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A History Of Emo Music

From Rites of Spring to Paramore, let Gigwise guide you through the years...

  • Thursday, July 17, 2008
  • filed in: Punk
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Originally coined in the mid-eighties to describe a flurry of hardcore bands such as Rites of Spring who put concerted emotion into their art, emo music has come a long way since then. In the nineties, indie-rock outfits who expressed emotion in their songs were haphazardly given the label, while in the 2000's it has truly hit the mainstream via a fashion explosion and the likes of Paramore, Jimmy Eat World and Fall Out Boy cracking the charts. Here Gigwise presents a run down of the history of the term emo, the bands who are labelled it (whether they like it or not), the fashion it has inspired and the backlash it's now receiving...
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  • mcr is not emo!!

    ~ by wendy 7/20/2008

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  • always the same shit -.- mcr is NOT emo.

    ~ by mcrdw 7/21/2008

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  • if people are going to call my chemical romance emo then i suppose abba was "emo" as well. just because music might sound and look one way, it does not mean thats what it is on the inside. if the person who wrote this knew the boys from MCR then they would see that they are not emo at all.

    ~ by Miranda! 7/22/2008

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  • my chemcial romance isn\'t emo, and they hate being called emo espeshally Gerard Way

    ~ by xx<3 me black parade xx<3 7/28/2008

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  • emo is not like music of mcr there songs and lyrics like"black parade",,,its such a devil.....

    ~ by jade 10/4/2008

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  • MCR have some emo influences but of course they are not emo

    ~ by Chrysa 10/21/2008

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  • mcr is not emo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ~ by miranda!!!!! 10/24/2008

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  • Gerard Way might despise it, but in a way MCR has inspired some Emo bands.

    ~ by Oath 12/15/2008

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  • MCR are NOT emo & yes i am an emo-ISH person but this doesn't go to say that they're emo & i dislike the way you described them, you have probably never even listened to there music & obviously have something against them. + i agree with what Miranda pointed out. So go take your emo shit elsewhere 'cos no one is interested in what you have to say.

    ~ by Mrs Gerard Way <33 2/15/2009

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  • It's what they stood for and the raw sound in I Brought You My Bullets,You Brought Me Your Love.

    ~ by JC 2/22/2009

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  • I would appreciate it if you didnt fuckin say MCR are emo thank you

    ~ by Megzii 5/29/2009

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  • my chem are NOT FUCKING EMO GET THAT IN UR THICK HEADS AND DELETE THE ARTICLE FROM UR WEBSITE

    ~ by BEN RIST 6/11/2009

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  • man it's too bad that the author didn't preface the article with "bands who are labelled it (Like it or not)". I don't think the author gives a shit whether they call themselves emo or not he's just saying that it's and I quote "an immensely difficult tag for them to shake off"

    ~ by RJ 7/13/2009

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