you guys talk mad shit about emo music all the time

[zeravla]

You will not name a band that's better than HUM. You. Will. Not.

[Greenfuz]

like what is cooler than this fuckin show

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5R9bJOulhY[/youtube]

Now come one come all to this tragic affair
Wipe off that makeup, what's in is despair
So throw on the black dress, mix in with the lot
You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see
You can find out firsthand what it's like to be me
So gather 'round piggies and kiss this goodbye
I'd encourage your smiles I'll expect you won't cry

Another contusion, my funeral jag
Here's my resignation, I'll serve it in drag
You've got front row seats to the penitence ball
When I grow up I want to be nothing at all!

[Twangasaurus]

One day you guys are going to describe exactly what you mean by emo because I swear every time someone brings it up I get so fucking confused.

[leaves turn]

http://www.markprindle.com/picciotto-i.htm

Okay so, whether you like it or not, you're basically considered to be the creator of "emo." And I was just wondering - why have you always thrown yourself so emotionally into your music?

Well, first of all, I don't recognize that attribution. I've never recognized "emo" as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

But anyway, when I was young, I was always over the top because I was so fucked up. Not "fucked up" as in "wasted" but more mentally "fucked up". And I was really jacked up. So it came out of that. I mean, before I was in Rites of Spring, I was in a band called Insurrection with Brendan, the Fugazi drummer who I've played with in every band I've been in.. And our music was like Motorhead and Discharge and Venom - shit like that. That was what the band sounded like. And we weren't very good! But nobody was calling THAT "emo." Then when we started Rites of Spring, I guess we got more serious about what we were trying to do. But I didn't actually sing in Insurrection. In Rites of Spring, I decided to sing and that's what came out. Because when I was young, I was nuts.

[D.o.S.]

like what is cooler than this fuckin show

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5R9bJOulhY[/youtube]

Now come one come all to this tragic affair
Wipe off that makeup, what's in is despair
So throw on the black dress, mix in with the lot
You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see
You can find out firsthand what it's like to be me
So gather 'round piggies and kiss this goodbye
I'd encourage your smiles I'll expect you won't cry

Another contusion, my funeral jag
Here's my resignation, I'll serve it in drag
You've got front row seats to the penitence ball
When I grow up I want to be nothing at all!

MCR was the first band I ever saw live implore its fans to hold up cell phones, rather than lighters.

In that moment, they were forever crystallized as the lamest goddamn band of all time forever.

[Greenfuz]

or how about some first album jams?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW_umELS5w8[/youtube]

Late dawns and early sunsets, just like my favorite scenes
Then holding hands and life was perfect, just like up on the screen
And the whole time while always giving
Counting your face among the living

Up and down escalators, pennies and colder fountains
Elevators and half price sales, trapped in by all these mountains
Running away and hiding with you
I never thought they'd get me here
Not knowing you'd change from just one bite
I fought them all off just to hold you close and tight

But does anyone notice?
But does anyone care?
And if I had the guts to put this to your head...
But would anything matter if you're already dead?
And well should I be shocked now by the last thing you said?
Before I pull this trigger,
Your eyes vacant and stained...

But does anyone notice?
But does anyone care?
And if I had the guts to put this to your head...
And would anything matter if you're already dead?
And now should I be shocked by the last thing you said?
Before I pull this trigger,
Your eyes vacant and stained...
And in saying you loved me,
Made things harder at best,
And these words changing nothing
As your body remains,
And there's no room in this hell,
There's no room in the next,
And our memories defeat us,
And I'll end this direst.

But does anyone notice?
But does anyone care?
And if I had the guts to put this to your head...
But does anything matter if you're already dead?
And should I be shocked now by the last thing you said?
Before I pull this trigger,
Your eyes vacant and stained...
And in saying you loved me,
Made things harder at best,
And these words changing nothing
As your body remains,
And there's no room in this hell,
There's no room in the next,
But does anyone notice there's a corpse in this bed?

[Bellyheart]

Brand New definitely had something I liked compared to any of the bands they'd play with on tour. They applied grooves and rhythm.

The devil and god was decent from what I recall. The genre sucks overall and bands get stuck in it. They broke out.

[BitchPudding]

Gotta agree with Greenfuz on this one, MCR. Are phenomenal. That said, I don't knock anyone for disliking them ether.

[Deltaphoenix]

Fuck Emo

[BoatRich]

You will not name a band that's better than HUM. You. Will. Not.

[dase]

You will not name an emo band that's better than HUM. You. Will. Not.

One Last Wish, Hoover, Current, Evergreen, Native Nod (just kidding), Navio Forge, Embrace, Chino Horde, Heroin, Still Life (!!!!), Eurich, about three or four of Policy of Three's songs ('improv culture kill' and maybe the b side of the american woodworking 7"), The Hated, Four Hundred Years when Erin played bass, Universal Order of Armageddon, Moss Icon (!!!!!!!!!), State Route 522 demo, Ethel Meserve first 7", there's probably more I'm forgetting.

[Mudfuzz]

You will not name a band that's better than HUM. You. Will. Not.

The Shaggs.

[univalve]

like what is cooler than this fuckin show

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5R9bJOulhY[/youtube]

Now come one come all to this tragic affair
Wipe off that makeup, what's in is despair
So throw on the black dress, mix in with the lot
You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see
You can find out firsthand what it's like to be me
So gather 'round piggies and kiss this goodbye
I'd encourage your smiles I'll expect you won't cry

Another contusion, my funeral jag
Here's my resignation, I'll serve it in drag
You've got front row seats to the penitence ball
When I grow up I want to be nothing at all!

WTF is emo about that shit?

[univalve]

You will not name a band that's better than HUM. You. Will. Not.

Daft Punk

[dase]

You will not name a band that's better than HUM. You. Will. Not.

Manowar.