What is "emo"?

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Originally Posted by Atlas

Why is it that Muse haven't released (as far as I have seen) Origin of Symmetry over in the US? I picked it up in the UK about 3 or 4 years ago... It is in my opinion, their best work.

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wtf? Thats insane.

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Originally Posted by Mman

Postal Service >>> Muse

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wrong.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Muse sounds like Radiohead if Radiohead was annoying, overbearing, and pretentious.

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Wrong. Their approaches to music are completely different. Radiohead are into "experimenting" (aka wanking) while Muse are all about traditional songwriting. Even old Radiohead is way different to Muse.

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Originally Posted by Mman

The rest of the album is entirely borring. And they really only sound like Radiohead because the singer trys to emulate him to the T.

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Thats bullshit. The actual color or timbre of their voices is similar, but they have completely different singing styles. Thom Yorke sounds like if Matt Bellamy was drunk and enjoyed acting retarded.

I like Muse, but if you've bought one single, you've bought them all.

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Originally Posted by arjue

Thom Yorke sounds like if Matt Bellamy was drunk and enjoyed acting retarded.

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This is emo. Emo is a style of music that is not around anymore. Its blended and evolved into scremo (ie. Thursday, Taking Back Sunday). Emo-Punk (Alkaline Trio, 88mph). Emo-Metal-Whateverthefuck (From Autumn To Ashes). Emo-Faggotry (Dashboard Confessional, Opaque) and a whoile bunch of other crap.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

I have The Postal Service quoted in my away message. What does that say about me?

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It says that you like at least one good band. The Postal Service is some brilliant stuff.

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Originally Posted by Gohron

Old school emo like Deftones

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What?

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Originally Posted by Gohron

New emo sucks.

Old school emo like Deftones is good, but otherwise it is a near useless form of music.

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... Deftones... emo?

If anything Deftones is hard fucking rock. I don't quite know where quite to classify it other than that.

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Originally Posted by Will

If anything Deftones is hard fucking rock. I don't quite know where quite to classify it other than that.

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Maybe just as hard rock?

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Maybe just as hard rock?

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One of my friends is pretty emo'd out, though he really and genuinely is a Metal fan (he's in an Emo band, but he knows more about Power Metal than most metal fans... including me which is scary). Now that his roomates are gone (one married, the other in the army) the whole place is pretty much emo. Usually, the style is trucker hats, various band shirts (an awesome one I saw yesterday was one for The Advantage, a Minibosses-esqe group), sweaters yanked from their grandfathers closet and jeans folded up outwardly at the bottom.

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Originally Posted by AstroBlue

I like Muse, but if you've bought one single, you've bought them all.

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I'd agree with this, the singles are pretty similar, but there are fantastic songs that are nothing like the singles, like "Ruled By Secrecy"

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

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I'd do a similar thing with a radioheadtrack, but I can't understand Yorke the majority of the time.


although I will say this, Muses lyrics are pretty awful.