chaz
Joined: December 09, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: emo pet peeve
September 24, 2004 at 02:32 PM UTC
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No I'd say we have Rites of Spring to thank for emo. I don't really understand the whole emo tag these days…but for what it's worth Rites put out one killer record back in the day.
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
so Superchunk is the blame for the crap known as emo. There you have it.
Originally posted by Defcon9:
i'm sorry you all can't grasp Superchunk's brilliance, but they were definitely one of the pioneers of emo.. well before SDRE was around. Too bad you missed the boat.
thirsty moore
Joined: January 11, 2000 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: emo pet peeve
September 24, 2004 at 02:35 PM UTC
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I stumbled on that album accidentally. I bought a Sonic Youth tape over at Phantas where someone erased the second side to put on the Rites of Spring album.
Originally posted by chaz:
No I'd say we have Rites of Spring to thank for emo. I don't really understand the whole emo tag these days…but for what it's worth Rites put out one killer record back in the day.
skeeter
Joined: May 29, 2003 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: emo pet peeve
September 24, 2004 at 03:04 PM UTC
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Originally posted by chaz:
No I'd say we have Rites of Spring to thank for emo. I don't really understand the whole emo tag these days…but for what it's worth Rites put out one killer record back in the day.
I've read elsewhere that Rites Of Spring were the first emo band. I don't really know what's emo and what isn't. I do know that the Rites Of Spring record is amazing. Nothing else I've heard sounds anything like it. I find it hard to fathom that so many different sounding bands are all considered "emo".
Genre names are becoming so broad they're almost useless these days.
ggw
Joined: December 16, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: emo pet peeve
September 24, 2004 at 03:16 PM UTC
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Emo was born during Revolution Summer when the Dischord bands traded anger for pathos.
Or so the legend goes…
Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
I've read elsewhere that Rites Of Spring were the first emo band. I don't really know what's emo and what isn't. I do know that the Rites Of Spring record is amazing. Nothing else I've heard sounds anything like it. I find it hard to fathom that so many different sounding bands are all considered "emo".
Genre names are becoming so broad they're almost useless these days.