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Forgive my ignorance but what is emo?

Explain.

Basically punk music which (most of the time) is at a slightly slower pace and is totally based around the "emo"tional lyrics.

http://www.imsoemo.com/styles.htm - This website gives a good feel for the history of the genre

At present, Emo is divided into two catagories - "Pop Emo" (bands like Taking Back Sunday) and (for lack of a better term) "Folk Emo" (bands like Bright Eyes or Dashboard Confessional).

Here's a previous thread that might help:

What is Emo?

abakubub there are alot more than two sub genres of emo you have your Emo(get up kids), Indie-emo(Motion City Soundtrack),Hardcore-emo(dont really listen to this),Heart-core(this is more the dashboard ,i think) punk/emo(this is the borderline junk that nobody can decide on stuff like blink),Screamo(thursday,Thrice)and finally post-emo so there ya go:)

well does anyone really know? im sure everyone can agree "emo means emotional" but there are so many different changes and alterations and opinions [at least in my world] theres no COMMANDMENTS OF EMO... and that pretty much goes for any other type of music...

I don't think you can call emo a genre anymore. It was at one time, but it's not anymore, the closest thing to a straight up emo band would be the get up kids, but they aren't really anymore. Emo is a style of songwriting, and to a certain extent musicianship. There are a lot of emo songs, but no straight up "emo" bands.

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luncheon man, the links that other ppl listed are good. but if u really wanna know wut emo is, check out the book , "Nothing Feels Good." Thats the only true resource in my mind...