r/Emo

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Ya girl needs them because reasons. I'm mostly a 2nd/3rd wave fan. Thanks y'all.

Including Cap'n Jazz.

I’m a Peep fan. I’m sitting here watching a Kurt Cobain documentary and felt a strong pull to share this.

The more I listen to Lil Peep, and the more I listen to and read about artists like Kurt Cobain, the more I see the similarities. I am not saying Peep reached the same level of success or cultural impact as Kurt, Syd Barrett, Prince, or other true revolutionaries. He never had the time. He only had 21 years, and it felt like his sound was starting to evolve into something genuinely next level.

What made Peep so special was how naturally he blended styles. Emo, trap, rap, punk, rock, grunge, cloud rap, alternative, lo-fi, and pop melodies all came together in a way that was unmistakably his own. It never felt manufactured. It felt like the sound of someone turning their inner world into music.

Like Kurt, Peep carried a lot of vulnerability, emotional weight, and raw honesty. There was also a restless, fearless quality in the way he expressed himself. I do not think pain should ever be romanticised, but it is hard to deny that both artists were able to turn difficult emotions, isolation, and inner conflict into music that felt honest, human, and deeply affecting.

That is what I have always connected with. I still listen to Peep a great deal because his music does not feel distant or overly polished. It feels immediate. He could take loneliness, heartbreak, love, confusion, and emotional struggle, and put it straight into a track without filtering it. You do not just hear the song. You feel the person behind it.

I genuinely believe he was on the cusp of changing the scene in a much bigger way. You can hear it in his later work. He was becoming sharper, more confident, and more ambitious with his sound. Maybe the world was not fully ready for what he was becoming.

He certainly changed something in me. His music helped me through a difficult time, and I know a lot of people feel the same. That kind of connection is rare.

For anyone who has properly dived into his music, I would love to hear your thoughts. Do you think Peep would have become one of the defining artists of his generation?

There's a newly discovered band called Disarmor that seems to include members from the bands mentioned above. I believe Scott from Dads is playing the guitar, Leigh from The Assistant is on the keyboard/the vox, and Tom from all of the other bands is on the drums. I couldn't piece who the fourth member of the group is or if she is from any other bands. I'm already in touch with the original poster, but if anyone else has more of their songs, please share them. Thanks!

Any bands that sound like early jawbreaker, knapsack, red 40, hey Mercedes?

the real emo. not the Gen Z bs.

Is it normal that i do listen to emo music but dress emo only 20% of the time? I go normie quite often bc i just have not emo enough clothes and i feel ashamed to be not alt enough… Do i still count emo if i just want to top off my fit with a smth pink and cute? i have so many questions im sorry

Real emo only consists of the DC

Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90s Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but alternative rock with questionable emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL, and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity, and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap'n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance, and Mineral EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM

i was wondering if there was a good, big playlist on youtube/spotify/really anywhere that has a BUNCH of actual emo music... every time i find a playlist that i think works, i see someone on reddit go "that band isn't emo wtaf!!" so idk what to do considering i really don't know much about the genre as a whole😭
i genuinely want to get into it and expand my music taste, but it feels a little hard to navigate it on my own lol

In other words, not "relationship grief" or "loneliness as a core fear" lyrics. Not shitting on that type of emo at all either, there's a time and place for it.

Long shot, but does anyone know if any live footage of Seven Story Mountain still exists anywhere?

I know this is kind of an uncomfortable topic because of the obvious history surrounding Lance Lammers, and I’m not trying to glorify him as a person or reopen old drama. I’m genuinely asking from a music/history standpoint because SSM was such a unique band from that era and basically vanished from the internet.

From everything I’ve read over the years, Lance was apparently very aggressive about having live footage removed or deleted. I even remember reading a post from someone who said Lance approached them after a show and asked them to delete footage they recorded. So I realize there’s a good chance very little survived online intentionally.

Still, considering how many shows they played back then, it’s hard for me to believe absolutely nothing exists somewhere — old MiniDV tapes, burned DVDs, forgotten hard drives, etc.

I’ve seen old Reddit threads where people connected to the band/history have commented before, so figured it was worth asking here. Even confirmation that footage used to exist would be interesting at this point.

The recent "bad singers that you love" thread made me remember this song and John's super squeaky voice in this. I absolutely love it though