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| RollingstonesUSA |
"Emo is music about wanting to die and cutting your wrists and thinking everybody hates you and being paranoid and self-harming."
"Does that mean you get free anti-depressants with every emo cd or are emo fans happy being unhappy?" |
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| RollingstonesUSA |
From wikipedia:
Emo is a subgenre of hardcore punk music. Since its inception, emo has come to describe several independent variations, linked loosely but with common ancestry.As such, use of the term (and which musicians should be so classified) has been the subject of much debate.
In its original incarnation, the term emo was used to describe the music of the mid-1980s Washington, DC scene and its associated bands. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the DC scene and some of the regional scenes that spawned from it. The term emo was derived from the fact that, on occasion, members of a band would become spontaneously and strongly emotional during performances. The most recognizable names of the period included Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and, slightly later, Moss Icon. The first wave of emo began to fade after the breakups of most of the involved bands in the early 1990s.
Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to reflect the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is the Reason put forth a more indie rock style of emo, more melodic and less chaotic in nature than its predecessor. The so-called "indie emo" scene survived until the late 1990s, as many of the bands either disbanded or shifted to mainstream styles.
As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the more mainstream style, creating a style of music that has now earned the moniker emo within popular culture. Whereas, even in the past, the term emo was used to identify a wide variety of bands, the breadth of bands listed under today's emo is even more vast, leaving the term "emo" as more of a loose identifier than as a specific genre of music.
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| mac_daddy |
jeezus - texas is the reason gets named...? i thought i was the only person that actually owned one of their cd's... |
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| Some Guy |
glad you are back safely or are you? |
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| glencar |
Does emo sell? |
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| pdog |
quote:
glencar wrote:
Does emo sell?
Influenced countless teenagers to buy white belts! |
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| M.O.W.A.T. |
Where does Emo-tional Rescue fit in to all of this??? |
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| glencar |
You ARE the fashionista! |
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| pdog |
quote:
M.O.W.A.T. wrote:
Where does Emo-tional Rescue fit in to all of this???
If The Stones had on song that would qualify as Emo, I would say it's Gimmie Shelter... It's dark, personal and full of pain. It's no surprise that The sisters Of Mercy did a great, slow and dark version of it back in the 80's. Emo is basically Goth music with more pop stlye. Kind of, but not totally. Emo bands are not my cup of tea, but I still like a few of the older goth bands... |
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| glencar |
No, emo was "Anyway You Look At It"! |
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| Black and Blue |
The Rolling Stones most emo song is Paint it, Black.... for obvious reasons |
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| pdog |
quote:
Black and Blue wrote:
The Rolling Stones most emo song is Paint it, Black and wear a white belt.... for obvious reasons
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| Black and Blue |
quote:
pdog wrote:
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| glencar |
Paint It Black is rock. Isn't emo that wimpy shit? |
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| pdog |
quote:
Black and Blue wrote:
???
I added "white belt" to your original post and quoted you, now it's got no chance of being funny! Not that it was! |
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| Black and Blue |
quote:
pdog wrote:
I added "white belt" to your original post and quoted you, now it's got no chance of being funny! Not that it was!
oh sorry...guess i should have read my quote  (i thought u just quoted me and said nothing) |
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| pdog |
quote:
Black and Blue wrote:
oh sorry...guess i should have read my quote (i thought u just quoted me and said nothing)
I thought it better to make you look dumb, since everyone sees me acting dumb here all the time! |
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| glencar |
That's acting?
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| pdog |
quote:
glencar wrote:
That's acting?
Sorry, you are only allowed to post one message every 60 seconds. Please wait 60 seconds before posting again.
You Make Joey Poop ! |
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| glencar |
He needs more fiber in his diet!
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| pdog |
quote:
glencar wrote:
Sorry, you are only allowed to post one message every 60 seconds. Please wait 60 seconds before posting again.
You're a mean, mean man! |
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| glencar |
This will slow the board down!-------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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| pdog |
What do you do at a yellow light? |
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| glencar |
Drive like hell! |
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| Dead_Flowers |
I've never quite understood what Emo means. If it is a song that makes you feel emotions doesn't that apply to almost EVERY song? or most songs anyway. I guess emo means sad songs. Hasn't this exsisted for years with every genre of music. What's with this new label. I'm getting old, I don't get this crap!  |
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| Altamont |
quote:
Some Guy wrote:
glad you are back safely or are you?
Yeah, I thought he was shipped off to war. |
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| Altamont |
The label "emo" is absurd, especially considering the bands that the term supposedly spawned from and what bands it is pinned onto now makes it hard to take seriously. It means nothing because many people that seem to use the word are usually hard pressed to really define it. Silly hack journalists and rock critics that like to pigeon hole everything into nice neat little definitive genres love these stupid labels.
[Edited by Altamont] |
