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Originally posted by dark darkness
well thanks for the enlightenment mr. morphine. it's nice to get input from someone so knowledgable about things i'd never care to give a fuck about. i don't see the logic in measuring a bands worth by the importance of some message. alot of very good bands make music simply for the purpose of expressing emotions and ideas.
as far as sounding alike, emo is probably one of the more diverse genres out there right now. ranging from melodic piano and angelic vocals to distorted inaudible power chords and scratchy out of tune screaming.
im a minor threat and fugazi fan. i heard ian did an emo crap thing back in the day, but i never bothered to check it out. i guess i was under my bed while they were causing their "revolution" or something. i wouldn't consider emo a shadow of any other genre though. it is it's own evolved and concrete style of music. and though you can say it stemmed from punk, there's just as many emo bands that where just as heavely influenced by mod rock and grunge. i actually think there's more mod and grunge influence in emo then punk. i know there are a number of emo acts that are former members of punk bands, but the music and style is completely different. i actually think most of those punk bands grew up listening to shit like the smiths, and the cure and crap. thus all the whiney love hurts subject matter. anyways i always bullshit for to long in my posts.  |
To be PC, it's Ms. Morphine.
And as for the whole genre of Emo it's a bloody waste. People should have allowed grunge to die in peace and with dignity. And no matter what the different emo bands have been influenced by they still sound strangely alike and are just as bland in their style. "Wah" broke up w/ my g/f - b/f (which ever), "wah' my parents are mean, "wah" I'm broke. Emo is not musically pleasing. But that's just my insignificant opinion. And my dear punk does preach about love. Thus, if you were influenced by let's say The Cure, and you consider yourself a punk rocker, well then, you're blind. Stereotypes are blind though. Stupid, stupid. And if you really didn't give a flying fuck you wouldn't have went on as you did. Still think it's a brand of nameless music. Music- too heavy a word for it. Have a nice day though. I'm just being crotchety. Tired. Take care all.