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My Aim Is True:
I found this website to be pretty accurate.
www.fourfa.com
Nobody will agree 100% on things, so there are a few tiny nitpicky things he gets into that I'd roll my eyes at, probably vice versa, but this site gets it pretty close. Just take a bit of it with a grain of salt, and try to recognize the satire aspects here and there.
Oh, and to KharBevNor- I think metal is a much broader term than emo, but many of the bands mentioned here do need qualifers, like metalcore or nu-metal or what have you.
Robbo:
I dunno about broader term....broader in terms of genres yes. Thought what is and isn't Metal is still pretty tight. But yes, some things are part of Metal, or Metal influenced.
Just have to break way from what isn't Metal, just median labeled. The New Urbarn Alt Rock (Nu Metal) and influenced stuff like Metalcore...which has gone from being a crossbreed to Core with Metal touches. And boy do people rip on it these days.
Oh, and fourfa.com rocks...I've gotten some nice info from there...what I used to check out some of the good stuff.
My Aim Is True:
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Strike Anywhere ...I don't hear them going on about girls they've lost.
Ditto for Paint it Black.
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That's exactly my point.
But half of PIB's new album is a metaphor for Dan Yemin's divorce.
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I've never heard that idea about Paradise before, but I'd like to hear where you did.
If the definition we're using of emo is music with emotion then that pretty much makes most groups out there emo.
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You are still missing the point. Emo does NOT mean "music with emotion" but it also if all a band does is whine about girls and feeling lonely, then that is NOT emo either. The original emo movement grew out of 80's hardcore bands that got sick of meatheaded aspects of the scene, and branched into a blending of the personal and the political (which whether or not they realized it, is a core tenet of a large school of thought in modern sociology, especially academic feminism).
Do you like Minor Threat? Then go here and buy this http://www.dischord.com/store?action=showRel&relNumber=24 And then you will have a start on where emo came from.
And as for Paint It Black, I can't remember where I first heard it, but read this-
--- Quote from: http://jadetree.com/releases/product/JT1103 ---PAINT IT BLACK'S follow up to their urgent and trouncing CVA is epic in comparison. Not simply in terms of song length, but more importantly in terms of subject matter. Paradise contains all the mile-a-minute passion of the last release coupled with a more thematic tone, exploring the personal pains of divorce, the more global concerns of war and how the two are hopelessly intertwined. The end result is a heroic look inward and ultimately a catharsis guised in uncompromising intensity and spirit.
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And by the way, about half the songs on PIB's first album were about Dan Yemin's stroke. CVA stands for "Cardio Vascular Accident," the medical term for a stroke. Can't get much more personal than that. PIB is an emo band. Because emo is a type of hardcore.
My Aim Is True:
PS- dear mods, please don't lock this thread.
Robbo:
Threads like this around the board make me thing that Emo is now one of the most misunderstand, mislabelled and least really known about genres along with Metal.
Hmmm, should probably go check out some more of it at some point.
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