which emo band is the best

[Lord Raven]

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

[Milsap]

Muhed is 'loving this right here'.

[Lord Raven]

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.

[Turner]

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.

[Lord Raven]

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.

[the bread dragon]

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

[Turner]

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.

[Kerou 犠牲]

Rollin (Urban Assault Vehicle) bangs tbf

[sylar]

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

[lets all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes]

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

[Milsap]

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

Not as much as Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd fans are 

edit: 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.

[sylar]

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.

Not as much as Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd fans are 

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.

[Turner]

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.

[Milsap]

i 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!'

[dan dan]

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.