Doesn't emo just suck

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: UNESC0
but have created songs about 'emo'tions, hmm?!

What?!?!? Music about... emotions?!?!? I've never heard of such a thing. What is the world coming to.

 

[Stiganator]

fanaticism for depression, all around loseristic habits, trying to be mysteriously detached etc work with me people, this thread is supposed to make us smile and remember a finer time. One might say the Golden Age, when everybody wanted to "Jump", when you fell in love with Jesse's Girl, when you were still the king of wishful thinking, come on! Keep stayin alive!

 

[Stiganator]

Tears of Heaven is about emotions but do we call Clapton Emo, Hell NO! Emo is actually a melding of goth and wussy into one comprehensive bag o'crap.

 

[clamum]

"Emo" reminds me of people with those black (usually) shaggy haircuts

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
fanaticism for depression, all around loseristic habits, trying to be mysteriously detached etc work with me people, this thread is supposed to make us smile and remember a finer time. One might say the Golden Age, when everybody wanted to "Jump", when you fell in love with Jesse's Girl, when you were still the king of wishful thinking, come on! Keep stayin alive!

Do you listen to Dee Snyder's House of Hair program each week? I love it.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: Stiganator
I disowned metallica the day St. Anger came out. They make me sad.

heh, St. Anger was actually an improvement over Load

No. No it wasn't...

Has anyone seen the movie? That will make you cry tears of blood.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: Stiganator
fanaticism for depression, all around loseristic habits, trying to be mysteriously detached etc work with me people, this thread is supposed to make us smile and remember a finer time. One might say the Golden Age, when everybody wanted to "Jump", when you fell in love with Jesse's Girl, when you were still the king of wishful thinking, come on! Keep stayin alive!

Do you listen to Dee Snyder's House of Hair program each week? I love it.

lol at "house of hair"..

 

[Toonces]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
Tears of Heaven is about emotions but do we call Clapton Emo, Hell NO! Emo is actually a melding of goth and wussy into one comprehensive bag o'crap.

which is exactly my point. Emo isn't music. It is a bunch of teenagers who find an identity through music which is then obessed upon to a point of absurdity. Exactly like 'Goth', 'Metalheads', 'Thugs', etc... emo as a social group are just another sort of teenage expression and a passing fad, like goth.

anyways, I'm going to listen to The Cure now. Oh wait, The Get Up Kids (quintessential 'emo' band, or genre making phenoms?) covered one of their songs. Guess that makes me emo. :brokenheart:

 

[nageov3t]

yay, let's write off entire genres of music based on a few performers.

this whole argument is stupid. every genre and time period has its good points and bad.

 

[CravenTacos]

journey? please punch 2 more holes out of your man card

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: loki8481
yay, let's write off entire genres of music based on a few performers.

this whole argument is stupid. every genre and time period has its good points and bad.

point out the good lol

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
Tears of Heaven is about emotions but do we call Clapton Emo, Hell NO! Emo is actually a melding of goth and wussy into one comprehensive bag o'crap.

Goth done right = Clan of Xymox, Sisters of Mercy, etc. No emo anywhere in sight there.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis

Originally posted by: loki8481
yay, let's write off entire genres of music based on a few performers.

this whole argument is stupid. every genre and time period has its good points and bad.

point out the good lol

Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, Cursive... pretty much a good 75% of the Saddle Creek record label

 

[Blayze]

I've listened to some Emo and personally I don't like it.

 

[DeathReborn]

I find it funny how people that hate metallica always say that St Anger stinks but then secretly go and listen to THE BLACK ALBUM. You either hate Metallica or you hate the album, get with it nubs.

Emo, Chav, Townie.... just more stereotyped groups of people. If you like 1 rap song yet thousands of Rock/Metal/Punk does that make you any different? People that generalise just make me sick. I like what I like, you like what you like. I may not like Emo much but i'm not gonna turn off the iRadio just because something emo comes on.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis

Originally posted by: loki8481
yay, let's write off entire genres of music based on a few performers.

this whole argument is stupid. every genre and time period has its good points and bad.

point out the good lol

Sunny Day Real Estate

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
You guys all know it. Emo is teh suXor. It's all the same whiny crap, my gf doesn't like me blah blah blah. Yet chicks like that pile of refuse. Why can't everyone appreciate the glory years of 1980-1989. Van Halen, Def Leppord, Aerosmith, Steppenwolf, Journey. F*uck yeah!

That's all crap music. You like crap.

Real music > that theatrical mass market BS.

 

[NuKe9]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: Stiganator
I disowned metallica the day St. Anger came out. They make me sad.

Metallica started sucking way before St. Anger was released.

Amen to that!! More like the Black album, they disowned their fans for some radio play on your local Top 40 station...

 

[Homerboy]

If you people had any idea what you were talking about I could understand this. "Emo" has been around a lot longer than what you've seen commercialized by MTV and your lastest shopping mall fads.

 

[daveymark]

Originally posted by: MoPHo
emo is teh sux0rz!!!

I stilll laugh everytime I see that ytmnnd page

 

[Leper Messiah]

Originally posted by: UNESC0
problem with emo is that scene kids are taking the music literally

and I'd be hard pressed to define a band 'emo' - it is more of a lifestyle than a music genre

would, say, old Jimmy Eat World be considered emo? I'd say no. Then again they call themselves rock musicians but have created songs about 'emo'tions, hmm?!

:music:And the mindless comfort grows
When I'm alone with my 'great' plans
This is what she said gets her through it
'If I don't let myself be happy now, then when? if not now when?:music:

JEW - For Me This is Heaven

Old Jimmy Eat World is still Emo. "I'm not alone because the T.V.s on yeah/ I'm not crazy because I take the right pill (everyday)". I laugh at all the scene kids with their girl pants and their hair combed over one eye, posting on deviant art their little poorly photoshoped pictures and thinking they're so damn cool and original. "Waaaah Daddy got me the blue mustang when I wanted the red one! Waaaaaaaaah!"

 

[slpaulson]

I hate most of the genre, but there's still a few decent bands such as Jimmy Eat World.

 

[Toasthead]

80's is the best!

 

[Homerboy]

Old Jimmy Eat World is still Emo. "I'm not alone because the T.V.s on yeah/ I'm not crazy because I take the right pill (everyday)". I laugh at all the scene kids with their girl pants and their hair combed over one eye, posting on deviant art their little poorly photoshoped pictures and thinking they're so damn cool and original. "Waaaah Daddy got me the blue mustang when I wanted the red one! Waaaaaaaaah!"

Thats "old" Jimmy Eat World? Please son, learn what you are talking about before you speak.
Of course JEW is Emo. Thank you capt obvious.

 

[DougK62]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
fanaticism for depression, all around loseristic habits, trying to be mysteriously detached etc work with me people, this thread is supposed to make us smile and remember a finer time. One might say the Golden Age, when everybody wanted to "Jump", when you fell in love with Jesse's Girl, when you were still the king of wishful thinking, come on! Keep stayin alive!

A big :thumbsup: to the Go West reference!