Great Noisey article: Chris Carrabba reviews the emo revival

[casecandy]

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/dashboard-c ... noiseyfbus



I see a lot of "real emo" and "real screamo' talk on here and this article is right along those lines.

They got Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional, Further Seems Forever, Vacant Andys, Twin Forks, etc., to review tracks from a lot of the more recent emo revival bands and he has a lot of thoughtful things to say.

Dashboard has so many haters but I was raised on that stuff. At any rate he's one of the more knowledgeable and thoughtful musicians in the scene, he's listened to just about everything under the sun and knows the history. After all, he lived it...

Good read and he namedropped Hum so that's cool

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CC look like he has cancer or something.

[backwardsvoyager]

is that guy really an 'emo pioneer'?
i thought all his projects were pop-punk
is emo not different to pop-punk?
so confused
i love algernon but seeing them in the context of this article made me a little uneasy
why didn't they just interview mike kinsella instead

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is that guy really an 'emo pioneer'?
i thought all his projects were pop-punk
is emo not different to pop-punk?
so confused
i love algernon but seeing them in the context of this article made me a little uneasy
why didn't they just interview mike kinsella instead

He pioneered making soundtracks guaranteed to get me laid in cars in high school





REMEMBER SHE ASKED YOOOOOU REMEMBER TO.....BREEEEEEEAAAAAAATHEEEEEEEEE


shit worked every time


Also remember none actually knows what the fuck emo is so i take every time i hear the word with a grain of salt. None of these bands sound like it to be but the balance and composure track was aight

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DUDES THIS IS THE SHIT THIS IS THE SHIT RIGHT HERE.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQxfX_YGlGQ[/youtube]

This plus "so your parents are total dicks huh?" was ticket to panty town.

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OH MAN SO YOUR DAD DIDNT LIKE YOUR SERIES OF BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES OF YOUR CONVERSES??? OH MAN THAT SUCKS THATS TOTALLY OPPRESSIVE YOU MUST LIVE THROUGH YOUR ART BEING IN A HOME LIKE THAT AND HE THINKS HE CAN JUST MAKE IT UP TO YOU BY BUYING YOU THIS AUDI WHAT A TOTAL DICK HERE LET ME HELP YOU GET THAT OFF

[backwardsvoyager]

so THAT's why i never got laid in high school..
i will pass this precious advice down to my hypothetical future children

[casecandy]

DUDES THIS IS THE SHIT THIS IS THE SHIT RIGHT HERE.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQxfX_YGlGQ[/youtube]

This plus "so your parents are total dicks huh?" was ticket to panty town.

LMFAO at all of your comments

This song is so fucking good
This whole DVD is so fucking good

[casecandy]

is emo not different to pop-punk?
so confused

Here's the answer to this question.

Also remember none actually knows what the fuck emo is so i take every time i hear the word with a grain of salt.

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why didn't they just interview mike kinsella instead

The Kinsellas are very talented and respected.
But they hate other bands.
Once one of them... Tim I think... wrote an article for Alternative Press suggesting that every band mentioned in the issue break up.
Very self-important, pretentious people.
Whereas you have Chris Carrabba, who routinely covers new artists' songs at his shows to pay tribute.

[backwardsvoyager]

is emo not different to pop-punk?
so confused

Here's the answer to this question.

Also remember none actually knows what the fuck emo is so i take every time i hear the word with a grain of salt.

i was afraid that might be the case
that really makes things difficult to talk about then, especially since it's so important to a lot of people even now (or especially now)
all the emo bands in my area are just trying to sound like Title Fight

The Kinsellas are very talented and respected.
But they hate other bands.
Once one of them... Tim I think... wrote an article for Alternative Press suggesting that every band mentioned in the issue break up.
Very self-important, pretentious people.
Whereas you have Chris Carrabba, who routinely covers new artists' songs at his shows to pay tribute.

a friend of mine interviewed Mike recently and said he was a great dude, no idea about Tim.
lets not get into cover songs though, there's a line between 'paying tribute' and having nothing better to do than play other people's songs.

[casecandy]

Bro, when Chris Carrabba covers a Say Anything song, he is paying tribute. He's written hundreds of his own songs. He has three active bands. I think he's good LOL

Title Fight, and that sound, that's what a lot of emo sounds like now for the most part

Brand-New-influenced post-hardcore with a poppy sheen

Examples: Tigers Jaw, Touche Amore, La Dispute, Balance and Composure

IMO it's pretty good stuff! The bands he reviews here are a little more indie/post-rock than those ones

With the exception of The Front Bottoms

[daseb]

I can see where the Kinsellas come from tbh. What they were doing with Cap'n Jazz (whom I hated at the time) and the like was new and different, and then got even more out there with Joan of Arc. If you see a bunch of kids ripping off what you were doing when you were a teenager over 20 years ago without getting where you were coming from and what you were reacting to with that music at the time you'd possibly hate it too.

[daseb]

I mean that Into It Over It band is the absolute primo example of this. Look at their merch, it's their name slapped into a bunch of logos of 90s touchstones. Cool, we get it, you know know who ebullition records and Lifetime are. Now how about showing us who you are and what you're doing with this music now rather than being an exercise in brand association with something that happened a couple decades ago?

[backwardsvoyager]

Bro, when Chris Carrabba covers a Say Anything song, he is paying tribute. He's written hundreds of his own songs. He has three active bands. I think he's good LOL

replace 'good' with 'prolific' and i agree

Brand-New-influenced post-hardcore with a poppy sheen

this is where it starts making less sense to me - nobody knows what emo is but the bulk of the scene can be quite accurately reduced to a sentence like that, although geographically you might replace Brand New with another similar act.

If you see a bunch of kids ripping off what you were doing when you were a teenager over 20 years ago without getting where you were coming from and what you were reacting to with that music at the time you'd possibly hate it too.

yeah, basically. i mean you can't really justify every kind of hateful outburst but there are reasons to be bitter about these things.

[casecandy]

If you see a bunch of kids ripping off what you were doing... you'd possibly hate it too.

Who knows how I'd react.

I think I'd be a little more invested in the scene I helped create... maybe a little more enthusiastic about the fact that I influenced all these people and made something that they love.

I dunno, to me emo is a community, it exists a little off from the mainstream indie and punk scenes, and you gotta be in it together.

Cap'n Jazz were one of dozens of bands doing what Cap'n Jazz were doing. It was new and different music, but Cap'n Jazz weren't unique in making it. The Promise Ring, Braid, Texas Is The Reason, Mineral, even Jimmy Eat World, all made similarly great music.