NEWS: It's... Emo-licious!

MUSIC: It's... Emo-licious!

From "What is Pub Rock?" to "What is Punk?" and now on to "What is Emo?"

This page is tagged "People Who Like Emo are Still People":

The material is cribbed from this page, with mp3s added, "so you can HEAR the difference between what is actually emo and what your stupid ass thinks it is."

I admit, my stupid ass doesn't care all that much, but I did like this Q and A from the "what the heck is emo" page's feedback section:

They'll take my Thomas Aquinas when they pry him out of my cold, dead hands...

(via Brooklyn Vegan.)

This page has been around for a while, and it is absolutely, positively, the best documentation/explanation of what emo is/was. Two thumbs up.

[Edited on Jun 13, 2005 by Idjiit]

Viva la emo.
Viva la fourfa dot com.

Still more webpage-wrought proof that Yellowcard is not so much "emo" as "concentrated suckage."

I thought postal service was emo? I dont feel many punk influences.

Have I been miseducated?

They're kind of too techo to be full-fledged emo, but it's definitely a natural progression. They are half of Death Cab for Cutie, after all, and DCFC fall squarely in the "post-emo indie rock" branch of emo.

(Also, Postal Service came about after the fourfa site was made. It hasn't been updated in what seems like ages.)

I heart fourfa.com.
I heart emo.

Lap-pop Emo.

The next big thing: Dreamo--sort of MBV meets Rites of Spring.

Jim Beamo--Kid Rock complaining about his declining sales

[Edited on Jun 13, 2005 by PointBlank]

is "and you will know us by the trail of dead" emo?

(I trust someones heard of them before. You guys seem pretty smart.)

chaos!

the fashion tips are A+ hahaha

suprised to see no sign of the promise ring on there...

I think they definitely fall under the "post-emo indie rock" category.

When are people gonna stop listening to categories and start listening to music? (This of course doesn't include Country, 'cause that just not music.)

Oh fuck... that page is part of the Mesa Verde website... they're a 'local' emo band, here in Glasgow, Scotland. I've not heard them myself, though I've been told their stuff is okay. Some of the band hang out on a local web forum I moderate, and they come across as the kinda guys who're eager to remind you that you're not as 'independent' as they are, and that you're supporting the man each time you listen to a popular band.

Still, good on them for getting off their arses and practicing what they preach, whether I agree with any of it or not.

[Edited on Jun 13, 2005 8:39PM]

Here in Glasgow, they supported Audioslave last week. Does that provide the missing link between faux-emo and grunge that I've long-suspected most emo-defining kids of missing in a 'not seeing the wood for the trees' fashion?

[Edited on Jun 13, 2005 8:42PM]

labels on music are stupid

yeah far be it from people to apply a loose taxonomy to something in order to facilitate communication* about it. christ, what were they thinking.

*and by "communication" i mean your favorite band sucks.

Why even call it "music", really? It's so confining. Isn't it really the merging of the collective self-conscious to bring us to a... oh, nevermind.

only at a Phish concert.

*slap*

You should have seen it coming...

yeah way to harsh on my mellow.

Emo/Screamo = rich-kid-bitch-boy-music

Rock..yep
Rap..uh huh
Country..hmm
Jazz..check
Classical..roger that
Blues..still there

Emo...complete fucking rubbish.

If you're honestly putting your heart and soul into the music (as you should be)....when is it not emotional?

These "genres" are spiraling inward and are starting to have no meaning what so ever. Which is why I put down "labels" a long time ago. Although, that is how they've trained us in school all our lives..to put things in catagories...I've decided that these ridiculous labels are only necessary to help the media to keep up with it.

...but these kids making this crap have not had their hearts broken no worse than any of us. 90% or all of them have not even had a full life yet so how could they possibly know what real heartache or a hard life even feels like?!....they're in a band...traveling the world...what the fuck do they have to whine about?!?...how many hit records can they record about a girl they barely knew? ..what will happen when they learn they can't sing about the same girl more than twice?...Thats a promising career, I mean to tell ya.

Hawthorne Heights, Senses Fail..etc, etc, all of the above ....I wonder what band-wagon their fans will jump onto next. I will be laughing hysterically when it's all over.


..find a new name or make different music you pansies.

p.s. I'm a stubborn asshole.

Congratulations - you get the "Completely Missed the Fucking Point" award. Kudos.

...p.s.s. I admited to being a stubborn asshole.............and I'm not interested in what emo is or was. As I'm refering to the current state of it....I'm entitled to a bitch-rant on such ridiculous topics ...reguardless the point.

Me?....nah, I didn't miss it.....I took a big nasty shit on it as I was passing by.