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Question: Does Emo sucketh OR does it rule our collective asses!
Emo Sucks!
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« on: January 06, 2006, 09:43:22 PM »

I hate Emo. I like Weezer's first album, but I still HATE "emotional rock." It's kind of like someone took rock music and had it neutered. It's not even evil enough to be the death of rock n' roll, it's just evil enough to be the definition of lame.

Yet, it does have a strong following. Kind of like disco. Only disco doesn't suck as bad.
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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2006, 10:00:00 PM »

i was the what's emo...i know what it is...but i have hard time deciding if i like it or not. my friends are in an emo band, so i dont wanna say they suck...but emo is highly underated in my community among the teen crowd...it's just teens crying out with their acoustics over papercuts, past/present girlfriends, etc.
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2006, 10:16:45 PM »

Congratulations! You guys each have won a portable model of Joan of Arc!

Really, "emo" has got to be THE stupidest label for music yet. Forget who first said it, but, "Calling music 'emotional' is like saying water is wet."

I like a couple of bands who've been branded "emo," I guess, but then I once found Jeff Buckley albums in the emo section of a lame-ass record store. Weezer's "Pinkerton" has been hailed as the definitive emo album, yet I still can't bring myself to hate it; it's been a longtime favorite of mine.
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2006, 10:51:46 PM »

It sucks harder than a foda Hoover factory.
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2006, 12:21:39 AM »

Weezer being branded as 'emo' is the stupidest thing ever.  The Blue Album and Pinkerton are not 'emo' they are straight up rock and roll...imo.

A Portable Model Of is my favorite Joan of Arc album, they ahve so many good ones but that one tops all of them. Caliban is pure brilliance. I love The Owls lp too, and the new Make Believe stuff is great.

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« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2006, 12:39:47 AM »

For a minute I was hoping this was a thread about Emo Phillips! Oh well.
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« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2006, 01:01:24 AM »

For a minute I thought there was a typo in the thread title
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« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2006, 01:58:22 AM »

Ahh my car crazy cutie, that's what I thought it said too...

The thing I don't get about this emo genre, is that all the vocalists sound like a 21st Century Mike Love...  they sh*t me up the wall, but Mike doesn't.  I hate Mike if only for his wretched solo albums, and his inspiring a generation of kids to sing like him.

Other than that... he's a swell guy.

...And so we enter, end game.
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« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2006, 02:46:03 AM »

I hate nearly all popular music of the past three or four years...

For example, just looking at my iTunes at all the albums I have from 2005, it's Alanis Morisette's Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, Brian's Christmas album, a song written by the guy that was on the Robert Blake trial, a Beach Boys cover album, and some local stuff.

Emo is dominating the market, and I hate it. Not just normal acoustic "my girlfriend broke up with me" emo, but all the other forms of music that are becoming emo-influenced. Sad* shít.

*no pun intended
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« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2006, 06:35:23 AM »

I like good music and dislike bad. After that, I try not to worry too much about what to call it, and I don't think I've come across a genre (or subgrnre, or sub-subgenre, etc) that's entirely one or the other.
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« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2006, 08:16:59 AM »

What the hell is Pet Sounds then?

Half of those songs you could perform on acoustic and sound just like those bands.

Oh but Pet Sounds appeals to us more, makes us feel it.

Guess what? All these stupid teenage girls ALSO get into their emo music and feel it.
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« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2006, 08:21:55 AM »

Isn't all music inherently emotional? Isn't there always feeling behind the music? Emo's just a tag that's been put on a few dozen bands.

I dare anyone here to listen to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and tell me there isn't an abundance of emotion in that music.
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« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2006, 08:28:21 AM »


I dare anyone here to listen to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and tell me there isn't an abundance of emotion in that music.

Or, for that matter, the entire Romantic movement in music--the bulk of the European "serious" music of the 1800s was largely based on blatantly displayed emotion.
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« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2006, 08:30:16 AM »

Exactly so for anyone to dismiss all these new bands as "emo", you're just insulting yourself with it.

I don't know what those bands are.

I guess you're talking about stuff like Dashboard Confessional?

I think they are the result of uncreative, sad people who decided to make music.
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« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2006, 08:32:13 AM »

I want one of these bands to cover "I'm Waiting For The Day" and "That's Not Me" for us and release it.

Though their lyrics are generally no way near Asher's.
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« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2006, 08:33:28 AM »

All music, Luther, has "blatantly displayed emotion".

Hello, Elvis fucking Presley? The man only sounded otherworldly when he sang gospel music with such emotion.
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« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2006, 08:58:39 AM »

I don't find that to be correct. I can't hear the emotion in some of the early days of synth-based pop. When a band sounds as if it's going through the motions, I don't hear emotion. I don't hear emotion in some electronica.

More than that, I don't hear emotion in music that is too obviously constructed to pull on your heartstrings. For example, when I hear a Celine Dion or Christina Aguilera ballad, it sounds to me like alien scientists watching from above measured each little ingredient and mixed them just so, knowing "this sort of thing makes humans feel [sad/inspired/hopeful/whatever]."

That isn't emotion.
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« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2006, 09:01:24 AM »

There's emotion in everything inherently human. Maybe it's apathy, that's an emotion too.
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« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2006, 09:26:23 AM »

There has to be emotion in some aspect of anything human. But a computer, for example, doesn't express emotion, even though it may carry the idea of a human's emotion to others so that it can be experienced. And re-read what I was saying originally: blatant display of emotion. That isn't the same thing. Overtly emotional and having emotion in some aspect aren't the same thing.

By the way, not to be too specific or anything, but apathy isn't an emotion. In fact, Merriam-Webster defines it as:

1 : lack of feeling or emotion

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« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2006, 04:38:12 PM »

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« Reply #20 on: January 07, 2006, 05:03:06 PM »

Buy them some razor blades!

That's a sh!+ty thing to say.
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« Reply #21 on: January 07, 2006, 05:05:07 PM »

These suburban creeps spouting their soft-sell misery deserve a punch. Hard. Then their privileged whiny asses would know what pain is all about. I nominate myself for the duty.
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« Reply #22 on: January 07, 2006, 05:06:10 PM »

These suburban creeps spouting their soft-sell misery deserve a punch. Hard. Then their privileged whiny asses would know what pain is all about. I nominate myself for the duty.
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« Reply #23 on: January 07, 2006, 05:06:34 PM »

But nobody deserves a razor blade. Seriously, hyperbole or not, that's shitty. (whoops, that's going to be written as merda, I guess.)

I agree with the general idea, but the overgeneralization and the specifics of the post, nope.
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« Reply #24 on: January 07, 2006, 05:13:56 PM »

These suburban creeps spouting their soft-sell misery deserve a punch. Hard. Then their privileged whiny asses would know what pain is all about. I nominate myself for the duty.
Can I be your assistant?

You got it. You hold them, I'll punch.

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