my rant of the day -- no moz content

[Mindy]

have i told you people how much i hate emo lately? i don't hate the music so much. in fact, i like some of it. i've always liked weezer, which most emo sounds like in my opinion. i do however hate all those bands like dashboard confessional which are comprised of a bunch of thirty year olds singing pathetic, juvenile, oh-so-angst-filled songs in order to cash in on the trend (and possibly get some teenage tail). seriously, i was the editor of my high school's art and literary magazine, which contained a lot of shitty, maudlin poems, and these guys' lyrics still would have been rejected.

anyway, that's not what i really hate. what i hate is all the little preppy kids who think listening to john mayer and wearing rubber bracelets and buddy holly glasses with plastic lenses makes them hip and alternative. and no, i don't think i'm hip and alternative. i just hate people who aren't but think they are.

[Notastitchtowear]

> have i told you people how much i hate emo lately? i don't hate the music
> so much. in fact, i like some of it. i've always liked weezer, which most
> emo sounds like in my opinion. i do however hate all those bands like
> dashboard confessional which are comprised of a bunch of thirty year olds
> singing pathetic, juvenile, oh-so-angst-filled songs in order to cash in
> on the trend (and possibly get some teenage tail). seriously, i was the
> editor of my high school's art and literary magazine, which contained a
> lot of shitty, maudlin poems, and these guys' lyrics still would have been
> rejected.

> anyway, that's not what i really hate. what i hate is all the little
> preppy kids who think listening to john mayer and wearing rubber bracelets
> and buddy holly glasses with plastic lenses makes them hip and
> alternative. and no, i don't think i'm hip and alternative. i just hate
> people who aren't but think they are.

Hey, fake nerdy glasses ARE cool! :P.....and who's emo?

[imacolata]

> .....and who's emo?

He's that red puppet that runs around on Seseme Street and had a popular "tickle me" doll that came out..oh wait. no.

Emo is: http://www.fourfa.com/




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[Notastitchtowear]

> He's that red puppet that runs around on Seseme Street and had a popular
> "tickle me" doll that came out..oh wait. no.

> Emo is: http://www.fourfa.com/

I thought maybe she was talking about Emo Phillips, that weird comedian dude.

[Mindy]

i have fake nerdy glasses too, but i don't bust em out and go "oh look at me, i'm just so alternative." although, i know you don't do that either!!!

[Rowdy Yeats]

I totally agree with Mindy. I'm sure there's emo- people here that will flame me, but who cares? I also know all these emo-people just idolize Moz and Ian macKaye, and I like them, but most (not entirely all) of these bands annoy the piss out of me. Or more often, I'm just indifferent to them.

And top of the list is dashboard Confessional. They're that one band that seems to hop on the 'next big wave' bandwagon, and try to make money off of it.

Maybe somebody can describe emo- better than me, but emo- is a genre of punk where the lead singer is all 'emotional' and is concerned about not getting laid or not eating meat, as opposed to just 'smashing things up' like say the Exploited. Weezer are lumped in with the emo-crowd, as is Jimmy Eat World and thursday.

[Mindy]

if blink 182 weren't quite so mainstream, they would even be considered emo by some. it's a good indication of the kind of shit "emo" kids like. some of the bands wouldn't be half bad if 1) they stopped whining for two seconds and 2) their fanbase wasn't so goddamn annoying.

thanks for agreeing with me, rowdy!

[Rowdy Yeats]

some of the bands wouldn't be half bad if 1) they stopped
> whining for two seconds and 2) their fanbase wasn't so goddamn annoying.

> thanks for agreeing with me, rowdy!

Yeah, I was surprised to see someone who had the same sentiment. i don't really have a problem with emo, in general, but like any genre that gets popular (industrial, punk, etc.) it starts with some people who have interesting thoughts, and once there is attention and support, it becomes 'watered down' and everybody tries to make a buck off it.

It reminds me of when 'grunge' hit, you had a variety of interesting bands (Nirvana, mudhoney, etc) that got grouped together, and then you began to get the next wave, which was STP and Pearl Jam, and each wave was worse where you had candlebox and collecitve Soul next, and now you have Creed and Nickleback. Punk's the same way, where you used to have the California scene of the dead Kennedys and Bad religion, and then Green Day and Offspring hit big,and now you have Blink-182 and Good Charlotte.

[Notastitchtowear]

> some of the bands wouldn't be half bad if 1) they stopped

> Yeah, I was surprised to see someone who had the same sentiment. i don't
> really have a problem with emo, in general, but like any genre that gets
> popular (industrial, punk, etc.) it starts with some people who have
> interesting thoughts, and once there is attention and support, it becomes
> 'watered down' and everybody tries to make a buck off it.

> It reminds me of when 'grunge' hit, you had a variety of interesting bands
> (Nirvana, mudhoney, etc) that got grouped together, and then you began to
> get the next wave, which was STP and Pearl Jam, and each wave was worse
> where you had candlebox and collecitve Soul next, and now you have Creed
> and Nickleback. Punk's the same way, where you used to have the California
> scene of the dead Kennedys and Bad religion, and then Green Day and
> Offspring hit big,and now you have Blink-182 and Good Charlotte.

I think most bands eventually get HUGE egos and walk around like they're 'The Shit', just some are smoother at it than others. What bugs me the most are bands that copy other bands' style and it's so obvious; like Creed tries to be like U2 or Pearl Jam, and I heard a band today called 'Death In Vegas' that sound EXACTLY like Oasis, etc. I always thought copy-catting would be embarrassing but I guess it's not.

[Mindy]

[Roger Relevant]

[Almodis]

Re:
>I heard a band today called
> 'Death In Vegas' that sound EXACTLY like Oasis, etc. I always thought
> copy-catting would be embarrassing but I guess it's not.

You probably know this already but that *is* Liam Gallagher singing on the current DIV single ("Scorpio Rising")

[Mindy]

[Notastitchtowear]

> Re:

> You probably know this already but that *is* Liam Gallagher singing on the
> current DIV single ("Scorpio Rising")

LOL! Well then I guess that explains why they sound like Oasis. No I didn't know that, bad example on my part, LOL!