emo: lame scenester losers

If you're sitting in the waiting room, and you can't get up, you too might be an emo.

Oh, and smux is emo.

skinny - nice reference!!!

And here's the best most accurate history I can recall:

In the late '70s there was punk rock.

Major labels decided to give punk a whirl. It failed. In the early '80s they decided to try repackaging punk and user-friendly-ing it up: they called it "New Wave." It succeeded.

But the punks who stayed "Punk" and didn't go "New Wave" called themselves "Hardcore Punks."

By 1983 the main Hardcore Punk scene was in Washington DC - and the biggest names were Bad Brains and Minor Threat (mention due to Black Flag from Cali, too).

In reaction to the "user-friendly-ization" of punk in New Wave, the music from Hardcore Punk bands went the opposite direction: faster, harder, heavier, crazier.

Around the end of '83 the main brain behind Minor Threat (Ian Mackaye) realized that there was an unintended side effect of getting faster, harder, and heavier: the "macho-ization" of punk. By '83 Hardcore Punk was very male-oriented, and also some real aggressive, macho and bone-headed factions started to develop.

Trying to make amends, Ian quit Minor Threat and soon formed a band called "Embrace"... which intentionally veered away from macho and agressive topics - while still keeping a lot of the feel of Hardcore Punk.

A small scene of bands gravitated towards Embrace - the most notable of which was Rites of Spring. Faith is also a band that deserves metion.

In an interview in '84 in Maximum Rock and Roll, this scene agreed to label themselves as "emo" or "emocore" - since they were anti-agressive, macho stuff and were pro the more feminine, emotional stuff.

By '86 the emo scene had died out, as mostly had the entire hardcore punk scene.

in '87-'88 the hardcore scene revived in NYC and then spread like wildfire - but the ethics of Ian's "Emo" scene were lost on the male-oriented revival.

Around '91 hardcore punk had progressed to it's pinnacle with bands like Quicksand, Burn, etc. after '91 it started to spin off into mainstream and loose it's cohesion.

Around '93 or so, some asshole got the idea that they could use the term "emo" to describe their mass-media friendly watered down bullshit version of Hardcore Punk. And from there you get this whole new crop of kinda shitty bands that probably don't know a Rites of Spring song from a Devo song.

Good history, Vic. I'd like to add that Ian is still living in DC and to this day he's still making and releasing independent music with the same DIY values that he had in 1980 (although he's been known to have a beer or two these days). You can't say that about many people from that scene.

*edit* and I gotta throw in a plug for 7 Seconds, another of the influential OG hardcore bands from back in the day who drifted into Ian's flavor of emo in the late 80's and early 90's.

Electronic Money Order

https://www.emocorp.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo

Emo (an abbreviation of "emotionally-driven Hardcore punk") is a term now broadly used to describe almost any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that expresses emotions beyond traditional punk's limited emotional palette of alienation and rage. It is also used to describe fans of this genre, most commonly teenagers. (e.g., emo kid). The actual term "emo" originated in the mid-1980s D.C. scene, with the band Rites of Spring, as well as bands such as Fugazi, Moss Icon, and Antioch Arrow. The term addressed both the way the band connected with its audience, as well as its tendency to deal more with topics of personal and relationship politics than with the standard themes of rock music.

Insane how they had a good definition but completely left Ian MacKaye and Embrace out of it!

Actually, Ian did a band or two between Minor Threat and Embrace... the one that actually recorded was Pailhead - which was an experiment in Industrial Music that Ian collaborated with someone from Ministry on.

And after Embrace... Half of Embrace and half of Rites of Spring merged and became Fugazi.

I saw Fugazi in 1991 and they were absolutely positively amazing.

EMO is the worst thing ever invented

all emo kids need to be killed or punched in the fucking face

50 EMOs...

No, emo has nothing to do with metros, it's a certain type of music where they all cut their hair fucked up and the music is a bunch of spoiled rich white kids who whine incessantly. Some of it's all right but most of it sucks.
http://media.urbandictionary.com/ima...mage-15238.jpg

Is that a 'Good Charlotte' fan?

About half the kids at a NOFX show are emo.

It might be "new" if you started this thread 20 years ago. :1orglaugh

i'am not EMO, i'am VicD aka sigwhore :winkwink:

I wanna stab these people in the face

i wasn't looking at the username and damn near shit when i read this. alas, it's only a matter of time before the emo-god that is teh smix is an internet legend.

KILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...icy+killed+emu

:1orglaugh


btw i never heard of 'emo' before

One of cats is named EMO .......

he's a Russian Blue, a closet homo 'cause he tries to hump one of my other male cats, but never touches the female.....

hahahaha WTF???
:1orglaugh


yo, though, EMO girls are HOOOOOOOOOT!!!!

Kurt shot himself so he'd never have to be emo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Yup. They're all over Myspace and you can tell who they are because they all seem to use the same naming convention that Steven Segal used to name his movies. You'll see emo kids called "The Days Expire" or "What You Resist" -- an apparent tribute to like likes of "Hard To Kill" and "Above The Law" and shit like that. They wear tight jeans with black shirts and wear black thick framed glasses. Any other questions?

Hmm, I think there are as many Emo's as there are post-Punks here on the board.

Its my duty to make sure that smux gets the recognition he deserves as interweb emo overlord.