Well they certainly get <i>my</i> attention, hats off to them...
I don't like emo because it can <i>sometimes</i> be depressing, I love listening to it and other music I like, and it cheers me up to do so. There are lots of bands who aren't "emo" that depress me far more.
Emo <i>was</i> a pretty narrow term, but now any rock-punk-pop band that shows a hint of emotion is emo. But people are ****, that's life. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Crotalus+Jul 8 2005, 06:27 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Crotalus @ Jul 8 2005, 06:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Jesus, I can never experience "emo" are whatever the hell it is. I am either too stoic or happy to care. Tell me if I got this right, it is basically a sub-culture that is part music part people that get more in touch with their emotions and tend to be able to express their feelings better? Cause unfortunately, I have a slight prejudice that they are a generally unhappy and depressed people...don't take this as an insult, it isn't but I really have no idea what emo is... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Emo is a music genre that came from the death of straight up hardcore punk in Washington DC. When this happened the bands started playing angst driven punk, which was basically was hardcore punk but with angsty lyrics. This was called emocore, or emotional hardcore. After a while bands started focusing around emo, which was basically just an experimentation in post-hardcore that spread to areas such as New Jersey and to California. After that came hardcore emo, where the bands played incredibly fast songs with vocals that were just absolute screaming. Then came the post-emo indie rock bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate (just as one example) that started in Seattle and spread throughout the mid west. Most of these bands played slow in the beginnings of their songs and then got progressively got faster, but had soft vocals. After this emo basically died and turned into what it is now, which is popular-rock / popular-punk music that people call emo because it's easier to falsly name it one genre instead of correctly naming it another.
Edit: Oh and it basically became a fashion statement too, which is stupid.
<!--QuoteBegin-Marik Steele+Jul 8 2005, 12:38 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik Steele @ Jul 8 2005, 12:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You could watch <a href='http://www.somethingdirectory.com/main_emo.htm' target='_blank'>an instructional video on how to be emo</a>. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> awesome <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> I especially liked the creative use of Quest for Glory music during the historical segment...
Feeling depressed and you want to listen to something that'll make you feel <i>worse</i>?
Jesus, get some happy music. What you need is a liberal dosage of Mad Caddies coupled with some Nerf Herder. Add a dash of Farse or Dance Hall Crashers and top it all off with Pietasters.
I'll never understand why people feel the need to make themselves feel worse by listening to depressing dirges created by people making millions off of acting sad or deep.
<!--QuoteBegin-Marik Steele+Jul 8 2005, 12:38 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik Steele @ Jul 8 2005, 12:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You could watch <a href='http://www.somethingdirectory.com/main_emo.htm' target='_blank'>an instructional video on how to be emo</a>. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> omg that was so awesomely made!
I like Emo fashion style but I hate most of their music. Death Cab for Cutie and Dashboard are good though...
Yeah, that song is by Modest Mouse, it's Float On, it's on the album Good News for People Who Love Bad News, and they're not really Emo, they're still considered Indie even though they've sold out.
I dunno how people can listen to it, whenever I'm feeling crappy (hardly ever since I came to this revelation myself) I put on something fast paced and not about anything emo (love, boyfriend/girlfriend, etc.) doesn't matter what it is whether it's trance,techno, jazz or even Beethovens 9th.
I think I should be called the anti-emo <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
No, it's more or less I'd still be thinking about what makes me depressed if I were listening to happy music, so I'll listen to sad music so I can be depressed about that instead, then eventually fell better.
<!--QuoteBegin-aonomus+Jul 8 2005, 02:59 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (aonomus @ Jul 8 2005, 02:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Hrm, this'll make you feel emo... #nsart was a failiure, beyond that tbh <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> You suck at life, the universe, and everything....
<!--QuoteBegin-Marik Steele+Jul 8 2005, 12:38 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik Steele @ Jul 8 2005, 12:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You could watch <a href='http://www.somethingdirectory.com/main_emo.htm' target='_blank'>an instructional video on how to be emo</a>. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> A. Trademark music in it not with premsission prolly = illegal B. Much mafia (game) music in that
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<!--QuoteBegin-cshank4+Jul 8 2005, 11:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (cshank4 @ Jul 8 2005, 11:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I like Emo fashion style but I hate most of their music. Death Cab for Cutie and Dashboard are good though...
Yeah, that song is by Modest Mouse, it's Float On, it's on the album Good News for People Who Love Bad News, and they're not really Emo, they're still considered Indie even though they've sold out. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> At The Drive in > DCfC and DC
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I don't like emo because it can <i>sometimes</i> be depressing, I love listening to it and other music I like, and it cheers me up to do so. There are lots of bands who aren't "emo" that depress me far more.
Emo <i>was</i> a pretty narrow term, but now any rock-punk-pop band that shows a hint of emotion is emo. But people are ****, that's life. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
'cept inside of an 8-bit nintendo he has a 16-bit sega genesis...
Emo is a music genre that came from the death of straight up hardcore punk in Washington DC. When this happened the bands started playing angst driven punk, which was basically was hardcore punk but with angsty lyrics. This was called emocore, or emotional hardcore. After a while bands started focusing around emo, which was basically just an experimentation in post-hardcore that spread to areas such as New Jersey and to California. After that came hardcore emo, where the bands played incredibly fast songs with vocals that were just absolute screaming. Then came the post-emo indie rock bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate (just as one example) that started in Seattle and spread throughout the mid west. Most of these bands played slow in the beginnings of their songs and then got progressively got faster, but had soft vocals. After this emo basically died and turned into what it is now, which is popular-rock / popular-punk music that people call emo because it's easier to falsly name it one genre instead of correctly naming it another.
Edit: Oh and it basically became a fashion statement too, which is stupid.
awesome <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> I especially liked the creative use of Quest for Glory music during the historical segment...
Jesus, get some happy music. What you need is a liberal dosage of Mad Caddies coupled with some Nerf Herder. Add a dash of Farse or Dance Hall Crashers and top it all off with Pietasters.
I'll never understand why people feel the need to make themselves feel worse by listening to depressing dirges created by people making millions off of acting sad or deep.
NO, SHUT UP!
omg that was so awesomely made!
Death Cab for Cutie and Dashboard are good though...
Yeah, that song is by Modest Mouse, it's Float On, it's on the album Good News for People Who Love Bad News, and they're not really Emo, they're still considered Indie even though they've sold out.
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I dunno how people can listen to it, whenever I'm feeling crappy (hardly ever since I came to this revelation myself) I put on something fast paced and not about anything emo (love, boyfriend/girlfriend, etc.) doesn't matter what it is whether it's trance,techno, jazz or even Beethovens 9th.
I think I should be called the anti-emo <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
You suck at life, the universe, and everything....
A. Trademark music in it not with premsission prolly = illegal
B. Much mafia (game) music in that
<img src='http://www.sesamstrasse-live.de/characters/images/neu/elmo.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
NO, SHUT UP! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
MAYBE I WILL!
the crappy kind, the kind that incorporates vocals and game
music...yeah
yeah, I'm not big on sad music just like I'm not big on angry music.
listening to the Apples in Stereo always makes me mega-happy...
Death Cab for Cutie and Dashboard are good though...
Yeah, that song is by Modest Mouse, it's Float On, it's on the album Good News for People Who Love Bad News, and they're not really Emo, they're still considered Indie even though they've sold out. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
At The Drive in > DCfC and DC
You lose.
<a href='http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo' target='_blank'>Urban Dictionary</a> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
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