el_scorcho Wrote:
Calling Fugazi emo is crazy.
I think the problem with categorizing emo, as the allmusic article alluded to, is that it arose out of two different movements: the screamy, dissonant Dischord stuff, and the emotional SoCal pop punk stuff. I think eventually the two merged into one modern genre, but when that happened, most people except the emo kids themselves seemed to stop referring to the older dissonant Dischord stuff as emo. If I had to pick a band to define emo retrospectively, it would probably be the Get Up Kids or Sunny Day Real Estate. Now that the style of those bands has taken over the word emo, I just call Rites of Spring and Fugazi punk or hardcore or whatever.
I tend to agree with what you say, but I don't even consider Fugazi hardcore. Possibly punk, but not really even that.
But from Rites of Spring and Embrace is where the term emo came from (originally "emo-core"), so I think it's a stretch to not consider those bands "emo."