I don't think I would say emo is the best subgenre of punk, but its pretty good. I listened to just punk and ska for like two years, but in the last year I've been really getting into hardcore, screamo, and emo. One reason I was drawn to these genres is because I'm a guitarist and hardcore/screamo/emo bands offer more technical guitar riffs and complex song structures than (most) punk. I still like punk, but I haven't been listening to it much in the last year.
Possibly:
Screamo>Hardcore>Punk>Emo
But there's such variety in emo that its hard to place. Some I like a lot, but the more indie-influenced stuff I'm not real big on.
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