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12-17-2004, 04:07 PM
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lesbian punk metal head riot girrrrrrrrl.
sicko
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12-17-2004, 04:17 PM
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i also wonder what EMO is?
anyway...my wife calls me a geek, so i guess thats it. i collect comics, star wars stuff, i love to watch cartoons, but only the old ones like the old disney cartoons or looney toons or charlie brown. i am a big fan of the lates 80s/early 90s heavy metal scene and i used to buy everything i saw which had the KISS logo stamped on it. i also love to read novels...horror, fantasy and westerns mostly. i read star wars novels, conan, stephen king, dean koontz, bentley little, and any books about vampires, zombies and werewolves i find.
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12-17-2004, 04:21 PM
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lol. No seriously, I don't exactly know what emo is...but I was trying to explain it in a different thread (which prompted me to make this thread...I was hoping an authentic emo could explain it). But, anyway...this is what I was saying: "I think everybody has a different opinion on what emo is. But emo is just a genre of punk music. I belive it is short for emotional. So basically, it's bands that may sound like hardcore punk...but then ruin it by singing about how sad they are because their girlfriend left them."
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12-17-2004, 04:55 PM
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Today what passes as emo is mostly bullshit, its not what emo was or what the name came from. But yes it is short for emotional. and to picture an "emo kid" picture your alterna hipster for the 00's. tight pants trendy hat style of the season and tight shirts preferably thrift store, black rim glasses (though these are used all over the place) and shaggy hair must be black.
Now I fall in to that category of style of dress (minus the hat) But I'm punk/hardcore skate/snowboard guy with geek streaks since being geeky pays my bills. for a full break down of "emo" and what it really is and its history please review http://www.fourfa.com/ note: this is not the pre-packaged hot topic mall emo you see all the highschool kids looking like and listening to.
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12-17-2004, 05:02 PM
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I hate myself for not having the willpower to resist this thread and what I'm about to say:
A brief synopsis of the history of "emo": 1. Spirit Assembly releases their first Lp in 1993, regarded by many to be the first "emo" record. 2. Most people begin referring to discordant hardcore with odd time signatures as "emo". This includes such famous DC faves as Fugazi, Hoover, and a veritable slew of other screamy bands. It's important to note that, at this point, "emo" was not a negative term. It was an emerging term to describe a type of music that was evolving out of punk and hardcore. It had absolutely nothing to do with crybabies, crying, sweaters, thick black glasses, or any of the other, now trite, stereotypes of what "emo" is. 3. Once the term got around a good bit, a LOT of people who were loosely associated with the indie music scene (i.e. fans of bands like Sunny Day Real Estate) began misusing the term, mainly because they saw some singer-dude cry on stage and thought "this must be that new "emo" thing everybody is talkin about!" This is, by a LARGE margin, a brief synopsis of the word "emo." Basically, it's a term that was misused by a lot of people who didn't know what they were talking about and eventually it got into Spin magazine to describe some shitbag band like Taking Back Sunday or, as mentioned before, Sunny Day Real Estate. The word has had a LONG and sordid history, one that aging folks who grew up in the punk scene (such as myself) have had a hard time reconciling. Like many words, it's relative. To some, "emo" would be crybaby bands, but to some others who were involved back then, true "emo" is a brand of punk/hardcore typified by Spirit Assembly and any band released on Ebullition records in the early/mid 90s. I honestly hate this word more than anything that has ever been leaked to the media from the music scene. And I also hate that I couldn't hold myself back from writing this post. And I also HATE it when people label themselves or others, pigeonholing them into some bullshit genre or stereotype of person. Human beings cannot be thought of that way. I know most of you know that obvious fact, but maybe some people don't (hint hint).
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preach on brothuh, I came up the same way and hearing the word emo used today is like nails down a chalkboard. you just want to grab those kids and shake them and tell them they have no idea what they are talking about.
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That's a pretty good site. I wish you hadn't posted this while I was writing my post, then I wouldn't have had to. It's interesting that this person considers Moss Icon to be the first "emo" band. Like I said, the history of the word is extremely based on hearsay and speculation, and is the source of, as I'm sure you know, some volatile sentiments amongst some circles.
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