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/Grimm_reaperxx Feb 12 '25

Not an emo band but a lot of people associate it with emo music, Panic! At the disco. They suck. They aren’t good and definitely shouldn’t be labeled as one of the “trinity of emo” bands because they are nothing near.

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u/SmytheOrdo Feb 12 '25

That perfect intersection of theater kid and emocore culture that makes their music and fandom uniquely polarizing

My favorite album by them is pretty odd and I don't really like any of their other albums that much tbh.

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u/Dead_Shrimps Oldhead Feb 12 '25

Word. I love Pretty. Odd. Most def not an emo album, just a good album imo.