A History Of Emo Music

From Rites of Spring to Paramore, let Gigwise guide you through the years...

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Watch My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade

Originally coined in the mid-eighties to describe a flurry of hardcore bands such as Rites of Spring who put concerted emotion into their art, emo music has come a long way since then. In the nineties, indie-rock outfits who expressed emotion in their songs were haphazardly given the label, while in the 2000's it has truly hit the mainstream via a fashion explosion and the likes of Paramore, Jimmy Eat World and Fall Out Boy cracking the charts. Here Gigwise presents a run down of the history of the term emo, the bands who are labelled it (whether they like it or not), the fashion it has inspired and the backlash it's now receiving...

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Washington DC – The capital of the United States is the birthplace of emotional hardcore. A string of highly influential hardcore bands, all of whom were closely related to each other, hailed from DC including Rites of Spring, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Embrace and One Last Wish. It was home to the so-called 'Revolution Summer' of 1985 when Rites of Spring and Embrace in particular broke to the fore with their highly innovative and influential music.

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mcr is not emo!!
~ by wendy 7/21/2008
always the same shit -.- mcr is NOT emo.
~ by mcrdw 7/21/2008
if people are going to call my chemical romance emo then i suppose abba was "emo" as well. just because music might sound and look one way, it does not mean thats what it is on the inside. if the person who wrote this knew the boys from MCR then they would see that they are not emo at all.
~ by Miranda! 7/22/2008
my chemcial romance isn\'t emo, and they hate being called emo espeshally Gerard Way
~ by xx<3 me black parade xx<3 7/28/2008
emo is not like music of mcr there songs and lyrics like"black parade",,,its such a devil.....
~ by jade 10/4/2008