Grestest Scene Songs???

[cshadows2887]

Never posted one of these before but I have a question for everyone. I've been trying to give my sister a crash course in "scene" music (I hate the term emo and pop-punk isn't broad enough, so I don't know what else to call it) and I'm curious what you think are the essential, must-know songs of the genre. Not necessarily the ones that are your favorites, but the ones that anyone who listens to this style of music will recognize immediately. So while "The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes," "My Favorite Accident" or "Paperthin Hymn" are favorites of mine, I wouldn't put them on the list. My partial list so far:

Something Corportate - Konstantine
Taking Back Sunday - Cute without the E (Cut from the Team)
Brand New - Seventy Times Seven
Brand New - The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
Saves the Day - At Your Funeral
Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness
Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down
Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated
The Starting Line - Best of Me
Thursday - Understanding in a Car Crash
New Found Glory - Hit or Miss
Say Anything - Alive with the Glory of Love
Fall Out Boy - Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy
Fall Out Boy - Dead on Arrival

What else can you guys think of? Any you think I'm nuts for putting there?

[hailthewarrior]

New Found Glory - My Friends Over You (moreso than Hit or Miss)
Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is For Lovers
Story of the Year - Until The Day I Die
Thrice - Deadbolt
The Starting Line - Up & Go
Panic! At The Disco - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is the Press Coverage
AFI - Girl's Not Grey or Silver & Cold (maybe?)

If you go a little bit heavier these might be options:

Underoath - Reinventing Your Exit or It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door or Writing On The Walls or In Regards To Myself
Emery - Walls
Norma Jean - Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste

I also wouldn't be surprised if more people know "Paperthin Hymn" than you think. Anberlin are pretty massive, even more so now.

[wewascontenders]

hmm pop-punk is too broad but scene isn't, interesting.

[hailthewarrior]

hmm pop-punk is too broad but scene isn't, interesting.

thursday and fall out boy are both "Scene" bands, but you can't call thursday pop-punk by any stretch of the imagination, i believe is the point he worded incredibly odd.

[cshadows2887]

hailthewarrior hit it. There's no good term yet for this genre of music (not that I've heard at least) is my point. Semantics was less the point of this than the songs were, but some people need to nitpick.

[hailthewarrior]

Coheed & Cambria - A Favor House Atlanta or Welcome Home

[wewascontenders]

hailthewarrior hit it. There's no good term yet for this genre of music (not that I've heard at least) is my point. Semantics was less the point of this than the songs were, but some people need to nitpick.

that's because it's not a genre of music, it's a group of bands, all fall under a different genre. but hey who's nitpicking.

[cshadows2887]

that's because it's not a genre of music, it's a group of bands, all fall under a different genre. but hey who's nitpicking.

By all means, tear apart my post. That's half the fun. Just suggest some songs too. You haven't mentioned one yet.

[murrich]

Tom Waits - Singapore
The Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter
Neil Young - Southern Man
Woodie Guthrie - Dust Can't Kill Me
The Stooges - Search and Destroy
The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers - You Broke Your Promise
Husker Du - Something I Learned Today

[wewascontenders]

i'm still confused as to what type of songs i'm suppose to suggest. songs that get mtv hyped? ones that millions and millions of people already heard of? songs that really shouldn't even be listened to in the first place? and on top of that what kind of bands are we talking?

[cshadows2887]

Haha now I'm just curious which songs that have been mentioned fall into which of your categories. Especially the "should never be listened to" category. Out of curiosity, care to elaborate?

[FullCollaspe]

If you're going farther back, these songs fit that bill

At The Drive- In- One Armed Scissor
Refused- New Noise

[wewascontenders]

not really, i'd rather you tell me what i'm suppose to be suggesting first.

[cshadows2887]

Since I have a borderline compulsion to explain myself:

Bands like Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, FOB, Thrice, SoCo etc. are bands with enormous followings. A song like Cute without the E or Konstantine is pretty much known by anyone who listens to this style of music. But since they don't (or didn't use to) get any radio play, there isn't any kind of "canon" for this style of music. You'd never be able to point someone new to it toward "greatest" list as a good place to start exploring. So I'm curious what you think would be on that kind of list if you were to ever see one. The songs that would make up the canon for this very broad movement.

That help to clarify for those confused?

There have been some awesome suggestions so far, btw. A few I can't believe I didn't mention.

[dancelukedance]

Underoath - Revinventing your exit
Atreyu - Right side of the bed
Story of the year - And the hero will drown
Funeral for a friend - Escape artists never die
Bullet For My Valentine - 4 Words (to choke upon)
Escape the fate - Not good enough for truth in cliche

[wewascontenders]

Since I have a borderline compulsion to explain myself:

Bands like Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, FOB, Thrice, SoCo etc. are bands with enormous followings. A song like Cute without the E or Konstantine is pretty much known by anyone who listens to this style of music. But since they don't (or didn't use to) get any radio play, there isn't any kind of "canon" for this style of music. You'd never be able to point someone new to it toward "greatest" list as a good place to start exploring. So I'm curious what you think would be on that kind of list if you were to ever see one. The songs that would make up the canon for this very broad movement.

That help to clarify for those confused?

There have been some awesome suggestions so far, btw. A few I can't believe I didn't mention.

oh well i'm no help here then, sorry. thanks for explaining though.

[fakejazz]

DUDE I CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT

Fear Before The March of Flames - On The Bright Side She Could Choke
Saosin - Seven Years
Silverstein - Giving Up
Thursday - Understanding in a Carcrash
Far - Mother Mary
Glassjaw - Cosmopolitan Bloodloss
Grade - Triumph and Tragedy
From First To Last - The One Armed Boxer vs The Flying Guillotine
Dance Gavin Dance - And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman
Finch - Gray matter
The Blood Brothers - Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
At The Drive In - One Armed Scissor
Desaparecidos - Man and Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)