Zealious

See post on "Real Emo Bands"

Emo was a genre and era roughly between 1994-99. The bands listed by some played in this period and had similar characteristics of introspective/melodic music. Some say it was a spin off from hardcore/post-hardcore but what's for certain is that it has some qualities of that also. I'm not really willing to say these characteristics of emo partly because everyone argues about it/I don't now all about it.

The emo era is just like the grunge era...sorta. It reached a peak and now is declining/dead. There are still a few bands linked to this "emo" scene but now its being replaced with other bands who play catchy, sappy/predictable music, where ONLY the critics and people, NOT the bands, lable as emo.

H34vY M374L

Well buddy tell ya ass something mofo
**** you
**** emo
**** punk
**** rap
**** skaters
And **** you
and most of all **** Thrice

your music has came to the dead end
even yourself is telling that it has

i, as a metalhead can say that music has lived all the way since it has been created
now some of you may think your little slipy dipy slipknot or bands like that are metal
well tell you something buddy that aint nothing but my ****
so hoeabout you get ur virgin ears used to metal and think a lil deep why it hasnt died
because it uses talent
from the lyrics to the music
its about everything
it about life
life is what you want to end when you are pissed off at everything
everything is life
listen to metal
and no posing bitch ad bands

covle

dude they wrote an entire album about a relationship failure, that relationship failure caused the band to break up for a short period of time. that isnt emo?

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whoa...i quoted atreyu, that means im hardcore. look how hardcore i am!! thats hardcore...XXX

Zealious

You know what band you should look into?... BackStreet Boys They too wrote a WHOLE album on realtionship failure and so did N'Sync. So these bands must be emo then right?

Thrice

Im speaking of present day emo.

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Lew Harrison, who looked like an anarchist with his red eyes and fierce black beard, had been writing furiously in one corner of the room. "That's good—happiness by the kilowatt," he said. "Buy your happiness the way you buy light."

Thrice

Ha ha, you are the lamest person ever to visit the forums... It is unbelievable how you speak of everything in terms of labels....No one is even held within a label, genius. Good for metal, im not downing it, but you are poorly representing it. If you dislike my style of music, thats cool, but dont be an ass about it. For absolutely no reason you chose to be an *******, and you will end up paying for it. I am sorry that you cannot view music as music, but as genres. Sorry you can't view life as life. You have serious problems and I hope your music helps you through them. your problems may have to do with death, and metal helps you through that, whereas my music may follow topics such as relationships where they may help me. So in general music is music, you are just EXTREMELY close minded and shallow. Good luck with your future bitching.

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Lew Harrison, who looked like an anarchist with his red eyes and fierce black beard, had been writing furiously in one corner of the room. "That's good—happiness by the kilowatt," he said. "Buy your happiness the way you buy light."

covle

two points thrice!
dude, do not assume that just because we are punks, or listen to punk, that we are not informed in any other genre. i used to be a serious metal head and know a fair bit about it.

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whoa...i quoted atreyu, that means im hardcore. look how hardcore i am!! thats hardcore...XXX

Tekron

dude i love you so much. your awesome. You must kill a ton of people eh? Do you beat your girlfriend too?...im can tell you right now im not alone in the group of people throwing marbles under you as you walk towards the stairs.

But hey! look on the bright side, theirs always tomorrow to kill yourself, right everyone!!!

*Yea!!!!*

*never felt more lonely at 12:38 am*

Edit : HEAVY METAL TAKES TALENT? AND U DONT THINK EMOCORE HAS TALENT? lemme guess, you can write lyrics like Chris Conely from Saves the Day, and play guitar like Shawn and Paul from BTBAM? riiiight

covle

there is a lot of talent in metal dont say there isnt. but there are slightly different skills needed. the guitars are different, the vocals are a lot different, but they are both still an expression of emotion....albeit sometimes "tough-lets all act suicidal" emotions. but metal has a large audience and as all music continually does, is evolving. saying it takes no skill is fairly arrogant and naive

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whoa...i quoted atreyu, that means im hardcore. look how hardcore i am!! thats hardcore...XXX

Tekron

i like hardcore and metal and stuff. it doesnt have as much talent as emocore. this is because its the same music, with different lyrics. emo generally has more talent lyrically. emocore is a clash between 2 awesome groups of music. metalcore and emo. i've never heard anything more self-pleasuring. its an awesome group of music. although.

metal = less talent, BECAUSE they sing songs like "sweet cherry pie" and stuff like that, most of their songs don't involve lyrically talent.

edit : i didnt say it takes "no talent", it does. its just talent through intsruments. but like i said, emocore is the same as metalcore, just with emo lyrics, and they both take talent for the instruments.