Piątek 29 Wrz 2006, 3:42

"Emo" (or emocore) is short for "emotional hardcore." Despite what the last.fm tags, or the misinformed scenester will lead you to believe, emo originally started as a sub-genre of hardcore punk music, tagged sometime in the mid-80's to describe a particular style of DIY bands wanting to escape the traditional standard of hardcore (Minor Threat era) and the violent scene at the time, giving way to a new wave of experimentation that would influence many bands to come. The term emo was derived from the fact that, on occasion, members of a band would become spontaneously and strongly emotional during performances. This term wasn't taken too lightly by some bands at the time, however.

Rites of Spring are thought to be the first band labelled with this term, with their revolutionary End on End album. Hüsker Dü's 1984 album Zen Arcade is often cited as a major influence for the new sound. While many bands of this genre came to play seemingly different music altogether, their influences are always rooted to original emo - the Washington, DC style, and regional scenes that spawned from it [Dischord]. Though describing the sound can't replace listening to the bands yourself, notable characteristics of emo music are: "loud-to-soft" (sometimes chaotic) dynamics, twinkly melodic breaks, frantic/abrasive shouting or screaming, angry/abstract/introspective lyrics, low-end production, and exceptionally energetic live shows.

The "DIY" punk ethic refers to the idea of 'doing it yourself.' Essentially, making and promoting music without corporate backing, and without any great level of "selling out". This means that you're not going to hear the first wave style emo on the tv or radio. it was primarily released on vinyl, and sold in independent record stories.

"Screamo" was a term coined later to describe the transition of hardcore emo bands in the 1990's who started playing a louder, faster, more chaotic style, including constant screaming with fast, harmonized guitars. Orchid is sometimes noted for being the pinnacle of the sound.

"Emo" and "screamo" are essentially meant to describe the same style of music. While screamo is more reserved for modern bands, emo is often used in reference to original emo, or the entire genre at a whole. "Emo Violence," sometimes misinterpreted as synonymous with "screamo," was a joke term created by In/Humanity in an attempt to describe themselves and a sound formed during the emo-screamo transition (a play on the words emo & powerviolence). While similar to both chaotic emo and grindcore, emo violence is known to sound lo-fi, with vocals pushed past the point of normal sound, with occasional spoken words or singing. Recently, due to the widespread misuse of the term by the media and other bodies, some followers of the genre refer to it in an almost lighthearted code-word way, as "skram" as well as the lesser used "kittencore" and "kitten violence".

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Most emo bands broke up by the 90's, examples are:

Rites of Spring
Moss Icon
Gray Matter
Indian Summer
Current
One Last Wish
Maximillian Colby
Sleepytime Trio
Amber Inn
Clikatat Ikatowi
Inkwell
Still Life
Shotmaker
Policy of Three
1.6 Band
Frail
Julia
Native Nod
Heroin
Unwound
Portaits of Past
Swing Kids

Modern screamo is constantly in revival, with examples including:

Orchid
Saetia
City of Caterpillar
Funeral Diner
Circle Takes The Square
Ampere
La Quiete
Reversal of Man
Usurp Synapse
The Spirit Of Versailles
You and I
pg.99
Jeromes Dream
Hassan I Sabbah
Envy
Welcome The Plague Year
Yaphet Kotto
Neil Perry
Sinaloa
Stop It!!
Daniel Striped Tiger
Bravo Fucking Bravo
Wow, Owls!

After the first wave of original emo bands had nearly disappeared, emo's influence could be found amongst a slew of new indie bands (Sub Pop, Deep Elm Records), who were known to mix Fugazi (a highly influential band who'd come to feature Minor Threat/Embrace member Ian MacKaye and Rites of Spring member Guy Picciotto) along with post-punk elements. This is sometimes referred to as a "second wave" or "post-emo indie rock."

Examples of these post-hardcore/indie bands include:
Sunny Day Real Estate, Christie Front Drive, the Promise Ring, Mineral, Boys Life, Sideshow, the Get-Up Kids, Braid, Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Jets To Brazil, Texas Is the Reason, Death Cab For Cutie, Jimmy Eat World, At The Drive-In, Saves The Day, and Weezer.

Around and after 2000, the term "emo" came to be popularized as slang for a completely different niche of culture. Showcased was a new scene of goth-like "emo fashion," a culture of self-mutilation, and music that would otherwised be called standard pop-punk, post-hardcore, or dumbed-down metalcore. Sometimes by those "in-the-know," none of these new bands beared resemblance to real emo/screamo bands, but because they sometimes drew influence from second wave bands, many will refer to this as a third wave of emo.

These third wavers include (popcore, emobop, mall emo, fake screamo,):
AFI, Alexisonfire, A Static Lullaby, Alkaline Trio, All-American Rejects, The Ataris, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Coheed and Cambria, The Early November, Emery, Fall Out Boy, Finch, From Autumn to Ashes, From First to Last, Funeral for a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, Matchbook Romance, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At the Disco, Saosin, Senses Fail, Silverstein, Something Corporate, The Starting Line, Story of the Year, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Thrice, or Yellowcard.

*Emo bands have been referred to as such since the mid-80's. "Screamo" is a term first used widely in publications such as Heartattack and Maximum Rock'n'Roll to describe bands from the late 90's such as Orchid, Reversal of Man, Jeromes Dream, etc. that were playing what could be called "chaotic emo/hardcore." Because the term "screamo" is a much better catchphrase for larger publications, it was easily adopted and widely misused by other publications such as Alternative Press, SPIN, etc. to describe any pretentious pop-punk band that happened to add a screaming element to their music. Despite all this, in 1998 Teen People declared "emo" the newest "hip" style of music. After 2000, many new groups incorporating screams and sappy songwriting appeared on the mainstream for a so-called "third-wave of emo." NME Magazine is sometimes regarded as coining "screamo" as the hot new sound for 2003, and to identify to such bands as The Blood Brothers, The Used, Poison the Well, Thrice, Finch and Glassjaw.

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For Want of
Guatemala
Everysong
Orchard
unknown
You And Me
Forty Three Seconds
Numb
Implications of a Sinkhole Per
Pedestal
Venus and Bacchus
Aesthetic Dialectic
I'm A New York Detective...
Fucking Hero
Chacun de Tes Pas
In Love With an Apparition
Same Shade as Concrete

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ebullition
dischord
gravity
react with protest
robotic empire
alone
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alone
ape must not kill ape
coallition
electric human project
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vlv
cmkhwak
collective

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