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jawbox were fantastic.
if you ever notice, and i'm no guitar wizard, but they don't usually play traditional "chords", they make up their own! see, i like stuff like that. they were a popular -- i mean, not that popular, but they were on mtv for chrissakes, and who else can say that, ethyl meatplow? oh... -- band who had noise parts in their songs and made-up chords and used very slight alternate tunings. LOVED how they mixed their albums too, two guitars that sounded like 50. and they had these brilliant, haunting melodies. just great. great band. savory is honestly one of the best songs ever written. there's... i can't explain it.. listening to it now, as this thread has prompted me to do, has made me realize that there's just something so dark and sinister in this song.. but it's so beautiful too. damn.
speaking of jaws, jawbreaker.. another band, i dunno if you'd consider them emo, i don't really know what you'd consider them... they were fan fucking tastic as well. love dear you, which just had some amazing riffs and snotty vocals. fucking. and 24 hour revenge therapy, which is some kind of classic.
as far as saetia goes, i'd imagine them and .. envy perhaps? .. are considered the quintessential emo"core" bands. i think they're great, i'm never that excited to hear them, because i used to be all into this kind of stuff back in the day (the SUPER LOUD RAHHHHHHHHHHHHH to the quiet notes with delay to the RAHH RAHH RAHHHHHHH RAHHH RAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!)... but.. though it's tiresome, it is reeeally fucking good.
so yeah.
emo wasn't/isn't a bad genre. lots of great bands. loved the reaaaally emo bands where it sounded like the most fragile music ever being played by insane people on the verge of an emotional breakdown. but i'm not sure why the people dressed up in tight clothes and weird ass hair is considered "emo" now. but again, i do love the ladies in this scene. i mean, riley mason! she's emo! fuck!
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