Emo Revival?

[theshoegazer]

I've noticed a resurgence in emo-esque bands in recent years (hell, I was in one). In the vein of Sunny Day Real Estate, early Modest Mouse, etc. I dig it.



Like This: http://topshelfrecords.bandcamp.com/alb ... er-if-ever



And This: http://topshelfrecords.bandcamp.com/alb ... ushed-back

What have you guys stumbled across? Is your band part of this kind-of revival?

[Bellyheart]

I don't really get it. Feel like it never died and it was so over saturated but what isn't? I played with Native a couple years back and I thought I was watching Underoath.

[kbit]

I just saw The World Is A Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid To Die last week and they were so so good. I need to get that record.

[echodeluxe]

emo never died, it just went underground when all these kids started calling bands that werent really emo, emo. like Hawthorne Heights, everything on Drive Thru Records, etc.

stuff like Braid and American Football was real emo. all that other shit spawned the horrible "scene" style.

all those old emo bands are the reason my favorite band aesthetic is just like, four dudes in t shirt and jeans. it wasnt about style it was about music. and the music was GOOD. complex and thought out and visceral.

[kbit]

It was a style of not caring

But yeah American Football is the shit.
I wanna get more into some stuff like this.

[Bellyheart]

American football are decent.

The world is a beautiful place etc. I also don't understand. I was supposed to play with them and they cancelled due to their singer being schizo or something to that effect.

I think vocals of emo is what pisses me off the most. I do appreciate some of the instrumentation, but not the whiny vocals about parents.

[Big Mon]

but not the whiny vocals about parents.

I uhhhh....like Fugazi, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Rites of Spring....And Shudder To Think...do they count? Or is that more "Post-Hardcore"? I mainly listen to "guitar-musics", and generally ignore using less broad genre-tags. Not that that makes me special or anything. I just get confused, as there's often some character-overlap between genres/subgenres.

[Bellyheart]

Shudder to think "hit liquor" oh my

[D.o.S.]

but not the whiny vocals about parents.

I uhhhh....like Fugazi, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Rites of Spring....And Shudder To Think...do they count? Or is that more "Post-Hardcore"? I mainly listen to "guitar-musics", and generally ignore using less broad genre-tags. Not that that makes me special or anything. I just get confused, as there's often some character-overlap between genres/subgenres.

I find most bands that are "emo" are "bad," so I don't agree that Fugazi are "emo."

When I think of "emo," I think of Thursday, Thrice, Hawthorne Heights, 18 Visions, Bleeding Through, Throwdown, Atreyu, and all those other non-descript "metalcore" "screamo" "hardcore" bands that made me really have a hard time with "punks" from roughly 2002-2006.

[Big Mon]

but not the whiny vocals about parents.

I uhhhh....like Fugazi, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Rites of Spring....And Shudder To Think...do they count? Or is that more "Post-Hardcore"? I mainly listen to "guitar-musics", and generally ignore using less broad genre-tags. Not that that makes me special or anything. I just get confused, as there's often some character-overlap between genres/subgenres.

I find most bands that are "emo" are "bad," so I don't agree that Fugazi are "emo."

When I think of "emo," I think of Thursday, Thrice, Hawthorne Heights, 18 Visions, Bleeding Through, Throwdown, Atreyu, and all those other non-descript "metalcore" "screamo" "hardcore" bands that made me really have a hard time with "punks" from roughly 2002-2006.

Yeah, I more or less know the staple Emo of Latter Day Saints bands. I guess the point I was making is, I like the bands that inspired all that stuff. I didn't hear things of that ilk referred to as elmo music until about 1998.

[Deltaphoenix]

Fuck Emo.

SLAYER

[theactionindex]

Yeah, but like... you know... Mineral.

MINERAL.

MINERAL.

[D.o.S.]

What's Mineral?

[Twangasaurus]

I like Mineral, I like that one Brand New album, I like Slint, I like The Appleseed Cast and I'm sure that if I really looked I would find more "emo" bands that I like but I was in high school when this shit was a big deal and my sister was "scene". The fucking vomit that came out of her room at ear breaking volumes for nigh on three years and all the whiny fucks that I used to run into when I was just walking around the city center (they used to hang out in front of an old church ) means that I could never, ever admit that I actually like emo. Therefore I hereby give the genre emo the new title of Wiggle Cats Say Huzzah.

Man, I do write a lot of wank. I got over this problem and I found out that I did in fact like many of tha emos. Progress... or something.

[rustywire]

but not the whiny vocals about parents.

I uhhhh....like Fugazi, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Rites of Spring....And Shudder To Think...do they count? Or is that more "Post-Hardcore"? I mainly listen to "guitar-musics", and generally ignore using less broad genre-tags. Not that that makes me special or anything. I just get confused, as there's often some character-overlap between genres/subgenres.

I find most bands that are "emo" are "bad," so I don't agree that Fugazi are "emo."

When I think of "emo," I think of Thursday, Thrice, Hawthorne Heights, 18 Visions, Bleeding Through, Throwdown, Atreyu, and all those other non-descript "metalcore" "screamo" "hardcore" bands that made me really have a hard time with "punks" from roughly 2002-2006.

Yeah. Those "emo" bands are what I consider mallcore scene kid music.

"Real emo" is like, Lungfish.