Emo bands

Emo means indie. Emo is short for emotional. It is a variety of music that dates back to the 1990s hard rock music. But the sound is fundamentally lower and more emotional later adaptation of hardcore. It sort of merged hardcore with more tuneful and new music. The singing part is done in a somewhat moaning way. Its emotional susceptibility is in contrasts to the trouncing and ear-piercing sound of hard rock. Emo bands yesterday and today are proud of the wide-opened highlighting of the difference in the genre. This resulted in the prolonged bad blood between hardcore and emo kids.

Emo bands are exemplified by Fugazi in the early realization of emo music. More came into being like Embrace (Ian MacKaye’s band perhaps before Fugazi) and Rites of Spring (Guy Picciotto’s Band) to name a few. Presently, Emo has produced self anointed mixtures that all ventured to claim the label. Emo bands have sprouted like mushrooms in the band scene. With catchy and clever names, original and with a message screaming like faggots on the run. They can be seen in punky and funky clothing with accessories like those big black rimmed glasses that are such a rage. They could even be naked on the floor with body tattoos to boot.

Emo bands play make music like nobody understood but made you feel different from anyone. To those who patronize them, this is what music is all about. Take the emo band Chemical Romance; kiddies contend it is goth punk. It is cool and the emo bands make the kids think. They feel their songs but the good old emocore bands focused more on emotional release rather than political and social themes. The 1980s was dubbed the “Revolution Summer” out to outshine the “Woodstock” of the 70s. The Rites of Spring emo band then focused on the emotion factor.

But as emo evolved changes can be felt in emo music. The emo bands started using higher chords and a more strong vocal style. But the much touted combination of contrasting loud and soft music force has been retained. Emo bands used the musical force coupled with elaborate guitar work lyrical words emoting fantastic, cool emotive hardcore. This genre of music continues to haunt the band scene today in spite of the claims of some that emo has died. There are still emo bands out there, playing like nobody cares. Perhaps it has died down some, but emo still exists.

Lawrence