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three bands, but only one can be the best (or at least your favorite, anyway) of the emo trifecta

i don't care that my chemical romance broke up i still do rituals to get them back together at night in the woods sometimes because i mean they have always been a fave

 I prefer the band that sings songs about being outcasts or how their ex bae will miss them when they're gone.

inb4Blink

I want a "None of the above" option to be installed, although if you put a gun to my head and made me choose I guess I'd have to say Fall Out Boy

petition to replace these poseur emo '06 bands with proper emo '03 bands like FFAF and alexisonfire and fall of troy

fall out boy and mcr are tied but i had to vote for fob becase im loyal and was #fake hating on mcr for about 4 years

Quote from: LOOK AROUND YOG. on April 11, 2015, 01:37
petition to replace these poseur emo '06 bands with proper emo '03 bands like FFAF and alexisonfire and fall of troy

thrice and thursday too

out of those probably fob

all you haters can start your own topic everyone must choose a side

i still respect y'all for loving fall out boy because they really are quality

when i've ascended into the higher realms i am going to be an emo band


it is going to be just me as a one man band but i am single handedly going to be the best emo band on this plane of existence and all of you will bow down in my wake

panic has no votes frankly im disgusted

Quote from: sylar on April 11, 2015, 12:44
panic has no votes frankly im disgusted

i threw a bottle at the poll options head while it was on stage and knocked it out thats why its got no votes

Quote from: bread on April 11, 2015, 03:10
thrice and thursday too

out of those probably fob

dont forget finch!!!! //furiously mixtapes ur and my band suggestions like #absolutepunk is still in its prime//

I was never into this trend but I think FOB was more popular on this site at the time. I think I had one song by FOB (This Aint a Scene..) but I really wasn't a fan otherwise. P!ATD I liked even less but I found it interesting when they just suddenly went all Carnaby Street, I thought 9 in the Afternoon was good but it probably doesn't count as emo.

MCR...god no, I remember there were some hardcore MCR fans on here too, they probably grew up and became those tumblr lower-case types. I think the closest band of around this time that I liked was JEW and even then it was a few mainstream tracks off Keraang at the time.

Is it really true that the Emos grew up to be Hipsters? I get the strong impression that a lot of the typical hipsters around today went Emo -> Scene -> Hipster. I still dunno what 'scene' actually was in the end, seemed like a subculture all dressed up with nowhere to go.

@beth FRANKLY IM DISGUSTED

@turner you're right about the tumblr lowercase types and also the emo > scene > hipster. I think a majority of Emos I knew growing up went scene for a while, and if you remember me back around 2008... (Wipes sweat from brow) oh boy. I was as scene as they come, it was essentially just dressing up as banter and acting more like an obnoxious teen than you already were. Then I went hipster, because somehow going from a subculture based around being an obnoxious dickhead to another subculture based around being a pretentious obnoxious dickhead was so me.

I fell out the hipster stage rather early though, around when I realised nobody likes hipsters except hipsters which isn't a fun life to lead but I'm still heavily influenced by both my emo and my hipster days, but I think I was one of the fortunate ones who branched off into their own little thing. Don't know what that is yet though, some kind of "clearly mentally ill and not all there artisté" chic. I don't think that one is common so maybe I really was the hipster I set out to be all along.

I can't believe Apple tricked me into typing this with proper capitalisation and all immediately after I said I'm a lowercase tumblr blogger. Way to ruin everything Apple.

Perhaps Apple wants you to type with proper spelling and punctuation?


I was never into the whole emo thing. The closest thing I can find to it I like is Jimmy Eat World, but then they were one of those 90s alternative bands.

What is a scene kid? Are they one of those lower-middle-class-white-boy-from-suburban-Baltimore-pop-punk-band fans or something?

apple can want all they want im not giving up this callous attitude its what defines me online

and i guess? i dunno that sounds pretty accurate really from what i remember. we all had brightly coloured hair teased into lions manes and we wore bright clothing and listened to bs like brokencyde and the medic droid (who still go off in 2015 i cant lie to myself) and enjoy being weirdly cutesy while enjoying gore and bleakness

theyre weird kids. really edgy. i still find them on deviantart almost daily which is so weird to me, i sound like a pretentious old man like "hyuk hyuk i thought it died out!" but legitimately i thought it was a dead style that mostly came with myspace, but its still going strong i guess. good on them, its a fun style.

Scene always struck me as being an alternative culture entry point for girls who were too popular to be emo and boys who were too extroverted to be emo; or alternatively - the emos that grew out of that phase and aspired to be popular and/or extroverted. I think this is maybe why Scene didn't have much of a musical identity in comparison. Even though the music is different, I subconsciously associate them with the STD riddled hair metal wannabes of the 80s.

It seemed to be part of that STR8 EDGE thing too, which was pretty tedious. A bunch of teenagers who have never been near drugs preaching about how bad they are. "Man that potato chip on the floor reminds me of Joey RIP dude".

I'm generally not much of a fan of boring subcultures like emo. I don't mind Goths though, some could be a bit whinge-y but on the whole I feel they're committed if nothing else, which I have respect for. Some of them were absolutely mental too, which is always entertaining.

Pretty sure Linkin Park is the best emo band, they get my skin crawling

Quote from: Lord Raven on April 13, 2015, 19:32
Pretty sure Linkin Park is the best emo band, they get my skin crawling

But in the end, it doesn't even matter

ok ur mixing up two song references

I knew it was only a matter of time after sylar and I had a small chat about something like this.

Honestly, I love all of the big 3, although I only know a couple of MCR and Panic! At The Disco (or Luigi! At the Disco for those of you who know that reference), so I'd say Fall Out Boy is the best mainly because I know them the most, plus Patrick Stump has an amazing voice in my opinion.

Also, wouldn't this topic go under music and not random randomness?

Quote from: Lord Raven on April 13, 2015, 20:34
ok ur mixing up two song references

he tried so hard though

Quote from: ShinyBlaziken2000 on April 13, 2015, 22:38
Also, wouldn't this topic go under music and not random randomness?

blaze ive almost been here for 10 years i think i know what i'm doing and it totally wasnt a senior moment on my behalf

Quote from: sylar on April 13, 2015, 23:14
he tried so hard though

he didnt get that far

Quote from: Lord Raven on April 14, 2015, 01:07
he didnt get that far

he had to fart to lose it all

BTW, Fall of Troy is pretty good. Only heard a couple of their songs, but they sound nice.

Quote from: ShinyBlaziken2000 on April 14, 2015, 02:47
BTW, Fall of Troy is pretty good. Only heard a couple of their songs, but they sound nice.

are we talking songs from Doppleganger/self titled album or songs from later on

Quote from: LOOK AROUND YOG. on April 14, 2015, 02:36
he had to fart to lose it all

in the end it didnt even matter

All I know, I so, socialize
Like the host of the party and spost shake the need
I contact, party the toe strong all mat
Northeast, southwest coast

Quote from: Lord Raven on April 13, 2015, 20:34
ok ur mixing up two song references

Same band and album though

you're all missing it though the best emo band is limp bizkit, they make me want to break stuff

Quote from: LOOK AROUND YOG. on April 14, 2015, 04:30
are we talking songs from Doppleganger/self titled album or songs from later on

I dunno yet, I have to google it in a bit when i'm not busy.

Quote from: bread on April 14, 2015, 20:57
you're all missing it though the best emo band is limp bizkit, they make me want to break stuff

I wonder if Fred Durst still has that red cap

Quote from: bread on April 14, 2015, 20:57
you're all missing it though the best emo band is limp bizkit, they make me want to break stuff

he's not emo he keeps me rollin rollin rollin rollin roll

Muhed is 'loving this right here'.

Funny thing:  I was in class the other day and mentioned Limp Bizkit.  My, what a difference 3-4 years makes in culture, because only the students around my age knew who they were, and the younger students had no idea.

Looks like Fred Durst will never be immortal.

I am going to be completely unironic and say that I actually think Limp Bizkit are/were very very good at what they did and I think most people hate them just because they feel obliged to based on a social trend from over 10 years ago; not because they have any actual reason to or can justify it.

I don't like listening to anything on Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored because the music makes no sense and it sounds like crap (and Hot Dog miscounts the number of f bombs it drops), but I think Boiler is a legitimately good song.  I admittedly haven't heard any of their other albums, though, but Chocolate Starfish was one of the weirdest and actually one of the worst albums I've ever heard.

Their cover of Behind Blue Eyes and Sanitarium were good.  Fred Durst is/was talented.

i don't like them based off of the fact that they sound bad, isnt that enough for me to say i don't like them

Quote from: Lord Raven on April 15, 2015, 20:32
I don't like listening to anything on Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored because the music makes no sense and it sounds like crap (and Hot Dog miscounts the number of f bombs it drops), but I think Boiler is a legitimately good song.  I admittedly haven't heard any of their other albums, though, but Chocolate Starfish was one of the weirdest and actually one of the worst albums I've ever heard.

Their cover of Behind Blue Eyes and Sanitarium were good.  Fred Durst is/was talented.

Chocolate Starfish is actually sonically a pretty interesting album, it's incredibly diverse. I think the thing that sets it apart from any other nu metal or 'rap rock' is that LB pretty much perfected their trademark dark, urban atmospheric sound on it, which nobody else was even close to doing. When you look past instant gratification tracks like Rollin', it's more thoughtful and better written than pretty much everything else from the genre that was out at the time (and it was very well produced). It's honestly one of the most misunderstood albums out there and I think when kids who haven't grown up with the arbitrary Fred Durst hate listen to it in years to come they'll probably appreciate it more.

Rollin (Urban Assault Vehicle) bangs tbf

rollin is mostly a nostalgia thing for me, limp bizkit was never my thing to begin with but i knew a guy who was obsessed with them and he let me borrow a limp bizkit shirt when i stayed over his place and i never gave it back and it led to too many "name five of their albums" type attitudes. i never knew so many people cared about them until i wore that shirt in public, it was honestly surreal having so many people yell at me because i could only name rollin as one of their songs. limp bizkit fans were/are very protective of their band its a little admirable

Quote from: bread on April 15, 2015, 21:39
i don't like them based off of the fact that they sound bad, isnt that enough for me to say i don't like them

same

dude had that weird shrill pitch in his voice that sounded like he was on the brink of tears and it was just kind of weird to listen to, spent most of my early years going "UGH!" and changing the channel every time him and his plate of cut onions would appear on kerrang

dunno why anyone would listen to limp bizkit when you had bands that did the "rap over metal" sound so much better like Headstrong (v underappreciated band who released one album and then disbanded like selfish gits, like other good one-album bands like Hondo MacLean and Aconite Thrill) or if u wanted Accessible 00s nu-metal there was Spineshank and American Head Charge and Bleed the Sky and Mudvayne sitting literally there and also sounding 1000 times better

edit: anyone remember Good Charlotte lmao

Quotelimp bizkit fans were/are very protective of their band its a little admirable

Not as much as Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd fans are  :laugh:

Quoteedit: anyone remember Good Charlotte lmao

I said this to someone the other day. They used to be on Kerrang but they're not on Kerrang anymore. Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous was a good song.

They're probably still going, but just under the radar.

Quote from: LOOK AROUND YOG. on April 16, 2015, 07:56
edit: anyone remember Good Charlotte lmao

yessss... one of the bands i vaguely stanned for but became #fake and pretended to hate them along with mcr when everyone started making fun of Typical Emo Kids and i wanted to keep up my street cred. somehow fall out boy wasnt considered emo back then so i only had to cut good charlotte and mcr out. chronicles of life and death was so solid to me back in the day now i refuse to listen to them because i heard some of their tunes i was in love with on kerrang recently and wanted to die.

forever living in rose tinted nostalgia rip good charlotte.

Quote from: Milsap on April 16, 2015, 08:12
Not as much as Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd fans are  :laugh:

that too. i implied i liked pink floyd once and got an interrogation right there and then that would have gotten so intense if i hadnt shut the neckbeard down with "mate i really dont care as much as you"


mindless self indulgence is still a best though. my extremely problematique favs. like, on par with tyler the creator in their edgy lyrics but honestly? i still go hard to it. kind of got this love-hate thing for them though, because i bought tickets to one of their concerts once and they played for 10 minutes then literally said they were too bored and tired to continue and went off stage. we stuck around thinking it was a joke, but they literally left the venue. the tickets were like £40, my little 15 year old heart was SHATTERED. though i should have probably been more aware of the fact it was obviously kind of sketchy that they were letting a 15 year old into an msi concert to begin with, but eh.

Quote from: LOOK AROUND YOG. on April 16, 2015, 07:56
dunno why anyone would listen to limp bizkit when you had bands that did the "rap over metal" sound so much better like Headstrong (v underappreciated band who released one album and then disbanded like selfish gits, like other good one-album bands like Hondo MacLean and Aconite Thrill) or if u wanted Accessible 00s nu-metal there was Spineshank and American Head Charge and Bleed the Sky and Mudvayne sitting literally there and also sounding 1000 times better

It depends on what definition are you using when you say that they sounded 'better'. Because in terms of diversity and production none of those bands come close to Limp Bizkit. LB actually started as a film project and it shows, regardless of whether or not you're into all the culture and ego of the delivery, their production is absolutely fantastic and they know exactly what they are doing in a studio. I'm not opposed to a bit of Spineshank, Mudvayne or American Head Charge but I consider those to work very much within one sphere of influence and don't really have much vision. Limp Bizkit, despite Fred Durst's shallow hip hop attempts are thematically much stronger.

The trouble is that people have been far too conditioned into thinking they are not good because they were a scapegoat for the dying grunge/alt rock scene which was quickly losing influence and were then coopted by your average American Jocks, which then meant that the alternative bands of the time were quick to blame them too, especially when they shafted RATM at the 2000 MTV VMAs and Tim Commerford made an idiot of himself. I love RATM and I think they are better than LB but I don't buy into the hate; LB took rap/metal in a completely different direction to RATM and it's easy to see why people would think LB signified everything wrong with modern music at the time in comparison to politically aware Grunge and alt-rock, but if you actually look at the music objectively it's of a very, very high quality.

Quotei implied i liked pink floyd once

I'm the opposite. I said I couldn't get into Pink Floyd and it felt like the entire fanbase was about to chase me through the street shouting 'BURN THE WITCH!'

fall out boy, although I did see the panic of the disco singer get hit in the face with a bottle of piss on stage.

was that those westboro smartasses throwing piss

Out of the emo trio, if I had to pick my favorite song from each and my favorite overall, here's my selections:

Fall Out Boy: This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
My Chemical Romance: Welcome to the Black Parade
Panic! At the Disco: I Write Sins, Not Tragedies

Favorite: Welcome to the Black Parade

For Fall Out Boy, it was tough for me to pick, because I like way too many of their songs the same amount, so that one edged the others out by a bit.

For Fall Out Boy it's a tie between "Sugar We're Goin' Down" and "What a Catch Donnie", My Chemical Romance is probably "House of Wolves" or "Honey This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us" (what a mouthful) and... yeah, Panic! At the Disco is probably "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies". I never liked Panic! much, I just remember the 3 used to get compared a lot.

And I agree, Fall Out Boy is a pretty solid band through and through, and they continued to get better with time. My Chemical Romance bounced off in a direction that I wasn't too alright with, but they were having a lot of internal issues so I think that was to be expected, along with their breakup which I'm still pretty gutted about. My Chemical Romance was definitely my thing when I was like 13 though.

im a fake fob fan and think the last three albums are trash

ginasfs my favorite fob song, idk about mcr (maybe dead! or to the end im not really sure) and i never liked p!atd much oops

thats not fake thats just true

ab/ap (DESPITE THE ABLEISM IN THE TITLE AHEM) is a massive step up from save rock and roll which was just... a mess
like it still has many Flaws but it at least makes up for how bad save rock and roll was

psycho is a slur now? omg

i was talking about american

I remember now, the only The Fall of Troy song i've heard is F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. and that's due to guitar hero 3.