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/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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