect me to reply. Argue with yourself kid.

I don't really like emo...

I don't really like emo.

Ahaha, some people are turning this into a debate.

i said i wouldn't reply, but that was before you edited your post with those bands. i decided to reply then, because you were acting like i don't know a thing about music ("they're underground so you probably don't know them", even when matt pond pa happens to be one of my favorite bands), when you're the one who obviously doesn't know music very well. i know you won't reply to this, but i hope you understand my point that those bands have NOTHING in relation to the original sound (even though they "created their own sound"), and people catorgize them into this genre because they don't know what they're talking about. i don't know how it happened, but all of a sudden people think that if it's whiny and acoustic, or it evokes emotion, it is emo... which is not the case, obviously. (tupac evokes emotion, so is he emo?). and i'm getting all hot and bothered because i put the information right in front of you, and yet you still decide to believe your opinions instead of history. okay, NOW i'm done posting .

one of my favorite bands too. perhaps we dont all live in holes afterall?

oh, but dashboard confessional is like teh best emo band ever

liek, OMFG, right up there with ryan cabrera <3333! [/sarcasm]

but ryan cabrera is, liek, so...deep

and simple plan, oh em gee, they're so emo, i <333 emo!!!

hehe i love you guys. <3 nicki and will are swell.

No thank you, the music that you listen to influences your behavior &I'm not a big fan of being depressed and whiney

emo is pretty good. My Chemical Romance and Billy Talent I love but I pretty much like all rock in general.

but yor username is also sadkiddie

Simple Plan is not emo...it's pop/rock.....They aren't even punk....A few bands that I like are Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, The Spill Canvas, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Early November...Thursday....Dashboard...but only the acoustic stuff...the new stuff is crap....the list goes on...

I agree. Emo did come from Indie...so yeah. I prefer using the word Indie. Anyway, Daphne Loves Derby, Mae...yeah.

i like emo too!!

+ fall out boy
+ daphne loves derby
+ tbs
+ dashboard confessional
+ matchbook romance
+ my chemical romance
+ the used
+ something corporate
+ brand new
+ straylight run
+ a static lullaby
+ etc.

Not MTV's classification of emo...Well, yeah, I like them && listen to them, but I don't believe they're emo. Err, I like Sunny Day Real Estate, Fugazi, && Rites of Spring, though. I wouldn't call myself an emo kid though. I just listen to music.

Billy Talent && MCR aren't emo. =] <Directed towards sadkiddie>

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Just like any genre, emo has evolved. Look at rock music: the rock we listen to today is not the same as the Buddy Holly rock music of the 1950's, yet we still refer to it as rock, because some of the same elements are still there. It's true that emo of today doesn't all have the hardcore punk sound of the first emo bands, but it's easy to trace the elements of some of today's emo bands back to the original emo bands of the late 80s and early 90s.

Of course, there are some emo bands today that are not emo. A good example is Dashboard Confessional. I'm not saying they are bad because they are not emo, but my point is that they are often miscategorized--they have none of the elements of the first emo band. The term emo gets thrown around a lot to describe any music that is emotional; but that makes no sense, because almost all music is emotional in nature. The only kind that isn't would be the small sliver (relatively speaking) of stuff that involes political and societal issues, such as much early punk and the works of bands like Rage Against the Machine. So no, emo is not short for "emotional rock"; emo is short for "emotive hardcore" or "emotional hardcore" and originally described a type of hardcore punk that dealt with personal and emotional issues, rather than political and societal issues. The first bands, in fact, rose out of the Washington, D.C. hardcore punk scene. I point that out not to say that emo cannot evolve, and that emo of today is not emo; rather, it's important to note because it gives an idea of the type of sound involved in an emo band. The term today gets applied to entirely too many bands that people simply find "emotional". "Emotional music" does not equal "emo", although the emo genre has certainly (and legitimately) evolved from its roots in the D.C. hardcore punk scene.



(And yes, I'm aware I am quoting a post from a few months back, but I thought it might be interested in starting a discussion on music history, rather than arguing about what is emo and what isn't. Music history is truly a fascinating subject, after all--especially that of modern rock.)

thank you much

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