Phosphor Glow
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jan 23, 2009 21:10:38 GMT -5
Yeah, it is indeed amazing.
I'm really hoping that it's an actual sign that we're getting a new album, and not just making it even more of a post-hardcore Chinese Democracy.
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Post by Dynamite Kid on Jan 24, 2009 10:02:30 GMT -5
We can only hope. I think the estimate is something like late 2009 or early 2010. At least we had the United Nations record in the meantime.
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Post by Photogenic Huss Bosh on Jan 24, 2009 11:39:09 GMT -5
Neither of those are emo though. They are, however, excellent. Completley unrelated, but you're the f***in man for listening to Andrew Jackson Jihad. So, so good.
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Tarik Dee
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Post by Tarik Dee on Jan 24, 2009 11:55:21 GMT -5
You consider my chemical romance emo? or what genre could be? also what bands are real emo at this times?
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Post by waffleofpower on Jan 24, 2009 12:01:04 GMT -5
I'm more into when emo strays into post-hardcore. Fugazi anyone? Glassjaw anyone? Both awesome bands. Especially Glassjaw. Even though THEIRALBUMSTILLISNTOUTYET. IT'S BEEN SEVEN YEARS, GUYS. GET TO RECORDING. ...*ahem* Fo' real. Quit playing around with Head Automatica and GET BACK TO WORK, DARYL. >=(
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Phosphor Glow
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jan 24, 2009 15:03:58 GMT -5
You consider my chemical romance emo? or what genre could be? also what bands are real emo at this times? Nah, My Chemical Romance isn't even approaching emo. As for bands that are still playing emo or screamo that exist today, I've already posted some stuff in the thread. Bands like Algernon Cadwallader, Circle Takes the Square, etc. TIME FOR MORE VIDEOS 'CAUSE I'M BORED The Khayembii Communique - The Death of an Aspiring Icon The Kodan Armada - The Butterfly Effect I Would Set Myself on Fire For You - Chinese Freeze Tag
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Post by babyfootball on Jan 24, 2009 18:28:59 GMT -5
Can't believe I almost totally missed this thread, this stuff is my forte!
It was weird, because I got into "emo" or whatever you want to call it like 6 months to a year before it started to become the new wacky trend. This was circa the year 2000. It was bands like Jimmy Eat World, Saves the Day, New Found Glory, the Get Up Kids, the Juliana Theory and such. Granted, I would soon come to learn that most of those bands were more pop-punk than anything else, but it was weird to me at the time that, as a 15 year old, I felt like I had finally found my niche, my "scene." And... then suddenly every jerk I went to school with suddenly felt the same way.
I had a really hard time when emo got big, which looking back, sounds really stupid. But for a little while, I could tell just by looking at a person's band pins on their backpack or their track jacket that we would get along because we had something in common, and then... that changed. A lot of it happened around the time that "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World became a huge Top 40 radio hit (although I've never begrudged them their success, they remain my favorite band for a reason).
It soon became that like 75% of the scene became insincere jocks who months prior were into nu-metal and goofy pop-punk bands like Allister and Homegrown.
And then bands like Poison the Well and From Autumn to Ashes got big, which started the metalcore/"screamo" trend. I was in an emo band at the time, and I remember TONS of awful clone bands that we played shows with who all had the same stupid haircuts and were inexplicably huge (in the area). Before we knew it, we got "crossover" bands like Senses Fail, who were sort of forefathers to Hawthorne Heights, which I will never, ever forgive them for. That band is/was totally awful and cheesy, which I guess explains why they got so big.
Nowadays, I guess there are some legit emo/screamo bands around, but a lot of them are weird Saetia/Antioch Arrow/Heroin clones. I was never really that into that sound, and I've pretty much fallen out of trying to keep up with what's new. I still like my mid-90's post-hardcore and emo, stuff like Texas is the Reason, Sense Field, Samiam, Knapsack, and my turn of the century emo/pop-punk. But I never wanted to be the old dude who still hangs out at these shows with teenagers, which I see some of my friends doing (mostly those who wound up getting involved in the straight-edge hardcore scene). It just kind of depresses me.
At least I can say that I was in a band that developed sort of a following in my area for about a year or two, and that we tried to keep the sincerity alive in our music without just coming off as a copycat band of what was "hip" at the time.
Oh yeah, and I third the whole "Is Glassjaw's new record EVER going to come out?!" sentiment. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence definitely opened my mind to heavier post-hardcore and eventually just plain old hardcore.
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Post by babyfootball on Jan 24, 2009 18:37:40 GMT -5
Son of a...um Dashboard Confessional, Brand New, Samiam? any of those. Real quick, the very first "emo" show I went to, I was like 15 at the time, was headlined by Jimmy Eat World at a firehouse in Wayne, NJ. There were maybe 200-300 kids there, which was a LOT to fit in a small, sweaty hall. Some other notable bands at the time played, like Hot Rod Circuit (who were awesome btw, shame they broke up last year) and River City High. The very first act that played was just this dude sitting on stage with an acoustic guitar, and NOBODY was paying attention. I mean literally nobody, as my friend brought along his camera for a project in his photography class and was able to get some really good up-close shots of him because there was nobody else even near the stage. Everybody else was browsing the merch tables and just hanging out. I would be shocked when 3 years later "that dude" became the face of MTV's version of emo and was hailed as a "spokesperson for a generation."
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Phosphor Glow
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jan 24, 2009 18:38:07 GMT -5
Yeah, I got into it in pretty much the same way and at the same time as you. Pretty much identical.
But I still stick around with the genre. But of course I'm into the Antioch Arrow/Saetia/etc. sound. I think it's awesome.
But glad to know someone has pretty much shared my experience with the genre.
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