How did you discover emo music?
 

I started listening to the 90s Chicago Indie Scene (Cap'n Jazz in particular) and from there I branched off to Joan of Arc. At the time I thought Joan of Arc was emo due to its image under jade tree records. From there I stumbled across Soulseek where someone offered me a chance to listen some Indian Summer tracks, and then I bought a Saetia Retrospective CD. It took off from there.

How about you?

my friend kendra got me into the all-american rejects in about the seventh grade, then yellowcard, then thursday, now saetia, the used, mcr, and stuff like that. the only 'real' emo band is saetia, i know. but the others are still nu-emo. i dont care.

"nu-emo"


the end of the world.

Or the end of emo, depending.

I got shown emo by this kid at school who kinda takes emo as a religion... Its sad, but hes a cool kid...

"David Frost"


a total jackass.

i agree

ill accept that i am a total jackass when you name one emo band that you listen to.

^it really doesn't matter. moderators:
1. are mature and dont flame other people's opinions all the time,
2. they dont try to get people to hate them,
3. don't act like jackasses,
4. they don't post in threads about subjects they don't like,
5. and if they do post in them, they don't throw in their two-sense.

you dont accomplish any of these.

What he does do however is recommend good ass bands that you and everyone else in this forum should check out. Zealious and Frost so far have mentioned tons of good music.
1. Look for it
2. Listen to it
3. Enjoy

I wanted to know if I was correctly insulting a guy when I called him an emo-kid.
I later found out I should have called him a post-emo kid.
I wanted to find out what was before this post phase.
I'm beginning to listen to Zealious more to hear about emo bands.
I'm checking out Rites of Spring, Moss Icon, Heroin, La Quiete, The Pine, and Angel Hair, although it's hard because the older bands broke up and I can't get a lot of their stuff.

Fugazi

whoa. damn, how could i have forgotten herion.

hmh. well....i probably started more in the "emo core" sub genre, as someone on these forums refered to it, with finch. after a while i came across thursday which remains to be one of my favorite bands. zealious suggested saetia to me, and i listen to them a lot lately. im not sure if all of these would be considered emo, but the sound seems to fit the category

saosin
sounds of animals fighting
coheed (sorta)
the mars volta


and does anyone here like CIRCA SURVIVE? its anthony greens (former singer of saosin) new band. would they be considered emo?

Started with punk in 7th grade. progressed to hardcore the next year. a few friends listened to Sunny Day and indie emo stuff and i liked some of it. my best friend told me about this band called heroin last year and some members reccomended them so I checked it out. i like it. I still perfer metal and spazz rock but some solid emo and screamo definitly round out a good experiance