Ty Burna
Getting Noticed By Management
Ah yes, this was long overdue I believe. I don't feel right taking the first post in this thread, but because I did share a love of the genres listed, I figured it was time we combined it all into one epic thread, similar to the All Hip Hop Thread. So just like that, come on in, take a seat, or if you prefer the mosh pit, by all means jump on in, and let's get down to some serious discussion relating to the awesomeness that are punk subgenres.
Now, onto the first discussion, real screamo vs. the mainstream screamo. Nothing pissed me off more than all these little high school teeny boppers claiming they know what real screamo is when they cite bands such as Fall Out Boy. It truly is a shame that they have no idea where it actually started, and what screamo really means to the artists involved in the screamo scene. How you could say Fall Out Boy and similar bands could even hold a candle to bands such as Circle Takes The Square, pg. 99, The Locust, Orchid, and one of my all time favorite screamo bands, Saetia. These are bands that have never made it big, but have a very strong following with all those that enjoy true screamo.
I do make some exceptions, Thursday was a decent band for a little while, but they got annoying after about the second album they released. Many other artists take cues from the old screamo bands, but they usually resemble more post hardcore then emo, the original post hardcore, and punk rock origins. Which of course begs the question, what is screamo exactly? You can look at it in different ways I guess. Originally I thought of it as a more aggressive Emo, but I quickly changed my mind on that and have thought of it as a more melodic punk with screaming involved. It's difficult to really categorize what screamo is because of so many subgenres of punk being created and listed nowadays.
So with that being said, I have had the utmost pleasure to see many screamo bands live. Pg. 99 and Circle Takes the Square are the two bands that really stand out in my mind, and they actually played at a local pizza parlor in a town called Lincoln in North Dakota. This is just a few miles outside of the capitol city of Bismarck here, so for them to play at our usual venue was an extremely awesome treat. But I digress, I want to go further into my scene that I was in on a separate post instead of throwing it on this one.
Screamo, the new version or the old school version? Which do you prefer and what bands would you recommend within the genre?
Now, onto the first discussion, real screamo vs. the mainstream screamo. Nothing pissed me off more than all these little high school teeny boppers claiming they know what real screamo is when they cite bands such as Fall Out Boy. It truly is a shame that they have no idea where it actually started, and what screamo really means to the artists involved in the screamo scene. How you could say Fall Out Boy and similar bands could even hold a candle to bands such as Circle Takes The Square, pg. 99, The Locust, Orchid, and one of my all time favorite screamo bands, Saetia. These are bands that have never made it big, but have a very strong following with all those that enjoy true screamo.
I do make some exceptions, Thursday was a decent band for a little while, but they got annoying after about the second album they released. Many other artists take cues from the old screamo bands, but they usually resemble more post hardcore then emo, the original post hardcore, and punk rock origins. Which of course begs the question, what is screamo exactly? You can look at it in different ways I guess. Originally I thought of it as a more aggressive Emo, but I quickly changed my mind on that and have thought of it as a more melodic punk with screaming involved. It's difficult to really categorize what screamo is because of so many subgenres of punk being created and listed nowadays.
So with that being said, I have had the utmost pleasure to see many screamo bands live. Pg. 99 and Circle Takes the Square are the two bands that really stand out in my mind, and they actually played at a local pizza parlor in a town called Lincoln in North Dakota. This is just a few miles outside of the capitol city of Bismarck here, so for them to play at our usual venue was an extremely awesome treat. But I digress, I want to go further into my scene that I was in on a separate post instead of throwing it on this one.
Screamo, the new version or the old school version? Which do you prefer and what bands would you recommend within the genre?
were more melodic, and had way more singing involved. Honestly I thought Hopesfall had found the perfect balance on their last two CD's, A Types especially. As fars as Walls of Jericho goes, well they rocked fucking hard, and my friend Tyler got me into listening to them. We used to just blast them through his stereo at his place while we drank a shit ton of vodka and smoked a shit ton of weed. Good times, good times.
