Good emo albums

loserdork · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:27 pm

Modem Wrote:

The Stereo = emo? Come on.

I would consider the songs sung by Rory of The Impossibles in the vein of emo.

Timis · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:27 pm

aside fugazi...christie front drive was one of the first emo bands i got into.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:35 am

aFreshStart4Me Wrote:

Some of my standards are;
Taking Back Sunday

Oh, I can't believe I forgot how obsessed I was with their first album when it came out.

el_scorcho · **Posted:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:39 am

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.

Stone red's dark sunshine · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:17 pm **Posts:** 1096

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."

Timis · **Posted:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:55 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_(music)

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/cultures/strai ... on-21.html

http://www.mp3.com/genre/316/subgenre.html

Sketch · **Posted:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:16 am

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EMO-CORE: "Mature" music made by cigarette-puffing ex-straightedgers. Heavy on soul-searching, hard to mosh to."

neuroboy · **Posted:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:02 pm

Sketch Wrote:

Far - Water & Solutions
Juno - This is the Way It Goes and Goes

you read my mind.

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