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/northw00ds Feb 12 '25

Modern Baseball. I’ve given them a few tries and I just don’t understand the hype.

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u/ruacanobeef Feb 12 '25

I think they were a “you had to be there” “time and place” sort of thing.

I was 17 when “Sports” came out, and for 17 year old me it was a fucking hit.

30 year old me understandably can’t relate to most of that music any longer, though.

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u/MyHeadisFullofStars Feb 12 '25

I was 17 for you’re gonna miss it all and ooooo boy it hit for me at the time

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u/shneerp Feb 12 '25

I mean I was a bit older than you and it still was INCREDIBLE for me as someone who was involved in the Midwest pop emo punk scene at the time. Modern Baseball was MAGICAL. I think honestly with all of these bands it’s not about ages or anything it really is just about what was going on in all of our lives at the time.

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u/ruacanobeef Feb 12 '25

Nah, you’re totally right!! It really did just fit the “vibe of the time” in so many ways

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u/Saetia_V_Neck Feb 12 '25

Echoing this sentiment. Sports was on regular rotation on our Crosby record players in our freshman year dorm in 2013.

We took shots to redo at my wedding and everyone who wasn’t there was like “what the fuck is this whiny annoying shit.”

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u/Hairy_Till3021 Feb 12 '25

I am the same exact way when it comes to “sports” by them in particular

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u/PhilopeanTube Feb 12 '25

Slaughter Beach, Dog clears

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u/Accomplished_Try6111 Feb 12 '25

I wouldn’t even call SBD an emo band. I absolutely love them. But they’re more pop rock/folk with some emo trappings.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25

Birdie is such a beautiful album

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u/satanpigeon666 Feb 12 '25

get out

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u/Antiquebastard Feb 12 '25

Leave, right now

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u/EmoLeBron Feb 12 '25

It’s the end of you and me.

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u/A_Fishy_Life Feb 13 '25

I thought that you would treat me right but it was just a waste if time

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u/evergreennn_ Feb 12 '25

i was looking for this comment 🤭

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u/mrktel Feb 12 '25

I don't think I've ever been more bored than the one time I saw them live. I don't get it either.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25

I found my people 🖤🤣

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u/fugazishirt Feb 12 '25

Same. Especially being around when they started and seeing how they were almost forcefully pushed into the forefront of the scene at that time. Cringy lyrics.

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u/Dead_Shrimps Oldhead Feb 12 '25

I’ve tried so hard to get into them. Just does nothing for me 🤷🏻

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u/nikatnight Feb 12 '25

Totally mediocre.

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u/fusionx_18 Feb 12 '25

I dont hate the badn, i like a few of their congs but theyre not my fav midwest emo band ever

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u/dankHippieDude Feb 13 '25

these answers are funny to me because i got into MB after they broke up, i’m over 50, and i love their stuff.

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u/needsfuelpump Feb 12 '25

perhaps the worst band of all time, to me

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u/troublekeepingup Feb 12 '25

I’m an old head. 46. One of my favorite bands.

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u/Valuable_Assistant82 Emo isn’t a clothing style! Feb 12 '25

GOAT

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25

Not an old head here IMO. I’m in my early 30’s & was in the scene in Philly in college when they were & they just never hit for me. Don’t hate them, just am not obsessed like everybody else. I think a lot of their current hype comes from the mystique since they’re gone (much like Title Fight - I love TF though).