poor emo wall... : (

i miss when emo was awesome



and didnt have terrible associations

when was that steve?

when was that exactly??? Tora???



emo has never been awesome

I actually really love emo hair and makeup for the most part. It's interesting.

the early 90s



when it was nothing like what its classified today as

word

if by intersting you mean utterly ridiculous then yeah, i totally agree. it's nothing new. it's nothing captivating. it's more of 'hey, look at me and depressed i can look.' yay for seeking attention!

goth was ok bc at the very least, it had some substance behind it.

emo is another word for bullshit i think.

I remember when I was 26 and didn't care about emos.



Emus, on the other hand, are fucking bastards.

can an emo be sad about not being sad enough, therefore making it more sad?

emo used to describe bands like braid, cap'n jazz, and the promise ring. now it's all wiggity whack

Ridiculous is cool too.

Torakamikaze on May 12 '09 at 2:49pm

i miss when emo was awesome



and didnt have terrible associations

coolia knows whats updog

Emos make me miss wiggers

The Promise Ring = one of the best bands to come out of Milwaukee

sonmi on May 12 '09 at 2:54pm

emo used to describe bands like braid, cap'n jazz, and the promise ring. now it's all wiggity whack



i love sonmi because she says things like wiggity whack

I wish I had nunchucks lining my walls.

dear wigger i meet on the subway once



please try to fight me agian, it made me laugh



adam

i'm pretty sure the entire community i was raised in in baltimore was filled with wiggers...

dude, I hate when people have that weird tendril bang gel hair.



wtf is up with those ugly tendrils, dog?

wait, what's emo now?



like what is the music?

because I'm pretty sure anyone who looks remotely like that is automatically called Emo and then they get all butt hurt about it.

that's the thing. nobody really knows what emo music is anymore. they just dress like a stereotype

my son is turning emo...

Wait, emo has to do with music?

I'm pretty sure labels like these that go beyond a genre of music and extend into stupid styles like this are all a result of culture deprived young americans.

RuffinIt on May 12 '09 at 3:08pm

my son is turning emo...



If he is just turning then it's not too late, take him to a doctor asap!

It's just another label to subscribe to.

that's okay ruffinit becuase I can't wait until his band "Tears of Blood" hits the big time.

true.... RuffinIt it is not too late to slap the emo right off of him

I subscribe to one label, and that's asian. Azns 4 lyfe

Emo is a style of rock music typically characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace. As the style was echoed by contemporary American punk bands, its sound and meaning shifted and changed, blending with pop punk and indie rock and encapsulated in the early 1990s by groups such as Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate. By the mid 1990s numerous emo acts emerged from the Midwestern and Central United States, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the style.



-John Wikipedia

get your kid into shoegazing, it's a long term investment which might score him a lot of hot older ladies.

Here we go again, picking on poor emo kids, leave them be, if that's there thing and they're not hurting anyone, ok maybe just themselves, so be it! I'm still glad to see you're not mixing goth with emo and if emo kid grows up to be 30 and still emo, I'll respect that!

girls call non stop!!!

oh so lyrics that were confessional are emo? i'm glad that STARTED in the 80s.



stfu wikipedia

is he at the age where little boys still sound like little girls?

because then you just insulted like all of his buddies.

From V-Fest a few years back:







I love how it was abandoned.

emo is like punk rock

in that



you're either the hammer or the nail

Originally an arty outgrowth of hardcore punk, emo became an important force in underground rock by the late '90s, appealing to modern-day punks and indie-rockers alike. Some emo leans toward the progressive side, full of complex guitar work, unorthodox song structures, arty noise, and extreme dynamic shifts; some emo is much closer to punk-pop, though it's a bit more intricate. Emo lyrics are deeply personal, usually either free-associative poetry or intimate confessionals. Though it's far less macho, emo is a direct descendant of hardcore's preoccupations with authenticity and anti-commercialism; it grew out of the conviction that commercially oriented music was too artificial and calculated to express any genuine emotion. Because the emo ideal is authentic, deeply felt emotion that defies rational analysis, the style can be prone to excess in its quest for ever-bigger peaks and releases. But at its best, emo has a sweeping power that manages to be visceral, challenging, and intimate all at once. The groundwork for emo was laid by Hüsker Dü's 1984 landmark Zen Arcade, which made it possible for hardcore bands to tackle more personal subject matter and write more tuneful and technically demanding songs. Emo emerged in Washington, D.C. not long after, amidst the remnants of the hardcore scene that had produced Minor Threat and Bad Brains. The term "emo" (sometimes lengthened to "emocore") was initially used to describe hardcore bands who favored expressive vocals over the typical barking rants; the first true emo band was Rites of Spring, followed by ex-Minor Threat singer Ian MacKaye's short-lived Embrace. MacKaye's Dischord label became the center for D.C.'s growing emo scene, releasing work by Rites of Spring, Dag Nasty, Nation of Ulysses, and MacKaye's collaboration with members of Rites of Spring, Fugazi. Fugazi became the definitive early emo band, crossing over to alternative rock listeners and getting press for their uncompromisingly anti-commercial attitudes. Aside from the Dischord stable, most early emo was deeply underground, recorded by extremely short-lived bands and released on vinyl in small quantities by small labels; some vocalists literally wept onstage during song climaxes, earning derision from hardcore purists. Fugazi notwithstanding, emo didn't really break out of obscurity until the mid-'90s emergence of Sunny Day Real Estate, whose early work defined the style in the minds of many. Tempering Fugazi's gnarled guitar webs with Seattle grunge, straight-up prog-rock, and crooned vocals, SDRE launched a thousand imitators who connected with their dramatic melodies and introspective mysticism. Some of this new generation connected equally with the wry, geeky introspection and catchy punk-pop of Weezer's Pinkerton album. While several artists continued to build on Fugazi's innovations (including Quicksand and Drive Like Jehu), most '90s emo bands borrowed from some combination of Fugazi, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Weezer. Groups like the Promise Ring, the Get Up Kids, Braid, Texas Is the Reason, Jimmy Eat World, Joan of Arc, and Jets to Brazil earned substantial followings in the indie-rock world, making emo one of the more popular underground rock styles at the turn of the millennium.



- James Allmusic

wikipedia phrases things in a dumb fashion

I think being different is okay, but being different with the same group of people who are different but the same as you is not okay.

...and he just dyed his hair black...but he's cool.

mixing goth with emo is like mixing coke with coke zero



you read it right

iPear on May 12 '09 at 3:16pm

I think being different is okay, but being different with the same group of people who are different but the same as you is not okay.



I love you, ipear.