http://frankensteinsoundsystem.com/2009/09/emo/ IT'S ALIVE!!!! with punk rock reviews and borderline psychotic rock and roll opinions. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:25:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://frankensteinsoundsystem.com/2009/09/emo/comment-page-1/#comment-811 Pete Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:16:04 +0000 http://frankensteinsoundsystem.com/?p=861#comment-811 Oooohhhhh that's what they meant by EMO... I always thought they meant the big fucking bird from Australia, and I was like "Well that doesn't make much sense." Oooohhhhh that’s what they meant by EMO… I always thought they meant the big fucking bird from Australia, and I was like “Well that doesn’t make much sense.”

]]> http://frankensteinsoundsystem.com/2009/09/emo/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Eoin Mara Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:46:39 +0000 http://frankensteinsoundsystem.com/?p=861#comment-734 Isn't pretty much all music emotional by nature? So it was really stupid when bands started identifying with this title. When I was in high school and even into college, it seemed like "emo" was taking over what was left of the underground. Epitaph went from being a pretty good punk label to signing nothing but trash. Then came the "screamo" epidemic. That was just a hybrid of singing, screaming hard, and melodic guitar. It sucks something fierce. Its all way too formulaic and as this article explains, it just promotes weakness and defeat. I think the best example of the emo/punk/hardcore schism today is the Warped Tour. Compare the bands that played in the early years to the bands that play the tour now. Isn’t pretty much all music emotional by nature? So it was really stupid when bands started identifying with this title. When I was in high school and even into college, it seemed like “emo” was taking over what was left of the underground. Epitaph went from being a pretty good punk label to signing nothing but trash. Then came the “screamo” epidemic. That was just a hybrid of singing, screaming hard, and melodic guitar. It sucks something fierce. Its all way too formulaic and as this article explains, it just promotes weakness and defeat. I think the best example of the emo/punk/hardcore schism today is the Warped Tour. Compare the bands that played in the early years to the bands that play the tour now.

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