Need emo crap

Revenant · 15 Jan 2007 at 15:46

Is EMO just the new Goth? with a kinda Sk8 twist to make it more hip/in/trendy?

00bob00 · 15 Jan 2007 at 16:33

Revenant said:
Is EMO just the new Goth? with a kinda Sk8 twist to make it more hip/in/trendy?

well then no, it isn't because goth was never in/hip or trendy!

people generally do it for themselves rather than trying to be in hip or trendy or because robert smith is their god!

Dreadi · 15 Jan 2007 at 22:36

Revenant said:
with a kinda Sk8 twist to make it more hip/in/trendy?

Dont EVER try and say music has a "sk8 twist" or any such phrase!

and its Skate

Scam · 15 Jan 2007 at 23:18

I thought we established that when talking about Emo it's generally got nothing to do with music, therefore the guy was merely talking about the fashion/identity

Dreadi · 15 Jan 2007 at 23:44

Either way, it has no connection with skating in anyway...

dokko · 16 Jan 2007 at 01:54

Raikiri said:
Hahahahahahahahhahaha

No, panic at the disco is just crap not grunge.

Edit:
Popular 'Emo' bands would probably be things like:

My Chemical Romance
Dashboard Confessional
Brand New
Fall out boy
etc.

Not heard of any of them, am i getting old?

Or just have good taste in music?

Zip · 16 Jan 2007 at 02:36

dokko said:
Not heard of any of them, am i getting old?

Or just have good taste in music?

Just switch the radio on and they will being played every 5 minutes

WotDa · 16 Jan 2007 at 04:37

helpimcrap said:
kings of emo...

jimmy eat world.

:/ You guys have made me sound emo now.

I should be fine as long as I still have 2 days of Vocal Trance, several rap artists and some other stuff though.

And to think when I call Emma Emo she hits me in the balls, she seems rather fascinated by the more 'commercial' 'emo' bands.

helpimcrap · 16 Jan 2007 at 05:01

WotDa said:
:/ You guys have made me sound emo now.

I should be fine as long as I still have 2 days of Vocal Trance, several rap artists and some other stuff though.

And to think when I call Emma Emo she hits me in the balls, she seems rather fascinated by the more 'commercial' 'emo' bands.

i get called emo all the time coz i like jimmy eat world, my chemical romance, pan!c, fallout boy etc.

:rolleyes:

Scam · 16 Jan 2007 at 11:24

Dreadi said:
Either way, it has no connection with skating in anyway...

I'd say it has.. wallet chains being one example? Skate shoes?

helpimcrap said:
i get called emo all the time coz i like jimmy eat world, my chemical romance, pan!c, fallout boy etc.

I'd like to take this opportunity to start the trend of calling people the more correct term of 'scenester'. That way we wont get a gazillion threads with people asking 'what is emu' and then getting confused when it has nothing to do with music.

So..

emo = scene
fall out boy = scene
panic! at the disco = scene
my chemical romance = scene
long fringe = scene
girls jeans on blokes = scene

People belonging to the scene, are hereby declared as scenesters. Ok? Got it? Let's get this ball rolling.

Zip · 16 Jan 2007 at 11:47

Scam said:
I'd say it has.. wallet chains being one example? Skate shoes?

I'd like to take this opportunity to start the trend of calling people the more correct term of 'scenester'. That way we wont get a gazillion threads with people asking 'what is emu' and then getting confused when it has nothing to do with music.

So..

emo = scene
fall out boy = scene
panic! at the disco = scene
my chemical romance = scene
long fringe = scene
girls jeans on blokes = scene

People belonging to the scene, are hereby declared as scenesters. Ok? Got it? Let's get this ball rolling.

My brothers a Scenester and has a weird facination with pain and pictures of split wrists

If mum wouldnt yell at me i would give him a beating right hear and now to beat soem sence into him

THMRK · 16 Jan 2007 at 12:47

Everyone in this thread needs a reality check. You guys have no idea what emo and scene is.

THANKS KERRANG!!

Zip · 16 Jan 2007 at 12:50

Woody__ said:
Everyone in this thread needs a reality check. You guys have no idea what emo and scene is.

THANKS KERRANG!!

Well then smart arse...

Tell us what you think they are

THMRK · 16 Jan 2007 at 12:57

Not again. Anyway, I think the link has been posted in this thread by someone else who wasn't me, this time.

As for scene and scenester, a scenester is someone who actively contribute to a local (or localish) scene. The kind of guys who help put on shows, or run labels, or run distros, or zines. How they look has nothing to do with anything, really.

Scene bands are generally considered to be bands that aren't quite mainstream but are sort of popular. It's usually a term that people use to talk about many of the metalcore bands that exist at the moment. But it can be used to describe obsecure bands that a lot of beardy folk seem to like.

Zip · 16 Jan 2007 at 13:40

Woody__ said:
Not again. Anyway, I think the link has been posted in this thread by someone else who wasn't me, this time.

As for scene and scenester, a scenester is someone who actively contribute to a local (or localish) scene. The kind of guys who help put on shows, or run labels, or run distros, or zines. How they look has nothing to do with anything, really.

Scene bands are generally considered to be bands that aren't quite mainstream but are sort of popular. It's usually a term that people use to talk about many of the metalcore bands that exist at the moment. But it can be used to describe obsecure bands that a lot of beardy folk seem to like.

And now Describe what you think an Emo is. That was all about Scenesters

oweneades · 16 Jan 2007 at 13:42

Nitro_Junkie said:
fixed

aiden are possibly the most god awful excuse for music

lol thankyou!

00bob00 · 16 Jan 2007 at 13:47

Woody__ said:
Not again. Anyway, I think the link has been posted in this thread by someone else who wasn't me, this time.

As for scene and scenester, a scenester is someone who actively contribute to a local (or localish) scene. The kind of guys who help put on shows, or run labels, or run distros, or zines. How they look has nothing to do with anything, really.

Scene bands are generally considered to be bands that aren't quite mainstream but are sort of popular. It's usually a term that people use to talk about many of the metalcore bands that exist at the moment. But it can be used to describe obsecure bands that a lot of beardy folk seem to like.

even though you are pretty much spot on with your definitions, you can't really tell people they have no idea what x or y is because it's not like they're wrong either. Let me explain this crazy notion.

pop music is as we all know popular music. HOWEVER, it has managed to worm its way to form its own genre today, examples such as girls aloud, all saints...

ditto with indie music - again music from independent labels, however become its own genre examples franz ferdinand, arctic monkeys - domino, run by a larger corporation which is part of the RIAA. Definitely not an independent label.

When i ask people what music they like, i don't shove it in their face by saying X ISN'T INDIE or Y ISN'T POP - you just accept it and quit whining.

THMRK · 16 Jan 2007 at 13:55

00bob00 said:
even though you are pretty much spot on with your definitions, you can't really tell people they have no idea what x or y is because it's not like they're wrong either. Let me explain this crazy notion.

pop music is as we all know popular music. HOWEVER, it has managed to worm its way to form its own genre today, examples such as girls aloud, all saints...

ditto with indie music - again music from independent labels, however become its own genre examples franz ferdinand, arctic monkeys - domino, run by a larger corporation which is part of the RIAA. Definitely not an independent label.

When i ask people what music they like, i don't shove it in their face by saying X ISN'T INDIE or Y ISN'T POP - you just accept it and quit whining.

I don't usually have an issue with most forms of music and the way they put into genres but the reason that the emo defination bugs me so much is that bands that are called emo now sound nothing at all like the bands that were called emo in the 80s and 90s. There is just no correlation between the two and this misinterpretation is further perpetuated by all forms of mainstream music media and you would think that a music journalist would have his musical history right. At least, would have it right enough to know that the late 80s and early 90s bands that were emo share nothing in terms of sound, ethic or even appreance of those bands that are classified as it just now.

Emo really is the only genre that really gets to me in this way. Maybe its because of the way I was broken into the style of music and I've just kind of picked up the torch, as such, in trying to put across what the correct defination (and sound) of emo is.

The whole thing wouldn't get me so much if the old defination and the new defination werent so bloody far apart from each other.

In the end though, I am just really pedantic about music history as a whole and I love seeing where sounds come from and how they develop. I just can't understand how a scene, or a genre that had been dead since Sunny Day Real Estate broke up suddenly became a buzz word for whiney pop-punk bands or crossover nu-metal/pop-punk bands. There's nothing to even indicated an evolution of the sound.

I am happy to be proven wrong with that one, though.

THMRK · 16 Jan 2007 at 13:57

Zip said:
And now Describe what you think an Emo is. That was all about Scenesters

Like I said before, the link is already in this thread. If you need a hand though, it was posted by 00bob00 and it is post number 56.

geeza · 16 Jan 2007 at 14:17

I like (hard) dance music but also listen to 'emo' music

Mars volta
Antioch Arrow
envy
Funeral Diner
Hot Water Music
man holding briefcase
Mogwai
Orchid
Refused

Mars volta and Refused used to be my favs, great bands. Also got some 'hardcore' emo stuff like bucket full of teeth and army of flying robots but she might not like them!

edit - emo is not crap, just the mentality is!