First off, no emo flaming. This is not a thread about emo people or goths or anything like that, this is about a certain genre of music.
Secondly, screamo is a type of emo music wether you believe me or not, and emo is a type of punk music. This thread's purpose is to help you better understand emo music. So why am I doing this? There are two reason:
1. I have seen so many people misuse emo and screamo and it really ticks me off.
2. I like this type of music and I would like to spread the love
.
Emo
Emo started in 1984 when the band Rites of Spring were formed. Their roots were from hardcore punk music, but they was something that set them apart fromt he other punk bands in the scene. The singer - Guy Picciotto - used a very different style of vocals and lyrics. His vocals still maintaned the out of breath, yelling punk style vocals, but often times his voice would just break down into an emotion, throated moan type yell. Around the same time, in the ashes of punk band Minor Threat came another new band called Embrace. Ian MacKayes vocals and lyrics were similar to Guy's (and they later went on to form legendary punk band Fugazi). These bands, along with other band that were inspired and had a similar sound were called emocore.
I'm not completely sure how emocore developed into the indie emo style there was in the 90's so this next paragraph may not seem quite as accurate but I'll try the best I can.
The scene continued to develop, and eventually the term emo began to refer to many of the indie rock bands of the 90's. Bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas Is the Reason, and The Get Up Kids were among these indie emo bands.
List of Emo Bands
1.6 Band
American Football*
Anasarca
Angel Hair
Beefeater
Bells On Trike
Birthmark
Boy's Life
Braid
Cap'n Jazz*
Car vs Driver
Christie Front Drive
Chune
Clikatat Ikatowi
Coasts
Cursive*
Dag Nasty
Decembers Architects
Drive Like Jehu*
Elliott
Embrace*
Ethel Meserve
Evergreen
everyoned
Fire Party
Floodgate
Friend/Enemy
Fuel
The Get Up Kids*
Ghosts and Vodka
Giant's Chair
The Gloria Record
Gray Matter
The Good Life
Heroin*
I Hate Myself*
Jasemine
Jawbreaker (arguably)*
Jejune
Joan of Arc
Julia
Knapsack
Love of Everything
Make Believe
Maritime
Maximillian Colby
M.I.J.
Mineral
Monument
Moss Icon*
Nation of Ulysses
Native Nod
Noyes
One Last Wish
the One Up Downstairs
Ordination Of Aaron
Owls
Owltian Mia
Penfold
The Pine
Policy Of Three
Pop Unknown
The Promise Ring*
Rain
Rainer Maria
The Republic Of Freedom Fighters
Rites of Sping*
Samiam
Sam Zurick
September
Sheryl's Magnetic Aura
Shotmaker
Sky Corvair
Sleepytime Trio
Small Brown Bike
Still Life
Street Smart Cyclist
Soulside
The Summer We Went West
Sunny Day Real Estate*
Texas is the Reason*
Vermont
Vitreous Humor
Q: So I'm new to emo and have no idea where to start. What do I do?
A: Listen to this song:
If you like it, get the album Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate. Then proceed to check out the band I put an asterick next to.
Q: I don't like these bands, is there something heavier I can listen to?
A: Read the screamo section
.
Q: Where can I get a more in depth explanation of emo?
A: www.fourfa.com
Bands that are not emo
My Chemical Romance
AFI
Senses Fail
Fall Out Boy
Dashboard Confessional
Panic At the Disco
Simple Plan
The Used
Emo Violence aka Screamo
To be honest, wikipedia has a great explanation so I'm just going to use that:
Screamo is a musical genre which evolved from emo and hardcore punk in the early 1990s. "Emo" and "screamo" are essentially meant to describe the same style of music, changing with the progression of bands and fans. Characteristic of the genre are "loud-to-soft" (sometimes chaotic) dynamics, harmonized guitars with fast-paced riffs and twinkly melodic breaks, frantic/abrasive shouting or screaming, angry/abstract/introspective lyrics, low-end production, and exceptionally energetic live shows. Screamo bands also tend to bury the vocals in with the other instruments and use more arpeggiated progressions, dynamic and time changes. Breakdowns in screamo songs are often slower and quieter than in other genres, though there is a tendency of still screaming during the soft parts.
-wikipedia
Remember, screamo did come from emo and it is a part of emo.
List of Screamo bands
1000 Travels Of Jawaharlal
1905
37 Seconds Of Happiness
80:85
A Fine Boat, That Coffin!
A Silhouette
Adonis Battlefield
After School Knife Fight
Amanda Woodward
Ampere*
Angel Hair
Anomie
Antioch Arrow
The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra
Archives
Ariadne's Thread
Army Of Kashyyyk*
Arroyo Secco
Asthma Attaq
The Assistant
Aussitôt Mort
Belle Epoque
Beneath Low Flying Planes
The Birds are Spies, They Report to the Trees
Boa Narrow
Book of Dead Names
Bravo ****ing Bravo
Burned Out Bright
Cassettes On Fire
The Caution Children
Cease Upon The Capitol*
Celeste
Circle Takes The Square*
City Of Caterpillar*
Clikatat Ikatowi
Clocks Are Devils
Cold Like December
Comadre
Combatwoundedveteran
The Corta Vita
Cowboys Are Indians
Current
Daitro
Danse Macabre
Daniel Striped Tiger
Dawn Treader
Dear Diary I Seem To Be Dead
Devices
Dick Chesney
Die, Emperor! Die!
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Dominic
Don Martin 3
Dot Flash Line
Eaves
Efra
Encyclopedia of American Traitors
End of a Year
Envy*
Et Tu Brute
Ethel Meserve
Evergreen
Fire Team Charlie
The Flying Worker!
Followed By 37 Seconds Of Happiness
Frail
Funeral Diner*
Gantz
Get ****ed
Gillian Carter
Goodbye Blue Monday
Gospel*
Guyver One
Hassan I Sabbah
Helen Of Troy
Her Breath on Glass
Heroin*
Histories
Hollow Jan
Honeywell
Hot Cross*
I Create
I Hate Myself
I Have Dreams
Indian Summer* (arguably just emo)
I Robot
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You
I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook
In First Person
Jairus
Jerome's Dream
Joshua Fit For Battle*
Julia
June Paik
Kaospilot
The Khayembii Communique
Kidcrash
The Kite Fighting Society
The Kodan Armada
Kwakiutl Cannibal Society
L'antietam
La Quiete
Ladders
Lautrec
Lickgoldensky
Life At These Speeds
Lion Of The North
Loma Preita*
Look Back and Laugh
Louise Cyphre
Love Like...Electrocution*
Love Lost But Not Forgotten
Make Me
The Map Says We're ****ed
Marat
Maths
Maximillian Colby
Merel
Men As Trees
Mesa Verde
Mihai Edrisch
Mohinder
My Life With The Spaniard
Native Nod
Navies
Navio Forge
Neil Perry
Nervous Light of Sunday
Olive Tree
One Eyed God Prophecy
Orchid*
Off Minor*
Pg. 99*
Pianos Became The Teeth
Please Inform the Captain This Is A Hijack
Policy of 3
Portrait
Portraits Of Past
Puritan
Pyramids*
Raein
The Red Scare
Resi North
Reversal Of Man
Robots Don't Cry
Rockets and Bluelights
Ryerose
Saddest Day
The Saddest Landscape
Saetia*
Sailboats
Sed Non Satiata
Seeing Means More
She Died Real Pretty
Shikari*
Shout Signals
Sinaloa
Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes
Sleepytime Trio
Someplace To Hide
Song of Zarathustra
Spirit of Versailles
Steeples
Still Life
Storm the Bastille
Strawman Fallacy
Suis La Lune
Swing Kids
Takaru
Take Down Your Art
Ten Grand
Textbook Traitors
This Computer Kills
To Dream Of Autumn
Trainwreck
Transistor Transistor
Tristan Tzara
Trophy Scars
Twelve Hour Turn
Ultra Dolphins
Under A Dying Sun
Union Of Uranus
Usurp Synapse
Versoma
The Vidablue
The Walls You've Built
We'll Dance Like Ghost On Rooftops
Welcome The Plague Year
What Price, Wonderland?
Wolverines
Wolves
Words Mean Nothing
Wow, Owls!
Xochtil
Yage
Yaphet Kotto
Yosarrian Is Drowning
You And I
Q: I'm new to screamo, where do I start?
A: Listen to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHQP...eature=related
Q: How can I know which bands are emo or not?
A: If it's been played on MTV there's almost no chance it's emo. Watch this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNw_MpW6aaI
Q: Ok, so what albums should I get first?
A: I recommend you get these albums:
Hot Cross - Cryonics
Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
Saetia - A Retrospective
Q: What the hell is skramz?
A: It's just a silly nickname for screamo.
Bands that aren't screamo
UnderOATH
From First to Last
Chiodos
As I Lay Dying
The Devil Wears Prada
(if you've heard it on MTV it's probably not screamo)
Other questions:
Q: Can you recommend me some emo or screamo bands?
A: Sure! Just ask what you're looking for and I can probably hook you up.
Q: Where can I umm... somehow obtain some emo or screamo music?
A: Just shoot me a PM.
Sites I used to make this thread:
www.fourfa.com
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum...=652987&page=1
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum...=796903&page=1
Secondly, screamo is a type of emo music wether you believe me or not, and emo is a type of punk music. This thread's purpose is to help you better understand emo music. So why am I doing this? There are two reason:
1. I have seen so many people misuse emo and screamo and it really ticks me off.
2. I like this type of music and I would like to spread the love
.Emo
Emo started in 1984 when the band Rites of Spring were formed. Their roots were from hardcore punk music, but they was something that set them apart fromt he other punk bands in the scene. The singer - Guy Picciotto - used a very different style of vocals and lyrics. His vocals still maintaned the out of breath, yelling punk style vocals, but often times his voice would just break down into an emotion, throated moan type yell. Around the same time, in the ashes of punk band Minor Threat came another new band called Embrace. Ian MacKayes vocals and lyrics were similar to Guy's (and they later went on to form legendary punk band Fugazi). These bands, along with other band that were inspired and had a similar sound were called emocore.
I'm not completely sure how emocore developed into the indie emo style there was in the 90's so this next paragraph may not seem quite as accurate but I'll try the best I can.
The scene continued to develop, and eventually the term emo began to refer to many of the indie rock bands of the 90's. Bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas Is the Reason, and The Get Up Kids were among these indie emo bands.
List of Emo Bands
1.6 Band
American Football*
Anasarca
Angel Hair
Beefeater
Bells On Trike
Birthmark
Boy's Life
Braid
Cap'n Jazz*
Car vs Driver
Christie Front Drive
Chune
Clikatat Ikatowi
Coasts
Cursive*
Dag Nasty
Decembers Architects
Drive Like Jehu*
Elliott
Embrace*
Ethel Meserve
Evergreen
everyoned
Fire Party
Floodgate
Friend/Enemy
Fuel
The Get Up Kids*
Ghosts and Vodka
Giant's Chair
The Gloria Record
Gray Matter
The Good Life
Heroin*
I Hate Myself*
Jasemine
Jawbreaker (arguably)*
Jejune
Joan of Arc
Julia
Knapsack
Love of Everything
Make Believe
Maritime
Maximillian Colby
M.I.J.
Mineral
Monument
Moss Icon*
Nation of Ulysses
Native Nod
Noyes
One Last Wish
the One Up Downstairs
Ordination Of Aaron
Owls
Owltian Mia
Penfold
The Pine
Policy Of Three
Pop Unknown
The Promise Ring*
Rain
Rainer Maria
The Republic Of Freedom Fighters
Rites of Sping*
Samiam
Sam Zurick
September
Sheryl's Magnetic Aura
Shotmaker
Sky Corvair
Sleepytime Trio
Small Brown Bike
Still Life
Street Smart Cyclist
Soulside
The Summer We Went West
Sunny Day Real Estate*
Texas is the Reason*
Vermont
Vitreous Humor
Q: So I'm new to emo and have no idea where to start. What do I do?
A: Listen to this song:
If you like it, get the album Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate. Then proceed to check out the band I put an asterick next to.
Q: I don't like these bands, is there something heavier I can listen to?
A: Read the screamo section
.Q: Where can I get a more in depth explanation of emo?
A: www.fourfa.com
Bands that are not emo
My Chemical Romance
AFI
Senses Fail
Fall Out Boy
Dashboard Confessional
Panic At the Disco
Simple Plan
The Used
Emo Violence aka Screamo
To be honest, wikipedia has a great explanation so I'm just going to use that:
Screamo is a musical genre which evolved from emo and hardcore punk in the early 1990s. "Emo" and "screamo" are essentially meant to describe the same style of music, changing with the progression of bands and fans. Characteristic of the genre are "loud-to-soft" (sometimes chaotic) dynamics, harmonized guitars with fast-paced riffs and twinkly melodic breaks, frantic/abrasive shouting or screaming, angry/abstract/introspective lyrics, low-end production, and exceptionally energetic live shows. Screamo bands also tend to bury the vocals in with the other instruments and use more arpeggiated progressions, dynamic and time changes. Breakdowns in screamo songs are often slower and quieter than in other genres, though there is a tendency of still screaming during the soft parts.
-wikipedia
Remember, screamo did come from emo and it is a part of emo.
List of Screamo bands
1000 Travels Of Jawaharlal
1905
37 Seconds Of Happiness
80:85
A Fine Boat, That Coffin!
A Silhouette
Adonis Battlefield
After School Knife Fight
Amanda Woodward
Ampere*
Angel Hair
Anomie
Antioch Arrow
The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra
Archives
Ariadne's Thread
Army Of Kashyyyk*
Arroyo Secco
Asthma Attaq
The Assistant
Aussitôt Mort
Belle Epoque
Beneath Low Flying Planes
The Birds are Spies, They Report to the Trees
Boa Narrow
Book of Dead Names
Bravo ****ing Bravo
Burned Out Bright
Cassettes On Fire
The Caution Children
Cease Upon The Capitol*
Celeste
Circle Takes The Square*
City Of Caterpillar*
Clikatat Ikatowi
Clocks Are Devils
Cold Like December
Comadre
Combatwoundedveteran
The Corta Vita
Cowboys Are Indians
Current
Daitro
Danse Macabre
Daniel Striped Tiger
Dawn Treader
Dear Diary I Seem To Be Dead
Devices
Dick Chesney
Die, Emperor! Die!
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Dominic
Don Martin 3
Dot Flash Line
Eaves
Efra
Encyclopedia of American Traitors
End of a Year
Envy*
Et Tu Brute
Ethel Meserve
Evergreen
Fire Team Charlie
The Flying Worker!
Followed By 37 Seconds Of Happiness
Frail
Funeral Diner*
Gantz
Get ****ed
Gillian Carter
Goodbye Blue Monday
Gospel*
Guyver One
Hassan I Sabbah
Helen Of Troy
Her Breath on Glass
Heroin*
Histories
Hollow Jan
Honeywell
Hot Cross*
I Create
I Hate Myself
I Have Dreams
Indian Summer* (arguably just emo)
I Robot
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You
I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook
In First Person
Jairus
Jerome's Dream
Joshua Fit For Battle*
Julia
June Paik
Kaospilot
The Khayembii Communique
Kidcrash
The Kite Fighting Society
The Kodan Armada
Kwakiutl Cannibal Society
L'antietam
La Quiete
Ladders
Lautrec
Lickgoldensky
Life At These Speeds
Lion Of The North
Loma Preita*
Look Back and Laugh
Louise Cyphre
Love Like...Electrocution*
Love Lost But Not Forgotten
Make Me
The Map Says We're ****ed
Marat
Maths
Maximillian Colby
Merel
Men As Trees
Mesa Verde
Mihai Edrisch
Mohinder
My Life With The Spaniard
Native Nod
Navies
Navio Forge
Neil Perry
Nervous Light of Sunday
Olive Tree
One Eyed God Prophecy
Orchid*
Off Minor*
Pg. 99*
Pianos Became The Teeth
Please Inform the Captain This Is A Hijack
Policy of 3
Portrait
Portraits Of Past
Puritan
Pyramids*
Raein
The Red Scare
Resi North
Reversal Of Man
Robots Don't Cry
Rockets and Bluelights
Ryerose
Saddest Day
The Saddest Landscape
Saetia*
Sailboats
Sed Non Satiata
Seeing Means More
She Died Real Pretty
Shikari*
Shout Signals
Sinaloa
Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes
Sleepytime Trio
Someplace To Hide
Song of Zarathustra
Spirit of Versailles
Steeples
Still Life
Storm the Bastille
Strawman Fallacy
Suis La Lune
Swing Kids
Takaru
Take Down Your Art
Ten Grand
Textbook Traitors
This Computer Kills
To Dream Of Autumn
Trainwreck
Transistor Transistor
Tristan Tzara
Trophy Scars
Twelve Hour Turn
Ultra Dolphins
Under A Dying Sun
Union Of Uranus
Usurp Synapse
Versoma
The Vidablue
The Walls You've Built
We'll Dance Like Ghost On Rooftops
Welcome The Plague Year
What Price, Wonderland?
Wolverines
Wolves
Words Mean Nothing
Wow, Owls!
Xochtil
Yage
Yaphet Kotto
Yosarrian Is Drowning
You And I
Q: I'm new to screamo, where do I start?
A: Listen to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHQP...eature=related
Q: How can I know which bands are emo or not?
A: If it's been played on MTV there's almost no chance it's emo. Watch this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNw_MpW6aaI
Q: Ok, so what albums should I get first?
A: I recommend you get these albums:
Hot Cross - Cryonics
Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
Saetia - A Retrospective
Q: What the hell is skramz?
A: It's just a silly nickname for screamo.
Bands that aren't screamo
UnderOATH
From First to Last
Chiodos
As I Lay Dying
The Devil Wears Prada
(if you've heard it on MTV it's probably not screamo)
Other questions:
Q: Can you recommend me some emo or screamo bands?
A: Sure
! Just ask what you're looking for and I can probably hook you up.Q: Where can I umm... somehow obtain some emo or screamo music?
A: Just shoot me a PM
.Sites I used to make this thread:
www.fourfa.com
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum...=652987&page=1
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum...=796903&page=1
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