what are some good emo bands?

all i listened to was like... posthardcore... and i've just gotten into bands like hidden in plain view and circa survive and anthony green...

any recomendations?

and don't give me none of that simple plan BS...

i want REAL emo bands... none of that fake crap

lol

this is like my second visit to this thread...

i can't resist...

emo music is i can't read.

such a shame.

I guess since you like Anthony Green you'll like The Sound of Animals Fighting, which he does the vocals for. They have an album coming out May 16th. Look them up on Purevolume for samples.

Other than that...The Get Up Kids (Four Minute Mile, Something To Write Home About).

sorry if i sound stupid.
but what exactly is this "emo" thing?
and what IS emo music?

that's extremely controversial.

if you're talking about the word on its own, it has basically progressed into a stereotype - the girls jeans, hair over eyes, studded-belts. but it's not an adjective, it's a noun; and it's basically a genre of music that can branch out into 57302 other different genres; and it's just very obscure.

so i can't give you "real emo bands", because that's all a matter of perspective, but i can give you good music. i like circa survive, hidden in plainview, etc. so i'm assuming we'll have other bands in common as well.

30 Seconds to Mars
The Academy Is
Across Five Aprils
Amber Pacific
Anberlin
Armor For Sleep
As Cities Burn
The Audition
Bedlight for BlueEYES
Boys Night Out
Brand New
Caffeine
Chiodos
Days Away
Emanuel
The Fall Of Troy
Fall Out Boy [the older stuff]
Fear Before the March of Flames
The Fray
Head Automatica
Hellogoodbye
Hit the Lights
Houston Calls
Jack's Mannequin
Madison
Mae
The Matches
Motion City Soundtrack
My American Heart
Panic! At The Disco
The Postal Service
Quietdrive<3333
Race The Sun
The Receiving Ends of Sirens
Saosin
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Senses Fail
Silverstein
Somerset
The Spill Canvas
Stafford
Stutterfly
Taking Back Sunday<3333
This Providence
Thrice
Thursday
Underoath

posthardcore = emo?
no?

is Green day emo? I don't know

i think they're punk rock. i believe in a similar thread to this...somebody said that weezer was emo?

weezer is not emo.
but yeah, green day is more pop punk.

post-hardcore could be considered a sub-genre, i suppose.

emo is a sub-genre of punk.
post-hardcore is a sub-genre of hardcore.
they both seem to overlap it seems since no one can classify either.
people who talk about my chemical romance say they're emo, others say posthardcore(which they are).

i'm not good at recommending emo bands.

um... no.

greenday is not punk rock.

keep a mental note of that.

aiden is a pretty good band. i'm not sure if its emo or not. but they scream alot

I highly recommend Taking Back Tuesday. They have a new album coming out later this month (or maybe this week..)

& currenlty, I'm into Panic! At the Disco... reminds me a bit of Fall Out Boy, though.

heartwreckss gave a nice list, but I bet you'll have too much fun deciding who to check out. IMO:

Anberlin
Armor For Sleep
Fall Out Boy
Jack's Mannequin/Something Corporate
Mae
My American Heart
Panic! At The Disco
Quietdrive
Saosin
Senses Fail
Taking Back Sunday
Underoath

If you really aren't satisfied with wreckss' list, here's a few others from the top of my head:
Hawthorne Heights
Just Surrender
Jamison Parker
From First to Last
Funeral for a Friend
Bleed the Dream
Letterkills
Story of the Year

& lastly, you can learn more about these bands by checking out their myspace site (one of the only reasons I even have a myspace is to learn about new bands.. anyway..)

don't forget Bright Eyes. You'll really love them, trust me.

yeah and www.purevolume.com as well. real emo / fake emo, what do you mean by that? oh and alexisonfire, atreyu, dead poetic, emery, the early november, decent bands.

On the whole, Weezer isn't an emo band...however, I think that Pinkerton is an emo album.

Two more suggestions:

The Movielife
Sunny Day Real Estate

aw hell no not emo music

meh, i don't like bright eyes. i love his lyrics, but the vocals just kind of make me go.. bllleeeeh.

good additions to my list.

taking back sunday.. <3

if you want REAL emo, fall out boy.. seriously.. listen to their lyrics..
but i dont know what real emo is........... so whatever.. lols

Dashboard Confessional...is EMO.

The Matches are more pop punk I believe...

Silverstein's pretty emo. Good band too.

emo music :]

taking back sunday <3
hawthorne heights <3
matchbook romance
underoath
amber pacific
saosin :]
story of the year
the used
greeley estates
emanuel
atreyu
senses fail
chiodos <3
emanuel
emery
silverstein
armor for sleep


here are some that are.. softer?:
daphne loves derby
copeland
acceptance

yay! i love circa survive

I cant believe emo has become like a music genre now. It's just damn stupid.

^ didn't emo start out as a music genre back in like the 1980's as a branch of punk? so yeah, emo music was a genre for some time already.

Yup. Emo is short for Emotional Hardcore. Started in DC.

I don't listen to too many emo bands.

Is Mars Volta considered emo?
I never thought so, but I guess others do. I dunno, I really like them.

i wouldn't consider the mars volta emo.

just amazing is what they should be considered.

dashboard is so good! and emo...

i hate the word "emo". what the hell is "emo" anyway...anything can be emotional.

anyways.....

saves the day

their albums "stay what you are" and their latest "sound the alarm" are freakin awesome!

and yes, the get up kids. built to spill. etc.

the mars volta is prog. rock...they're experimental and consider themselves "alternative salsa" or something like that. whatevers. haha.

some 'emo' bands I've listened to and liked:
thursday, my chemical romance, coheed and cambria, taking back sunday, the used, armor for sleep

dear whoever, kind of like spitting, and jack's broken heart are emo I think... look for some of their music

sunny day real estate are a classic awesome emo band


oh http://www.purevolume.com/circasurvive you should just look at the links under The Equal Vision Records family
o_o that might work

That's a pretty ignorant remark until you back it up.
It has been a genre for awhile now.



Time to clear it up a bit; enough with the pretenses.

Emo is not "emotional", emo is not a crying little boy listening to dashboard, emo is not a style, which leads to emo not being tight pants and side-bangs. Any artist would want to evince and portray emotion. "Emotional" encompasses every genre of music possible. Anything from Beethoven and *NYSYNC could be considered emo with these so-called "definitions." It was originally a movement in the hardcore genre in the 80s/90s. It has clearly progressed since then into a general misconception. 'Emo' has basically come to be a controversial genre of music that overlaps with several others. I'd like to take this moment to add that not all emo = males on estrogen complaining about failed relationships and wrist-slitting. Thaaanks.

^ go you =)

oh yeah and hidden in plain view <3

uhh... bands like atreyu are NOT emo bands...

taking back sunday made a new band and they are pretty good...

i already know of purevolume but i'm too lazy to sift through all the bands...

fake emo music = crap that smothered on a guitar bass and drum....

don't give me none of that simple plan crap

oh yeah...

and will you guys stop complaining about what emo music really is blah blah blah!

emo music IS a genre ok...

emo music is basically bands like hidden in plain view, anthony green, panic at the disco, fall out boy etc etc... but emo music doesn't mean that they are always whining and depressed... it's the style of the music

yeah you can say that "emo" is everything because anyone can be "emotional"... but what about jazz? why can't i say it's classical music? i mean... people use pianos and trumpets and other classical instruments? it's just a name and if you can't distinguish the differences then i'm sorry...

then... like many of you say... if emo music really is "everything" why not call britney spears emo!? and shakira emo? if you guyz have such a problem with people like me asking for emo music then why don't you guyz just call everything emo?

like... you ask me the difference between different types of rap whether it be "hip hop" "ganster rap" whatever i wouldn't know....

just how you guyz probably wouldn't know the difference between bluegrass folk or soul...

just get over it please! it's not a big deal... all i wanted was a list of some good emo bands that people who like emo music like...

i don't want people lecturing me about what emo is and blah blah blah "emo can be anything" crap...

just cut the crap and give me my bands!!!!

anyways... emo is a music genre... cuz i'm surrounded by people who were the ones to MAKE it... you can't tell me that it's not a genre when i am emersed in a place with guyz who helped it sky rocket

as for emo being a style of clothing?...

NO... it's not a style of clothing...

the end...

Don't listen to emo.

We'll listen to what we want to, thanks.

Scene Aesthetic
Spill Canvas
Dashboard Confessional

honestly, yeah.

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Okay, lame attempt at being funny. Hush, I like the depressed, wrist-cutting crap. Stereotype.. yes. Back on track: I say check out Saosin, Senses Fail, and My American Heart. Oh, I'm repeating myself. Damn.

Any progress with finding a good emo band thus far, ButaBura?


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Escape the Fate; I just listened to a few songs and liked them.. don't know much about them, though.

Almost everything by Bright Eyes
if emo = depressing

Can't believe no one mentioned Jimmy Eat World...."Clarity" and their self-titled EP are required listening.

similiar to Visual Kei as it is not a genre but a sub-genre branching off of a genre and incorporating other styles but usually still sounding very similiar to other "emo" bands. Anyways, most bands classified "emo" usually suck. I would listen to Visual Kei instead.

Emo is subjective. That's a fact. FYI, topic starter wanted emo band names, including bands "classified as emo and usually suck", not definitions or opinions or whatever your (plural) face thinks she/he wants. Suck that.

hmm that wasn't a question but ok. i already know the backround of emo. i don't like the use of the term "emo" in today's standards because of what people have made it to be and how they misconstrued the meaning....it's come to the point where it's irritating. i'll just dismiss this as a statement to everybody else because i didn't need that explanation. that is all.

ditto for sunny day real estate

Emo is like, pussified punk rock. Everyone is saying that "EMO" is not "emotional"... then what the hell is it short for? Sorry if we're "misinterpreting" things, but it's kinda hard when that's the way something is "sold as".

I've always considered Bright Eyes more as "folk" music. But I guess he's whiny enough to be "emo".