Old, nostalgic bastard rant...

[TheBaroness]

This is somewhat off-topic, but I really miss the days of Mineral/Saetia/Knapsack/Braid (and Hey Mercedes' first EP, which was tight)/American Football/Sunny Day Real Estate/Christie Front Drive/Mock Orange/Boys Life/You and I/No Knife/early Appleseed Cast/Jejune et al. I've been listening to this stuff non-stop, trying to re-live the late-90's/early-00's. Music, for me, peaked in that time frame. Pretty sad, really. I'm going to start a movement to re-commence ripping-off all those bands.

[autistk]

I miss those days too... I thrashed that shit hard.... while I'm not gonna say everything today sucks, it does seem like there's a lot less quality bands pushing things in interesting directions than there once was.
Perhaps I'm just not looking hard enough

[BreakerBreaker]

Someone busting out old Deep Elm and Crank compilations?

[SickOfStars]

Yeah, that was definitely the peak for emo/indie.

Too many bands these days have let this pop-punk/trash/whatever scene into their influence.

[itsjustadrian]

Meh. I could do without midwest style emo. I prefer me some of that Orchid, Ampere, Envy, Raein stuff.
I'm just weird I guess :shrugs:

[BreakerBreaker]

Yeah, that was definitely the peak for emo/indie.

Too many bands these days have let this pop-punk/trash/whatever scene into their influence.

Pop Punk rules.

[SickOfStars]

Pop Punk rules.

well, not pop-punk in general persay, just the modern brand of it that includes overdramatic lyrics and random gargling.

Meh. I could do without midwest style emo. I prefer me some of that Orchid, Ampere, Envy, Raein stuff.
I'm just weird I guess :shrugs:

mmmm. I must say, a good name dropping *high five*

[x togepi x]

I still don't think things have peaked.

[SickOfStars]

I still don't think things have peaked.

that's a good attitude. we just may be surprised yet.

[x togepi x]

well, i mean, there's a lot of stuff that I listen to that falls in the emo category that nobody ever seems to talk about on this board like gospel that makes me think that there's still a lot of innovation still happening.

and there's been some really solid releases this year too.

[SickOfStars]

well, i mean, there's a lot of stuff that I listen to that falls in the emo category that nobody ever seems to talk about on this board like gospel that makes me think that there's still a lot of innovation still happening.

and there's been some really solid releases this year too.

yeah, such as.... ENVY :freakout:

I'll have to check out Gospel. What are some other good emo releases this year? I've actually been pretty lazy on recent releases in this little (massive multinational) genre.

[x togepi x]

oh yeah, definitely check out gospel.

as for releases this year: envy's ruled, amanda woodward put out something that I really liked, i think it was a 7inch, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You's "Believes in Patterns" is one of my favorite cds in the genre ever and I'm sure there's more if I thought about it like Pyramid's cd.

[BreakerBreaker]

I've never downloaded The Moon is a Dead World, even though I always mean to check Gospel out.

[x togepi x]

it's good. I think they have a lot of potential to be something great.

[TheBaroness]

Someone busting out old Deep Elm and Crank compilations?

damn straight.

[itsjustadrian]

i just hope for more envy-esque bands to come out. post-rock and emo just happen to be my two favorite genres ever.

[normalgene]

Cursive just put out Happy Hollow and they're pretty old school emo. I mean this album isn't as amazing as Ugly Organ, but it's still great stuff.

Another big release I'm looking forward to this year is mewithoutYou.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that the so called "emo" movement is dead...it's just filled with unoriginal crap because it has reached such high popularity(unfortunately).