[ddwayspd]

Huge Linkin Park fan, but other than that i dont listen to the whiny *****es. I saw this great clip making fun of some emos, it was 22 true life emo or something like that. Im uploading it now so it will be up soon

[pokerbonuscod]

Quote, originally posted by AM2K »who the hell is emo??
Grover's little red friend.

[Imiweevierm]

Second one is right on the money.

[SappyAppy]

Quote, originally posted by Top Secret »
Yeah, because of the fact that there are so many teenage girls who wants to be exactly like her.
And you of course.
I want to sleep with her...not be her

[griddle]

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.

[Imiweevierm]

oy...

[Catalogov]

i like it many bands including
bright eyes
death cab for cutie
tily and the wall
dashboard confessional
brand new
among many more.

[Imiweevierm]

Quote, originally posted by slezak12 »i like it many bands including
bright eyes
death cab for cutie
tily and the wall
dashboard confessional
brand new
among many more.
My vision of Hell.

[Immerymopay]

Thursday isnt bad, but theres something about the lead singer's voice in dashboard that makes me want to vomit tears, even if hearing their music from another car at highway speeds

[autoloanexpert]

Quote, originally posted by Naga- Captain Funky »..theres something about the lead singer's voice in dashboard that makes me want to vomit tears..
Whiny, grating, tiresome, amateuristic & headache inducing?

[griddle]

Quote, originally posted by Naga- Captain Funky »Thursday isnt bad
If you never have, listen to the "Full Collapse" album straight through - amazing.
Yeah, Dashboard sucks. The worst part about him is that Further Seems Forever was pretty decent and he sold them out to do the crap he does now. If it makes it any better, I have a friend who used to worship him back in the FSF days who met him about a year ago and said that he is a total a-hole.

[fluistulkn]

Quote, originally posted by jesse »
EMO stands for Emotional Punk, its music where you whine & cry & ***** & complain & boohoo about how your life is messed up. All the bands you have mentioned are EMO, i dont like Postal Service though, they are moce like..techno-EMO, i hate techno or dance music of any kind
Ah, oh well. I don't think any of the bands I mentioned are Emotional Punk. More like indie/alternative rock (The Shins, Bloc Party) or folk rock (Iron and Wine) or, like you said, electronica (The Postal Service).
By the description you posted, it sounds EMO bands are more like Simple Plan, Good Charlotte and Modest Mouse. Not Iron and Wine.

[autoloanexpert]

God i hate Simple Plan & Good Charlotte

[ddwayspd]

Iron and Wine or Postal Service are definatly not emo, more like a hybrid of techno and something else, but IMO they are pretty good

[Tnzxovoz]

Maybe they'll kill themselves all off and hopefully in time make themselves extinct...

[Tnzxovoz]

One band I do like though which I guess could be considered emo is Linkin Park...a lot of people don't like them or whatever, but I have always enjoyed litening to their music...their drummer's mom was the librarian at my high school...speaking of emo, the band yellowcard actually went to my school...they graduated like my freshman year or something...they used to perform during lunch on campus every once in a while...they used to come back and make appearances and perform but our school booed them off the stage once and they never came back...they probably wrote some emo song about it...

[fluistulkn]

Quote, originally posted by Hornbag »She is very popular though...
Yeah, because of the fact that there are so many teenage girls who wants to be exactly like her.
And you of course.

[pokerbonuscod]

is that that little red guy from sesame street?

[Immerymopay]

Quote, originally posted by Santeno »Grover's little red friend.
thaught that was you

[Fgunehjf]

I don't mean to sound offensive to any "emos" here on CSS, but if I remember correctly from my school days, aren't they the emotional kids who wear tight clothing, and cut themselves on their wrists so they cry and get emotional and write lyrics/poems? Urghhh, I can't stand that culture!