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Quote, originally posted by Top Secret »
By the description you posted, it sounds EMO bands are more like Simple Plan, Good Charlotte and Modest Mouse.
Kind of. Old Modest Mouse might be considered emo, but there newer stuff really isn't. The term emo still gets thrown around quite a bit, but it was really one of many post-hardcore subgenres around in the late eighties and early ninties that has pretty much died out entirely in its true form. True emo bands were so volitile that most didn't last long enough to record more than a demo or EP, which is why the scene stayed so underground and most people today have heard of very few, if any, of the key bands. Fugazi often gets thrown in the mix since they sort of started the style, though it evolved into something different. Some of the key early emo bands that people might have heard of include Dag Nasty, Samiam, Jawebreaker, which tend to be quite a bit heavier than what people label as emo these days. More recent stuff includes The Promise Ring, Jets to Brazil, Braid, and Sunny Day Real Estate who pretty much started post-emo in the early to mid ninties. What is getting labelled as emo now has a few influences from these bands but is pretty different. The closest things to emo in recent popular music are probably Thursday and to a lesser extent At The Drive-In.
Sorry for the essay, but it does bug me a bit how things like this get thrown around in pop culture today - it seems kind of a slap in the face to the people who put their lives into it before it got watered down.