What excatly is it. Is it a type of bands or what. If it is what are some good Emo bands.

There are no good emo bands.

It's both a type of music and an aesthetic.
The music started in the early 80s and was an offshoot of hardcore music, and has slowly evolved in to some of the most obnoxious whiney drivel you will ever hear.
The look typically involves guys in really tight jeans, black rimmed glasses, hair hanging over their eyes, a messenger bag and a t-shirt of either one of their favorite bands or something "ironically retro."

Edit: I should add that the main facet of emo everyone knows it for is how they seem to glorify how depressed and unloved they are, but just come across as whiney little bitches to anyone who isn't also emo.

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What are some good Emo Bands. Is My Chemical Romance one.

Different degrees of watered-down emotional hardcore music:

Hawthorne Heights
Taking Back Sunday
The Used
Panic! At The Disco
Fallout Boy
Silverstein
My Chemical Romance
Story Of The Year
Bleeding Through
Saosin
Thursday
Amber Pacific
Matchbook Romance
Armor For Sleep
Underoath
As I Lay Dying
The All-American Rejects
From First To Last
The Get-up Kids
Bright Eyes
Cursive
At The Drive-In
Hot Water Music
Jimmy Eat World
The Anniversary
Less Than Jake
Alkaline Trio
Promise Ring
Dashboard Confessional
Sunny Day Real Estate
Reggie and The Full Effect
Pedro The Lion
Piebald
The Juliana Theory
Coheed and Cambria
Rilo Kiley
Further Seems Forever
Texas is the Reason
Straylight Run
Death Cab for Cutie
Brand New
Jawbreaker
Mars Volta
Rites of Spring
The Starting Line
Something Corporate
Desaparecidos
Minor Threat
Fugazi
Saves the Day
Glass Jaw


With this list you have the power to become the coolest emo kid at your local junior high school.

Edit: In no way am I endorsing the above music. Yucky stuff...

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Fucking kids...
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*Hawthorne Heights
*Story Of The Year
*Panic! At The Disco
*My Chemical Romance
*As I Lay Dying

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Out of your list, i've picked these 5 bands that I listen to sometimes. I am in noway emo, but those bands are alright. They are in order from best to worst. (Of the 5)



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Originally posted by bodegas:
[B]Different degrees of watered-down emotional hardcore music:

Death Cab For Cutie
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Death Cab for Cutie
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Emo music does not deserve mentioning, let alone repeating.

http://tinyurl.com/j4xt4

I can't think of a caption for this.

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Originally posted by bodegas:
Different degrees of watered-down emotional hardcore music:

Less Than Jake
Minor Threat
Fugazi


Edit: In no way am I endorsing the above music. Yucky stuff...

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Easy there.
While I suppose you might be able to make a case for fugazi, minor threat and less than jake are not anywhere near emo, not in the slightest.
I'm not being one of those nitpicking genre nerds either, less than jake is a frickin third wave ska band, it doesn't get much further from emo.
Minor threat was straight ahead punk. Nothing emo about them either.

Minor Threat is considered by many to be the first Emo band.

Sure, their sound was punk, but their lyrical content was the precursor of the whining we hear today.

music is gay

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Originally posted by Storm:
Minor Threat is considered by many to be the first Emo band.

Sure, their sound was punk, but their lyrical content was the precursor of the whining we hear today.

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I find it impossible to believe that anyone that's actually listened to minor threat would think that.
They were considered the first straight edge band, but emo? Come on. Their lyrical content wasnt whining about girls breaking up with them and they weren't deep and introspective. It was a social diatribe.

No, I don't buy it.

Whoever said coheed and cambria were emo desrves to be raped by rapid monkeys and then get bitch slapped by claudios hair!

At this point, the question must arise: what exactly are rapid monkeys? are they swift and multiple in numbers, or do they simply dwell in the rapids of rivers? are they anything like the RABID monkeys to which I'm sure my friend above here meant to say?

Take At the Drive-In off that list, too.

Blasphemy. They are, hands down, my favorite band ever.

You dar to lable Jimmy eat world as emo?

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Originally posted by bodegas:
Different degrees of watered-down emotional hardcore music:

Less Than Jake

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Less Than Jake is fucking Ska. Its also fucking mint

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Originally posted by Clevmire:
At this point, the question must arise: what exactly are rapid monkeys? are they swift and multiple in numbers, or do they simply dwell in the rapids of rivers? are they anything like the RABID monkeys to which I'm sure my friend above here meant to say?

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Emo = the femine punkrock. Haha. It sucks either way.

Oh god, I love it when people argue over emo.

Personally, I quite like a lot of emo music (the older stuff, mainly), but I don't really go for the whole pre-packaged 'emo look'.

If you're looking for some good vaguely-emo music, try Cursive.

Hmmm here is an idea, shut the fuck up?

All of my friends always fucking bitch about emo people..

It's "Emo this" "Emo that" and it's getting tired.

Let the fucking emos be, perhaps they will starve from the lack of attention and cut themselves to death...

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Originally posted by Lestat1080:
Whoever said coheed and cambria were emo desrves to be raped by rapid monkeys and then get bitch slapped by claudios hair!

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Not only are they emo, they are shit too

"Though the original emo scenes were not exclusionary, the modern "emo" scene has developed into a "gay friendly" scene. Though it's unclear whether it's related to the diminished "macho" elements of emo music or the "gay friendly" nature of the scene, it has become commonplace for detractors to use "emo" in combination with popular gay slurs, such as "emo fag"".

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Now THAT"S funny! So true...

The first emo bands were in the 80's. Emo is just short for emotional hardcore. It's like punk, but not very political and obviously emotional.

Emo bands:
Fugazi
Minor Threat
Husker Du
Sunny Day Real Estate
Planes Mistaken For Stars
Mineral
Piebald
Indian Summer
American Football
The Promise Ring
Rites of Spring
Fire Party
Christie Front Drive
Texas is the Reason
Moss Icon
Hot Water Music
The Dismemberment Plan
Drive Like Jehu
Braid
(early) Jimmy Eat World

Bands commonly mistaken for emo:
AFI
Panic At the Disco
Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romance
Taking Back Sunday
Straylight Run
Armor For Sleep
Chiodos
Something Corporate
The Used
The Starting Line
Thrice
Hawthorne Heights
Funeral For A Friend
Finch
Brand New
Silverstein
Death Cab For Cutie

there's more, but that should give you the idea

and its not about whining over relationships, or cutting yourself.

Yeah bands sometimes get mistaken for EMO, but they're really not. Example: Fall Out Boy. They're not emo, but they're still not very good. Their drummer sucks really bad.

I hate to break it to you, but The Mars Volta is definitly not emo. Yeah, emo's listen to it, but emo's also listen to Tool.

So therefor, is Tool emo?

Every other band you listed, even At The Drive In, Mars Volta's former band, is emo.

Get your shit right, man.

Fugazi? give me a break.

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Originally posted by eprime:
Fugazi? give me a break.

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yeah dude. they're even considered founders of it.

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Originally posted by bodegas:
Different degrees of watered-down emotional hardcore music:


Less Than Jake
Mars Volta
Minor Threat

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these are not emo. And wtf!? do you have a brain stem? You called minor threat emo! are you high?


EDIT: if anything i think the influence of new wave affected the evolution of hardcore music by fusing these two together. i think thats how you get emo.

If i was to blame any band.i would probally blame the Buzzcocks, but they knew what they were writing and were mature,artistic and professional about it.They wrote so-called more melodic and catchy "punk" songs. They were the first to make punk "pop" sounding. then later on some bands tryed to imitate them, notably Green Day. Not that they did a bad job, persay. For the first ten years, i think Green Day had something to attribute to the word music. Then, of course the tragic cliche'd tale of "fame and fortune" and their drive went smashing down the tube. Then others tryed to imitate green day.

Thats my two cents.




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Originally posted by Hazey:
I hate to break it to you, but The Mars Volta is definitly not emo. Yeah, emo's listen to it, but emo's also listen to Tool.

So therefor, is Tool emo?

Every other band you listed, even At The Drive In, Mars Volta's former band, is emo.

Get your shit right, man.

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Hazey leaves BLTC?!??!?!?

^^^^^
ZOMG HAZEY IS NOT IN BLTC GET BACK IN THERE HAZEY.....NOW


this is why i listen to country music have a shotgun over my bed camp and do other random redneck shit

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not sure about the other two, never heard them, but less than jake is ska...
emo is basically kids asking for your sympathy. that's all they want, there whole existance revolves around hurting themselves or re-tracing steps of tribulations they didn't handle well, and they want you to feel bad for them because they live off of that. they don't look for an answer with anything, they just want you to feel bad for them....

www.somethingdirectory.com

Click on "How to be Emo".

How is Mars Volta emo...how could you say such a retarded thing.

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Originally posted by NotOnlyButAlso:
Emo music does not deserve mentioning, let alone repeating.

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awwww i like death cab for cutie.... does that make me Emo???

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Originally posted by nawfside_mexican:
What excatly is it. Is it a type of bands or what. If it is what are some good Emo bands.

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Emo people don't like the number 14. What are you going to do about that?

Emo bands are all the same. It is all just a phase and should die out within 2 or so years, as all the bands mentioned in that list are doing the same thing as one another, along with every other 'emo' band.

I dislike the term 'emo', as ALL music has some degree of emotional input, whereas this lame punk offshoot is dribble. Pretty much all of it has a theme of negativity - clamped together with shit lyrics. All of these 'emo' bands are rediculous, their live performances are crap compared to say, any metal band. The recordings are voice enhanced, patched, loads of pigshit.

I'm also confused as to why Fugazi are in that list. What are you an idiot?

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Originally posted by captain_awesome:
Take At the Drive-In off that list, too.

Blasphemy. They are, hands down, my favorite band ever.

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yeah at the drive in are definetly not emo and they are awesome

Emo = Emotional Hardcore

Most of the bands listed here are just bands that play emotional music...