The Definition of Emo as Stated By Wiki Because I am Lazy: Emo is a style of rock music typically characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace. As the style was echoed by contemporary American punk bands, its sound and meaning shifted and changed, blending with pop punk and indie rock and encapsulated in the early 1990s by groups such as Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate. By the mid 1990s numerous emo acts emerged from the Midwestern and Central United States, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the style.
BANDS THAT ARE FUCKING EMO:
Cap'n Jazz
Algernon Cadwallader
Jejune
American Football
The Jazz June
The Get Up Kids
Sunny Day Real Estate
Anasarca
Benton Falls
Boys Life
Braid
Christie Front Drive
Jets to Brazil
Julia
BANDS THAT ARE NOT FUCKING EMO
Hawthorne Heights
Escape the Fate
Bright Eyes
Coheed & Cambria
My Chemical Romance
AFI
Avenged Sevenfold
Tokio Hotel
I can't think of any others 'cause my brain am not work good right now, but feel free to suggest others.
VIDYAS!
Hooray, new emo thread! DISCUSS
And this one is totally NOT a poll.
Edited by: TristeMemoire at October 09, 2009, 11:38pm
And, I apparently already know this band, so.. awesome. ;D ... I guess I haven't heard this side of them. I wouldn't call them an emo band, or even a screamo band as a whole. It seems they combine various genres. There's a thread on them here.
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