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:''See Emo (disambiguation) for other uses of the term Emo.'' Emo (an abbreviation of "emotionally-driven Hardcore punk") is a term now broadly used to describe almost any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that expresses emotions beyond traditional punk's limited emotional palette of alienation and rage. It is also used to describe fans of this genre, most commonly teenagers. (e.g., emo kid). The actual term "emo" originated in the mid-1980s D.C. scene, with the band Rites of Spring, as well as bands such as Fugazi (band), Moss Icon, and Antioch Arrow. The term addressed both the way the band connected with its audience, as well as its tendency to deal more with topics of personal and relationship politics than with the standard themes of rock music. == History == The roots of the emo style can be traced to two seminal bands of the post-punk era. In 1983, Mission of Burma's album ''VS'' did much to expand rock beyond its original constraints while still retaining its raw emotional punch. There are still what can be considered emo bands around today, but most of them take a full-on screaming approach (hence the name Screamo) like Circle Takes The Square and Saetia. In 1984, H�sker D�'s album ''Zen Arcade'' established what is widely considered to be the definitive blueprint for emo: simple, raw guitar-oriented music with intense vocals and deeply introspective songwriting. As the style caught on, bands such as Moss Icon, Policy of Three, Navio Forge and Indian Summer (band) evolved traditional Hardcore Punk into what eventually became known as simply "emo", a style which intensified the dramatic aspects of vocal performances in order to achieve a cathartic breakthrough with the audience. Done well, the result was powerful emotional release that often left emo bands and their audiences crying or screaming at the end of performances. While effective, such open displays of emotion made many traditional hardcore fans uncomfortable, and caused much friction between the two camps. Some believe that the "emo" moniker was originally used as a derogatory term by these detractors. With the mass-market acceptance of alternative music in the early 1990s, a new derivative style variously called "chaotic emo", "screamo", and "Emo Violence" emerged featuring a blend of the more aggressive parts of bands like Rites of Spring, mixing chaotic rock music with abrasive, emotional screaming vocals. The record label Gravity from San Diego, California was a major influence, releasing many defining records of this style in the early 1990s. Significant emo bands from this time include Heroin (band), Angel Hair, Antioch Arrow, Swing Kids, and Mohinder. Later in the 90s, bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Elliott, Christie Front Drive, Get Up Kids, Cap'n Jazz, The Promise Ring and Mineral (band) explored a more moderately paced form of emo that mixed the early emo sound of Rites of Spring with the post-hardcore innovation of Fugazi_(band) and Quicksand_(band). The musical genre that best describes Sunny Day Real Estate, The Get-Up Kids early work, Jimmy Eat World's early work, as well as Elliot and Christie Front Drive is Post Emo. This musical movement of the early 90s was very emo influenced, and can be very much heard in the Sunny Day Real Estate album, Diary, maybe more than any of the others. Today, the term "emo" is increasingly ambiguous. With the success of rock bands such as The Get Up Kids, Jimmy Eat World and The Promise Ring, the music industry has However,the emo label is now correctly applied to a wide assortment of many diverse alternative bands, such as Senses Fail, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance and The Used, which are today's "emo". == Emo fashion == "Emo fashion" is a term used to describe someone with tight jeans, black hair over the eyes, and tight t-shirts or sweaters. However, the fact of the matter is it is impossible to "be" emo, since emo is a genre of music. One cannot actually become emotionally driven punk, just as one can not become "metal." However, you can dress like the members of "emo" bands, which will make people consider you "emo". The kids who follow the latest fashion trends are sometimes called "scenesters." Ironically, in attempting to be non-conformist, these kids often conform stringently to the fashion and music tastes popular within the emo scene. ==Emo groups== *:Category:Emo musical groups == See also == *Emo Violence *Screamo *Hardcore Emo == External links == *[http://www.myemospace.com Myemospace.com] Pokes fun at scenes and the scene-lover infested entity of myspace.com *[http://www.fourfa.com/ "what the heck *is* emo anyway?"] a semi-comprehensive FAQ/parody on the subject *[http://www.axioentertainment.com/main/index.php?categoryid=11&p2_articleid=19 ''axioentertainment.com's emo guide''], a guide that pokes fun at emo attitudes/styles *[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=video_games#3. ''Identity Crisis Emo Game''], A parody of emo as done by The Best Page in the Universe. *[http://www.somethingdirectory.com/ how to be: emo] The Emo Guide To Life in video form. *[http://emogame.com/ The Emo Videogame] — an online video game series dedicated to emo culture, which is very tongue-in-cheek and self-effacing. *[http://www.emo-ology.co.uk Emo-ology] — an attempt to create an emo discography *[http://www.youdontknowemo.tk Emo] in the sense described by this Wiki page *[http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=10663 Emo Farm]- A funny film about a farm that raise emos. Emo Punk Hardcore punk Punk genres

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Whether Weezer is an emo band is debatable; but it is certainly not representative of emo music and does not belong under Essential Records. I've removed it. --User:Cprompt ---- I removed the definitive records. Let the article itself do that. If it becomes necessary to have something similar, there are much better ways to do it. User:TUF-KAT Definitive Records: :Bright Eyes: ''Fevers and Mirrors'' :Dag Nasty: ''Can I Say'', ''Wig out at Denkos''. :Embrace: ''Embrace''. :The Get Up Kids: ''Four Minute Mile'', Get Up Kids/Anniversary Split 7". :Heroin: ''Heroin''. :Hot Water Music: ''Fuel For the Hate Game''. :H�sker D�: ''Zen Arcade'', ''New Day Rising''. :Indian Summer: ''Discography'', Indian Summer/Embassy Split 7". :Jawbreaker: ''Unfun'', ''Bivouac''. :Jets to Brazil: ''Orange Rhyming Dictionary'' :Jimmy Eat World: ''Static Prevails'', ''Clarity''. :Julia: ''Julia'', Julia/Sunshine Split 7". :Lifetime: ''seveninches''. :Mineral: ''The Power of Failing''. :Moss Icon: ''Lyburnum Wit's End Liberation Fly''. :Onesidezero: ''Is This Room Getting Smaller?'' :Planes Mistaken For Stars: ''Planes Mistaken For Stars'', ''Knife in the Marathon''. :Rites of Spring: ''End on End''. :Still Life: ''From Angry Heads with Skyward Eyes''. :Sunny Day Real Estate: ''Diary''. ::Would you object to an article called "List of definitive emo records"? ::--User:Cprompt :::Not necessarily... But I think there are better ways to do the same. How about a few paragraphs in the main article which explains ''why'' these are definitive. For example, something similar to the following (except better-written). User:TUF-KAT ::::Early recordings in what would later become known as emo include Embrace (band)'s ''Embrace (album)'' and H�sker D�'s ''Zen Arcade''. In the late 1990s, emo gained greatly in popularity, with albums like The Get-Up Kids' ''Something to Write Home About'', becoming extremely popular. :::Hmm, I could see the value of having such a separate article. I will play around at User:TUF-KAT/List of hip hop albums ::While the principle of a list of definitive records may fall flat in genres more defined, I do feel that in a genre as loose and ambiguous as emo, something along the lines of the list would be a great supplement to the page. ::-User:idp :::The problem is that a list would be a potentially contentious topic. According to NPOV, the Wikipedia can't take any positions, it can only describe others' positions. I've done something at User:TUF-KAT/List of grunge music albums and User:TUF-KAT/List of hip hop albums. Do you think something along those lines will work for emo? User:TUF-KAT I'm sorry I'm a year late in my response. ;-) Since the page doesn't exist anymore, I'm unable to comment. :-) What I can say is, I agree with your now-ancient removal of the "Definitive records", and that a separate article could of course work, but would be prone to dispute (which doesn't make it any worse than some other articles ). --User:Cprompt 02:32, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC) :Funny you should re-bring this up now. I've been retooling an attempt at lists of definitive albums in Wikipedia, accomplished neutrally by combining published lists by professionals (e.g. 100 best rock and roll albums). I had previously done the same, including both professional and amateur lists, but I decided to stick with only professionally done lists. List of hip hop albums and list of rock and roll albums are switched over, but list of grunge albums still includes amateur lists. The same thing could be done for emo, though I'm not sure there are enough such lists to do so. User:TUF-KAT 04:33, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC) ::The emo list might be more subjective than other lists. The "What the heck is emo anyway?" site provides a good starting point. All in all, I think the lists are fairly useful. (Useful enough for me to use them.) --- ===Cleanup=== This is an elaboration of my request for cleanup. The first sentence says that emo is short for emocore, but the rest of the article (as well as the Emocore article) seem to disagree. If some fan said "you're emo", how could that be short for emocore? This sentence especially makes no sense: "Just as emo added a new found intensity to the original emocore style, the style of hardcore emo brought the intensity to a climax." ~ User:Resister 00:06, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Reverting "again" == Again, when was the first time? And what POV? I was talking with someone about Emo, and decided to being up the wiki article. When we discussed that particular edit we were both suprised it had been removed, and he said something like "I don't know much of anything ''else'' about emo." He has a good friend who was in a punk band, and which he left when it started to become "emo" and pop-punk, etc... I know loads of people in small hardcore / punk / metal bands, and they all have the same sort of opinion of "whiney pop punk" or whatever. I never presented it as anything other than a perjorative, but its common and noteworthy, fair or not. I also think emo fashion (large hornrimmed black glasses and dyed black hair) deserves more mention in the article. User:Sam Spade [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Sam_Spade&action=edit§ion=new Spade] Christmas_around_the_world 00:30, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) *Sorry about the "again" comment. I misread the edit summaries...should have checked. (Basically I took it that the anon that TUF-KAT reverted had inserted the sentence, and that you had re-inserted it. My apologies.) I'm not particularly fond of the wording in that sentence. It irks me, seeing "fag" in a (vaguely) formal encyclopedia. It may be popular opinion, but I'm sure we could express the idea in a less hostile manner. "Fag" is just one of those words that should really be avoided unless its absolutely necessary and in this case I don't think it is. (As for emo fashion, yes, we definitely need a section on emo fashion. I know next to nothing about it aside from the glasses, so I'll leave it be.) User:Premeditated ChaosUser_talk:Premeditated ChaosSpecial:Contributions/Premeditated Chaos 01:10, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) **I agree on a section about fashion, but wouldn't know what to put there. As far as the statement about stereotypes go... I probably wouldn't have reverted, but I don't like it and don't think it should be there (in that form). First of all, I doubt the stereotype is all that "common" in the grand scheme of things. The vast majority of people in the world don't know anything about emo, and couldn't care less about the people that listen to it. Even among those who have a stereotype, I tend to think of emotionally fragile, sensitive, weak and shy before fag-like... Of course, to some degree those things are also stereotypes of gays. It would be far better sourced anyway. Surely there's a page or two on the web making fun of emo-kids, perhaps we could describe how they do so and link to it. User:TUF-KAT 01:53, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC) ***I don't have time to be thorough right now, but here's two: [http://www.blurty.com/~emosucks/] and [http://www.ubersite.com/m/7166]. The second one of which also goes into a bit of fashion, coincidentally enough. [http://www.google.com/search?q=emo+sucks&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official This] google search looks like it might turn up some other sites containing stereotypes of emokids. User:TUF-KAT 01:57, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC) ****Mmmkay...I'll have a closer look when it isn't 11 in the evening and I'm not falling asleep on the keyboard. User:Premeditated ChaosUser_talk:Premeditated ChaosSpecial:Contributions/Premeditated Chaos 07:02, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) Emo is obscure, but not in the punk rock / hardcore genre, which is the group I was refering to making these comments. You have to understand, your average hardcore music listener/band has alot of differences w your average Emo listener/band, and yet they all go to the same venues (generally on different nights). The end result is that they form opinions. I added that word because I've heard it many times in reference to Emo, but I understand thats original research. I'll see what I can turn up as far as references, but the fact that non-emo punk rock and hardcore fans tend to view the Emo crowd as sentimental, fashion-conscious and non-tough (fag in the usage not specifically refering to homosexuality) isn't disputed here, I hope. Also we need alot more on Emo fashion, which is fairly noteworthy. User:Sam Spade [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Sam_Spade&action=edit§ion=new Spade] Christmas_around_the_world 11:30, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) :[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo+fag This] is what I was talking about. Its a catch-phrase. User:Sam Spade [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Sam_Spade&action=edit§ion=new Spade] Christmas_around_the_world 11:34, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::We could do a "subculture/fashion" section, talk about the current emo subculture and its trendiness, fashions, etc...and then have a bit in there about the punk and hardcore crowd's general opinion of them. I'm definitely not disputing the view of emo kids as being "wussy", that's common knowledge. It was a hasty revert on my part and I apologize for that. User:Premeditated ChaosUser_talk:Premeditated ChaosSpecial:Contributions/Premeditated Chaos 23:38, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) :::As for the catch-phrase, I hang around with a lot of hardcore types and I've never heard that in my entire life. Lots of fantastic descriptive phrases, yes, but never specifically "emo fag". User:Premeditated ChaosUser_talk:Premeditated ChaosSpecial:Contributions/Premeditated Chaos 23:40, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::::Its not a big deal about the fag thing, and you've been more than gracious enough to dispell any antimosity regarding the revert. i do think we need to incapsul how other, related sub-cultures view emo-kids, and what emo-kids look like. Yhis won't be done by me however. Absolutely everything I know about emo is negative, they arn't well liked by people I have known, and I have only known 1 guy w the emo fashion type. I think there may be a certain amount of defensiveness towards emo w people feeling like emo is "taking over the punk scene", or some such. Certainly there is a tendancy to view emo as more pop-music than punk. 23:56, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) :::::I could do a little...not right away, I'm sort of overloaded with stuff at the moment, but I could take a look around and write at least a little bit of content. User:Premeditated ChaosUser_talk:Premeditated ChaosSpecial:Contributions/Premeditated Chaos 01:27, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::::::Yes, I don't think its a particularly high priority for anybody, I just wanted to accentuate what needed done. Cheers, 13:00, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Emo Example image? == Does anyone actually feel that image adds anything to the article? It looks like a low quality shot of a bored kid in a classroom, maybe just someone trying to put their pic in the Wikipedia. It certainly isn't a good enough image to inform about emo fashion, is it? User:Next Paige 20:19, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC) ''Italic text''Emo fashion, according to its proponents, is deeply rooted in a "being proud of who you are", anti-consumer subculture. Oh the irony! ~~Here is a good drawing of an emo, but I'm unsure wether or not it is copyrighted. http://neo-anime.org/desfunk/pictures/amychan/orig/emo.jpg == Emo-fag == We really need to address the level of dislike of the emo community. The perpetual vandalism of this page for example, or the fact that ''I'' have never heard the term in any way other than in a perjorative. Most of the times I've heard it, it was coupled w "fag", I shit you not. ''User:Sam Spade'' User:Sam Spade/Detective agency 20:31, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==emotional hardcore== Emo is an abbreviation for \"emotional hardcore\". Not just "emotional" as the article says. -Okay, look [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emo&diff=prev&oldid=12859409 here, emo edit 26 Apr 05]. Somebody completely destroyed the emo article and it hasn't been properly restored. They obviously don't know anything about emo, they even changed every reference to 'punk' to 'rock.' The downside to wikipedia. I hadn't been back here for over a month and when I did I was shocked at how much it was changed. Before this change, the emo article was far better. I suggest we restore it to a version sometime around [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emo&oldid=10046821 here]. Especially the emo glasses pic, and the "emotional hardcore" definition. People can then ADD to it the more modern emo stuff without deleting the excellent summary we had before. C'mon, people, this is shocking. We've let a few kids with bad writing skills destroy this article. SP 27May05 :There have been almost 100 edits (albeit a good few of those are vandals/reverts) since the first diff. link you posted, and probably at least that many again since the second link you posted. It seems that it might be better to just rewrite the parts that were wholly changed, using the older version you point to as a guide. User:Lachatdelarue User_talk:Lachatdelarue 14:31, 27 May 2005 (UTC) --- This article refers to Jimmy Eat World and The Get Up Kids as power pop. Am I the only one who has a problem with this?

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the word "emo" is a highly disputed thing, and its not NPOV to use it. sad, but true. --User:Tothebarricades.tk 07:56, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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