So, ummm, yeah. This is just a band I found like...a year ago lol. Their music just seems to be...Im not sure how to put it. They put emotion to their music??? Sometimes, when I fee empty, I listen to a song by them, and the music tames me. Well...I'll just post some samples. I don't think the write term to call their music is emo, because it just isn't. [video=youtube;uuWOm0UZe8Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuWOm0UZe8Q[/video] [video=youtube;tuDe71zdPZc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuDe71zdPZc&feature=related[/video] [video=youtube;Qrzg5XsIZWA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrzg5XsIZWA&feature=related[/video] This stuff is old, but I found the music and liked it. Any of you heard of this band before? Any opinions? Just felt like sharing.
I love Senses Fail! Well, the songs I know by them anyway. The first song I heard by them and my favorite of them is still Rum is For Drinking, Not Burning. The acoustic version is pretty good, too. I know what you mean about the emotions in the song, especially with songs like The Priest and the Matador or Family Tradition.
First song: Generic emo metalcore. Nothing I haven't heard before from better bands that I can't stand anyway (nothing against them or their fans, I just don't care for metalcore.) Though I am surprised it took them more than 30 seconds to get to the screaming. Second song: A neat string piece, but it doesn't really feel like its going anywhere. Third song: Generic pop-punk along the lines of Jimmy Eat World, Blink 182 or, eugh, Fall Out Boy. Again, nothing I haven't heard before from other bands. So, yeah, I guess you can say that I don't like them.
Yeah, that totally makes sense that you don't like them because I provided a few of their older songs. Sort of ignorant to make up your mind so quick about the band by just listening to a few of their songs. And I don't think calling this band "emo" would be the right term. At least not that stupid emo crap.
Honestly, I have nothing against the first song you posted. I just don't care for metalcore in general. The third song, however, is completely dirivitive of bands such as Jimmy Eat World and Blink 182. As for the use of "emo," note that emo has not always been the whiney wanna be punk kids screaching into a mic. Emo is originally derived from hardcore punk and basically a more emotionally driven form of it. Fans of emo as it is originally was hate what emo has become s its become nothing more than garbage along the lines of Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance. That said, those were the songs you presented. Its not my fault that you apparently didn't choose songs that represent what the band is all about.
Ah, yes, the old "they're not emo, they're alternative" claim. Alternative is a term so horribly overused that it doesn't mean anything anymore. Just about every popular band nowadays is labeled as "emo" by their detractors and "alternative" by their fans. What is it the alternative to? Nothing, really. Of course, this isn't really a new thought. While at first the grunge movement would fit the "alternative" description, since it quickly became mainstream, it fell under the same problem. What was it alternative to? It WAS the mainstream!
Post-Hardcore (Or Screamo, they're similar; those didn't sound too...Screamo to me though) sound to me. Like the Wiki says. But I didn't like the sound of those songs very much, I don't like the vocalist either. And a band needs to have an acceptable vocalist for me to like them. I'm just into metal though, that's about it. But don't let my opinion get to you, no one likes what I like. <.<
