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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on May 27, 2008, 03:20:38 AM

Title: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 27, 2008, 03:20:38 AM
I've been identifying the songs that play at this coffeeshop by googling snippets of the lyrics.  The last one turned out to be by Fallout Boy, and I didn't like it at all.  This always happens, I hear some band ridiculed as being for angsty pseudo-intellectual whiny losers, and I think "omg I am an angsty pseudo-intellectual whiny loser, this should be awesome!" and then I hear it and it's NOTHING like the descriptions led me to imagine.  Even Radiohead wasn't entirely what I hoped.  What gives?
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 27, 2008, 03:25:08 AM
otoh I really like this "don't let me fall out of love" song by No Doubt, pretty much just because of the synth beeps.
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 27, 2008, 03:28:19 AM
Fallout Boy isnt really "Emo", its some weird "Emo/Punk" bastard child. I think Dashboard Confessional started the shift, shame on them.
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 27, 2008, 03:30:50 AM
You're just too emo for emo music. Most emo musicians would slit their wrists again to be as emo as you.
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: demi on May 27, 2008, 03:33:56 AM
Listen to Mae

Mae is for lovers :heart

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/121/270277736_81fd058ceb.jpg?v=0)

http://purevolume.com/mae
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: demi on May 27, 2008, 03:35:24 AM
Juliana Theory is also for lovers :heart

http://purevolume.com/thejulianatheory

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Chip_w_2006.jpg/220px-Chip_w_2006.jpg)

Chip :heartbeat
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: demi on May 27, 2008, 03:36:55 AM
Anberlin is for lovers too (you'll notice a trend among lovers)

http://purevolume.com/anberlin
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on May 27, 2008, 03:37:34 AM
Their music may suck, but I have a weird thing for emo girls. It's not good.
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: demi on May 27, 2008, 03:47:07 AM
My muxtape is pretty faggy too

http://demitrius.muxtape.com/
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: Bildi on May 27, 2008, 03:54:03 AM
You're just too emo for emo music. Most emo musicians would slit their wrists again to be as emo as you.

This is what I was going to say.  Emo musicians don't really have any problems so they write songs about them to make themselves look emo. 

You already seem to have a boatload of problems and by the amount you talk about them you don't need emo music to remind you of them.
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 27, 2008, 04:06:11 AM
while I do currently have a lot of problems, they are entirely due to bad decisions I made in the past which I knew were bad even at the time.
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: BobbyRobby on May 27, 2008, 05:43:13 AM
like others said, fall out boy isn't really emo. listen to fugazi, one of the first emo bands, who are actually very good.

while I do currently have a lot of problems, they are entirely due to bad decisions I made in the past which I knew were bad even at the time.

that's even worse.  when bad things happen to me that i have no control over, i don't feel that bad.
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 27, 2008, 06:49:15 AM
also i have liked every hilary duff song i have heard so far  :o
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: tiesto on May 27, 2008, 08:49:28 AM
also i have liked every hilary duff song i have heard so far  :o

The Dave Aude remix of "With Love" is my secret vice  :-*
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on May 27, 2008, 10:00:12 AM
Sunny Day Real Estate is pretty good.

 :bow SDRE  :bow2
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: Eric P on May 27, 2008, 10:12:42 AM
maybe you should go back into the origins of emo with stuff like rites of spring and the like
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: Mupepe on May 27, 2008, 10:16:59 AM
You probably don't like emo music because you're actually not emo.  I think you actually have to get chicks to be emo, right?

And why are you searching for snippets of songs and then not liking them?  Why would you search for the snippets if you didn't like it?
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 27, 2008, 11:14:01 AM
Quote
maybe you should go back into the origins of emo with stuff like rites of spring and the like

already did that long ago and OMG rms avatar :bow

er wait that's some purportedly leftist scifi hack?  :(
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: Eric P on May 27, 2008, 11:46:30 AM
michael moorcock is not a hack.
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: Bacon on May 27, 2008, 11:47:43 AM
My muxtape is pretty faggy too

http://demitrius.muxtape.com/

1969  :omg
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: lordmaji on May 27, 2008, 04:40:37 PM
Linkin Park
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: xnikki118x on May 27, 2008, 04:57:38 PM
Juliana Theory is also for lovers :heart

http://purevolume.com/thejulianatheory

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Chip_w_2006.jpg/220px-Chip_w_2006.jpg)

Chip :heartbeat

Obviously I agree. :)
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: demi on May 27, 2008, 05:12:15 PM
Would you do Chip?
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: Mupepe on May 27, 2008, 05:17:27 PM
Would you do Chip?
She already did
Title: Re: Why don't I like emo music?
Post by: demi on May 27, 2008, 05:29:52 PM
She's so lucky... please post details.