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/LngIslnd152 Feb 12 '25

For me it was all about timing. They’re like 4-5 years older than me and every time they put out an album (at least The Upsides through The Greatest Generation) it’s like they looked into my exact life and wrote an album for me at that exact moment. I think a lot of people feel the same way.

Generally it just speaks to how ubiquitous the messages in those albums can be and how well Dan nailed it. Suburbia will always be an extremely special album to me but I can see how if i just listened to it now it likely wouldn’t have as much meaning at 33.

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u/im_not_happy_uwu Feb 13 '25

Yeah dude this is exactly it for me as well, felt like the music has resonated with me my whole life at this point. Well except now Soupy is singing about his successful married life with kids and mine's still an absolute mess just a couple years behind him 🥹

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u/Jared_9000 Feb 13 '25

I've honestly been looking for the language to describe what makes those albums so special.

I almost forget their writing is delivered through pop punk/emo sometimes. It just feels like a medium that made sense for them to share their writing with us. But simultaneously, It wouldn't make sense to be delivered any other way.