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[xonlocust]

Assman wrote on Fri, 20 October 2006 15:56

the real underground kids hangout behind their high school eating insects in fondue while wearing zoot suits and listening to stockhausen.

fucking awesome!

[pg666]

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emo hasnt changed that much, it sucked then and sucks now.

yeah. the 'horned rim glasses and sweater vest' phase was just as bad, but it was at least a non-mainstream phenomenon and not as common.

making a mock mid-90's emo band would be funny. basically:

-form a band with 2 guitarists (must use beat up SGs into JCM 800s), bass player who wasn't good enough to be a guitarist, and drummer with a high-pitched snare.

-one (or both) of the guitarists will sing about 4 notes (and since all 90's emo songs are pretty much in D, they will be D, E, F#, and G), but will never quite hit any of them.

-the lyrics will be vague, poetic, and have plenty of unfinished sentences with "...." at the end. apparently, it's so hard to let out certain feelings that.... i can't complete this thought about.... will never....

-the songs will have clean, arpeggiated versus with lots of mumbling and the choruses will have bombastic Helmet-like riffs (only much 'whiter', ie. grooveless) with plenty of crash-ride. oh, you better believe there will be crash-ride..

-a 7" will be recorded at the crappiest studio in town and released on some start-up label in Iowa or Nebraska (Antique Sewing Machine Records; catalog #ASMR 001). the cover will be a photocopy of a leaf with typewriter font and no upper case letters.

300 will be pressed, the band will break up and become legendary to about 20 kids on some message board somewhere (one of those old boards where the replies would tab over below the previous line).

-b

[Andy Peters]

jimmyjazz wrote on Fri, 20 October 2006 08:32

Yeah, I'm so out of touch I thought emo was Jimmy Eat World.

Jimmy Eat World borrowed everything from the Sunny Day Real Estate playbook (except for the disastrous first major-label deal and subsequent rising-from-the-ashes, Phoenix-style, even though they're from Mesa).  Back In The Day, Sunny Day really was rather unique.

And yes, they were THAT GOOD.

And, of course before Sunny Day, you had Rites Of Spring, who had the good sense to break up after one record and only fourteen shows, thus ensuring that their legend would be greater than the number of people who actually saw them play.

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Come to find out emo is brittle pop/punk with death metal singers?  WTF?

Yeah, really.  What Sunny Day grokked, and pretty much every emo band in their wake completely does NOT, is catharsis.  I don't want to hear titty-baby whining, which seems to be the central concept of what's derisively called "emo" these days.  For every Milemarker or Cursive, you've got a hundred All-American Rejects and Dashboard Confessionals.  Pathetic.

-a