[kj] OT: somewhat rapturous Bauhaus CD review...

[Leigh Newton]

When I started becoming aware of emo as a musical genre in the late 90s, it was mostly bands like Braid, The Promise Ring, Dashboard Confessional, Saves the Day and whatnot that I was hearing about. Mostly clean-cut, very handsome looking young men singing songs of love-lost whilst jacking off in front of a full-length mirror. At some point, most of these bands really came to terms with the fact that there was no difference between them and the likes of Bon Jovi, which explains why the eyeliner started coming into play. That started the snowball-effect of emo and goth coalescing into one big melting chocolate cake (or that's what most of these gaylords look like to me anyways). It's definitely a weird evolution. When I was a lad, there wasn't much difference between an emo-kid and an indie-rock type kid as far as fashion went. Just some dude in tight, thrift-store clothes, Buddy Holly glasses and a fuckin back-pack. That was emo.

And it SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED too. 

----- Original Message ----
From: B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 11:12:36 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: somewhat rapturous Bauhaus CD review...


I'll be forever amazed at how "emo," which I always understood to be a 
mid-80s post-punk musical movement, came to be conflated with "goth." A
 
few years ago on a discussion forum someone said, "Just you wait, 
they'll come up with a way to combine emo with goth, and it'll be
 called 
goth-mo or some shit." Looks like that really did happen.

This is Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat expaining, derisively, "emo," in
 ... 
1986:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=mbdh0Qm_5A0


Now, how what he is describing would come to mean eyeliner, a black 80s
 
skater flop, bangs-over-one-eye hairdo, etc., is beyond me. Basically, 
America's cultural stewards need to be sent to the gas ovens, because 
whoever is in charge of steering this shit has no idea what they're
 doing.

-Oliver



LONESTYLE at aol.com wrote:

> Nice Oilver. ;)

>  

> ~LB

>  

>  

> In a message dated 12/15/2007 1:18:25 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 

> bq at soundgardener.co.nz writes:

>


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