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EMO

Monday, May 29th, 2006 | Helpful

Emo (an abbreviation of “emotionally-driven Hardcore punk”) is a term now broadly used to describe almost any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that expresses emotions beyond traditional punk’s limited emotional palette of alienation and rage. It is also used to describe fans of this genre, most commonly teenagers. (e.g., emo kid). The actual term “emo” originated in the mid-1980s D.C. scene, with the band Rites of Spring, as well as bands such as Fugazi, Moss Icon, and Antioch Arrow. …

Ok, so now that you know that, I am recommending you check out “Taking Back Sunday“. I used to think EMO was just a fancy new term for soft rock, but alas, it’s a fancy new term for alternative rock mixed with punk, and don’t follow the definition too close, it’s not all that hardcore…. I mean all music adapts and steals from other formats to make their music better. I suppose now that it has been labeled they will go back and relabel a bunch of other bands like Stroke 9, Sum41, Good Charlotte and Eve 6 to be EMO as well.

I guess it doesn’t matter what it’s called, so long as it’s good. I mean you all heard me say that I liked a Christian Rock station (alas may it rest in peace)… Good fucking music comes in all genre’s (and even occasionally in Country), and we should just stop pigeon-holling (there’s another dumb phrase we just get used to saying) everything into little categories to try to define who/what they are.

Here are the top 50 artists that random people have labeled EMO on last.fm… which will also prove that the definition is either VERY loose or, not well understood…. (the column with the numbers is just how many plays it got today)

Top Artists

1
1213
2
1139
3
1067
4
961
5
908
6
895
7
791
8
762
9
757
10
713
11
653
12
580
13
544
14
529
15
511
16
475
17
458
18
437
19
430
20
409
20
409
22
404
23
393
24
388
25
387
26
383
26
383
28
370
29
367
30
352
30
352
32
333
33
326
34
324
35
321
36
316
37
312
38
303
38
303
40
301
41
276
42
271
43
265
44
262
45
261
46
259
47
229
48
228
49
220
50
211

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P.S. BTW…. I should mention in case my spelling seems to have gotten worse since the new blog appeared, it’s probably because it has… I no longer have a spellchecker. I tried to install one, but it requires my server to have a newer version of php installed and my request for that has pretty much been shot down.

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