Emo music

[Homerboy]

I would have agreed almost completely with you before the popularity of Good Charlotte, and other such bands like Five Iron Frenzy or Blink 182. Unfortunetly, that was all classified as new wave punk. But after which (blink 182 being the first to be blamed) punk music became pop music. Thats just how it is in the world we live in these days, kids are stupid.

Whats even funnier is the christian rock genre, or christian punk music (yes it exists)

Hey... Blink is PERFECTLY fine. Wade through their MTV stuff and its rock solid pop-punk. Actually even the songs on MTV are good, just I can't say that cuz its not punk to do so

Seriously there is some GOOD pop-punk that MTV killed. (I would classify your BLinks, New Found Glory, Ataris etc as "Pop-punk".... your Fat bands).

I've been doing a "punk" show on the radio for...ugh... 14ish years now and listened to "punk" long before that. None of this crap was around on major airwaves then. While I was sad to see MTV and Clear Channel glom on, I was happy to see a lot of the guys I knew cash in and ride the wave.

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
About the whole "punk is emo" thing.
Black Flag and The Misfits are punk. They aren't emo.

Maybe some of the crap that gets labeled as punk these days is, I dunno.

I used to listen to Punk/alternative/new wave/techno-pop etc and I never called any of it EMO. In fact, EMO is a relatively new term, so how were they called EMO 20-25 years ago?!?!?

 

[jonessoda]

Originally posted by: AMDZen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28mus..._third_wave_.282000.E2.80.93Present.29

emo has often been used to describe such bands as The Academy Is..., The All-American Rejects, AFI, Alexisonfire, Armor For Sleep, Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, Death Cab For Cutie, The Early November, Fall Out Boy, From First to Last, Funeral for a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, Motion City Soundtrack, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco, Senses Fail, Something Corporate, The Starting Line, Story of the Year, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Thrice, Thursday, and Underoath.

I READ IT ON WIKIPEDIA SO IT'S TRUE

 

[txrandom]

So anyways, can't we all agree that All-American Rejects and Simple Plan suck?

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: txrandom
So anyways, can't we all agree that All-American Rejects and Simple Plan suck?

AAR has the capability of making a good song, and they have a few. Their songs are tolerable, in any case. Actually, on that note, Simple plan has the capability to make a good song as well, they just haven't done it completely yet.

 

[kcthomas]

"emo" has become the term you call music that you dont like.

i have a simple defintion. if I could write the music and/or the lyrics (being a terrible musician and lyricist), it is pop-punk (see MTV)

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
About the whole "punk is emo" thing.
Black Flag and The Misfits are punk. They aren't emo.

Maybe some of the crap that gets labeled as punk these days is, I dunno.

I used to listen to Punk/alternative/new wave/techno-pop etc and I never called any of it EMO. In fact, EMO is a relatively new term, so how were they called EMO 20-25 years ago?!?!?

I don't understand the question.

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: Homerboy
Look...
you have POP music (popular) and within that you have "Rock" music... what exactly is "Rock"? There are ALOT of styles and types bands that would fill that description right?
then you have PUNK music (anti-popular) and within that you have "Emo" music what exactly is "Emo"? There are ALOT of styles and types bands that would fill that description right?

I would have agreed almost completely with you before the popularity of Good Charlotte, and other such bands like Five Iron Frenzy or Blink 182. Unfortunetly, that was all classified as new wave punk. But after which (blink 182 being the first to be blamed) punk music became pop music. Thats just how it is in the world we live in these days, kids are stupid.

Whats even funnier is the christian rock genre, or christian punk music (yes it exists)

A Christian ska band? I never knew they were popular...

I can't agree with calling all punk bands emo as well. Emo to me is bands like Dashboard Confessional, Thursday, etc.