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	Taking Back Sunday	1213
2	My Chemical Romance	1139
3	Fall Out Boy	1067
4	Dashboard Confessional	961
5	Death Cab for Cutie	908
6	Jimmy Eat World	895
7	Brand New	791
8	The Used	762
9	Bright Eyes	757
10	Funeral for a Friend	713
11	PANIC! at the disco	653
12	Thursday	580
13	Hawthorne Heights	544
14	Coheed and Cambria	529
15	Something Corporate	511
16	Finch	475
17	Armor for Sleep	458
18	Alkaline Trio	437
19	Senses Fail	430
20	Matchbook Romance	409
20	The Get Up Kids	409
22	Motion City Soundtrack	404
23	Thrice	393
24	Yellowcard	388
25	Saves the Day	387
26	Mae	383
26	The All-American Rejects	383
28	The Early November	370
29	Story of the Year	367
30	From First to Last	352
30	The Starting Line	352
32	Underoath	333
33	At the Drive-In	326
34	The Academy Is…	324
35	The Postal Service	321
36	Weezer	316
37	Silverstein	312
38	The Juliana Theory	303
38	Straylight Run	303
40	AFI	301
41	The Ataris	276
42	Alexisonfire	271
43	Saosin	265
44	From Autumn to Ashes	262
45	Emery	261
46	Sunny Day Real Estate	259
47	Anberlin	229
48	blink-182	228
49	Cursive	220
50	Further Seems Forever	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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