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uh...first of all, i haven't made an "emo sucks" comment in months...it's not like i'm going around constantly bashing various and asundry genres because i don't like the more prominent groups of those genres. second, it was a joke...i don't seriously mean for people to go and get shock therapy for liking "emo" music...that's something i had hoped would be obvious and therefore make my statement humerous.

I knew the shock therapy thing was a joke, but I also know you, and your inability to listen to music with the emo label on it. I don't speak to you anywhere else but on here, so I just felt like ranting about it.

I'm sick of people staying away from good music because some douche bag labeled it some way. That was the purpose of my post, not to yell at you. I lah yah.

Anyways, I'll take Kind Of Like Spitting over Dave Matthews any day.

yeah man, labels are stupid anyway. so many times i've gotten into a band and then been told the 'catagory' like punk, or emo, or metal, that they 'fit' into, and realize that if I had looked at their 'label' first, I probably would never have listened to such music in the first place. Such is the reason that I have since tried to avoid the use of labels as much as possible.

Too many of the bands that I listen to are really ambiguous, so they fit into 80 labels at once (people keep on making up new genres ).

I don't call bands that sing depressing things emo. I mean anyone who calls Matt Good is emo is clearly mistaken. I call bands emo when they sing songs about breaking up and make strange metaphors for the girl's love, heart, etc

and:

your heart is a river that flows from your chest
through every organ
your brain is the dam
and i am the fish who can't reach the cord.

sounds pretty emo to me. (i do enjoy that song though)

how does that sound pretty emo, if emo is not a real word!

like kimmy said emo is now a style not a type of music. If you dress the style then all music you listen to will be considered emo because you are dressing in the said emo style.

I still think emo is a style rather than a dress code. Wasnt it originally a term for "emotional punk/ hardcore?" I could be wrong but i remember hearing someone term it as that. Regardless it seems that a lot of bands grouped under the emo tag seem to have some similarities. Usually the lyrics are very personal and the music itself is either intricate and "artsy" or somewhat like pop punk but with more complexity. The thought that all underground bands fit into the emo genre isnt really true. Look at the White Stripes. They certainly arent "emo." At least i've never heard them termed that way.

Now i know a lot of you will disagree with me but thats fine as long as you dont dismiss a band because it has the emo label. Good music is good music.

i dunno about you guys, but every band i've heard described as "emo" seems to have a similar musical style, if not then definetly similar vocal style.

*shrugs*

maybe it's just me

emooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

emu!

Baby Thief wrote:Oh man. I don't know why, but Death Cab For Cutie is just impressing me greatly. Really, I'm not someone who enjoys stuff about love and whatnot, but their new cd is stuck in my cd player. I don't seem to like anything similar to them though... very strange.

first, you have to accept that they're a good band. and that a lot of similar bands are good too. The fact that they arent overly popular and aren't on the radio doesn't mean you need to feel ashamed for liking them. Just listen to whatever's good for you and keep an open mind that maybe
Death Cab isn't the only good "emo" band out there. There's a lot of good music you can miss out on with that mindset.

secondly - and you've probably figured this out by now out by now - be careful about freely catagorizing anything using that word. it creates more argument than doing any good. we have a couple million of these topics floating around, at least. and nothing gets solved.




just don't be ashamed about it, and go explore some new music. you'll have fun.

If that's true, then Creed and U2 are emo.

*runs*

Idealist wrote:i dunno about you guys, but every band i've heard described as "emo" seems to have a similar musical style, if not then definetly similar vocal style.

*shrugs*

maybe it's just me

agreed

Idealist wrote:i dunno about you guys, but every band i've heard described as "emo" seems to have a similar musical style, if not then definetly similar vocal style.

And this is coming from a girl who likes bands that either can't talk or don't use real words!

Please, tell me, besides Dave Matthews, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, and Sigur Ros, what is it that you like? I'm dying to know.

Idealist wrote:i dunno about you guys, but every band i've heard described as "emo" seems to have a similar musical style, if not then definetly similar vocal style.

It seems like just about EVERY emo band has the same frontman >___>...to be totally honest...

Rufus Wainwright wrote:

Idealist wrote:i dunno about you guys, but every band i've heard described as "emo" seems to have a similar musical style, if not then definetly similar vocal style.

And this is coming from a girl who likes bands that either can't talk or don't use real words!

Please, tell me, besides Dave Matthews, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, and Sigur Ros, what is it that you like? I'm dying to know.

i'm not sure what you mean but for me it isn't about diction at all, unless you use dipthongs shamelessly, then it's a little annoying.

would you like me to list the musicians that i like?

in no particular order:
radiohead, jeff buckley, our lady peace, silverchair, muse, tori amos, ben folds, claude debussy, dave matthews, eric whitacre, a perfect circle, frederic chopin, the beatles, coldplay, miles davis, maurice ravel, the flaming lips, garbage, matthew good, incubus, jump little children, sarah mclachlan, oasis, pink floyd, ours, RHCP, godspeed you black emperor!, rufus wainwright, samuel barber, chantal kreviazuk, dar williams, john coltrane, morton lauridsen, franz schubert, depeche mode

again, i'm not sure what you're asking

Alright, now that I've seen what kind of music you listen to, please tell me what gives you the right to be so condescending about the music I like. I'm dying to know how you earned the supreme right to say everything I listen to sounds the same when half of the stuff you listen to is run-of-the-mill rock music.

Thanks.

Why do some people think some bands sound the same while others hear vast difference? Well most of it probably comes down to if you like that type of music you're more likely to be able to distinguish between the bands. If you dislike it, then everyone sounds the same.
I don't think she was trying to be condescending, because as much as you say they're just all run-of-the-mill rock groups, they're probably vastly different in her mind.

So ya that's my two cents... carry on.

speaking of emo, check out emogame.com. It's a fun waste of a few hours of your life.

yeah, i think someone posted that a while back.

Yeah, I was given "partial credit" via email about the emogame 1.5 from the creator. It was fun.