how do people like this get their hands on opeth?

[stole_my_bike]

hope it helps what? not a single band you mentioned, regardless of genre tag is really worth mentioning. but thanks for the history lesson in suburban homosexuality.

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reflections, you're a roflidiot.

 

[illidurit]

who cares emo blows

 

[stole_my_bike]

who cares emo blows

wayt dew you mean real emo or mtv emo? lulz

 

[Reflections_of_the_Underdark]

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reflections, you're a roflidiot.

Or perhaps you are for not realising that i quite obviously didn't write that.

Either way, i really don't care what peopel on the internet that i don't know think of me.

 

[illidurit]

I still have no idea who you are stole my bike

 

[Reflections_of_the_Underdark]

wayt dew you mean real emo or mtv emo? lulz

Both do, but they are completely different.

 

[An Absent Friend]

Yeah , the people on this forum , the ones who swear to others must be caring. Cause they are swearin , if they didn't care like you they wouldn't post this kinda replies. That proves that they care. So they are childish idiots , cryin across the PC.

 

[Powers]

Some people on this forum, really, really need to educate themselves on what 'emo' really is and its not the sub-pop rubbish that lazy journalists began calling emo that we have today.

Even just a quick search on Urban Dictionary will tell you what emo actually is.


"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 bullshit. 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 shit, 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, fuck, 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 bullshit, 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.

Rites of Spring is emo."

Thank fuck someone actaully mentioned Sunny Day Real Estate and Rites of Spring. And to be fair early Drive In did, carry on what they were already doing.

 

[illidurit]

what in god's name did you just say absent friend

 

[Reflections_of_the_Underdark]

At The Drive-In, now there's a band i do actually like.

 

[stole_my_bike]

Yeah , the people on this forum , the ones who swear to others must be caring. Cause they are swearin , if they didn't care like you they wouldn't post this kinda replies. That proves that they care. So they are childish idiots , cryin across the PC.

what the fuck?

 

[An Absent Friend]

Sorry guys I was in hurry...

I said that they are swearin and stuff to others cause they think everone in this forum is like themselves caring other peoples who really they don't know. And that is a real childlish act.

Get it?

 

[illidurit]

rofl

 

[An Absent Friend]

rofl? Imao ?

I don't know what does these things means , somebody teach me language of Opeth Forum please.

 

[Powers]

They're acronyms, meaning rolling on floor laughing and laughing my ass/arse off.

Haven't been online long have we?

 

[An Absent Friend]

Look at my join date. 3 months of not caring.
Illudurit seriously how old are you?

 

[illidurit]

12

 

[stole_my_bike]

rofl? Imao ?

I don't know what does these things means , somebody teach me language of Opeth Forum please.

roflmfao

 

[An Absent Friend]

Ok thanks Illudurit , trust me I can belive that.

And stole my bike hope you can get it. SSTSOYAAGYSARB.

 

[stole_my_bike]

Ok thanks Illudurit , trust me I can belive that.

And stole my bike hope you can get it. SSTSOYAAGYSARB.

wtf is wrong with you