Great Noisey article: Chris Carrabba reviews the emo revival

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The standout lyric to me: "When you hold me, I feel held.” I had to stop the song and think about the strength of this lyric and the multitude of meanings I could derive from it. I am honestly blown away by this song.

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So this thread spilled over onto my FB wall

[rustywire]

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.

How tf does one maintain a boner while listening to that cringeworthy "singing"

[D.o.S.]

Not that I want to answer for him, but I feel like this is a good time to reference the girl in the wheelchair story re: maintaining boners under questionable circumstances.

[rainlet]

Man, I have always thought Dashboard Confessional was terrible, and that dude seems like a giant tool, but you know, different strokes, man. Good on casecandy for cheerleading for his scene, no matter how awful I think that scene is. I get shit for my noise/experimental leanings as well, so I'm not going to rag on a dude for talking about what he's into. (From a job interview yesterday: "So, <friend of friend> tells me you spend most of your free time in your basement making your guitar sound like a humpback whale through a broken radio. What's up with that?")

I was into late 80s/early 90s shit that I guess people would call emo (hell, even played a show with Braid way back when), but most of this recent shit is pretty bland. I like Algernon Cadwallader though, scratches an old Cap'n Jazz itch.

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Not that I want to answer for him, but I feel like this is a good time to reference the girl in the wheelchair story re: maintaining boners under questionable circumstances.

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

[WayToHip]

I like the OP but I also didn't realize these are new bands and new songs, I listened to the first three and thought "this is great, I wish I heard these when I was a kid in the 00's" and also thought this sounds so dated, which is a tragedy.

[jrmy]

I like the OP but I also didn't realize these are new bands and new songs, I listened to the first three and thought "this is great, I wish I heard these when I was a kid in the 00's" and also thought this sounds so dated, which is a tragedy.

It sounds dated to us, sure, but to the kids, it's all new. I dunno man - I remember talking to a crusty record store guy in the late 90's when there was a whole resurgence in krautrock-inspired psych, and he was ragging on all the kids who were buying these bands making noise, saying "These kids didn't even KNOW what it was like to listed to Neu and Can back in the day blah blah blah..." and while I could see his point, it just felt like such a grumpy old man rant. Kids these days and whatnot.

A college friend wrote a great critique on media that started with the line "Youth culture is death culture." For the life of me, I can't remember the rest of it, but that line stuck. Most people fall in love with music as kids and young adults, then stop paying attention in their 30's and completely fall off, and then get pissed at the young kids picking it up, who are falling in love with the sound for the first time, hearing it in their own context.

Anyhow, random rant... this is the kind of stuff I obsess about far too much, though I never get anyplace definitive...

[rustywire]

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I like the OP but I also didn't realize these are new bands and new songs, I listened to the first three and thought "this is great, I wish I heard these when I was a kid in the 00's" and also thought this sounds so dated, which is a tragedy.

It sounds dated to us, sure, but to the kids, it's all new. I dunno man - I remember talking to a crusty record store guy in the late 90's when there was a whole resurgence in krautrock-inspired psych, and he was ragging on all the kids who were buying these bands making noise, saying "These kids didn't even KNOW what it was like to listed to Neu and Can back in the day blah blah blah..." and while I could see his point, it just felt like such a grumpy old man rant. Kids these days and whatnot.

A college friend wrote a great critique on media that started with the line "Youth culture is death culture." For the life of me, I can't remember the rest of it, but that line stuck. Most people fall in love with music as kids and young adults, then stop paying attention in their 30's and completely fall off, and then get pissed at the young kids picking it up, who are falling in love with the sound for the first time, hearing it in their own context.

Anyhow, random rant... this is the kind of stuff I obsess about far too much, though I never get anyplace definitive...

Great line @youth culture is death culture. I'm partial to the old sardonic line "youth is wasted on the young".
You're right on about people tapping-out in their 30s...some even in 20s. I'm all but convinced that's the turning point when a person "grows old" in their lifetime.
When you lose intellectual/creative curiosity and just gravitate toward what's familiar and comfortable...something snaps inside and creates intense contempt toward the unfamiliar.
Old-record-store-guy always angry under the surface, becoming belligerent when challenged no matter how insignificant the issue...are a dime a dozen. I've encountered 2 in particular...100 miles apart...and an almost predictable commonality is they would both be listening to Hannity radio in the stores at any given time. Not playing records

[rustywire]

Also I feel like for people of a certain age a Dashboard Confessional is a bad handjob in the passenger's seat of someone's mom's car while being forced to listen to shitty music in complete silence. just verwrought teenage emotions backed by an acoustic guitar and ballsack brushing against thigh

And I think that resonates for people of every gender.

Nice metaphor
Giving yourself an HJ in silence is def the better option.

[PeteeBee]

I used to get made fun of a lot for being an Emo kid for being into Thursday. Are you all telling me they aren't even Emo? They have come up at all and I thought they were the absolute greatest thing ever from age 12-15. I was also super into Minus the Bear and Gatsbys American Dream. I can't listen the Gatsbys any more without being bothered, but old minus the bear and Thursday I still dig out from time to time.

Are you saying my preteen hardships weren't even valid because I didn't know what real Emo music was????

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Also I feel like for people of a certain age a Dashboard Confessional is a bad handjob in the passenger's seat of someone's mom's car while being forced to listen to shitty music in complete silence. just verwrought teenage emotions backed by an acoustic guitar and ballsack brushing against thigh

And I think that resonates for people of every gender.

Nice metaphor
Giving yourself an HJ in silence is def the better option.

Metaphor he says.

[Muff_Diver]

I used to get made fun of a lot for being an Emo kid for being into Thursday. Are you all telling me they aren't even Emo? They have come up at all and I thought they were the absolute greatest thing ever from age 12-15. I was also super into Minus the Bear and Gatsbys American Dream. I can't listen the Gatsbys any more without being bothered, but old minus the bear and Thursday I still dig out from time to time.

Are you saying my preteen hardships weren't even valid because I didn't know what real Emo music was????

Yeah. You're not a true fan.