Emo Before 1980

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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 19 July 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know who those chaps are, but this is potentially a good question, considering the roots of emo (musically, at least) are usually traced back to mid-80s stuff like Rites of Spring. But then of course you have emo as an attitude, the roots of which can be traced back to lots of things, I should think.

I still don't know who those chaps are.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 July 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

And I still don't know what emo is. Not that it matters.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 July 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"Peking Spring" by Mission Of Burma was originally from 1979.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

When did "Young Girl" by Gerry and the Pacemakers come out?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 19 July 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The chaps are Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett aka The Two Ronnies,
British comedy phenomenom. And if Dom's suggesting they are emo,
perhaps he is feverish perchhance?

― Masked Gazza, Monday, 19 July 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

(very funny though)

― Masked Gazza, Monday, 19 July 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

the answer is in the eyewear, people

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 19 July 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

That part of Roxy Music's "If There Is Something?" when it gets all mournful and Ferry starts crying about growing potatoes by the score sounds pretty emo.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

EMOtional rock pre 1980

Television - Marquee Moon
J. Richman & the Modern Lovers

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i just lost it so bad, thanks dom you just made my commute so much easier

(oh and roy orbison for pre 80's emo)

― kephm, Monday, 19 July 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

all i have to say is i saw a heavy metal guys wearing emo glasses last night and i felt invaded

― kephm, Monday, 19 July 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

What, emo means "emotional rock"? How can that be a genre?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i felt similarly proprietary about plaid a decade plus ago

(X-post)

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

emo, like so many "genres," has more to do with fashion and zeitgeist than actual music, tuomas.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

TO FOURFA!

― TheRealJMod (TheRealJMod), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

are they muppets?

― kephm, Monday, 19 July 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

But don't most rock genres, like punk or prog or metal, have sort of musical definition too?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

yes

― kephm, Monday, 19 July 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

emo has to be punkish, yeah

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/5551289753.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The word "emo" means "animal mother" (like a female tiger with kittens) in Finnish, by the way.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"emotional hardcore", actually, but has since devolved...

xp someone's gunna post the Tigermilk photo in 5, 4, 3, 2...

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Oxford is a unique and historic institution. As the oldest English-speaking university in the world, it lays claim to eight centuries of continuous existence. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.

In 1188, the historian, Gerald of Wales, gave a public reading to the assembled Oxford dons and in 1190 the arrival of Emo of Friesland, the first known overseas student, initiated the University's tradition of international scholarship. By 1201, the University was headed by a magister scolarum Oxonie, on whom the title of Chancellor was conferred in 1214, and in 1231 the masters were recognized as a universitas or corporation.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i am calling my next cat EMO! thanks Tuomas

― kephm, Monday, 19 July 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

morris otm

― de, Monday, 19 July 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I quit nu ILX.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 19 July 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

you can't quit nu-ILX any more than you can quit having cancer, dude. The best you can hope for is remission.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Me, I'm one of those "no treatment please I'll just spend my last days enjoying life" folks.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 July 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

in terrible, terrible pain!

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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