1) the get up kids
2) saves the day
3) dashboard confessional
4) taking back sunday
5) the anniversary
6) brand new
7) onelinedrawing
8) jimmy eat world
9) the promise ring
10) funeral for a friend (haha just kidding....)

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swing swing swing and fuck off





















busted?

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AAR kick ass!!!!
And you forgot something corporate, mmmmm i want to lick that boys face!
I would have put brand new at the top IMO.

What classifies an emo band?

shit songs

Like, some scream, have really depressing lyrics, like, REALLY DEPRESSING, and they dress with like scarfs even when its warm, and pants really low, so you can see your bumcrack, and have straight down bowlhead-hair generally. Thats what I define emo as anyway

Spot on, that. shit songs and band members who think you give a fuck about their "pain"

yes because all emo songs are about 'pain' and they all wear scarfs. damn you people!

personally, i would define emo as just being a more emotional version of punk. it can range from acoustic stuff to quite loud songs with screaming. and not all songs have to be about breaking up with girls and whatever.

no thats just new found glorys

I like most of the bands Al mention. whether they are 'emo' or not I don't care I just like them

brand new are pretty good me thinks

I'd probably say

1) Taking Back Sunday
2) The Smiths (cue abuse as to how are The Smiths emo?)
3) Death Cab For Cutie
4) The Get-Up Kids
5) Brand New
6) Matchbook Romance
7) Bright Eyes
8) Saves The Day
9) Dashboard Confessional
10) Jimmy Eat World

HOW TO BE: EMO
go watch this video, its hilarious!

So a bit like goth but without all the black and power ballads then?

I'm still no closer to finding out what emo actually is - but then again I still can't figure out the difference between rock and rock n roll.

Erm Weezer considering they kicked it all off

check out this link if ya dont belive me

weezer were the first well known 'emo' band (although are they really emo? some aspects of them might be but in general i don't think they are) but they weren't the first emo band.

ian mackaye coined the term emo-core in an interview in 1985 and that's where it all pretty much started from. the first real emo bands were embrace (no, not THAT one) and rites of spring.

*holds head in hands - i can't believe i know all that....*

in no general order

1.taking back sunday
2.thrice
3.thursday
4.my chemical romance
5.ffaf
6.hifh
7.saves the day
8.jew
9.emery
10.saosin

but theres more

how dare you call hell is for heroes emo!

Dont u have to be straight edge to be emo??

wot wud u call hell is for heros then(not sayin this in a nasty way)

no, but a lot of emo kids have stolen that attitude from the hardcore guys.

country > emo

Weazer is an emo band?

Yeah I like an Emo band I'm youngand cool again!!!

Emo's not really my thing. I hate to sound waspish or mean but it seems a bit all the same to me *runs* and its not got much depth or intellect or art to it. Saying that tho, when i'm a bit indied out i like a bit o taking back sunday, and i went to see hifh. I also like lost prophets and ffaf (which isn't very "cool" i know but like i give a fuck!) and my mates really love it so i suppose i'm getting into it a bit. Plus emo boys are really cute, and come the closest to the sort of music i like. mind u theyre only cute when theyre not crying about their ex gf or wetting their beds. Brand new are pretty good to listen to. I'm also gonna get sohuted at here - but i try not to like it cuz its so cool to now, i still like to be different.

dont ever put punk with emo, emo is for slit the wrists faggots who cry while punk is awesome, mostly street punk and old school!!!

emo nowadays is not my kinda thing

i like a lot of the first wave of emo bands from the early 90s though, the bands that actually had some talent and weren't just part of a fashionable media hyped scene.

1;braid
2;the appleseed cast
3;american football
4;cap n jazz
5;joan of arc
6;hey mercedes
7;the promise ring
8;the gloria record

they're the main bands who come to mind for me. i like some of the bands mentioned in this thread such as weezer,death cab for cutie etc but dont really consider them particularly emo myself.

there's also a few young english bands i like who i suppose you could catergorise as emo but not in the modern meaning of it. these are bands who are more influenced by the bands ive listed above...

the lucide console
the little explorer
the jesus years
econoline

etc etc

Coldplay

I don' t think Coldplay are an emo band somehow

Yes they are , they are touring with my chemical romance and avenged sevenfold!

Can I take this back? It was 2 years ago when I said it I hate taking back sunday haha

Yeah offcourse you can diamond geezer.

I didnt even realise there was any top emo bands- let alone an entire list of ten!!!!!! The first person to find a decent emo band wins a prize!!!
-NEMESIS-

What is everyones problem with emo? Emo to me has delivered some of the most talented and dedicated bands around. Ie : brandnew, Thursday, Funeral for a friend, bright eyes.

Emo has been dragged down by all the 15 yr olds who conform to big fringes, star tats and all the other labels that are associated with them. Even though i wouldn't call them emo, and more so scene fashionistas, spurred on by myspace and other such vanity websites.

there are people like me who don't dress like that but still enjoy a good emo gig, but it seems you cant win either way with this one

My problem with emo is that stereotypical emo's tend to be annoying, look like plebs, dress like plebs, act like plebs, most of them are depressed, which they put on for attention. I dont like emo music, cause people scream in it too much, and the songs arent exactly upbeat.

And if you think funeral for a friend are dedicated you can thing again, absoloute twats when I bumped into them, fames gone right to their heads.

So so true
I just wish other people would realise this instead of grouping emo music with this and then maybe they'd stop being so judgemental and give things a listen.

Like it's already been said Bright eyes and the promise ring are too really great bands and people are missing out on what I think is great music. Also I have never listen to a song by an 'emo' band and wanted to slit my wrists...

In my experience the stereotype emos dont actually want to slit their wrists, they want to talk about slitting their wrists - a lot.

In no particular order...

Far
Braid
Texas Is The Reason
Sunny Day Real Estate
Jimmy Eat World (First 2 albums)
Get Up Kids
Chamberlain
Onelinedrawing
The Lemur Appreciation Society
Last Days of April

frosty x

Are Jimmy Eat World classified as Emo? I think that might upset a fair few people.

1. Leonard Cohen
2. Nick Cave
3. Swans
4. My Bloody Valentine
5. The Smiths
6. The Cure
7. Arcade Fire
8. BrightEyes
9. The Fall
10. Jesus and Marychain

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1)From first to last
2)silverstein
3)hawthorne heights
4)the used
5)senses fail
6)underoath
7)from autumn to ashes
8)funeral for a friend
9)aiden
10)Finch


=amazing

thats crap. emo evolved from punk you dick head, wtf. your a small minded penis,

sadly am going to have to be not very nice n ask how these bands are emo, earlier posts such as Texas is the reason braid etc a class as pure emo along with Ian Mackays Embrace etc clearly Aiden are not emo they to be very genreist are pop goth punk a supose dont get me wrong ave got nothing against the above bands as a have seen them all apart from finch who alas a never will underoath were a massive let down though a still like them aiden surprised me really didnt like them before a seen them still not my cup of tea but a will give them cridit for playing what the feel right and they do have the ability to get the crowd excited. a am surprised that no-one so far has mentioned at the drive in purely amazing music.

emo kids these day do irritate me quite a bit as it is basically a fashion statement a miss the days of back in the day when a would go to a gig and people there would actually care about the music/bands they were hearing/seeing rather than adding the fact they were there to their scene points list, even if they do enjoy a wide taste of music they claim to hate it a have been guilty of the last point but now realising my mistake of old a have made good of my errors and have opened my ears to a lot of new music even stuff in the charts

probably going to sound like some bitter emo elliest but hey ad prefer it if people werent so lazy and labled bands incorectly or simply class it all as rock

uhmm... here's my list:

1. secondhand serenade
2. dashboard confessional
3. senses fail
4. saosin
5. anatomy of a ghost
6. amber pacific
7. circa survive
8. the get up kids
9. static lullaby
10. typecast

... the coolest bands EVER!!!

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all american rejects,secondhand serenade,my chemical romance,fall out boy,fm static,alesana,dashboard confessionals,30 seconds to mars,letter kills,jimmy eat world...

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1. Aiden
2. Silverstein
3. 30 Seconds To Mars
4. Brand New
5. Billy Talent
6. Bless The Fall
7. Hawthorne Heights
8. The Used
9. Secondhand Serenade
10. You Me At Six

1.taking back sunday
2.thrice
3.saves the day
4.my chemical romance
5.ffaf
6.paramore
7.thursday
8.madina lake
9.emery
10.panic

It's amazing/crazy how many bands are considered to be emo nowadays.
The term is subject to so much confusion.
At the end of the day though it's pretty much the same for most music genres.