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so this is the new year...
Mar. 9th, 2004 02:43 amin late 2001, tiny band buttons were a very pseudo-hipstery thing to have attached to your jacket or satchel. i found one on a trip to newbury comics that simply said "fucker" in white lettering on a black background. this button inevitably caught people's attention, and they would inquire as to where i'd gotten it. so, after a number of these inquiries, i cooked up a standard response. i would describe the foam pillars at record stores with buttons on them, and how they made me feel so out of touch because i didn't know any of these hardcore and "emo" bands. "i mean, who the hell," i would ask rhetorically, "are death cab for cutie?" nowadays, those foam pillars are covered with buttons for AFI and good charlotte, so i'm rather distainful and don't feel uncool for passing them over with little regard. back them, however, emo was a very new concept to me, one that i didn't understand simply because i was oblivious to the history of the punk scene in washington d.c. in the late '80s and early '90s. i had heard of fugazi, but didn't know what they sounded like.
i associated most punk, other than the original generation of the '70s, with bill ewing, who decreed as the big man on campus in '95 that if i didn't listen to bad religion, minor threat, or the descendents, then i was a hopeless plebe to be patronized incessantly. i hated bill ewing, ergo, i hated punk.
for what i knew of emo, it didn't even sound like punk at all, so i was confused. and i put death cab for cutie away in my head along with such other preposterously named bands as sunny day real estate and further seems forever.
this is all leadup to saying that yesterday, i downloaded death cab for cutie's transatlanticism album off gnutella. and i really like it. it's pretty orchestral, and not nearly as whiny as a lot of the newer emo that i strongly dislike. (god, will that guy from a simple plan just ask someone for a hug already?) so now, i still wouldn't wear a death cab for cutie button. but i apologize for dismissing them out of hand for being part of a movement that i just didn't get, and in which bands had really silly names.
so, to segue to a similar topic, what the hell is the difference between "emo" and "screamo"? is screamo just emo but harder? or is it really really screamy? like, would thursday be considered screamo? because they sound kinda emo to me, but louder. all i know is there's an entirely different way of classifying bands today among these young whippersnappers than there was when i was in high school and even college, so i periodically need updates.
i associated most punk, other than the original generation of the '70s, with bill ewing, who decreed as the big man on campus in '95 that if i didn't listen to bad religion, minor threat, or the descendents, then i was a hopeless plebe to be patronized incessantly. i hated bill ewing, ergo, i hated punk.
for what i knew of emo, it didn't even sound like punk at all, so i was confused. and i put death cab for cutie away in my head along with such other preposterously named bands as sunny day real estate and further seems forever.
this is all leadup to saying that yesterday, i downloaded death cab for cutie's transatlanticism album off gnutella. and i really like it. it's pretty orchestral, and not nearly as whiny as a lot of the newer emo that i strongly dislike. (god, will that guy from a simple plan just ask someone for a hug already?) so now, i still wouldn't wear a death cab for cutie button. but i apologize for dismissing them out of hand for being part of a movement that i just didn't get, and in which bands had really silly names.
so, to segue to a similar topic, what the hell is the difference between "emo" and "screamo"? is screamo just emo but harder? or is it really really screamy? like, would thursday be considered screamo? because they sound kinda emo to me, but louder. all i know is there's an entirely different way of classifying bands today among these young whippersnappers than there was when i was in high school and even college, so i periodically need updates.
