Emo Kids Are Funny

Download: Darling Overboard - Overboard

Darling Overboard @ Purevolume @ myspace

The history of emo part 2: Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas is the Reason, Jimmy Eat World, Jade Tree Records and Saddle Creek. This is where it gets interesting! I’ve also got a host for my mp3s, so I’ll put up some more of those. These mp3’s are only previews, so if you like the music support the band and buy their stuff!

Download it: Lowercase - Pause, Repeat…Just Breathe

The first band I’m going to feature here is lowercase, from Saint Louis, Missouri. I found these guys on purevolume the other day. They’re currently on the scream it like you mean tour along with several other great bands. Check out it out on myspace. I love these guys catchy guitar riffs and lyrics. You can download the song Pause, Repeat…Just Breathe on their purevolume page or if you don’t wanna download it, check the band out on myspace. Add these guys to your playlist now and then when they make it big you can say you knew them way back when.

"i’ve tied myself to tight this time to break bonds between biting lies and you sink your teeth deep in in the cross-fire when words spread like ashes to dust, i’m twisting and tweaking the threads to which link us once more to the fistfight to perfection scream it like you mean it sorry i missed the bloodbath precious you know i wanted it so bad hold your breathe light the fuse to penetrate far past past the point pulling peices joint by joint and you open up your jaw and gnaw again like-so, we rise for confrentation these chains will break before i do sorry. take your half and run"

Emo started in the mid-1980s (That makes me as old as emo! w00t) in Washington, DC with bands such as Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and Moss Icon. Occasionally members would become extremely emotional during their performences, hence the term emo. Wikipedia says Dischord Records was the original emo label.

Not many of these first wave emo bands are around anymore, but if you’re really interested try googling them and I’m sure you’ll find something.

First off, this is only my opinion. I am not teh emo master! I’m just a music lover that doesn’t quite understand this whole new scene. What’s with the crazy fashions and attitude? Wasn’t emo supposed to be about the music? Emo is a term that’s changed tremendously during the past few years. What did it originaly mean? What is it now? I’ll start my journey at the Emo Music entry at Wikipedia…