Emo - please define for a no-nothign person

[art of fact]

I really like the t-shirts that link from that site - does that mean I'm emo?!

if you have a myspace account then definately

 

[secretsquirrel]

*checks*

Nope.

*relief*

 

[Dubversion]

Btw it seems like all the emo kids down in Devon hang around outside Tescos trying to look misplaced and misbegotten. They just look a bit crap really. And many of them are far too well nourished to successfully pull off that starving tortured artist in a garret look.

as ever, Art Brut have it covered

My little brother just discovered Rock & Roll
My little brother just discovered Rock & Roll
My little brother just discovered Rock & Roll
He's only 22 and he's out of control

He no longer listens to A-sides
He made me a tape of bootlegs and B-sides
And every song on that tape, every single song says
I want our parents to worry about us
All we ever want is our parents to worry about us
It's what anybody really wants

 

[secretsquirrel]

I mean, not that you ever caught me at 16 painfully identifying with Jesus & Mary Chain whilst sitting in my bedroom in my detached house in Hampshire doing my history homework.

Oh no.

I was keeping it fucking real

Oh yes.

*has word with self*

 

[art of fact]

i think a ridiculous emo band name thread is in order

 

[sojourner]

I mean, not that you ever caught me at 16 painfully identifying with Jesus & Mary Chain whilst sitting in my bedroom in my detached house in Hampshire doing my history homework.

Oh no.

I was keeping it fucking real

Oh yes.

*has word with self*

And Janis Joplin wasn't singing 'Little Girl Blue' direct to me when I was 15 and torn to shreds

Not sure if I'd have been an emo kid or not if I was that age now...I'd like to think I'd seek out less formulaic music, but you never know...

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Sometimes I worry that I'm going to arrive back in England next week and have accidently started to look 'emo' without ever noticing.

I mean, how harsh would that be!

 

[kyser_soze]

Emo, circa C19th

 

[Groucho]

I have a disconcerting sense of deja vu.

 

[bluestreak]

bluestreak - would you consider yourself to be an "emo" kid?

oh gods, the horror of my lardy frame squeezed into skintight jeans and a skinny fit t-shirt.

i dunno, what bands are emo right now and i'll tell you if i like them.

 

[Dubversion]

oh gods, the horror of my lardy frame squeezed into skintight jeans and a skinny fit t-shirt.

yes, Bluestreak, you're lardy. A right fat bastard.


(shut up, you muppet )

 

[bluestreak]

hah, believe me, i've learnt to conceal what is essentiually the beergut of a man twice my age through a combination of superb tailoring and never taking my shirt off.

 

[Hollis]

I'm seeing this more as an approach to life, rather than getting bogged down in specific bands.

 

[Iam]

i think a ridiculous emo band name thread is in order

Sunny Day Real Estate.

 

[Tank Girl]

Generally I alway found it to be the Smiths fans taking the piss out the jitters.. sorry, metallers.

yeah we did, but we called 'em GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBOOOOOOOO'S