i don't think so.... maybe sort of..lol

I know it's pointless to bump 2-year-old threads where I don't add any new conversation points to it but THIS IS THE WORST THREAD IN THE WORLD BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL POSTER REFERRED TO SYSTEM OF A DOWN AS EMO.

(05-09-2008 07:30 AM)Bri-Bri Wrote:  Emo is an artsy outgrowth of the hardcore punk underground in the 1980s, starting with bands like Rites Of Spring and Ian McKaye's post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi band, Embrace. It was meant as an antidote to the cookie-cutter state of the scene, which was producing cooke-cutter "harder! louder! faster!" music and the posturing "Anarchist" politics. Many 90s emo bands, including Sunny Day Real Estate, American Football, At The Drive-In (two of whom's members went on to form the prog/psychedelic Mars Volta), and Christie Front Drive sighted Pink Floyd (which involves recurring concepts of death, alienation, dysfunctional relationships, and other staples of much emo, and approaches them in a rather juvenile, sophomoric fashion, much as us Waters-enthusiastes love to deny it) as a primary influence. In the early years of the current decade, a crop of newer bands who came of age during the pop-punk explosion of Blink-182 and Green Day but found themselvese infatuated with these expierimental, poetic prog-punks, made up the most recent crop of what the mainstream today refers to as "emo", but which purists insist is not emo at all. And even these bands have on occasion gravitated towards the PF sphere (The Academy Is... features dreamy, atmospheric moody music to accompany their adulterous tales, and My Chemical Romance's recent magnum opus, "The Black Parade" stenciles their style so blatantly over The Wall that it is beyond bordering ridiculous).

My point is, as someone whose favorite band always has been and always will be Pink Floyd, whose interest in sound was sparked by them, I know as well as anyone that us PF fans are a pretentious lot. Pink Floyd are not emo, but they're not all that different, so I think the elitists (of which I used to belond) need to stop kidding themselves and actually put on Deja Entendu by Brand New.

And then it's the best thread in the world because this person recommended Deja Entendu, THE GREATEST ALBUM TO HAVE EVER BEEN MY AVATAR. ABSTRACT FLYING SPACEMEN AND ALL.

Sorry. Carry on. :3

Pink Floyd is only emo to people who've never heard Pink Floyd's music and have no clue what emo actually means.

This is somewhat related but also somewhat unrelated to this topic, but it seriously annoys me far too much when people think the definition of "emo" is just "emotional". There are people who think that, and it's a sucky point of view.

Similarily, people who assume My Chemical Romance or Fall Out Boy or any of that is also emo. Because it isn't emo. It's pop punk. Maybe MCR's first album had ELEMENTS of "traditional" emo music, but truth be told it's more post-hardcore than anything. And similarily, those same people who say that emo is sh*t because of those two bands are my least favourite people in the world.

Anyway, ranting again. Yeah, basically ^^that. Pink Floyd obviously had a certain influence on some emo bands, especially The Wall in all its melodramatic pretentiousness, but an influence on a genre does not make that influence the genre.

(04-26-2008 05:36 PM)arnoldlayne20 Wrote:   hey... i love pink floyd and think they are the most creative and talented band... they were way, way ahead of their time. Which is interesting to think about, because if they were in their prime today, do you think their music would be classified as emo or metal? because i tend to think of it in the same line as the beatles etc, just classic "retro" if you will, genius rock. but it seems alot of metal lovers enjoy pink floyd, and the graphics on the wall like the Cross bleeding and that animated black hawk and skeletons come across 'emo' (hate that term) - kind of similar to themes of 'fall out boy' or 'the kill' . it doesnt change the way i feel towards the band but was just curious as to how you would define them in modern music terms. if they were a band today would they be viewed similar to system of a down etc?
i dislike the majority of modern music though and dont like to compare it, however was just curious. please dont take offence because i know pink floyd can't really be compared with these bands - theres nothing like them and that era, but what do you think?
ps sorry this is long.

no way in hell! emo is frickin horrible! pink floyd is waaaay above that! i think of them more as chill music. something to mellow out to and forget everything ya know. as you said to me they are more like zeppelin,Beatles, peter frampton, dire straits etc older music that is still amazing!

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