Shuyin
06.09.14 | 4 and 5 are just random digs
sup! |
TalonsOfFire
06.09.14 | Brand new, snowing, the hotelier, early paramore |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.09.14 | You've heard of these, I'm sure of it, but didn't see them in ratings, so:
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Mineral - The Power of Failing
American Football - American Football
Moneen - Are We Really Happy...
Tigers Jaw - Tigers Jaw
The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Braid - Frame & Canvas
Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
Jawbreaker - Dear You |
Shuyin
06.09.14 | actually i havent.. 1-3 are the only 'real' emo albums ive got
thanks guys |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.09.14 | Talons recommendations are great too. |
TalonsOfFire
06.09.14 | Yeah I don't know much about emo, haven't heard of many of your suggestions or the ones on this list so I'll check those out |
Shuyin
06.09.14 | they're all great, fightstar is more accessible tho |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.09.14 | Probably a poor assumption, but my recs are mostly albums considered classic by most who are fans of the genre. |
TalonsOfFire
06.09.14 | American footballs the only one I've heard of on here and thats definitely considered a classic. I always thought that was indie rock though but I can't really tell the difference so I'm probably wrong |
YakNips
06.09.14 | carissa's wierd - songs about leaving
the world is a beautiful place - whenever, if ever |
pmmets07
06.09.14 | i've really been digging Donovan Wolfington - Stop Breathing |
BMDrummer
06.09.14 | Sunny Day Real Estate |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.10.14 | "American footballs the only one I've heard of on here and thats definitely considered a classic. I always thought that was indie rock though but I can't really tell the difference so I'm probably wrong"
You're not really wrong. All the classic 90's Emo could just be seen as Indie Rock. It was just a style with it's own scene and characteristics that became known as EMO. |
TalonsOfFire
06.10.14 | It's basically indie rock but with heavier guitars and whinier singers that scream sometimes and if they scream a lot it's... screamo? That's how it works right? |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.10.14 | ^ More or less. |
SeaAnemone
06.10.14 | not rly |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.10.14 | Just go look up the genres on RYM. I'm sure that's the infinite knowledge Sea will pepper you with. Without being pedantic, by layman's terms, you basically got the gist. |
Shuyin
06.10.14 | yea, but i wanted personal recs since i know theres allot of people here that really dig emo like this and know all the good stuff |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.10.14 | I know man. Everything I recommended to you is stuff I love and is considered essential besides Moneen and Tigers Jaw. I recommended you the biggest players. So if you like what you hear, you can branch off on your own terms. You like Empire! Empire!, so I'm sure you'll at least see how most of these bands played an influential role in their sound. |
SeaAnemone
06.10.14 | lol guano
fightstar and early november aren't really emo. I don't think shiina is either at all but I don't listen to her.
empire! empire! play a style of emo that, yes, is closer to some indie rock you might think of. it fits under the larger emo umbrella, but it isn't really indicative of emo, if that makes sense.
still, if you want stuff that is emo in the way that empire! empire! is, check out these:
american football - american football
castevet - summer fences
youth pictures of florence henderson - unnoticeable in a tiny town, invisible in the city
owen - at home with owen
a bunny's caravan - draining puddles, retrieving treasures
most of those are from the 00s. emo started in the 90s, and was much more punk influenced. a few bands started playing stuff with much less aggression, much more lyric-focused, and people call it "midwestern emo" or "twinkly" or whatever, but don't feel like you have to use those terms for it.
the bands I listed play a more specific style of that, where they all kinda incorporate more of a focus on post-rock style crescendos, for the most part. |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.10.14 | Well, don't I just feel like a horses patoot. Turns out you have about the exact same understanding as I do. I just know from over a decade of loving these bands, it's a touchy subject, so I just took your comment as being pissy. I was basically just saying as an outside observer with little time put into it, he had an acceptable grasp. |
Shuyin
06.10.14 | sure thing guano, ill give some of those a listen when i get back from work. gotta chill and jam some
thanks sea, but i posted above that the last 2 are just random digs, well if you havent heard shiina then i highly recommend it to you, shes an amazing singer.. only drawback is that shes japanese and i cant understand wtf shes singing about |
SeaAnemone
06.10.14 | lol no u weren't here when I made the Emo Bible which was a really comprehensive history of the genre
and yeah just remember that this small, relatively recently popular style of emo isn't really all that indicative of the genre as a whole, too
"basically indie rock but with heavier guitars and whinier singers" isn't a way to classify that style at all... the singers and guitars are both softer than indie rock lol
and calling something screamo just cuz the singer screams is really wrong too
"All the classic 90's Emo could just be seen as Indie Rock" and I mean of course this depends on how broadly you define indie I guess but most people who talk about punk outside of the indie spectrum would agree that this is really silly... emo grew pretty directly from punk and some styles evolved with some "indie rock" influence, but some didn't as well, making emo as a whole have like punk as a parent and indie as a cousin, basically |
Shuyin
06.10.14 | thats.. a really long band name but ill check it out, thanks |
SeaAnemone
06.10.14 | yea futures |
Shuyin
06.10.14 | damnit i got ninja'd again! |
NordicMindset
06.10.14 | American Football tho |
NordicMindset
06.10.14 | You know when I first saw the title of that Jets to Brazil song I thought of Sea
why didn't I make the connection |
Shuyin
06.10.14 | jee fine, ill listen to american football
cant be worse than the real thing |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.10.14 | "and yeah just remember that this small, relatively recently popular style of emo isn't really all that indicative of the genre as a whole, too"
"and calling something screamo just cuz the singer screams is really wrong too"
"emo grew pretty directly from punk and some styles evolved with some "indie rock" influence, but some didn't as well, making emo as a whole have like punk as a parent and indie as a cousin, basically"
Okay, now I'm pissed at you again ;) Of course I'm aware of that. |
SeaAnemone
06.10.14 | yeah but that makes saying "All the classic 90's Emo could just be seen as Indie Rock" horribly misguided : / |
NordicMindset
06.10.14 | I don't see the emo bible anywhere |
SeaAnemone
06.10.14 | yea I deleted it. there's an image of it somewhere because someone saved it but it's really tiny. it was basically 60-70 of the most essential emo albums in chronological order starting in the late 80s and detailing its rise / the different styles with like a paragraph for each album. |
NordicMindset
06.10.14 | the image is gone too
and why delete? |
SeaAnemone
06.10.14 | cuz I deleted my presence on the site 4 like a year or two
and I made a post hardcore one that's still up like it but it was a little better |
Shuyin
06.10.14 | thats not a good enough reason to delete a list like that |
Relinquished
06.10.14 | it is |
Shuyin
06.10.14 | no its not, dont get it how yall need to make such a big deal when you wanna leave
the biggest contrib to this site are those kind of lists |
SeaAnemone
06.10.14 | ay buddy I just wrote you 3 more paragraphs in this thread don't be whining about the 60 I deleted |
EaglesBecomeVultures
06.10.14 | i listened to saetia today for the first time in like a year, still hits |
NordicMindset
06.10.14 | so that's twinkly... |
EaglesBecomeVultures
06.10.14 | anybody ever listen to please inform the captain this is a hijack? |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.10.14 | "yeah but that makes saying "All the classic 90's Emo could just be seen as Indie Rock" horribly misguided : /"
I just didn't consider giving a lesson on a genre of music and its idiosyncrasies. Just kind of figured if enough interest was drawn from my recommendations, someone's own research and opinions would come along the way. |
Shuyin
06.10.14 | dick move |
SeaAnemone
06.10.14 | sure guano but I mean agreeing with things that are that silly are just gonna turn his "research and opinions" down the wrong path |
Shuyin
06.10.14 | damn, we went all scientific n stuff |
WellFedWhiteMale
06.10.14 | [anybody ever listen to please inform the captain this is a hijack?]
Absolutely! Sara Kirsch was an amazing artist! |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.10.14 | jam on any of those recidz yet Shuyin? |
Avagantamos
06.10.14 | I hate myself 10 songs |
Shuyin
06.10.14 | had a few friends coming over so i couldnt
jamming American Football now |
gotsthedewsdood
06.11.14 | American Football is so fucking good I could float away to that shit. |
Kman418
06.11.14 | aches. - everything |
bakkermaarten007
06.11.14 | "...early paramore"
The only way paramore could be included in an emo list is non-existent paramore. |
Shuyin
06.12.14 | sure thing, gonna check mineral now
american football was fucking awesome btw |
JJOMan
06.12.14 | Of course it was |
TomorrowIsTuesday
06.13.14 | quit listening to emo
your welcome |
Shuyin
06.14.14 | no thx
mineral was pretty sweet btw, but not nearly as good as american football. what should i check next? |
Snake.
06.14.14 | 2 and 3 are touring together.... |
Shuyin
06.14.14 | i remember jimmy eat world, they had a song on GT4 and i kinda liked it. ill listen to static prevails tomorrow, maybe in a break between games, its gonna be a big football day |
Shuyin
06.14.14 | @hep, ive enjoyed what ive listened so far but im still new to the whole emo thing |
Shuyin
06.14.14 | '2 and 3 are touring together'
they're never coming here to portugal so.. meh |
Shuyin
06.14.14 | cant wait to see colombia destroy greece
also england - italy, holy fuck |
Trebor.
06.14.14 | To me emo is super characterized by the guitar style |
Shuyin
06.14.14 | i know, but im from portugal so i want them to lose each and every game for obvious reasons |
sniper
06.14.14 | emo sucks |
sniper
06.14.14 | just listen to mineral |
sniper
06.14.14 | lol fuck off futures |
Shuyin
06.14.14 | nah we only hold a grudge against greece for 2004
and spain, but thats a long ass rivalry |
Shuyin
06.14.14 | sniper, i didnt know much about emo music.. i mean 'real' emo music, not that whole whining bs thing that everyone thinks its emo.
i had a great time jamming stuff like loma prieta and ampere but now i need to calm down, my ears are fucked up and guitar feedback is a killer.. soft tunes are what im looking for right now. this is all good shit |
Kman418
06.14.14 | http://a-c-h-e-s.bandcamp.com/ |
GuanoBumbershoot
06.16.14 | check out Sunny Day Real Estate if you haven't yet. |