Question for Musicians?

[MrBoombastic]

its the only song on the album i can tolerate. even that one drags though.

if i'm going to listen to slow emo, it'd be Cursive. The old stuff lost favor with me, but everything after The Ugly Organ has been pretty fucking good IMO.

Ugly Organ is siiiick. Great great album. The Get Up Kids will always be my favorite emo band heh. Something To Write Home About is the GOAT of the genre imo. Ten Minutes the GOAT song.

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

The Get Up Kids will always be my favorite emo band heh. Something To Write Home About is the GOAT of the genre imo. Ten Minutes the GOAT song.

i have a soft spot for that album. i always liked how Ten Minutes came right after Out of Reach...like "alright, now that the weepy song is out of the way..." Holiday is probably my favorite song on that album. they're much more lively than what you think of when you hear "emo".

i can still dig on some Hot Rod Circuit too. i think the album i have is If I Knew Now What I Knew Then...the one with Irish Car Bomb.

 

[MrBoombastic]

i have a soft spot for that album. i always liked how Ten Minutes came right after Out of Reach...like "alright, now that the weepy song is out of the way..." Holiday is probably my favorite song on that album. they're much more lively than what you think of when you hear "emo".

i can still dig on some Hot Rod Circuit too. i think the album i have is If I Knew Now What I Knew Then...the one with Irish Car Bomb.

Fuck yeah Hot Rod Circuit!! I fuckin loved that band. Irish Car Bomb rocks, that album was sick. As was If It's Cool.With You It's Cool With Me. Heh first time I made out with a chick was to the song Flight 89. So much history with all these bands - it's what I grew up to. I remember when Thursday's Full Collapse came out, and the absolutely massive influence it had. We used to say "Thursday cured cancer with that album". Man all these memories rushing back, listening to Strung Out when high school got me down.

I gotta stop or I'll never stop reminiscing haha

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

Did you guys do that thing where it would be an awesome jam for like 90 seconds, then mediocre, overwrought lyrics would just kill the vibe

or did you mean live?

half the time the PA system in the rehearsal studios sucked so bad we'd fuck up just trying to hear the guys.

the very first kid sounded like fred durst, and the second we heard him it was like "oh fuck..." nice dude, but we had to spend the next hour and 59 minutes pretending everyone wasn't wasting their time.

it became common enough that we learned to not let it ruin our night. so if they sucked (and they all sucked) we just started goofing off. break into nonsensical solos mid-song, fuck with each others tuning pegs mid-song, etc. whatever we could do to not be miserable playing with these clowns.

the funniest guy was this meathead that was like 10 years older than us. he was previously the coast guard or something, working on becoming a cop. all his lyrics were about supporting the troops.

eventually we just started making them record over our mp3s to save us the trouble.

 

[Car]

lol "indie rock"

 

[MrBoombastic]

Lol Flem, that part about the meathead and his lyrics was great. By the way, you a Kid Dynamite fan at all? There's a video of their (at the time) laat show, at CBGB's. Fuckin epic show, I made it - took the train from MA to NY haha. Great quality vid too

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

Fuck yeah Hot Rod Circuit!! I fuckin loved that band. Irish Car Bomb rocks, that album was sick. As was If It's Cool.With You It's Cool With Me. Heh first time I made out with a chick was to the song Flight 89. So much history with all these bands - it's what I grew up to. I remember when Thursday's Full Collapse came out, and the absolutely massive influence it had. We used to say "Thursday cured cancer with that album". Man all these memories rushing back, listening to Strung Out when high school got me down.

I gotta stop or I'll never stop reminiscing haha

yeah, Full Collapse was a big deal, especially here in Jersey. Wrong kind of influence though. So many shit bands came from that album. Kind of ended the Get Up Kids type emo that was around. I saw them open for like Boysetsfire and kids were hugging the singer mid-song and they were really purging their shit. I had never seen that before. It was weird...but man it took off.

Tell All Your Friends was another album the kids just gobbled up. I can't listen to a single song on either anymore though. I'm quite embarrassed that i used to like some of those bands, actually.

Coheed and Cambria is the one band attached to that emo/eomcore craze that were actually great, although they seemed to stand apart from the scene's conventions. Something really theatric about their songs. No heartbreak bullcrap. Very tight live too.

 

[herbertderbert]

You need to learn music theory first, unless you are some sort of musical god. Even a little bit of theory helps tremendously. I myself am a bass player, and when I first started playing, just the theory of root to octave and the major scale helped my understanding tons.

 

[MrBoombastic]

yeah, Full Collapse was a big deal, especially here in Jersey. Wrong kind of influence though. So many shit bands came from that album. Kind of ended the Get Up Kids type emo that was around. I saw them open for like Boysetsfire and kids were hugging the singer mid-song and they were really purging their shit. I had never seen that before. It was weird...but man it took off.

Tell All Your Friends was another album the kids just gobbled up. I can't listen to a single song on either anymore though. I'm quite embarrassed that i used to like some of those bands, actually.

Coheed and Cambria is the one band attached to that emo/eomcore craze that were actually great, although they seemed to stand apart from the scene's conventions. Something really theatric about their songs. No heartbreak bullcrap. Very tight live too.

Yep I know what you mean, ushered in a terrible new wave of music. Still though, will always love the band

Hahaha."so sick so sick of being tired, and ohh so tired of being sick" - I saw them open up for Catch 22 yeeeears ago (yes, opening band status haha) and I was the only one there that knew them. I knew they were going to be HUGE though, no question.

And fuckin CoCa. Everything about that fuckin band is incredible except the goddamn guys voice. Nails on a chalkboard. Some incredible guitar work, but it kills me to listen to that fuckin guy. I wanna punch him so so badly. So, so badly

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

Lol Flem, that part about the meathead and his lyrics was great. By the way, you a Kid Dynamite fan at all? There's a video of their (at the time) laat show, at CBGB's. Fuckin epic show, I made it - took the train from MA to NY haha. Great quality vid too

nah, never gave them a chance. the bassist in my band used to like them a lot back in high school, but it never took with me. i liked None More Black a lot a few years ago, but never listened to Lifetime or Kid Dynamite really.

i mostly listened to skate punk until my friend turned me onto HWM in 00/01. They got me to start listening to post-hardcore and such for a while.

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

Yep I know what you mean, ushered in a terrible new wave of music. Still though, will always love the band

Hahaha."so sick so sick of being tired, and ohh so tired of being sick" - I saw them open up for Catch 22 yeeeears ago (yes, opening band status haha) and I was the only one there that knew them. I knew they were going to be HUGE though, no question.

And fuckin CoCa. Everything about that fuckin band is incredible except the goddamn guys voice. Nails on a chalkboard. Some incredible guitar work, but it kills me to listen to that fuckin guy. I wanna punch him so so badly. So, so badly

ha i think the singer for catch 22 stole my brother's girlfriend at the time. not the original guy, but whoever replaced him. there were a ton of dorky, local pop punk and ska bands (Catch 22 was one) that i liked from when i first started going to shows. Ever hear of Humble Beginnings? First show i ever went to was them opening for The Ataris. Oddly, the next show I went to was also The Ataris, but i went to see Catch 22 and Bigwig.

similar to your story, i saw my chemical romance open for Bigwig (my ex-favorite band. jesus christ, how lame they are) in some elk's lodge. i remember hearing MCR's 2nd album and being like "god, this is gonna blow up". They were TERRIBLE live.