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Meddler

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 13:02

R o V e R wrote:

What the hell is "EMO"?

tell me in one line

emo = emotional = full of emotion, sad emotion

Edited by Meddler - September 12 2006 at 13:02

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 14:31

The drummer of my band is EMO...he always makes us listen to bands like Thursday, At the drive in and others... GOD, with the exception of the great Cedric Baxler...I cant stand emo singers...they all sound so alike.

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 14:33

Meddler wrote:

R o V e R wrote:

What the hell is "EMO"?

tell me in one line

emo = emotional = full of emotion, sad emotion

EMO is not even that full os emotion... there are hundreds of prog bands that are more packed with emotions that most emo... Pain of Salvation for example!

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 14:37

If I correctly understand what "emo" means, I think I had an emo phase for a year or two in my early teens. Is this the new term for people who wear Doc Martens and love bands like Morrissey/Smiths and the Dead Kennedys? (Possibly with updated bands). Or did I hang with a pseudo-punk crowd? Who knows - I didn't care, I'd chill with anyone - punks, metalheads, nerds, jocks, etc.

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 14:39

Emo does not stand for 'emotion', it stands for 'emocore', which respectively stands for 'emotional hardcore', which is a genre that was born in the 80's and has been dead since then.

All the awful mallcore and pop punk bands that spring to your mind when you hear the word 'emo' are not, countrary to the mainstream belief, emo. Thank you for your attention.

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 14:43

NaturalScience wrote:

If I correctly understand what "emo" means, I think I had an emo phase for a year or two in my early teens. Is this the new term for people who wear Doc Martens and love bands like Morrissey/Smiths and the Dead Kennedys? (Possibly with updated bands). Or did I hang with a pseudo-punk crowd? Who knows - I didn't care, I'd chill with anyone - punks, metalheads, nerds, jocks, etc.

No, you weren't, at least by the modern standards. LOL

Morissey/Smiths and Dead Kennedys are cool, but not emo. Today would be something like this:

Emo music is like Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes, AFI, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance (a personal favorite of James) and Thursday.

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 14:50

Arsillus wrote:

No, you weren't, at least by the modern standards. LOL

Morissey/Smiths and Dead Kennedys are cool, but not emo. Today would be something like this:

Emo music is like Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes, AFI, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance (a personal favorite of James) and Thursday.

Thanks, don't know a phrase that described what I was then! LOL

No offense to anyone who likes the above bands, but I catch videos or hear them on radio every now and then, and I honestly can't differentiate among them. Maybe I just don't listen enough, but I don't see what each "new" one of these bands is bringing to the table.

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 14:51

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 14:56

NaturalScience wrote:

Arsillus wrote:

No, you weren't, at least by the modern standards. LOL

Morissey/Smiths and Dead Kennedys are cool, but not emo. Today would be something like this:

Emo music is like Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes, AFI, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance (a personal favorite of James) and Thursday.

Thanks, don't know a phrase that described what I was then! LOL

Unfortunately not much. Ermm

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 16:59

"Im sooo f**king depressed, im gonna cut my wrists. Blahblahblah"

Can't stand it! If they're so f**king depressed and full of emotions etc. so TALK ABOUT IT!

"Emo" Bah! Emo=Overrated!

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:11

TheProgtologist wrote:

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No...but my teenaged daughter is.

Something wrong with that?

Not entirely. Just watch her wrists.

That is what makes my daughter mad.She dresses emo,listens to emo music(not exclusively though),and if I say my daughter is emo the first thing I hear is something about either suicide or cutting.

Not about this post but awhile ago I said my daughter was emo,the reply I got was..."Is she a cutter?"

I told my daughter this and she rolled her eyes and said...."the world is full of idiots".

Don't buy into all the stereotypes.

Bj-1 wrote:

"Im sooo f**king depressed, im gonna cut my wrists. Blahblahblah"

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:12

from the little I understood from what EMO means

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:13

Arsillus wrote:

Emo music is like Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes, AFI, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance (a personal favorite of James) and Thursday.

I listen to AFI.

I was very shocked when I saw their Miss Murder clip last month. It was the first time I saw them and I actually expected them to be punk but they looked all emo.

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:14

TheProgtologist wrote:

Arsillus wrote:

TheProgtologist wrote:

No...but my teenaged daughter is.

Something wrong with that?

Not entirely. Just watch her wrists.

I actually know more emo's who fit the stereotype and do the wrist-cutting and depression over everthing then ones who don't.

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:21

I am not emo.

I can't stand it. It' soooo boring and it is NOT emotional... It is just cheesy... Dead

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