Rolling sad emo boys (and girls {but not Jessica Hopper}) thread 2007

Hey is Cobra Starship any good, I liked the Snakes on a Plane song and now I find out that they are more than just a one off collaboration of emo superstars??

My The Used review went up.

"Bert McCracken"? Seriously? That is either the best or worst name a rocker's ever had.

i am obsessing over brand new god & the devil right now and have been for about two weeks — really hope it lasts. i saw them a week ago and their audience was 100% frat-types, and i got extremely sad.

more pop than emo, but the record from paramore thats coming out on atlantic could be my record of the summer. nothing but sugar. which i mean as a deep compliment.

like about 1/2 of the used, maybe? i love that it is a fuck-you to gerard way, and that pop music can now apparently sustain an album-length fuck-you to gerard way. i love that such a thing has been entered into the pop canon. "liar liar" has bad lyrics, but is a great song.

Fall Out Boy is the ONLY full-length I've bought so far this year, and I've yet to tire of it. I even bought the Kanye remix of "This Ain't A Scene" (Kanye steals the show on that one).

I chickened out of going to see them because it would've meant:

a) sitting through Cobra Starship & Gym Class Heroes,

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b) quite possibly being the oldest person in the crowd, which would just bring back unpleasant memories of the Millencolin show I attended in '04.
(Awesome set, but JEEZ, I felt like a "hip" high school English teacher.)

aren't they pretty bad live anyway, i seem to recall the couple times i caught them on snl or letterman or whatever they were like exceptionally shitty. eternal respekt for the spinny guitar move though. i could see it being a fun atmosphere/hilarious people watching though (although maybe the novelty of a crowd of 15 year old emos going nuts would only be good in theory/wear off after two songs (plus chester molester factor yeah (but maybe if the tickets were free)))

also are there any my chemical romance bert mccracken dis tracks or is that beneath them? i'm glad to hear they had a falling out (haha any devolution of this post into that retardo gym class heroes song with all the emo namedrops is entirely unintentional) because 1) the used fucking sucks and 2) my god, lamer feud than scott storch/timbaland, a killers/bravery for a new day

a) From what I've seen of FOB on Youtube, they are WILDLY inconsistent live - Patrick Stump's voice can get really shakey (stagefright maybe?), and the guys insist on running around, jumping off the drum riser, etc, etc. Fun to watch, but of a bit of a dog's breakfast to listen to. When they stand relatively still and actually PLAY them damn songs, they're not half-bad.

b) I wasn't aware of any feud with the My Chems! (Also: I've really liked what I've heard of The Black Parade...)

them damn songs

THE damn songs, etc...

of the new fall of troy i am not so fond :(

"Clothes Off!" > "Breakfast in America" >>>>>>> "Cupid's Chokehold" >>>>>>> "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off", amirite?

You're missing one. "Friend Request" PWNs all of them.

I would assume that's Gym Class Heroes?

Mhmmm.

I need to go on an emo catchup binge. But I am listening to lots of awesome ironic rock-star rap right now, so emo will probably have to wait for the weekend.

when it came out (and to this day) im utterly in love with coheed & cambria's "the suffering" -- and have decided today is the day im ripping my brothers coheed collection and seeing how it all stands up. ill report back

it wasnt that great

Metacritic seems to like Say Anything. What should I seek?

I'm even more backwards than normal, so I have no idea what is going on.

I just finally heard the last Say Anything album, kinda avoided it until now. Better than I thought. A little ridiculous at times, but I didn't hate it. I'm going to try to listen to the new one soon, its been getting surprisingly good reviews.

I'd give the new Streetlight Manifesto a try. It comes out next week (I'm reviewing it). It's really Ska, but it's got a lot of emo sensibilities, a lot of lyrics that fit the genre conventions. And I get the feeling Tom (the singer) is much more connected to the emo scene than other ska bands. (Other Ska bands? Gasp. Yes, they exist.)

I discovered them on Gossip Girl this week, but So They Say aren't bad. Worth checking out (though they've got that cluttered myspace page indicative of an emo band).

Can't be worse than M.I.A.'s.

Rewatched Brand New's Sic Transit Gloria video tonight; had the odd experience of finding it more brilliant and more insipid than when I had first seen it. Also watched the Trick Turner video "Friends and Family" and thought about how great it was that emo has supplanted nu-metal as the genre of choice for angsty teenagers (and me).

Of note: Scanned a friend's teenager sister's iPod this weekend and found Les Miz + Rent next to MCR + Fallout Boy.

mordechai: re your final sentence: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~thepress/read.php?id=1188

somewhat crappily written, but just wanted to let you know someone else is having the same thought

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Is the Metro Station album any good? "Shake It" might be my favourite hit of the summer.

I'm actually not totally sure what makes it emo, except for the one guy's voice and their haircuts.

Don't feel like starting a 2009 thread for this. Anyway, Attack! Attack! are like a Fall Out Boy b-sides band. Thought you guys might be interested. Punknews.org is streaming three of their songs today.

http://www.punknews.org/bands/attackattack

Anyone heard the new Rise Against? I really like The Sufferer and the Witness.

i checked out the Two Tongues album that came out yesterday, and it's pretty good! considering that I love Say Anything and hate Saves The Day, I thought I'd be really hot and cold on this, but it all hangs together well even when the whiny STD (heh) guy is singing.

Yeah, there are some really enjoyable songs on the Two Tongues. I like Crawl. I think whenever Max is given the reigns, the stuff sounds great. The Saves the Day input is horrific, tho, imho.

Ha, guess it's less new than I thought it was. I suck.

It's pretty new AFAIK. I think it just came out last week?

I totally don't suck!

New Taking Back Sunday album coming out (at least acc. to AMP Magazine). It's called New Again. First single (I think), and they've got a new guitarist - Matthew Fazzi - and... it really doesn't sound anything like them :(

Blah. That'll teach me for posting a youtube link without confirming it's the right song first. It's here:

I'm excited for the new Taking Back Sunday, they always manage a couple of good songs per album. I'm listening to the Two Tongues again right now, growing on me with each listen. Bemis' contributions are certainly the better of the two, but I've always had a soft spot for Conley's whine - so this is a pretty good pairing to my ears.

New Say Anything coming out (that first single is awesome IMHO), new Brand New coming out AND new Thrice coming out. It's like 2003 all over again!

Love the new Motion City Soundtrack. I was never really into them before, but something good happened when they signed to a major label. Much hookier.

Btw, if no one noticed, I use this thread as a Rolling Emo Boys thread, not just for 2007.

Yes, the new Motion City Soundtrack is pretty damn good! Glad I gave it a chance. I never liked anything I've heard off the previous two albums, but I was a big fan of I Am the Movie. Still nothing as good as "The Future Freaks Me Out", but "Her Words Destroyed My Planet" does a good job trying. Not a big fan of "History Lesson" though, the Flogging Molly touch just does not work.

Just dug out Through Being Cool and Stay What You Are this week for the first time in several years. They were favorites of mine when I was getting over a breakup in 2002, and I'm really surprised at how well they've held up. Before I knew the word "emo", I just called them "whineyboy". I never really got into emo though, other than Thrice/Thursday-ish screamo stuff, which is in a different league altogether, perhaps. I might try to investigate stuff like Say Anything and Motion City Soundtrack this week, just for kicks.

Also check out the new Gaslight Anthem + Against Me!. Good year for Warped Tour'ish bands.

the soundguy at a recent show i went to was playing through being cool in between bands. i'm sure it was the delicate balance of nostalgia, booze, and weed, but "you vandal" was about the most perfect thing to my ears at that moment