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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: imapiratearg on 12 Aug 2006, 18:24
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i feel so alone...lol.
i'm willing to bet that a lot of you guys are gonna give me crap and a bunch of lectures about "it's just a phase" or stuff like that. but yea. that's all i really wanted to say.
i did however today while in fye listen to Broken Social Scene, Mogwai and Arcade Fire. and i liked Broken Social Scene's more rockish(?) songs. Arcade Fire was a little too instrumental from what i heard, and sounded a lot like classical music. but there apparently was a networking problem so i only heard one or two songs by Mogwai and Arcade Fire.
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what does emo have to do with the music you listed? i is confused.
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This is too good to be true.
It has to be a gag account.
I seriously thought the people who stole the word emo were dying out.
You still see them, but they're all stale and crusty and nobody talks about them anymore.
Dude/dudette, what bands do you listen to?
And is your hair all floppy at the front and spiky at the back, like the most overrated artist ever who drew the image in your avatar?
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Do you look at pizza boxes and cry?
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Do you have a penis dude/dudette?
Does it matter?
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Whenever an eraser falls off a chalkboard in school do you think of all the words that were erased by that eraser and how they are just DUST now. Gone forever? Do you weep when you think of this?
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Am I just too wildly stoned or am I just now noticing that the background colours of your avatar change?
Edit: aimed at spinless
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Hope is hot. I could totally watch a video of her crying for HOURS.
Also, Rubby, you're stoned.
But not hopelessly.
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See, he/she (What do you call people without genders?) knew this would happen. But posted anyway. So it's okay for me to do this.
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You call it Whiny Teenage Child.
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I could jack off to a video of Guy Picciotto punching somebody's lights out.
Man, that guy is the living embodiment of sexy.
Also, he has a gender. ALL MAN. Unlike this silly new emo children.
Man, those children are silly in a bad way. Not like us kids, who are silly in a fun way.
That's the difference between kids and children. Age is irrelevant. Unless you're over 25.
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I find the term 'emo kid' offensive. It should be replaced with 'whiny teenage child'.
Serious question.
Do you cut yourself? Do have have any scars because you're stupid? Or do you have scabs because you're less stupid?
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If you got a haircut, a gender and a positive attitude, people would like you.
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Nobody likes silly whiny teenage children except other silly whiny teenage children.
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(What do you call people without genders?)
They
It is commonly assumed that this usage is due to the singular third-person personal pronouns being either gender-specific (he/she, "himself"/"herself", etc.) or inappropriate for referring to people, such as the forms of it. However, historically, the singular they arose when the number of the referent was indefinite, not the gender.
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People here think silly whiny teenage children are hot. I found this out earlier in a conversation.
Man, what drugs were they taking?
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Oh, wait, I forgot.
Hope is hot.
What drugs am I taking?
I won't say!
Edit: I'm gonna let somebody else have a turn.
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This is the best thread ever
So I'm going to quote passages of Naked Lunch
cause it's right next to me
And William Burroughs is HAWT
"A. J. rush across San Marco slashing at pigeons with a cutlass: 'Bastards! Sons of bitches!' he screams... He staggers aboard his barge, a monstrous construction in gilt and pink and blue with sails of purple velvet. He is dressed in a preposterous naval uniform covered with braid and ribbons and holes...A.J. walks to a huge reproduction of a Greek urn topped by a gold statue of a boy with an erection"
I'm stopping there cause it gets a little iffy, but guys. GAE PIRATES
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How many post into this thread was it where I went too far?
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Depends on what you consider too far
I thought it was fucking hilarious, so
never
EDIT: I just reread the line "Do you look at pizza boxes and cry?" and cracked up.
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You can't go too far when the thread started with "I feel so alone."
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I go to bars where all the silly whiny teenage children hang out and do shows because they're some of the only places I can drink.
It's awesome.
Everybody there looks exactly the same. I know some of the people who hang around from school and college, but I can't pick them out of the crowds.
They have 'DJs' too. By that, I mean they have a guy who throws funeral for a friend on and rocks out in his chair while his friends take off their shirts, link arms and jump.
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This one time a guy asked to make out with me.
I told him know, because he looked ridiculous.
He asked what I meant.
I told him he was 20% bits of metal, genderless and didn't have any visible eyes.
Later, his friend came up and told me I hurt his feelings.
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His friend was a girl. Who was quite attractive.
She slapped me because I had a hell of a mouth that night.
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I'm suprised that nobody has ever actually tried to start a real fight with me actually.
I'm not a big guy.
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If he didn't look ridiculous, would you have made out with him?
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Then again, neither are they.
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...did you bone her?
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Coreh, depends on how much I've had to drink and how attractive the person is. And I'm just assuming, I've never made out with a guy. But the thought doesn't repulse me.
Making out with ugly guys/girls does.
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Kai Darling, that's what I hinted at and that's why she slapped me on the spot.
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Man, I was DRUNK.
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That guy must have been ugly. I couldn't tell for his hair.
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One night, the bar had a weird electropop band playing that was quite cool, and some other kinds of people showed up as well as the usually silly whiny teenage children.
That was a great night. People kept talking to me and buying me drinks because I was ripping on the silly whiny teenage children.
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I giggled when I read 'The Arcade Fire sounded like classical music to me.'
Do you prefer traditional razor blades or exacto knives?
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Do you prefer traditional razor blades or plastic knives?
That's what I read.
I was all "Man that's fucking hardcore"!
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Pfft. REAL men CHEW THROUGH THEIR WRIST. WITH BLUNT TEETH.
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HELL. WITH NO TEETH!
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Coreh, be my penguin?
Man, the person who drew that avatar in the original post devwatched me waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day when I used deviant art.
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I'll be your penguin any day.
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This has gone too long without a post making fun of the silly whiny teenage child.
GROW UP! YOU'RE SIXTEEN, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A SILLY WHINY TEENAGE CHILD ANYMORE.
WE ALL GOT PROBLEMS. BUT WE AIN'T ALL SILLY WHINY TEENAGE CHILDREN.
I gotta say, a movement where people fake depression is pretty fucking depressing.
Hey guys, wanna start a movement where we pretend to have degenerative mental illnesses? No? damn.
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This is too good to be true.
It has to be a gag account.
I seriously thought the people who stole the word emo were dying out.
You still see them, but they're all stale and crusty and nobody talks about them anymore.
Dude/dudette, what bands do you listen to?
And is your hair all floppy at the front and spiky at the back, like the most overrated artist ever who drew the image in your avatar?
yea, i throw the term around a lot. no, it's not a gag account. my hair is like...longish and kinda curly, it's not really floppy. and i'm a dude. lol. i don't cut myself...
onto bands i listen to, this is what i have on my myspace:
NOFX, Lagwagon, MXPX, Fall Out Boy, No Use For A Name, Goldfinger, Green Day (their older stuff), Brand New, The Used, My Chemical Romance, Sum 41, A New Found Glory, Less Than Jake, Something Corporate, The Offspring, Unwritten Law, Long Shot Hero, Slick Shoes, Anti-Flag, Alkaline Trio, Motion City Soundtrack, Millencollin, Saves the Day, Sugarcult, Reggie and the Full Effect, Mest, The Bouncing Souls, Bad Religion, Rancid, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, Descendents, The Mad Caddies, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pennywise, Pulley, Good Riddance, Strung Out, Senses Fail, Agnostic Front, The Starting Line, The Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Fugazi, The Unseen, Guttermouth, Black Flag, The Distillers, Minor Threat, Catch 22, The Suicide Machines, Streetlight Manifesto, Mustard Plug, RX Bandits, Five Iron Frenzy, Southcott, Silverstein, Chiodos, Billy Talent, Buck-O-Nine, Finch, Funeral For a Friend, Thrice, Taking Back Sunday, Boys Night Out, Allister, Amber Pacific, AFI, Panic! At The Disco, Race The Sun, Anberlin, Armor For Sleep, Daphne Loves Derby, Angels and Airwaves, HORSE the Band, JamisonParker, Jack's Mannequin, Pinback, Dashboard Confessional, Secondhand Serenade, Matchbook Romance, Emery, The Junior Varsity, theAUDITION, The Spill Canvas, Rookie of the Year, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Thursday, Asteria, Avery Pkwy, The Juliana Theory, Snow Patrol, Waking Ashland, X's For Eyes, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Forecast, Hidden In Plain View, Monty Are I, Saosin, Jonas Sees In Color, LASTWINTER, Sleepaway, The Classic Crime, The Morning Of, Forgive Durden, Run Kid Run, Moneen, Thin Dark Line, etc.
it's long.
also please note before you go all out and start ripping me a new asshole, i'm only 16, therefore libel to say stupid stuff.
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i'm not faking depression or trying to be a whiny teenage kid or whatever.
what i was actually stating was i feel like a minority on this forum. because i haven't really seen anyone who listens to what i do.
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Oh gender-less one, who would you rather screw, Scarlet Johansen, or Conor Obrest?
Highlight of this post: Kai quoting Naked Lunch. I love that book. I need to actually buy myself a copy.
But that is a very close contest for highlight. This post is fantasmical.
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i guess i'm an idiot for starting it?
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Yeah, I guess.
Bye the way, pinback looks REALLY out of place on that list, you do know that?
And stop using your age as an excuse for things. We have 14 yearolds who are more mature than I am here.
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Pinback does?
i guess so. i like the one song "Penelope" by them
and i only used that excuse once.
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You guys should all stop being such fucking assholes.
You're not an idiot.
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hey now flaming isn't nice.
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Come on, making fun of emo kids is far to easy to be in any measure admirable or entertaining.
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Wait...ONLY like the song penelope?
Can I hazard a guess and say it's on their myspace page?
See, stop listenning to almost all those other bands you listed, and listen to more pinback songs.
Take recommendations from people here, and just try to shift your music taste so that it's less...
Sucky.
Edit: Silly whiny teenage children deserve everything they get, they have brought it upon themselves. They are genuinely rediculous. I know kids who are abused. They're not slly whiny teenage children. They got problems. And think most of those bands are crap.
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everyone has different tastes, so i'll shift my tastes if i so desire. and no, i didn't first hear "Penelope" on their myspace, it was on a White Balance, which is a snowboarding video, and i liked it, because i like a lot of acoustic music too. i've been trying out the bands you guys talk about and some of the characters in the comic talk about, and they're not bad, they're talented musicians, it's just not something i'd normally sit down and listen to.
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Edit: Silly whiny teenage children deserve everything they get, they have brought it upon themselves. They are genuinely rediculous. I know kids who are abused. They're not slly whiny teenage children. They got problems. And think most of those bands are crap.
that's fine if you think they're crap, i don't think so. i'll admit i don't really have any major problems with my life except being heartbroken and such, but i'm not super emo like i think you think i am. by that i mean stereotypically emo.
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You posted 'I feel so alone' on a messageboard.
That's a pretty big cry for attention.
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I thought he was being sarcastic. I hope he's being sarcastic.
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yea i was kinda being sarcastic. what i was trying to say, as i posted this in the music section, was that i think i'm the only person on this website that listens to the bands i like.
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You should have been much more clear on that.
Actually, no, you shouldn't.
Because this thread wouldn't have happened, and it's SO entertaining.
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I love this thread.
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thanks. i'm glad you guys enjoy making fun of me.
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You like Snow Patrol, that's cool in my book.
Everyone has skeletons in their closet. I love Tom Jones.
Some skeletons are better hung than others.
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i love Snow Patrol. they're amazing.
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Some higher power put ridiculous silly whiny teenage children here for our amusement or confusement. I swear.
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In all honesty, that list kinda looks like what I listened to when I was sixteen.
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All the bands I listenned to at 16 I'd listen to now.
Also, WHAT THE HELL GUYS? Get to 'I like Fish' NOW.
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original poster:
im glad you are sticking to your guns and defending your tastes in music. i happen to despise most of what you love, but its cool if you like it, and its also cool if you wish to explore other genres. but there is one problem. not a single one of those bands you listed is in any way emo, and every single time you use that term, it is insulting. sure, you may be angsty, but you are in no way a genre of music that was pretty much strangled to death in the mid nineties.
check out http://www.fourfa.com or look it up on wikipedia.
as well, there is no way that you could decide whether or not you like bands like mogwai, bss, or the arcade fire from random 30 second samples. you may want to try a little harder. who knows, maybe even go so far as to look them up on myspace.
and please, if not for ours, then for your own sake, stop refering to yourself as a genre of music.
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Now, I would like to start off with this one statement: STOP ABUSING THE WORD "EMO". I could give you a long history of the term, and the genre, "emo", making references to Rites of Spring and the like. That would be boring, and I've stopped long ago trying to change the majority of scenester trend-followers into educated scenester trend-followers. But stop throwing the word around like you know what it means.
Secondly, none of the music you listed is emo, emocore, screamo, or any other weird emo derivitive I am not familiar with (xXpost-punk hardcore emo electronicaXx does not count, sir). Most of the bands you listed are pop, pop-punk, or punk-rock. This is all fine and dandy, but it is certainly not emo. In subsequent posts, you said you only used the word "emo" to define the music you listen to. This is not the case.
I will stop now, as I believe by this point I am repeating myself. It is late, and I am no good at ranting. Goodnight, sir.
EDIT: Shitfuck, the guy above me beat me to it! And sounded less like an asshole! Kudos to you, guy above me!
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I hate this thread.
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Where did the Emo/Indie sticky go? It might have helped this thread.
As for imapiratearg, good for you for listening to what you like to listen to. I personally think most of its a load of shit, but hey, you would probably think the same about my music. However, if you'd spent anytime browsing these forums before making your post, you would have realized that most people here don't take too kindly to people who have similar musical and cultural tastes to you. You may have realized that you would be inviting insult by making such a post, and perhaps would have thought better of it. Oh, and don't use age as an excuse (I'm 15).
That said, it still amuses me that you think The Arcade Fire is too instrumental and sounds like classical. Hell, I think Broken Social Scene is way more instrumental than The Arcade Fire. And if you think The Arcade Fire is too instrumental, then what the hell did you think of Mogwai?
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All the bands I listenned to at 16 I'd listen to now.
Also, WHAT THE HELL GUYS? Get to 'I like Fish' NOW.
I listened to Celine Dion when I was 16... Aren't you still a teen too?
Also: This guy has better taste in music than I did when I was that young. Of course, I was hopelessly uncool until college. I mean, I played dungeons and dragons and loved Celine Dion. I was also a straight guy in choir. DOOMED. DOOOMED.
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man, fucking Fugazi and Panic at the Disco on the same list. how can you have good enough taste to listen to Fugazi, but not realize that Panic is complete shit?
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We'll have no bad-mouthing of D&D!
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I didn't start playing D&D until second year uni... Probably a lot more social then most activities I did up until that point, like posting on internet message boards, oh wait...
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Spinless, I'm going to come to England and we're going to go to a whiny teenagers show and get really drunk and it's going to be amazing.
Whing genderless teenager; listen to more Bad Religion and NOFX for they are awesome fun times.
Stop moping or get into goth cause that's the only legit moping.
Dear whiny genderless teenagers of Auckland
You all look like lusty lusty women. I would totally hit it if I didn't have a girlfriend.
Rarrr! Pink eyeliner.
Love
Rizzo
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i felt up the only emo kid....
errrrr not quite.
But ya know, if it weren't for all the metal in their faces and the shit taste in music most of these kids could have been mistaken for goths a few years ago. That offends me slightly.
I'd hit it (with a shovel.)
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This is too good to be true.
It has to be a gag account.
I seriously thought the people who stole the word emo were dying out.
You still see them, but they're all stale and crusty and nobody talks about them anymore.
Dude/dudette, what bands do you listen to?
And is your hair all floppy at the front and spiky at the back, like the most overrated artist ever who drew the image in your avatar?
onto bands i listen to, this is what i have on my myspace:
NOFX, Lagwagon, MXPX, Fall Out Boy, No Use For A Name, Goldfinger, Green Day (their older stuff), Brand New, The Used, My Chemical Romance, Sum 41, A New Found Glory, Less Than Jake, Something Corporate, The Offspring, Unwritten Law, Long Shot Hero, Slick Shoes, Anti-Flag, Alkaline Trio, Motion City Soundtrack, Millencollin, Saves the Day, Sugarcult, Reggie and the Full Effect, Mest, The Bouncing Souls, Bad Religion, Rancid, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, Descendents, The Mad Caddies, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pennywise, Pulley, Good Riddance, Strung Out, Senses Fail, Agnostic Front, The Starting Line, The Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Fugazi, The Unseen, Guttermouth, Black Flag, The Distillers, Minor Threat, Catch 22, The Suicide Machines, Streetlight Manifesto, Mustard Plug, RX Bandits, Five Iron Frenzy, Southcott, Silverstein, Chiodos, Billy Talent, Buck-O-Nine, Finch, Funeral For a Friend, Thrice, Taking Back Sunday, Boys Night Out, Allister, Amber Pacific, AFI, Panic! At The Disco, Race The Sun, Anberlin, Armor For Sleep, Daphne Loves Derby, Angels and Airwaves, HORSE the Band, JamisonParker, Jack's Mannequin, Pinback, Dashboard Confessional, Secondhand Serenade, Matchbook Romance, Emery, The Junior Varsity, theAUDITION, The Spill Canvas, Rookie of the Year, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Thursday, Asteria, Avery Pkwy, The Juliana Theory, Snow Patrol, Waking Ashland, X's For Eyes, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Forecast, Hidden In Plain View, Monty Are I, Saosin, Jonas Sees In Color, LASTWINTER, Sleepaway, The Classic Crime, The Morning Of, Forgive Durden, Run Kid Run, Moneen, Thin Dark Line, etc.
it's long.
also please note before you go all out and start ripping me a new asshole, i'm only 16, therefore libel to say stupid stuff.
see i could handle the bands (lie) but i'm 16 too. that doesn't stop me from being intelligent. and btw. if you start telling me any of those bands are emo, i'll cut your spleen out, i swear.
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I'm a closet Dashboard Confessional fan. Does that count for something?
Anyway, I'm gonna be nice and actually recommend something this guy might like: you should check out Straylight Run. They're pretty 'emo' if you're using your definition of the term, and make some pretty sounding noises sometimes.
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This thread started out like the best thread ever on page one, and now its crap.
Thanks guys. Really.
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I have no problems with whiny, angsty teens. I think that's nornal.
Once you get to college however, if you don't stop your bitching I will tend to throw the term "right-faced cunt" at emo kids who haven't grown up.
So embrace your emoness while you can, because once you're 18 your bitchig better stop mighty quickly.
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GUYS
STOP SAYING THINGS LIKE "I AM OKAY WITH WHINY TEENAGE KIDS"
YOU SHOULDN'T BE FUCKERS
CAUSE
IT'S REALLY ANNOYING TO HAVE TO BE AROUND THEM
FUCK YOU FOR ENCOURAGING IT.
Also, you've only heard ONE pinback song and you still list it on your favorite music box on your silly little myspace? weak.
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Kids!
What the hell is going on here?
Straight to bed all of you, and no supper.
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I like System of a Down which makes me a minority on this forum but I don't feel the need to start a topic about it.
Plus a lesson for all people: NEVER listen to Brand New. It's bad for your health. They are one of the worst bands I have ever had the displeasure of hearing. Come on the lead singer starts crying at the end of the song. Man I don't mind if a song means a lot to the person singing it and it makes them feel very emotional but don't put the crying on the actual CD. Jeez get a grip.
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yesterday...there were like no posts and now there's a page and a half. jeebus. see what the word emo does to people???
i like snow patrol. i also like your icon. (however, if you are not the person that drew that picture, it's not very nice of you to use it, because i really like that artist's work [they are on DA] and i don't think they like other people using their stuff for icons without permission...)
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Spinless, are you feeling alright?
You're acting kind of retarded today
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Snow Partrol is pretty cool.
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i like snow patrol. i also like your icon. (however, if you are not the person that drew that picture, it's not very nice of you to use it, because i really like that artist's work [they are on DA] and i don't think they like other people using their stuff for icons without permission...)
The solution to that is not to put the pics on Deviantart. I would probably be proud if someone used one of my pics as an avatar, however, to my knowledge, it hasn't ever happened.
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Sturge, towards the early hours of the morning after a few days of not sleeping, shit happens.
Is that list of bands a list of every band he has heard and didn't not like? That seems much more likely. The list to me screams 'This band, that I haven't heard much material by, if any material at all seems like it'll get me scene points if I name drop it'.
Rizzo guy, if you can ever afford it, totally do come to england. It would be glorious.
Oooh! Can I point something out? Rizzo likes quite a few of those bands listed by the silly teenage child. Even the really bad ones. But Rizzo is still cool.
Because he isn't a silly whiny teenage child.
ONE MORE THING.
If my behaviour in this thread has given anybody the impression that it's okay to double, triple or quadruple post, insult and belittle people one this forum, IT IS NOT.
I'm just a bit of an ass and frequently break forum rules and guidelines.
Do not behave like me, you will not get away with it. I shouldn't be getting away with it. Infact, people often tell me off if you look carefully.
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I like System of a Down which makes me a minority on this forum but I don't feel the need to start a topic about it.
Plus a lesson for all people: NEVER listen to Brand New. It's bad for your health. They are one of the worst bands I have ever had the displeasure of hearing. Come on the lead singer starts crying at the end of the song. Man I don't mind if a song means a lot to the person singing it and it makes them feel very emotional but don't put the crying on the actual CD. Jeez get a grip.
Would it be ok if Cat Power did it?
I can't listen to emo. Too loud. Hurts my skin. And fast and stuff.
Like old school rock and roll and new punk is cool. But not emo. Its about being sad, but its too fast and lame. I prefer my depression ultra-literate, Bob Dylan, or Tom Waits. I was depressed before it was emo, dammit
Also Nick Cave could shoot emo in the face
So basically, i like Bright Eyes, my pain is deeper then yours, and i'm not sure what i'm saying just to piss people off anymore
At least he's not a metalhead. Why is a comic about indie rock infested with metal fans? I'm not kidding about this bit
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I can't listen to emo. Too loud. Hurts my skin. And fast and stuff.
Like old school rock and roll and new punk is cool. But not emo. Its about being sad, but its too fast and lame. I prefer my depression ultra-literate, Bob Dylan, or Tom Waits. I was depressed before it was emo, dammit
Also Nick Cave could shoot emo in the face
So basically, i like Bright Eyes, my pain is deeper then yours, and i'm not sure what i'm saying just to piss people off anymore
At least he's not a metalhead. Why is a comic about indie rock infested with metal fans? I'm not kidding about this bit
BECAUSE OUR MUSIC IS BETTER THAN YOURS
Also, I am hoping when you are referring to "emo being too fast and lame", you are referring to this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_Confessional) sort of "emo", which is totally misnamed, instead of the actual, good stuff (http://www.questionablewiki.com/index.php/Emo).
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I know what yerr saying :p
But it's not that nice. I like QC forums since people are actually pretty nice. This guy needs to be gently guided to the "awesome" side of the force.
Also, I like Bright Eyes. But I also like Converge and Pig Destroyer.
I don't give a shit
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I can't listen to emo. Too loud. Hurts my skin. And fast and stuff.
Like old school rock and roll and new punk is cool. But not emo. Its about being sad, but its too fast and lame. I prefer my depression ultra-literate, Bob Dylan, or Tom Waits. I was depressed before it was emo, dammit
Also Nick Cave could shoot emo in the face
So basically, i like Bright Eyes, my pain is deeper then yours, and i'm not sure what i'm saying just to piss people off anymore
At least he's not a metalhead. Why is a comic about indie rock infested with metal fans? I'm not kidding about this bit
BECAUSE OUR MUSIC IS BETTER THAN YOURS
Also, I am hoping when you are referring to "emo being too fast and lame", you are referring to this[\url] sort of "emo", which is totally misnamed, instead of the [url=http://www.questionablewiki.com/index.php/Emo]actual, good stuff[\url]. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_Confessional)
Nah
I mean i listen to Bright Eyes and all sorts of sad music that nobody calls emo
so when they show music videos here i try to watch a few emo videos so i can make a fair judgement
but most just sound fast and lame
Panic at the Disco (which i almost wrote as 'Panic at the Sisco', which would be a Star Trek emo band) sound almost cool
but its easier to just hate on emo and not listen to it
i mean that unsarcastically
and i had to listen to the latest Dashboard Confessional album. twice.
For those of you who DON'T read the Sydney street press (all of you, i'd guess) here's what i said. I hated it:
Chris Carraba, your days as the soundtrack to clichéd teen angst are numbered. The producers of the OC have figured they can pay indie bands half the money for music twice as good and get cred in the process. You can stop whining non-specific, nonsensical lines about failed relationships. You can stop trying to be ‘cool’ by bringing in Bob Dylan producer Daniel Lanois or making your songs sound a bit like Coldplay (who were never cool). You’re not even the best at whining- that honor belongs to Conor Oberst, who can write a decent melody. You’re a grown man. Get a family and go away.
This is an album designed to be listened to over and over, with lyrics to be scribbled on notebooks and sung together at the famously intimate Dashboard live shows. The songs all sound the same- weak, 4th generation rock that propels pathetic choruses about losing your first boyfriend and crying in your room. Its pretty dire stuff, though the amount of pain Carraba can force into a syllable is kinda interesting. He’s got a voice that moves from ‘tortured’ to ‘wistful’ without missing a beat (not that the beats are worth hitting).
I’d like to replace every copy of this CD with The Cure’s Disintegration and show the emo kids what teen angst should sound like.
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So when you're referring to emo, you are referring to the shitty misnomered "emo" that is really just whiny rock instead of emocore. Gotcha.
Psst. I haven't ever heard anybody label Panic At the Disco as emo. Just shit.
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i realize a lot of those bands i listed aren't "emo", a lot are hardcore punk, ska punk, and pop punk. yes. i never said all i listen to is "emo" music.
i tried listening to Straylight Run once and i didn't really like it. but like, i also listen to Chiodos, Circa Survive, and The Receiving End of Sirens, so i'd probably like it now.
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Yah
I mean... i guess i'd like real emo if i found it, but then all my friends would make fun of me
i'd rather track down everything Craig Finn has ever sung on ever, and listen to sad but slightly upbeat songs about books written by people in Glasgow
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Bright Eyes isn't bad, i guess, i heard a song and i didn't like his voice.
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Straylight Run aren't emo either.
And isn't that the band who's hot front chick is the sister of a dude from taking back sunday was was boning a guy from brand new who then boned another dude from taking back sunday making them write shitty spiteful songs about eachother?
I'm quite suprised I have never met a silly whiny teenage child who listens to cursive. Who are pretty much the best band in the world.
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At least he's not a metalhead. Why is a comic about indie rock infested with metal fans? I'm not kidding about this bit
Because QC contains approximately 900% more positive and/or amusing references to metal than any non-genre specific webcomic, most of which are crap anyway.
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i don't know lol.
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Yes! I'm sure I remember this...
She's Michelle Nolan...
And her brother is...chris nolan? from taking back Sunday. And she was dating Jesse Lacey from Brand New. But cheated on him with...
No...
Wait...
She was dating Adam Lazara from taking back sunday!
And the girl who was dating Jesse Lacey cheated on him with Chris Nolan from Taking Back Sunday, and then Nolan wrote 'best friends means I pull the trigger' and Jesse Lacey wrote 'Seventy times 7'!!!!
...
Why do I know this?
Edit: The songs were written at about the same time I believe. The reason they have the same lyric is because it's from an argument they had on the phone.
Which proves that whiny teenage children compulsively write songs about everything.
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Yes! I'm sure I remember this...
She's Michelle Nolan...
And her brother is...chris nolan? from taking back Sunday. And she was dating Jesse Lacey from Brand New. But cheated on him with...
No...
Wait...
She was dating Adam Lazara from taking back sunday!
And the girl who was dating Jesse Lacey cheated on him with Chris Nolan from Taking Back Sunday, and then Nolan wrote 'best friends means I pull the trigger' and Jesse Lacey wrote 'Seventy times 7'!!!!
...
Why do I know this?
Edit: The songs were written at about the same time I believe. The reason they have the same lyric is because it's from an argument they had on the phone.
Which proves that whiny teenage children compulsively write songs about everything.
This sounds awesome and hilarious.
All I've got are the Fiery Furnaces and Franz Ferdinand writing songs that may or may not be about each other, except for the ones that obviously are.
Which isn't as funny
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Straylight Run aren't emo either.
And isn't that the band who's hot front chick is the sister of a dude from taking back sunday was was boning a guy from brand new who then boned another dude from taking back sunday making them write shitty spiteful songs about eachother?
I'm quite suprised I have never met a silly whiny teenage child who listens to cursive. Who are pretty much the best band in the world.
No, I think it's the band that the old second vocals guy from Taking Back Sunday founded and recruited his sister for when he realized Taking Back Sunday sucked.
Or something like that. Some guy I talked to online would go on incessently about the gossip in emo circles.
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oh.
lol.
i love Seventy Times Seven, one of my favorite Brand New songs.
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Wait, I was wrong. His name is JOHN NOLAN.
Not chris.
And Adam Lazara cheating on Michelle Nolan, so they broke up. And this is why John left taking back sunday.
And the song John Nolan wrote was 'There's no I in Team'.
And John Nolan and Jesse Lacey made up (and probably made out) and now they just talk shit about taking back sunday.
WOW! Drama.
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Wait, then who is Chris Nolan? He sounds very familliar but I just can't put my finger on it...
Or was it Peter Nolan?
Ah, fuck it.
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i think Christopher Nolan has the same name as the director of Memento and Batman Begins
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OHMYGOD
Memento is, like, my favorite movie.
BRAIN FART
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Okay, TIMELINE!
Taking Back Sunday and Brand New form.
Jesse Lacey of Brand New and Johny Nolan of Taking Back Sunday are good buddies.
One day, Jesse's girlfriend cheats on him. With his best friend John.
They argue over the phone, declare eachother nemesis and hang up.
In the following weeks, they each write a song about each other. Lacey writing 'Seventy times 7' and Nolan writing 'There's no I in team'.
Michelle Nolan starts dating Adam Lazara of Taking Back Sunday.
He's a dick and keeps cheating on her, they break up.
John Nolan leaves Taking Back Sunday because this hurt his feelings.
After everybody involved cries for a while, except Adam Lazara who keeps having sex with teenage girls who are totally in love with him, Taking Back Sunday recruits two new members and starts performing again.
John and Jesse make up and John tours with Brand New, manning the merch tables.
Michelle Nolan looks are herself in the mirror and gets full on pretty.
Soon, the Nolans have another band everybody is happy. Except Jesse Lacey who still cries at the end of his songs.
Edit: (Did Chris Nolan just direct the Prestige? Damn I wanna see THAT movie)
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Personally, I just find Taking Back Sunday songs to be hilarious.
I mean "You could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt", how can anyone keep a straight face through that?
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I happen to like them a little bit. I mean, seriously. They actually list Modest Mouse and Fugazi as musical influences.
THEY KNOW STUFF
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Most nu-metal bands list Motörhead and Black Sabbath as influences.
What's your point?
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Personally, I just find Taking Back Sunday songs to be hilarious.
I mean "You could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt", how can anyone keep a straight face through that?
Its got a great sense of "I'm 14 and i just fell in pathetic, needy love" and kinda tragic doomed glamour to it
Its just soooooooooooooooo pathetic and needy it becomes epic in its neediness
I haven't heard the actual song
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Guys this thread is'nt funny anymore.
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so, uh... how 'bout that Jawbreaker?
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can somebody lock this pleeeease
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I SHALL LOCK IT.
HIIIIYAH!
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Personally, I just find Taking Back Sunday songs to be hilarious.
I mean "You could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt", how can anyone keep a straight face through that?
Its got a great sense of "I'm 14 and i just fell in pathetic, needy love" and kinda tragic doomed glamour to it
Its just soooooooooooooooo pathetic and needy it becomes epic in its neediness
I haven't heard the actual song
i love "You're So Last Summer" that song's amazing. they have Flavor Flav dancing around and lipsyncing in the music video. it's kinda funny.
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i just got a Taking Back Sunday shirt yesterday, with a pirate on it. it's pretty spiffy.
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i just got a Taking Back Sunday shirt yesterday, with a pirate on it. it's pretty spiffy.
Can pirates be emo?
I can imagine them threatening to walk the plank instead of slitting their wrists. Interesting thought.
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i'm sure if a pirate threatened to walk to the plank, he'd be standing on it going, "you can't keep me from jumping!" and another would just like run up and push him and everyone would cheer and go back to pilaging and plundering.
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Most nu-metal bands list Motörhead and Black Sabbath as influences.
What's your point?
That's....not the same thing at all.
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It totally is though.
You see, nu metal bands suck. they list Motorhead and Sabbath as influences, who do not suck.
Taking Back Sunday (who I'm assuming your talking about) suck. They list Fugazi as an influence, who do not suck.
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wait, didn't i write a 7000 word essay on emocore (http://www.questionablewiki.com/index.php/Emo) so we could refer people to it when they came here talking about emo?
yes.
yes i did.
i love you Tommy. i love you like a kitten loves a gorilla.
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I don't think TBS are that bad...
BUT FOR THE SAKE OF COMEDY WE MUST POKE FUN
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i don't like TBS all that much. i think they're boring.
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hmm...i'm not sure i like the names you suggested to refer to people who are commonly referred to as emo.
probably because i'm friends with a lot of them.
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Before this thread does maybe get actually locked can I just say how much I think Jesse Lacy sucks?
As a side point I'm sick of crappy bands ruining good genres (notbally punk and metal) just stop it already.