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Author: hoip chiggs
Date: 03-17-12 23:43
Just read a YouTube post describing Pink Floyd as "emo". It's stupefying how the 00s generation defines music. Why must they refer to certain groups as "emo" -- meaning emotional -- when that's what all music is supposed to do, evoke emotions? This generation also smartly separates people who enjoy eating from people who simply eat and calls them "foodies". Next, they'll define people who love to look from people who simply see and call them "lookies".
Don't worry, the future is in capable hands.
Post Edited (03-18-12 00:12)
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Author: mats84
Date: 03-18-12 08:07
Part of the problem with the way this generation sees music is in the way the music industry has been cracked open in their lifetime. You know it's all out there for the taking and undefined in the general sense so there's a bigger need to define it and define what got us to right now in the narrower sense.
It's very wacky that a kid listening to "emo" would define Pink Floyd that way (or care enough to even try) and not even know say Husker Du much less Rites of Spring.
Everything in regards to taste either seems ridiculously rigid or entirely random now.
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 03-18-12 16:36
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... "emo". It's stupefying ...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the case of "emo," isn't the label more of an attempt to describe the collective (and ill-judged) fashion sense of the listening audience and not at all descriptive of the actual sounds being made?
No one has ever been able to tell me what "emo" sounds like. This is mostly due to my not bothering to ever ask. Yet if you describe a person as "emo" there is a certain wan, tight-arsed, underfed look that slouches into mind almost at once.
At the risk of seeming to care, I'll open the question(s) up to this august assembly: What does "emo" sound like? What are the disctictive musical elements that make it a genre of its own?
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 03-18-12 17:23
"What does 'emo' sound like? What are the disctictive musical elements that make it a genre of its own?"
I reviewed a Fall Out Boy concert once. There was nothing recognizably "musical" in what they did. Though there were lots of histrionics and the band certainly adopted the posture of *really* feeling it.
That's all I've got.
Sorry.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 03-18-12 17:40
I think emo is anything that tries to sound like Ian Mackaye (Fugazi, Rites of Spring, Embrace), without being as good. It also cant be fun ska-influenced punk (e.g. Rancid), and most of the songs have to be about girls who ripped your heart out. Think: Cursive.
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 03-19-12 08:46
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and most of the songs have to be about girls who ripped your heart out
So were The Beatles emo?
Exhibit A: "Girl."
Exhibit B: "This Boy."
Roy Orbison would have to be emo. Basically, you've described his whole back catalog.
(((sigh)))
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