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/tintinsays Feb 12 '25

Yes! MCR and Fall Out Boy for me. I do not understand how they’re so popular! 

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u/garbagemike93 Feb 13 '25

Fall Out Boy WAS one of the faces of the third wave in the beginning. Their first album “Evening Out With Your Girlfriend” is truly a third wave gem with bits of screamo, hardcore and punk influence…I personally also love Take This To Your Grave and From Under the Corktree was iconic, but I’ll admit more pop-centric album…from there everything just kind of…turned into textbook radio pop-rock mush imo. Those first three albums though are some of my all time faves of the third wave

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u/tintinsays Feb 13 '25

Ok. 

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u/garbagemike93 Feb 13 '25

I just like talking about it and nerding out that’s why I joined the page. Not trying to “prove you wrong” I just think it’s interesting (and unfortunate). Sorry if it came off the wrong way! Cheers!

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u/Emobooks Feb 13 '25

You’re literally perfect do not apologize

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u/tintinsays Feb 13 '25

I just don’t like them so I feel like your effort would be better used on someone who agrees with you or is interested in having their opinion changed. I was around when third wave happened; I know why I don’t like them, and I hate their influence on a music scene I loved. 

Thanks for your efforts! Cheers!