It seems that I spend too much time working or doing not trendy stuff and missed the meeting, so someone please fill me in whats emo?
I see references to emo (highschool) kids and being or not being emo all the time (well often enough) but the boat has left and I wasnt on the passenger list.
Damn I am getting old…
Emo is a broad genre of music that is short for “Emotional”. It is defined as rock or punk music with alot of emotion. Wheezer would be the prime example of Emo.
if you do an ‘emo’ search on ebay (vintage clothes, especially), you can also find lots of clothing that fit this style… i had no idea myself that it had anything to do with emotional music, but i ain’t in high school anymore either
Is Dashboard Confessional Emo? Cuz I’d say his music is very emotional.
Good band too. 
Weezer would not be a prime example of emo, though many fans of emo have done some revisioning of Weezer’s Pinkerton as a prototypical Weezer album. This can certainly be debated, and the rest of Weezer’s music isn’t really emo at all.
I’m surprised that bands like Embrace, Husker Du, Dagnasty and Rites of Spring are considered early emo in that link. I like those bands, but never associated them with emo. I usually think of bands like Jawbreaker, Samiam and Sunny Day Real Estate when I think of early emo. However, I do think that the latter list of bands does draw from the former list of bands. Perhaps it’s a matter of degree, an extra generation in the family tree of emo.
i did not know that!
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Supposedly it’s music with more ‘emotion’ but I think that’s a bunch of crap. All music is emotional.
This would probably get a better response in Cafe Society. I remember some EMO discussion in there. Try a search, I think one thread had a title something like, “Tell me About the Next Big Thing.”
Thanks for the link, I think I now know more than I actually wanted, but well at least now I am up to date again on this matter.
I always thought emo was just emotional punk in the Buzzcocks vein.
I didn’t know Emo was involved with music.
No wonder I don’t get the distinction, either. Of the bands from that link, I’ve only heard of six or so of them, most of whom I only know a couple of songs by and don’t care for. What about bands like Saves the Day, Jimmy Eat World The Aniversary Ring and Piebald? I think I’ve heard of those being lumped into that catogory too. If any of the first three are, I might not dislike the sub-genre after all.
I think Jimmy Eat World and Saves The Day (along with Ozma, Sunny Day, etc.) would all be lumped in. All of those, I think, have opened for Weezer, validating the earlier suggestion that Weezer’s whinier moments (on both their first and second albums) have been a touchstone of inspiration for the self-proclaimed emo crowd (though R. Cuomo of Weezer purports to hate the label, and in fact probably has too many Yngwie Malmsteen guitar god fantasies to qualify as a fully fledged sensitive guy shoe gazer). If you define it as sensistive guy shoegazer music, the previous suggestions as to earlier fonts et origos (??) dating back through the '80s is certainly on point – and consider the grandaddy of all sensitive shoe gazers, Morrissey/Smiths, who are never lumped in with emo but probably outght to be if you look at the tone/subject matter. I’ve always thought the line of demarcation between the '80s sensitive moody guy music and the '90s emo was that the depressed '80s guys tended toward sensititivity a la ambivalent sexuality (Morrissey is the obvious reference) whereas Cuomo and the depressed '90s guys tend toward enthusiastic but thwarted guitars 'n girls preferences. Sorry if this has been a Cafe Society digression but there’s no clear factual answer I think.
I haven’t heard EMO in years! When I was in the Army & in the electronic warfare biz, we had our own version of EMO. In our case, it stood for Early Morning Orgasm.
When we’d get a sufficiently gullible newbie in the unit, he or she would be sent out to collect the day’s EMO report. Since pretty much everyone was in on it, the victim would come back with a lot of official sounding & sufficiently vague EMO reports. If the perpetrator was convincing enough, he or she could even get the newbie to write it up into some sort of official looking report format.
Oh, we were an evil lot.
Emo can basically be broken down into about 4 core parts:
Screamo-which would include bands like Thursday, Taking Back Sunday, Poison the well…etc
Indie Emo-bands like…deathcab for a cutie, cursive, built to spill, mineral…
Punk Emo- bands like Saves the Day, Alkaline Trio and old NFG…i guess
…and there is Emo…emo…which is basically all of the late 80’s early 90’s hardcore bands from DC…like Rites of Spring…
Just curious… where do the Ataris fall in this mix?
I find them to be a combination of Jawbreaker and Dagnasty/Down by Law… a punk band with an emo element.
The Ataris…fall into the punk emo pocket…
Any band that claims “We are not an emo band” is an emo band.