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"Versus? Yeah, son, I used to play them on my college radio show, saw them a few times back at Lounge Ax."

― nabisco, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

anthony you are really floundering on this one

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

jess, you should write an emo version of that Marc Spitz novel about the Smiths and getting laid

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

modern equivalent of romeo and juliet soundtrack is probably a specialty itunes playlist

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

A Jewish boy from Long Island parlays his New Wave rock music fandom into a quest for love in Spitz's sweet, winning debut, a coming-of-age novel-cum-quirky romantic comedy. Joe Green, Spin writer Spitz's alter ego, is a jaded, jittery and perpetually hungover music critic for Headphones magazine. He's "rocking out and getting high and living irresponsibly" in New York City-all part of the job description of working for a major rock and roll magazine-but he's beginning to worry he looks 40 in daylight, though he's only 30. The well-crafted first half of the novel flashes back to Green's experiences growing up as an alienated, latch-key kid on Long Island in the '70s and '80s who finds redemption in bands like the Clash, Depeche Mode, Devo and the Smiths. Spitz shifts gears when Green meets Miki, a comely co-worker who's equally frustrated with her empty, fast-lane rock and roll life. Matters improve when a new editor gives them the go-ahead for a landmark story: the two team up to try to reunite their beloved band, the Smiths. The scenes in which Miki and Green track down Morrissey and his mates work as the backdrop for the self-deprecating, would-be lovers' efforts to resist their attraction to each other. An engagingly acerbic style freshens the familiar material, and Spitz works hard not to run the Smiths conceit into the ground. The result is a first novel that skirts the usual cliches of rock tales and growing-up sagas.

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ WHITE BELTS AND ROMULAN HAIRCUTS

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

haha al knows what's up

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

sooo many xposts actually but I prefer the Vitamin C song actually and for some reason I watched the VH1 top 20 countdown religiously after school at the time so I feel like I have given a lot of consideration to both songs. In ninth grade I figured it was time to educate myself on the history of rock music and in that interest downloaded a bunch of songs by Vitamin C's alternative band Eve's Plum

― A B C, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

actually actually

― A B C, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

there was like a six month period there where people were actually yelling "romulan!!" at shows

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

i blame ian svenonious and justin pearson

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

there was like a six month period there where people were actually yelling "romulan!!" at shows

Wait are we talking about the M0untain G0ats now?

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

(crap i totally forgot NOU ---> refused, et al on my chart)

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

I WAS THERE when the phrase 'emotional hardcore' was first used in a Milwaukee alt-weekly article.

I WAS THERE when Conor Oberst recorded "Padraic My Prince." I said "don't do it that way, you're just going to break all your strings."

I WAS THERE in the marketing meeting when they added studded white belts to the Hot Topic inventory.

― nabisco, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

imagine how rich i could be if my label had lasted more than three releases

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

I WENT SHOPPING with Refused for shirts with epaulettes so they could become the International Noise Conspiracy and suck more

― nabisco, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

imagine how ~~rich~~much poorer i could be if my label had lasted more than three releases

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

both Refused and Rocket From The Crypt are on the Crank soundtrack.

― da croupier, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I WAS THE FIRST GUY playing Pulp songs for the Killers fans to dance to

I WAS THERE at the first We Are Scientists rehearsals, in Pomona, I got a ride over from Ukiah with AFI

― nabisco, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

SHAMEFUL EMO CONFESSIONS TIME: in high school for a few months I was the token non-emo drummer in an emo band (back when a screamy band with prog song structures and political lyrics could be considered "emo" at least). I just googled the band's name and it was listed in a MySpace profile as one of this guy's fave bands (how we would've heard us in Alabama I have no idea):

http://a289.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00077/88/23/77713288_l.jpg

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

wait wait wait...wasn't there some rhino comp of emo back around the turn of the millennium?? did i hallucinate this?

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

few drummers are ever in the genre their band is in

x-post http://www.compoundred.com/images/nowcore.jpg

― da croupier, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

haha ca. 2000 my roomate and I went from listening to "shape of punk to come" in amused to disgust, to listening to it all the fucking time

― gff, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

haha dig that promise ring-ian design

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

"amused to disgust"?? jesus i am the typo emo songtitle generator today

― gff, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

it was released by K-tel, pic hyperlinked from the Compound Red website

― da croupier, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

remember that "design" issue of punk planet? a hundred thousand people with a cracked copy of photoshop learn to left-align a sans-serif font.

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit a million xposts, but jon i think he screams to much for The Future of What to be emo

― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

haha I love that dude has a like 12 year old digital camera. It stores pics on FLOPPIES.

― nickalicious, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

ian sevonious's talk show is strange. the one w/bonnie prince billy was real uncomfortable/hilarious.

i listened to that refused cd awhile back, it doesn't seem as weird now, or as crazy after hearing stuff that came later like dillinger escape plan.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

and make up hasn't aged real well for me, but they really fucking killed live

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I could've swore that X-Files soundtrack had a Ween song, too.

― nickalicious, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

make up records have aged terribly but yeah they were good live

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

never getting to see NOU live goes on the regrets list

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I saw The Makeup about 2 years ago in the tiniest little place, like 40 capacity. It was the loudest show they ever had there.

― nickalicious, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

The Make-Up toured two years ago?!

― da croupier, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I looked up the video for "New Noise" on youtube a while back, and the comments were full of kids going "who are these fags and why are they totally ripping off [insert emo act from 2004]."

They were very adamant that Refused were homosexuals, and that that was why they wore sweaters.

― nabisco, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'd agree with that

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

i think i should go to a nu-emo show this weekend

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

the X-Files TV soundtrack didn't have a Ween song but the X-Files movie soundtrack did

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

strongo i wouldn't even know where to go for a nu-emo show round here, do you? does the sidebar book emo bands or would it be someone's living room out in the county?

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

fletchers?

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

listening to the myspace stream of the new Dinosaur Jr. album is pretty much the perfect soundtrack for this thread

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

i just kind of assume everything they book that's a band whose name i dont recognize is emo

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

haha wait did i miss the MCR show at merriweather??

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

OMG IT'S TONIGHT

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

yessssss take camera plz

― gff, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

there is sadly no way i can get to merriweather tonight

also, my sister is coming to visit and she would kill me if i took her to mcr show

― strongohulkington, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Okay that Makeup show might have been anywhere from 2-5 years ago, which was the span of time that venue was open. My memories of those years interestingly enough all sort of blend together.

― nickalicious, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

i've always wanted to post this, but didn't have a place...anyway these guys, Quietdrive, are from Mpls but have gotten kinda bit in nu-emo circles...they are signed to Sony now...

but yeah if you ever wanted to hear the inevitable emo cover of "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper, it's the first song on their myspace:

Quietdrive

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

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