whats EMO???

[MangJose™]

all about EMO..........................here.................
history.......................bands...............song lyrics.........hik'

[MangJose™]

The History of emo

After Minor Threat broke up in late 1983, the vibrant DC hardcore-punk scene that exploded in 1981 seems to start to run out of steam and fresh ideas within the established DC hardcore sound. The wistful, posthumous Minor Threat 7" "Salad Days" comes out in 1984 and drives the final nail into the coffin of DC hardcore punk. Bands all over the country begin casting about for new things to do : DRI and Bad Brains start going cheeze-metal, New York bands start doing tough-guy mosh, 7Seconds goes jangly U2 alternative, etc. The prevailing change in D.C. is toward melodic rock with punk sensibilities.

1984 marks the release of Zen Arcade by Minneapolis band Hüsker Dü, documenting their new mature sound combining furious, intense vocal delivery and driving guitars with slowed-down rockish tempos and more-complex, melodic songwriting.

In spring 1984, a new band called Rites Of Spring forms from members of The Untouchables/Faith and Deadline. This band retains a punk speed and frenzy, but brings a totally new vocal approach to the mix. Singer Guy Picciotto keeps an out-of-breath punk style most of the time, at times delving into intensely personal lyrics dripping with emotion and sweat. His voice breaks down at climactic moments into a throaty, gravelly, passionate moan.

The summer of 1985 becomes known as "Revolution Summer" when a new wave of rock-tempo, melody based, sung-vocal bands forms out of the DC punk musician pool with diverse rock sounds - Three, Gray Matter, Soulside, Ignition, Marginal Man, Fire Party, Rain, Shudder to Think, etc. Few bands retain the fast hardcore punk-based sound with the new vocal approach, Dag Nasty being the notable exception.

Minor Threat's singer, Ian MacKaye's, sings for a band called Embrace (compare the band name to earlier DC bands Minor Threat, Void, and State Of Alert) whose lyrics are emotional and deeply self-questioning, but still clear and unambiguous. Musically, the group (formed mostly of ex-Faith members) writes mid tempo, somewhat jangly music with a lot of pop guitar hooks. MacKaye's vocals retain his trademark bold enunciation, with only occasional sparks of emotive delivery.

These bands' sound eventually becomes known as the classic "D.C. sound." Some of it is derisively labeled "emo," as shorthand for "emotional." One account has this term first appearing in a Flipside interview with Ian MacKaye. Shortly thereafter DC bands acquire the tag "emo-core."

Slightly later (1986), some bands begin to focus on the "emo" element itself. The Hated in Annapolis (near D.C.) seem to be the first post-Rites of Spring to do this. Shortly thereafter, Moss Icon appears in in the same town. Moss Icon strips the "emo" element down to the core, and adds a great deal of intricate, arpeggiated guitar melody (by Tonie Joy, later of Born Against, Lava, Universal Order of Armageddon, etc.) with a strong focus on loud/soft dynamics. The vocals, too, break new ground by building up to actual top-of-the-lungs screaming at songs' climaxes.

Moss Icon, as a relatively well-known band that toured some, introduces the punk scene to music that has core emphasis on emotion instead of punk energy. As such, I consider them the starting point for the emo movement, not Rites of Spring as is more commonly asserted. Later emo bands draw heavily from the Moss Icon dynamics, guitar style, and vocal delivery.

Source: Fourfa

[MangJose™]

Emo is a subgenre of hardcore punk music. Use of the term (and which musicians should be so classified) has been the subject of much debate.

In its original incarnation, the term emo was used to describe the music of the mid-1980s DC scene and its associated bands. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the DC scene and some of the regional scenes that spawned from it. The term emo was derived from the fact that, on occasion, members of a band would become spontaneously and literally emotional during performances. The most recognizable names of the period included Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party and slightly later, Moss Icon. The first wave of emo began to fade after the breakups of most of the involved bands in the early 1990s.

Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to reflect the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is the Reason put forth a more indie rock brand of emo, which was more melodic and less chaotic in nature than its predecessor. The so-called "indie emo" scene survived until the end of the 1990s, as many of the bands either disbanded or shifted their style to the mainstream.

As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the more mainstream style, creating a style of music that has now earned the moniker emo within popular culture. Whereas, even in the past, the term emo was used to identify a wide variety of bands, the breadth of bands listed under today's emo is even more vast, leaving the term "emo" as more of a loose identifier than as a specific genre of music.

[MangJose™]

paano mo masasabi na EMO ka nga?

emo ka kung lagi kang tulala..hahah
kung lagi kang nakatitig sa salamin "vakkett ako fogi?!" lol

emo ka when natatamaan ka..i don't blame you..

sometime the most deep words comes out when your sad, and the most when your hurt. but the most neautiful feelings are yet to come, when you know what is lovveeee....then..emooo ka nga..waaaa

[MangJose™]

Emo" is not short for "Emotional." "Emo" does not mean Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional, despite what MTV has lead you to believe in the last few years. "Emo" is not sidebangs, tight pants, and male vocalists who sing like little girls about their failed relationships. "Emo" is not the use of diluted, meaningless metaphors and similes such as "My arms are like pinecones," and most definitely is not the rampant use of words such as "autumn," "heart," "knife," "bleeding," "leaves," and "razorblade."

I just thought I'd clear that up after all of these "definitions" in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou s$$$. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."

Now, onto the real definition.

In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. That's right, "Emo" was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label.


Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don't quite follow that philosophy.

Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so - that's nothing to make an issue of, since well s$$$, at least it's close.

Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, f$$$, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."

Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously s$$$, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.

Hope that helps.Taking Back Sunday, Senses Fail, and My Chemical Romance falls under the "horrible pop rock" genre, not the emo genre.

[MangJose™]

Hawthorne Heights
Taking Back Sunday
SilverStein
Yellow Card
My Chemical Romance
UnderOath
The Used
Further Seems Forever
Story of The Year
Atreyu
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Typecast
VoC! heheh!

[MangJose™]

1.rufio-one slowdance, she cries
2.dating delilah-sleeping with the enemy,dirty desires
3.sunny day real estate-song about angel
4.valencia-the promise of redemption
5.vanilla sky-distance
6.amber pacific-gone so young, for what it's worth
7.midtown-like a movie
8.howthornes height-the transition
9.daphne loves derby-closing down the fire department
10.dashboardconfessional-handsdown, morning calls
11.death cab for cutie-the sound of settling
12.matchbook romance-playing for keeps, promise
13.roses and red-handshakes and hearbreaks
14.story of the year-razorblades
15.my awesome compilation action-save mine
16.ataris- my diary
17.good charlotte-seasons
18.starting line-your everywhere to me(michelle branch cover)
19.taking back sunday-this photograph is proof(i know you know)
20.the used-buried myself alive,a box full of sharp objects,blue and yellow,the taste of

[MangJose™]

how to be an EMO........................

para s pagpapaimprove ng pagiging emo nyo.. uhmm mkakatulong 2...
mrami kac s mga emo nagiging posero.

e2ng facts steps n 2 ay ibinabahagi ko d para mag sermon.. nais ko lang n maisaayos ang pagiging emo nyo...

nabasa ko ito sa isang edisyon ng mtv ink.. hindi ito galing s mkasalanan kong bibig...


step one:get (other people's) clothes

to be emo:you first have to get clothes. Given the current embrace of thrift-fashion (ukay -ukay to yo and me). emo fashion consists mainly of nostalgic two-decades-to-late and one-size-too-small clothing. much better if it is stolen from your dad or someone else's dad...

"ang sakin d ko maxado sinusunod to kasi nauubusan din ako ng nauumit n damit s aparador ni itay. pero mas maganda siguro kung susunod."



step two:act hurt
if you act like everything -including sunlight-causes u pain, you can pass for emo.

speak in a low, pained voice. ideally this should come naturally with the deep, almost buddhist belief that all life is suffering.

"nung naguumpisa ako, d ako nhirapan d2 kac lagi akong pnaglalaruan ng mga babae. kahit ngaun... mkakatulong ung pagiimagine mo na namatay ung pnakakamamahal o basta nawala na inagaw sau nna wala kang klabanlaban.. na panglaban mo lang ay ung mga salita mong naiicp."

step three:lose (or gain) weight

"d ko n itatype to kac mdali nmn intindihin."


step five:advertising online

if you're online and in need of screen name, choose something that sounds all sad and helpless.



step six:write


all emo kids write-wether it be a melancholy blog, a bunch of melancholy poems, ar any piece of melancholy literature..the kay word is-all together-now-melancholy.if you can wtrite then you can skip to advance emo level and therefore be God among geeks..


"mkakatulong tlaga ung pakikinig ng mga emo songs.... sa una medyo baduy ung mga nagagawa ko pero napaparctice nmn.pagbasihan mo ung step two.. u medyo malaki naitutulong nun.


step seven: shun"EMO"


make sure that u never, ever, ever admit to being emo..admitting to being emo will get you kick out of the club..


"e2 tlga ung pnaka dapat tandaan.. kasi pano mo masasabi n emo k kung d mo ipagsasabi.. ang importante d2 wag na wag mong lelabelan n emo ang sarili mo... kahit ang pinoy emo band "typecast", di nila nilelabelan na emo sila... ang mga nakikinig ang nagsabing emo cla pero kung cla ang tatanungin.. ndi nla sasabihing emo cla.. pati naring chicosci......kaya nga emo dahil.. loner, malungkot, broken, etc.. tapos sasabihing emo cla?? wala akong pinapatamaan d2.. ung mga tinamaan pasenxa na.. mag post nlang kau d2 para kontrahin ako... well kung magagalit kau sakin magiging guilty ang kalalabasan nu.. ako lng nmn ay nagsheshare dahil ayaw ko pagdamot i2! sa mga umiintindi... salamat...



lahat ng comments ay tatanggapin ko"" kahit pangongontra cge welcome!"


gudlak s mga emo..

[Mannex]

nice bitaw ni ang emo.

[MangJose™]

for emotional music..............hik'

[MangJose™]

ala bang emo d2??hik'

[MangJose™]

PARA SA MGA EMO!!! AHIHIHIHI!!! Message: "YOU ARE SO EMO" What are we owning up to? Our tight shirts, straight-legged jeans, messy hair, and thick- rimmed glasses? Our penchant for bands our age that moan about exclusion, the girl that they can't have, and angry sex? Our shameless fancies for Mandy Moore, Love Actually, and Star Wars? The stereotypical emo kid cries everyday. He wears jeans so tight that you can see his junk. His shirts generally fit so close that you can see his nipples. He has jet black hair, possibly with streaks of red, which he cuts himself and usually falls over on eye. Tattoos and piercings aren't uncommon. His hobbies include writing bad poetry, going to local shows, and playing horrible acoustic guitar. He pines after girls that he can't have, and those girls are commonly his good friends. It's a tough life. Oh, and the girls look and act almost exactly the same as the guys. Sometimes it's hard to tell them apart