On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, wm. a. richards wrote:
> Interesting story--the first time I heard the word 'emo' was 2 years ago...i
> ran into this singer who I hadn't seen for a while. we were talking about
> music and our bands and he goes, "We're EMO now!" Just a few years before
> this guy was calling his band "grunge". I'm like, "what the fuck is emo,
> dude?" and he starts talking about drive like jehu and some other bands (who
> are all good bands, IMHO).
> I had recently discovered modest mouse so I asked if he had heard them. He
> said he had but he was not into them or something.
>
>
> is modest mouse 'emo'?
I would say no, but "emo" is about as definative a label as "indie".
>
> according to all of the 'emo' people i know, most of whom are in 'emo'
> bands, wear 'emo' clothes, and cry a lot, modest mouse is not 'emo.' don't
> know why--perhaps it's cuz the mouse has a sense of humor. these 'emo'
> folks, they like to yell and cry for the most part. but the mouse, i get
> the impression that the mouse likes to yell and cry and laugh and drink.
I like emo, and I _love_ the mouse. The main difference I see is that
"emo" bands tend to take things a lot more seriously than MM tends to.
> however, most of the emo 'bois', as these 'emo' fellas i know call
> themselves, have phat-ass sideburns, like the kind mr. brock had (or still
> has? i dont know). Maybe that's where the connection is.
I think its probably more the indie rock thing. There are enough bands
that aren't definately "emo" or definately "indie" (Jets to Brazil,
Promise Ring, Pedro the Lion, even 764-HERO), that people trade off
monikers and the next thing you know Mineral is indie and the Mouse is
emo.
As a side note, I don't belive in any of these labels (music is music),
I'm just commenting on how I would bet things got mixed up.
> Here in detroit the emo folks seem to have distanced themselves from the
> mouse--braid, promise ring, etc etc are all 'emo' and hip, but you hardly
> ever hear modest mouse on the 'emo' college radio shows. and modest mouse
> usually doesnt come up in 'emo'-conversation.
Here in Oregon things are pretty much completely different. The only local
college station (KWVA, 88.1) plays Promise Ring, Braid, Get Up Kids,
etc... as well as the mouse, Built to Spill, [insert "indie" band here],
etc...As far as folks go, there's not much of any sort of "scene" really
at all, so the indie kids will come to the Braid/Get Up Kids show under
the bridge, and the emo kids will wear their glasses to the Built to Spill
show.
> and that's all there is to know about 'emo' bois and gurls in detroit. not
> that anyone wanted to know.
They're "boys" and "girls" here in Eugene. And I think thats about all
there is to say about them.
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