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Phoenix, Regina Spektor, and Black Heart Procession bc I am emo

charlie wrote:Revisiting the Heartless Bastards...........

I mean for real. I can't believe I didn't obsess about this band when I first heard their stuff.....

"It’s not just that they rock, it’s that you believe what you hear, that they love the sound they make, that Wennerstrom lays her soul bare in her lyrics without sounding like Sarah McLachlan, that the women of rock who labored to make it OK for a girl to dream of playing guitar deserve far better than Avril Lavigne or Kelly Osbourne as their descendants."

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/t ... vators.htm

dmw wrote:Phoenix, Regina Spektor, and Black Heart Procession bc I am emo

wow, dmw, you brought me back to when we listened ot the first emo band, sunny day real estate.

I had no idea folks were still trying to bring emo mainstream.

you are so old Kipp, hehe. Just kidding. I listened to them too.

Sunny Day Real Estate the first emo band?!?

Have you heard of the Cure? They fucking invented emo. They ARE emo. Without the Cure there is no emo.



Oddly enough I'm listening to REM "Radio Free Europe" at the moment.

Back in my record store days there was this couple of kids that came into the tape department every evening at the same time and sat in front of the Cure section. They were both kind of doughy and white, both wore black make-up and too much of it, and they would sit and touch the different tapes, stroking them and talking about how great this song or that was and the lyrics, oh my gawd. More emo than emo, those two. This was the early 90's. Back when Dan Quayle was our Vice President...

sorry alan.....the Cure didn't fit my personal definition of emo...isn't that the beauty of the style?

heh heh, where's that vomit emoticon when you need it most?

Alan Evil wrote:heh heh, where's that vomit emoticon when you need it most?

I think you need this one instead....

that is a really sad kitten!