Top 10 Emo Songs
 

Title says it all. Which ten emo songs are your favourite? For whatever reason.

I'm still working on it, myself.

(Sorry if this has been done already... I didn't think so, and the bull**** search won't let me search with the words "top" or "ten" or "emo")

NOTE:
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, FALL OUT BOY, ANBERLIN, ETC, ETC, ARE NOT EMO.

This thread is off to a great start...

Eagle Bravo-35,45 Whatever
Don Martin 3-Fire as a Metaphor 4
Parades End-Sphere
Assay-Mach nur weiter so
Closure-KM
Hour of the Star-Rootbeer and running shoes
Bob Tilton-Butterfly
Bells on Trike-I Drive
Fieldtree-Memories of the World
Car Vs. Driver-Hemlock

1. pg.99 "In Love with an Apparition"
2. Montcalm "I Stopped Believing in Existence"
3. Orchid "And The Cat Turned To Smoke"
4. City of Caterpillar "A Heart Filled Reaction To Dissatisfaction"
5. Raein "Tigersuit"
6. Amanda Woodward "Binaire et lisible"
7. She Died Real Pretty "Donny Moore Vs. The Timberlane Super"
8. I Hate Myself "Conversation with Dr. Seussicide"
9. Circle Takes the Square "Interview at the Ruins"
10. La Quiete "*"

here are mine, in no specific order:

1. Indian Summer - "Angry Son"
2. Et tu Brute - "All Things Equal"
3. City of Caterpillar - "A Little Change Could Go a Long Way"
4. I Have Dreams - "Countless Rooftops"
5. Funeral Diner - "Fire... Deth"
6. Envy - "Chacun de Tes Pas"
7. I Hate Myself - "Conversation With Dr. Seussicide"
8. Raein - "Tigersuit"
9. Catena Collapse - "Elektra Boogie"
10. Cease Upon the Capitol - "Crash on the Ground"

that was tough.

No Crowquill...

My list was of course not serious, btw. It's been deleted now though :(.

Anyway I'll try to make a proper list out of what I know.

Still Life - Tree
Hoover - Cuts Like Drugs
Indian Summer - I Think Your Train Is Leaving
Chistie Front Drive - Slide
Embrace - No More Pain
Moss Icon - The Life
Rites Of Spring - Drink Deep

All that comes to mind straight away.

this is too tough.... umm...

Lion Of The North - "point me to providence"
Indian Summer - "angry son"
La Quiete - "*"
Off Minor - "staring down the barrel of limited options"
Only For The Sake Of Aching - "identity zero"
Polar - "cgsoms"
Cease Upon The Capitol - "ten"
Sinking Steps... Rising Eyes - "procession of the dancing dusk (part one)"
Funeral Diner - "this is truly god's country"
Twelve Hour Turn - "little one"



Honorable mentions/**** I had to cut: The Saddest Landscape, Portrait, every other song by La Quiete, etc. etc....

Lion Of The North - I Am Orion
You And I - 143(jcm)
Wow, Owls! - 1989: The Best 4 Years Of My Life
Usurp Synapse - The Truth About Pyecraft (or You Thought You Were Special, You Thought Wrong)
The Hated - Words Come Back
Shotmaker - The Game
Orchid - I Am Nietzsche
Neil Perry - Josh's Dream Party: Beer, Girls, And A Computer
Occam's Razor - The Machine
Moss Icon - I'm Back Sleeping Or F.ucking Or Something
Malady - Heroine
Lincoln - #4 from Morgantown Sound Radio Show
Life At These Speeds - Blocking Out The Stars
L'antietam - Two Birds
Kodan Armada - Butterfly Effect
Jeromes Dream - Thirty Dollar Bill
Hour Of The Star - Rootbeer and Running Shoes
Heroin - Leave
Gray Matter - Head
Fire Team Charlie - Captain Fantastic And Boris The Heavy Metal Kid

I can't come close to picking ten songs. this is with a whole lot of trimming as well.

word, such a good song. "there's always next year" goes so well with it.

I can't put this into any order:

- COC - And You're Wondering How a Top Floor....
- Bells on Trike - Schematic
- The Birds Are Spies, They Report To The Trees - ASI
- SDRE - J'nuh
- Mineral - Forlvadell
- Julia - Wait Mom And Dad
- Indian Summer - Touch The Wings Of An Angel....
- Manrae - Mr. Leuchter
- Orchid - Loft Party
- Hot Cross - Fortune Teller

yeah I'm counting 3rd wave

hassan i sabbah - untitled 2
neil perry - seeping through the cracks
louise cyphre - revolver AKA schall and rauch
bucket full of teeth - a morbid gathering(?)
gauge means nothing - surely dyes black
wow owls - 1989:best four years of my life
swing kids - warsaw
swing kids - disease
pg99 - in love with an apparition
quebec - je me souviens(revisited)

tigersuit - raein
pg. 99 - hotel nevada 1982
neil perry - kicked
one - kodan armada
ctts - interview at the ruins
regardless we fall - funeral diner
chinese freeze tag - iwouldsetmyselfonfireforyou
patience and prudence - hot cross
xxx vs. ooo - bear garden
shinzou - nervous light of sunday

the sample/spoken word in the intro of this song is so good.

1. The Rites Of Spring complete discography
2. everything else

haha yeah, this song rules.

the early november- i want to hear you sad
armor for sleep- dream to make believe
senses fail- 187
june- patrick
the junior varsity- get comfortable
the weakend- this is for the understanding the will never be understood
saves the day- this is not an exit
the early november- 1000 times a day
saosin- lost symphonies
playradioplay!- even fairy tale characters would be jealous

^^^
wrong

a few of them are questionably emo like june and the junior varsity, but they're still along with the whole scene.

but I'd like to know what's so "wrong" with it

First off, they're not "emo"....they're just a pop punk/post hardcore watered down version of what it used to be.

Few of those songs are pop punk or post hardcore

They all are.

none of them are emo, period. you'd know that if you listened to emo.

I don't know what self conceived opinion on it you have, but 187 and I want to hear you sad are as emo as it gets.

no

false. senses fail is an absolute garbage band. none of those bands are emo/screamo in the least. i had no idea that genres were simply "opinions" considering they are based on music theory.


you just named 10 pop rock songs. wrong thread.

qft
Just because Fuse calls them emo doesn't make them emo. They have nothing to do with the genre at all.....Done.

No, just because you say they're not emo doesn't mean they're not. You're basing it off your own opinion, not what the genre actually constitutes.

That's like mean saying the stones aren't rock, simply because I don't like them.

I'm not saying "I don't liek them , which means they're not emo" i'm stating a fact that they're not. There is no way you can say Et Tu Brute and Armor For Sleep remotely sound the same. I Hate Myself doesn't sound close to Junior Varsity. The bands you mentioned don't keep the original hardcore influences the 80's emo bands did, they're music was much more passionate and heartfelt. The bands mentioned put a poppy sound with "my girlfriend left me, and I feel so bad for myself" lyrics. If compare the 80's sound to what today calls emo, they hold no linkage in sound or song writing.

ACTUALLY,
YOU
ARE
WRONG.
http://www.musicbanter.com/hardcore-...on-thread.html

All of those are emo, except for Bullet for My Valentine. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not emo.

Some favorites:
"A Picture Postcard"-The Promise Ring
"American Typewriter"-Braid
"Breakfast of Champions"-Rainer Maria
"Buddy Holly"-Weezer
"For Me This Is Heaven"-Jimmy Eat World
"In Circles"-Sunny Day Real Estate
"Interstate 8"-Modest Mouse
"Killed by an Angel"-Sunny Day Real Estate
"Leslie"-764-HERO
"Letter from a Concerned Follower"-Pedro the Lion

Modest Mouse isn't emo at all. I've listened to emo, I've listened to every Modest Mouse song released and unreleased, they're not emo. Interstate 8 isn't emo either. I think you have 90s indie confused with emo or something because I don't know how you could consider My Chemical Romance and Weezer in the same genre of music they sound nothing alike.

Them not being emo makes them not emo. Read the educate thread or don't post and if you disagree with everything I said in the education thread then please feel free to correct me in an intelligent manner with some back to it until then refrain from posting in here as it's spamming. Thanks.

Modest Mouse is very much emo. The only main album they've released that isn't emo is We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Some other emo songs that are nearly my favorite are "Never Ending Math Equation" and "The Stars Are Projectors".
Weezer isn't indie rock. Blondie and The Ramones are both punk artists, they sound different.

Edit: I didn't read what you typed sleepy jack until after I posted.

If you're right it shouldn't be hard for you to argue it in here: http://www.musicbanter.com/hardcore-...on-thread.html should it?

I never said I disagreed with the education thread.

If you don't then that means Modest Mouse, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Pedro The Lion, Anberlin, Weezer, etc are all not emo and you stated they were.

I'm not saying I do agree with it, I'm saying I never said I didn't agree with it.

What the fuck? Listen either read it and disprove it or stop posting in here. It's frustrating when people spam these forums with bands that aren't emo while the rest of us are actually trying to talk about emo.

I approve of some of it and disapprove of other things.

If you're not going to explain what you approve and disprove of and why then get out. I don't really have time for your vague statements that have no argument.