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What was your first emo artist or song?
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Reply by Next Year’s Looming Overlord Byron
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Good Charlotte! I guess you could say they were emo? The whole late 90s-mid-2000's "alternative" scene was just this one big mishmashed conglomeration. But from a certain point of view you could say plenty of other bands had the "emo" leanings if it wasn't outright. Emo was shorthand for "emotional" and there's plenty of emotion present in groups you wouldn't otherwsie lump in with the genre, you know?
Reply by Jack Raven
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Yes. Very good point. The song in particular was “hold on” but i guess it didnt show up x_x but yeah, “emo” to me is music that more or less coincides with mental illness. Like songs that are sad / depressing but make me feel better through relatability. For example, i know breaking benjamin is more “hard rock” but “drar agony” is an emo song for me. Thats just my own personal opinion of course.
Reply by My Discovery Playlist
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There’s so many. I’ll go with Ohio Is For Lovers - Hawthorne Heights for song.
Reply by Jack Raven
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Hecll yeah!
Reply by Draxdoll
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Reply by Jack Raven
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Aye! :D
Reply by xXLil4cLuXx
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Sleeping with sirens! I fell in love with the sound as soon as I heard it, Kick Me was the song. I was just browsing through Youtube, found a video on the emo subculture and looked up the music, I decided right in that moment that I wanted to be part of it
Reply by Jack Raven
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Hell yeah \m/
Reply by It's-a me, MARTY-o!
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Pretty much a whole bunch of bands on Drive-Thru Records. Haha. I was really into Pop Punk at first like New Found Glory, Fenix TX, Blink-182, The Ataris, Yellowcard, Sum 41, etc.
Reply by Jack Raven
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Wow! Right on, my dude! All great bands and songs. Ive found that pop pubk and emo are like siblings. Not quite the same, but deffs related lol
Reply by Shadow Bliss
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For Goth friends I have, there's actually overlap for this song in Emo and Goth but "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence (ft Paul McCoy) - it was my first real exposure into music I liked that wasn't shown to me by my parents so despite being a meme now, it holds a place in my heart.
Reply by Jack Raven
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Oh, that song deffs works as a goth song as well. Great intro to a new world of music. I used to be obsessed with “my immortal” by them.
Reply by xXJavaVampXx
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Girls Not Grey - AFI, loved that whole album <3 also was mini obsessed with Davey Havok teehee xD
Reply by Jack Raven
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Omg yessss! Lol
Reply by Jack Raven
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Right on \m/
Reply by j0nd4mus1c14n
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I quite fondly remember that day lmao. I was playing GTA Chinatown Wars back when I have an iPod touch. Technically it isn't 100% mine since both me and my brother tend to share it quite a lot back in the day lol. It was also around 2012 so I was still in elementary school. Out of curiousity I checked what's on the "iPod" (which later became Apple Music) and found a demo by Falling In Reverse titled "The Departure" and "Listen Up" alongside Eyes Set To Kill's "Darling." And the rest was history pretty much, although you rarely hear these kinds of music in the mainstream nowadays.
Reply by Jack Raven
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Right on! \m/
Reply by Emo_Screamo
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Reply by Emo_Screamo
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Reply by XxXEmo_BxddieXxX
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Reply by G0RIX0L0GY
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The Man That Can't Be Moved by Paramore, Invisible and Words by Skylar Grey, Perspective by Kutless, The End by Silverstein, In the End and Ritual by BVB, Dear Agony and Diary of Jane by Breaking Benjamin, My Last Breath by Evanescene, Its Been a While by Staind, Mother Murderer by Hollywood Undead
Reply by Xxpur3.madn3zzX
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i think it was Jesus of suburbian by green day or institutionalized by Taking back sunday i cant remember, probaly both LOL
Reply by Jack Raven
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Reply by Xx_Your Favourite Scemo Kid!_xX
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Hello!!! These are the first Emo (or Emo-ish, Goth-ish, and even Gothic Rock-ish) Songs and (or &) Artists that I first heard in my life:
- Bring Me To Life by Evanescence
- Helena by My Chemical Romance (or MCR)
- My Immortal by Evanescence
- & One (or 1) more Song (that I don't remember. :/ )
Reply by kyle :3
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Reply by EVAN EXORCISM
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I was introduced to emo music by my older sister. She used to play music when we cleaned together. But anyway, one day, she played My Chemical Romance and Paramore; which was different from the usual stuff she played. But to my 8-year-old self, I loved it. So later that day, I went on a massive MCR YouTube search and fell in love with them! So yeah, thanks to my older sister I'm emo now.