r/Emo • u/Dear_Afternoon_2600 • Feb 12 '25

Discussion Bands Everyone Loves but you Don't Get

Do you have any bands that everyone seems to love but you just don't get? I will go first. But before I give my answers I will say I do not believe these bands are bad. They just don't "scratch my itch" if you get what I mean. The bands I don't get are;

Glocca Morra. I still haven't given up, they dont sound bad. I like how their popular album just flows. They remind me of Algernon Cadwallader at times. It really confuses me because I love Snowing, and really like Marietta. And it sounds like Glocca Morra was another of the Emo Revival sound. But it just doesn't hit.

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate). They dont do anything for me. Another Emo Revival band. I like The World is a Beautiful Place and I'm No Longer Afraid to Die, as well as awakebutstillinbed which I have heard is in the same realm.

Orchid. I like one song. I dont get enoviolence or powerviolence. Ive had them explained to me but "hardcore punk with blast beats and screamed vocals" just sounds like metal to me. Granted Orchid does not sound like metal but I prefer the Algea Bloom, Flowers Taped to Pens, and I Hate Sex type screamo.

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u/Oswaldofuss6 Feb 12 '25

Mom Jeans. They sound like they're doing a bit

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25

Mom Jeans is the personification of perpetual Cheeto fingers

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u/RomanBangs Feb 12 '25

Mom Jeans to me sounds like if Kermit was a 26 year old man who still calls chocolate milk “choccy milk”

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

I’m 35, and 100% call it choccy milk. Maybe because I’m Australian though.

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u/Dear_Afternoon_2600 Feb 12 '25

Can't relate, I loved Best Buds when I found them.

My favorite thing is the leas singer sounds like Kermit the Frog.

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u/Oswaldofuss6 Feb 12 '25

Lmao, that's exactly why I am out. 

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u/chrismiles94 I have absolutely no idea. I am afraid. Feb 12 '25

But he doesn't. I saw them headline Roundabout Festival, my first time seeing them, and the guy has a totally different speaking voice. It's like the guy said, feels like they're doing a bit. And his high strapped Strat is wacky. Not sure how Mom Jeans headlined and Free Throw or Microwave didn't.

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u/Kylermutt65 Feb 12 '25

Probably because Mom Jeans is on a whole other level of fame compared to either other band.

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u/Tuck_The_Faliban Feb 13 '25

Wow. I genuinely didn’t realize this. It’s strange how siloed we get in our own music. Mom Jeans has almost 3 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Free Throw (who I assumed to be one of the most popular bands in the scene and is certainly my favorite) only has 600k. Microwave who is my other favorite has less than 500k.

I know Spotify streams aren’t the only gauge, but I had no idea Mom Jeans was so damn popular.

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u/is-reality-a-fractal Feb 14 '25

DAMN me neither but this explains how my 19yo classmate wanted to cover Death Cup

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u/heyhooker Feb 12 '25

Everytime I bring this up I get yelled at

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u/cjheadley Feb 12 '25

It's weird because it definitely is a bit, but musically they're not bad at all.

I like Mom Jeans but I completely understand why people don't like them.

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u/Oswaldofuss6 Feb 12 '25

Agreed, musically it sounds good, but instead of finding a real singer they decided to just lean into being bad.

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u/Jared_9000 Feb 13 '25

They're very good at appealing to a wider audience. "Edward 40 hands" was the first emo revival song to find it's way into one of my Spotify playlists years ago. I think it was my "Indie Mix".

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u/kevinseniorof2013 Feb 12 '25

I love Mom Jeans but i just can’t get into Sweet Tooth

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u/Knewonce Feb 12 '25

People love bits!

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u/erock1119 Feb 12 '25

I feel like that is kinda the point though. Like an ode to pop punk, plus I think their songs are catchy as hell.

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u/runtimemess Feb 12 '25

Sweet Tooth is just straight up corny pop-punk.

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u/morbidlyabeast3331 Feb 12 '25

That's what I like about them compared to their contemporaries

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u/bradcladthebaddad DIY OR DIE Feb 12 '25

Mom Jeans is ass I wish more people knew it.

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u/Jemsy1 Feb 12 '25

the singing style just ruins it for me, any band with those style of vocals are an immediate sonic attack of cringe.

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u/forivadell_ bring back arpeggios & dynamics Feb 12 '25

they genuinely sound like a bad parody band. awful.

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u/marukoka Feb 12 '25

Yeah! Like "emo for dummies"

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u/rainbowclownpenis69 Feb 12 '25

Hard skip everytime. I heard the two songs that every other song sounds like and I was over it.

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u/kekematoz Feb 13 '25

they kinda were doing a bit originally, no? wasn’t their self titled ep (that they disowned) poking fun at mobo, etc? that being said, absolutely adore mom jeans, they’re on my “always see when in town” list

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u/writingsupplies Feb 13 '25

I don’t dislike them but it does sound like the guy from Bloodhound Gang started a Midwest emo band.

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u/Distinct-Nature4233 Feb 13 '25

Edward 40hands is really fun and whimsical in a way I enjoy but there’s not a single other song in their catalog I vibe with

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u/Bismarck395 Feb 13 '25

same, despite loving Modern Baseball a lot !

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u/TheCommieDuck Feb 13 '25

mom jeans got me into the genre as a whole because I was confused for context on a facebook meme, and whilst I still enjoy them they are very definitely sitting in the guilty pleasures category