this is indie emo, part of a 90's emo revival wave of bands that mixed alternative rock/indie with emo, of course this band is more on the alternative side ( with the get up kids, braid and american football) of it but there's bands that a bit more agressive though of course not as agressive as hardcore punk (this bands are also called screamo bands) like pg 99 and city of caterpillar
if you prefer the new veins of post hardcore that came in the mid 2000 thats ok but just know that's not emo
Nothing means anything. It's all empty symbolism with subjective assignments and designations to help individuals and societies project our bullshit and pretend like it doesn't all end with the basic facts of existence.. Emo is emotional punk rock. What does that mean? Who knows? What is punk? Who cares? I still think The Promise Ring kicks ass and they help me cope with all my own bullshit and petty, pointless existence.
No, actually it's just alternative pop. The name 'emo' was given by people into more aggressive style of music inside the US punk scene, because more less these bands were part of the local hardcorepunk scene's, like it or not.
Hey guys, grow the fuck up and stop complaining. There are two kinds of emo. This emo didn't stand out because it had nothing to offer to the shit youth of society. MCR emo stood out because it made teens look rebellious and cutting themselves ect... When you think about it, this is the shit version of emo. Definitely less popular and DEFINATELY dead.
@paniccat this guy has it right, fuck this stupid shit man i love emarosa and MCr and shit this stuff is homosex man fuck the rpomise ring and shit man
@paniccat there isn't two kinds of emo, there is this style and that is all.
my chemical romance play alternative rock, and the rest of the bands who play faux 'emo' play watered down metalcore or alt rock influenced post hardcore and real emo/screamo bands had songs about cutting themselves, look at the usurp synapse/hassan i sannah 'just do it' split; its a record which promotes killing yourself.
this style of music isn't dead, there are plenty of decent bands who still play this style today.
Hey guys... music is music. Anyone with ears can tell you that this band sounds nothing like the bands that get labeled as "emo" nowadays. So what's the fucking problem? As long as you and I know, why the fuck should it matter what a bunch of 14 year olds think or say? They're idiots.
@tokyoerose999 - lol all fag bands. Get a grip KID, punk is retired because it wasn't very good. No one likes a buncha fags making crybaby songs. Go suck a cock? You're just mad I put you in your place. Later cunt.
@tokyoerose999 - lol all fag bands. Get a grip KID, punk is retired because it wasn't very good. No one likes a buncha fags making crybaby songs. Go suck a cock? You're just mad I put you in your place. Later cunt.
@ModernDayPaulRevere dude shut up, this stuffs underground aswell. learn to appreciate all kinds of music, i fuckin hate death metal but i dont dispute that it is good music for people who like that kinda stuff. music is only as good as the individual listenin to it says it is, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
It's funny how many kids give me flack for labeling an actual "EMO" band (in the 90's music discription) Emo.They have no idea that the word was used before to discribe bands like TPR and others back in the 90's, I have to tell my son(13) that the word "emo" today is used to discribe the wrong bands.
@1thess523 I love how I just randomly come across one of you comments will looking at videos. I shoulda expected that lol. But on another note, I agree with what you're saying.
@LocalOBGYN "punk" is not dead go listen to title fight, deadlights , agent.... and go listen to dude ranch blink-182 is a punk band so suck a fat one cock smoker
Growing up in Chicago in the midst of a huge scene in the 90's, I skewed towards bands like Cap'n Jazz and Braid. I loved the pop punk from the guys I met via skating, 88 fingers, Bollweevils, but I loved that atonal, minor chord sound that I heard from "emo" bands even more. When I really started seeing bands like this, i always thought, Jawbox, Fuguzi. Later I knew it was a movement all our own, midwest! This vid is great because I used to dress in the same style, still do now a bit.
Wisconsin's Finest! Emo pioneers.. When music and shows were fun, exciting, and a bit crazy.. When if you got a doc martin in your face.. You were a happy boy... because that was a good show! Miss you guys!
Hey GOD Loves you and wants you to know Him and His amazing Plan He has for your Life. JESUS died so you can be Free from all the weight, burden and shame you carry around with you stay strong don't give up Hope is here there is a way there is a Plan for you
@LeBob25 i believe sloopiness and slower tempo was what this kind of bands wanted back on the 90's, and i think it's better cause they might sound exactly like this live, not like modern music that sounds fantastic on record because of studio tricks and then sound like crap live
I agree, I never really liked the "Pop- Punk" style of Emo. I always liked the harder, Indie bands like SDRE and Mineral and the half Screamo, half Post- Hardcore bands like Indian Summer or Julia.
I should check those bands out. I heard/seen the names before, but I never listened to any of their stuff.
I listen to Saetia which is like full on screamo, but the lyrics are soo good and I like that short lived band of the late 90's. They'd be even better with more understandable screaming imo.
@ganstamannirvana93 -Most of your "emo"bands today combine Post Hardcore and Screamo to get their sound. Pop Punk is okay. But you got to be careful what you mix with it. Jimmy Eat World and Saves the Day, although they do toomuch of it now, did it well 9 years ago. Btw, Texas is the Reason is my personal favorite.
One of the best emo bands ever and easily one the best bands i've seen live! The only other emo band that comes close is Pop Unknown! Thank god for Jade Tree Records and Deep Elm Records they opened my eyes to whole different type of music back in 98.
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this is not emo, people that think this are delusional or about 15 years old and didn't grow when this stuff was first released. please before you speak, educate yourself on a subject before becoming opinionated.
i saw this band in john hiltz's basement when they only had a 7" and nobody knew them. they were anemo band then that sucked, and they are still an emo band that sucked. your opinion that this isn't emo is just as opinionated as my statement that they suck. they are opinions. who said you were the fact police. fact this is emo. deal with it.
Actually, you are the one who needs to be educated. Emo used to mean bands like The Get Up Kids, Braid, Sunny Day Real Estate and The Promise Ring. Now of course it's stuff like My Chemical Romance,Fall Out Boy and AFI.
Actually, emo started in the 80's as punk sounds with more "emotional" lyrics and punkers labeled these bands as emo. Such bands include Minor Threat and Rites of Spring. Some people even considered Black Flag and Fugazi as emo. No doubt it has evolved over the years, like every other genre, but so many different sounds have been lumped into emo now, its just silly. Anyway, why label music? People should just listen to what they like and not care what others listen to. Not saying you do drogza1.
Black Flag is THE FARTHEST thing from emo!!!!! Wow, people actually say that they are? Unbelievable. Fugazi/Minor Threat and Rites of Spring... meh, whatever. Think what you want to think about those bands. but if there was ever a band that graced this earth that was the anti-emo, it was Black Flag.
I've never really listened to Black Flag, I just remember reading that in some music forum a while back. .I dont know if i would call Fugazi emo either and I dont like Minor Threat.
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Probably because you're a faggot. "Anti-emo"? No one in the 80s even knew what the fuck emo was. But yeah, they did a song entitled "Depression", where they talk about having no friends and how girls don't want to fuck them...if you didn't know. Anyway...have you ever read anything Rollins wrote? Solipsist is some pretty fucking emo shit, I'm not going to lie...I mean, I can't speak for the rest of the band. But his literature gets pretty damn cliché and whiny.
@chobitz7 I never said I disliked them. I like a lot of modern emo bands including MCR, AFI, FOB, Brand New, Say Anything, Circa Survive and a few others. I tend to favor "golden age" emo bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral, The Promise Ring and Jimmy Eat World.
@drogaz1 OMFG how can you say that mcr and fob (MTV sellout ) are emo damn they have nothing to do with the sound, the diy, independent label an 7s of the 90s emo . They are only call emo cause it sell to do , wake the fuck up kid.
How can you listen to a promise ring and then comment that fob and mcr are the good emo band right know.
@TRUEROMANCEMOVIE Really? Brand New sounds nothing like Sunny Day Real Estate, even on there later albums? And Say Anything Sounds nothing like The Get Up Kids or Braid? The Ghost of You by MCR doesn't display any obvious influence from SDRE at all? Also how does The Promise Ring sound anything like say, Rites of Spring or Gray Matter? If you want to be such a purist at least be consistent. I'm allowed to have my opinion and you are allowed to have yours.
@drogaz1 sup my name is Pete wentz from fall out boy you can see me on the cover of us weekly or star magazine with my beautiful wife aslhey simpson...
@TRUEROMANCEMOVIE That doesn't really answer anything. If you are trying to say FOB are sell outs then you are kind of correct in some respects but when was emo a genre that had a subculture with rules and values like punk? Plus, FOB are more emo-pop than pure emo. Also, you don't see Max Bemis, Jess Lacey or Gerard Way on the cover of US Weekly so your claim fails to answer any of my questions about those bands.
@drogaz1 This is just ridiculous. All of you please do your homework. If it doesn't sound anything like punk then how can you consider it emo? The genre has it's roots in punk. I don't consider brand new emo anymore and I never considered 30 seconds to Mars an emo band. Do you guys even know what kind of bands started all of this? Bands like minor Threat, Grey Matter and Beefeater. People who took the hardcore punk scene in a more personal direction.
@feetoffthesky Brand New sounds about as punk as this. And who said anything about 30 Seconds to Mars? I don't really think I would consider them an emo band at all personally. And how are Minor Threat emo? Most of there songs sound pretty political to me.,
@myguitardidyermom12 I know! AFI is sometimes called Goth too (completely different music scene/culture from Emocore). Old AFI before they went Pop-Rock was actually pretty good. Nothing at all like old school emo which is good too.
@drogaz1 Emo has become a derogatory term that is used to describe any kind of modern music these days that has any semblances of punk within it. This and the bands that you mentioned were actually part of the second wave that became much less focused on the punk and straight edge parts of the movement. If you listen to saves the day or AFI's really old shit it shows the dividing line between first wave bands (minor threat, etc) and second wave bands. AFI, however, became part of third wave.
@drogaz1 You are stupid. MCR used to be emo (their first 2 albums), Fall Out Boy have never been emo, but yeah a lot of people think them emo for some reason. AFI was never emo. They are hardcore/horror punk, later alternative
of the full lengths, only the first has that emo sound. this shit is indie pop all the way. way to tell if art is good is if could not have been simple to make but is made to look easy. this is pop music never designed to get popular. not my favorite album of theirs but definately the best i think
i wish i could have seen them on tour with jets to brazil . i'm pretty sure it would beat the last few shows i went to... scratch that i am 100% sure.
saw them both in montreal back in 97 or 98....i had tears of joy listening to TPR and it was my first time listening to Jets to Brazil. I have goosebumps just remembering it.
some one mentioned jawbreaker. dont forget jets to brazil! i only found jawbreaker after jets so i owe a lot to them and to blake. promise ring are so wonderful. it sucks that i missed them in the time that they defined.
i was born in 90. but god i really wish i could of been a teen in the 90s to experience all the amazing emo music of that time. today just makes me so sick. listening to this song makes me want to cry cause i feel so nostalgic hahaha -.-
That is retarded, I am pretty sure at the time the Promise Ring entered the scene, "EMO" was still a swear word. Instead of labeling bands why don't you take it for what it is worth. I hate the word Emo---every fucking song is emotional. I am pretty sure you are a girl, because I am sick of these pussy guys walking around making good music look bad. Why can't the scene kids claim their gay bands without dragging my favorites into it?
well..my name is bree so its obvious i'm a girl. and labels exist for a reason, even though people use them incorrectly all the time. what are you ranting about anyway with scene kids and stuff like that? shut up you look stupid. I know TPR and certain other bands did not want to be called emo but whatever thats what they are always affiliated with. Do you think anyone is going to talk about TPR and call them "the music of the early 90's" seriously get real.
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Nah, I used to think they were the best thing since getting your dick sucked too...but then I realized that they are pretty overrated. It's whatever I guess.
I am pretty sure The Promise Ring would never want to be grouped in along with the word "emo." Does anyone remember when the word was almost derogatory?
Gnewikow of the Promise Ring in an article from Guitar World in 1999..."I could validate the point that we are an emo band, and I could also go on the other side and invalidate it. It all comes down to whoevers asking, their perception of what it is. Emo is the most ridiculous thing to say. What band isnt emotional?
YEAH! I remember bands like Jawbreaker, Get Up Kids, and Promise Band would get offended when the word "emo" was brought up in interviews. And back then, it meant something less than what it means now: bitch ass suicidal eye-liner shit.
saw them first in toronto in 99..met a guy on tuesday...said we should see them on saturday...thought i was going to die on QEW..we got there in torontos china town..i got a sprite at chinese resturant fortune cookie said "an empty stomach is politicaly incorrect"..i survived the drive there and back..the show was amazing...it was a good night...i love this emo crap..the only people who call it emo are the kids who werent there for it... it wasnt emo it was good music that spawned sh"t...
+1 for effort, but what people don't tend to realise is that emo technically isn't a genre of music, but a sub culture... Although you're right with this band being one of the fore runners to the aforementioned sub culture. Along with Rites of Spring, Sunny day, jimmy eat world etc.
kids have battered this emo look, made the promise ring nutin in return. very good band with texas the 2 cracked it buy the 7 inch split.. i think maritime have a chance perhaps the 3rd lp will be the one davey deserves...
lol i love how people take more time tagging music w/ genres rather than just enjoying it...even ian mckaye hates the whole "emo" label. he's been against the tag since he was in embrace back in the 80s
lol you have no idea what you are talking about get your facts right before you talk this is actuelly true emo and emo started in the early 90s by a guy named guy piccioto
no your all wrong . none of these bands are emo. your emo your all a buncha emos. how about that?
TheBlackstar82 1 day ago
fuck being born in '97
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heavenisacorporation 1 month ago 2
this is indie emo, part of a 90's emo revival wave of bands that mixed alternative rock/indie with emo, of course this band is more on the alternative side ( with the get up kids, braid and american football) of it but there's bands that a bit more agressive though of course not as agressive as hardcore punk (this bands are also called screamo bands) like pg 99 and city of caterpillar
if you prefer the new veins of post hardcore that came in the mid 2000 thats ok but just know that's not emo
DevilDriver20 3 months ago
REAL EMO BRUTAL!
seriously, how many people listen to bands because they are emo? most of the bands you listen to because of that wouldn't approve of doing so.
onthebrinnkk 5 months ago
haha your all tosser,if dont like it fuck off.BOP BOP!!
BillCosbysHair 8 months ago
Nothing means anything. It's all empty symbolism with subjective assignments and designations to help individuals and societies project our bullshit and pretend like it doesn't all end with the basic facts of existence.. Emo is emotional punk rock. What does that mean? Who knows? What is punk? Who cares? I still think The Promise Ring kicks ass and they help me cope with all my own bullshit and petty, pointless existence.
ApathySidecar 8 months ago 2
Why did ever we meet...hmm nice spelling jadetree. sick though
bmxwtp465 9 months ago
No, actually it's just alternative pop. The name 'emo' was given by people into more aggressive style of music inside the US punk scene, because more less these bands were part of the local hardcorepunk scene's, like it or not.
zeroelevend 11 months ago
Hey guys, grow the fuck up and stop complaining. There are two kinds of emo. This emo didn't stand out because it had nothing to offer to the shit youth of society. MCR emo stood out because it made teens look rebellious and cutting themselves ect... When you think about it, this is the shit version of emo. Definitely less popular and DEFINATELY dead.
paniccat 11 months ago
@paniccat this guy has it right, fuck this stupid shit man i love emarosa and MCr and shit this stuff is homosex man fuck the rpomise ring and shit man
Balkasu 11 months ago
@Balkasu Damn right, fuaggot. U no i no what u talk about.
paniccat 11 months ago
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Balkasu 11 months ago
@paniccat you have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
saidinjest 10 months ago
@paniccat there isn't two kinds of emo, there is this style and that is all.
my chemical romance play alternative rock, and the rest of the bands who play faux 'emo' play watered down metalcore or alt rock influenced post hardcore and real emo/screamo bands had songs about cutting themselves, look at the usurp synapse/hassan i sannah 'just do it' split; its a record which promotes killing yourself.
this style of music isn't dead, there are plenty of decent bands who still play this style today.
Baitenator 10 months ago
Hey guys... music is music. Anyone with ears can tell you that this band sounds nothing like the bands that get labeled as "emo" nowadays. So what's the fucking problem? As long as you and I know, why the fuck should it matter what a bunch of 14 year olds think or say? They're idiots.
GrockJake 11 months ago
@tokyoerose999 - lol all fag bands. Get a grip KID, punk is retired because it wasn't very good. No one likes a buncha fags making crybaby songs. Go suck a cock? You're just mad I put you in your place. Later cunt.
LocalOBGYN 1 year ago
@tokyoerose999 - lol all fag bands. Get a grip KID, punk is retired because it wasn't very good. No one likes a buncha fags making crybaby songs. Go suck a cock? You're just mad I put you in your place. Later cunt.
LocalOBGYN 1 year ago
Fuck this shit for making weak spineless emo shit popular and relegating death metal to the underground.
ModernDayPaulRevere 1 year ago
@ModernDayPaulRevere dude shut up, this stuffs underground aswell. learn to appreciate all kinds of music, i fuckin hate death metal but i dont dispute that it is good music for people who like that kinda stuff. music is only as good as the individual listenin to it says it is, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
chrislookslikealady 1 year ago
@ModernDayPaulRevere i actually prefer Death Metal to be on the underground since you know, what some shitholes did to it when they created Deathcore
DevilDriver20 3 months ago
The promise ring fans know what real emo is, i'm so glad of it, i'm tired of people saying Alesana or My Dear Whoever is emo, that's just Fashioncore
Oscaracer 1 year ago
It's funny how many kids give me flack for labeling an actual "EMO" band (in the 90's music discription) Emo.They have no idea that the word was used before to discribe bands like TPR and others back in the 90's, I have to tell my son(13) that the word "emo" today is used to discribe the wrong bands.
1thess523 1 year ago
@1thess523 I love how I just randomly come across one of you comments will looking at videos. I shoulda expected that lol. But on another note, I agree with what you're saying.
zebrafood 7 months ago
You guys are all fags and stupid, "Punk" is dead. But if you must know, it was bands like Cro Mags, Black Flag, and Misfits.
You all who called "Blink 182" punk need to eat a razorblade.
LocalOBGYN 1 year ago
@LocalOBGYN lol take the Internet more seriously next time.
LambdaLife 1 year ago
@LocalOBGYN "punk" is not dead go listen to title fight, deadlights , agent.... and go listen to dude ranch blink-182 is a punk band so suck a fat one cock smoker
tokyorose999 1 year ago
If a band sounds emoish, how you can tell that they are really emo is to look how they dress...
If they look like total nerds or hicks, probably emo. If they wear eyeliner, not emo.
crazypoopsticks 1 year ago
ps- whoever thinks FOB and MCR are emo needs to wikipedia the genre "emo". Those bands are trash compared to SDRE, Cap'n Jazz, or the get up kids.
Don't listen to everything Hot Topic tells you.
rouenea 1 year ago 2
this is one of my favorite songs on this cd!
rouenea 1 year ago
by the way if you like the promise ring go chekc out maritime , this is the actual band of the lead singer
TRUEROMANCEMOVIE 1 year ago
love this video
jentrok 1 year ago
this doesn't really sound emo to me. it sounds more like Big Star than it does Mineral
yamon98 1 year ago
first time i see a video from the promise ring... any other out there?
PincheRoMo 1 year ago
....ma perchè non si suona più così :) !?
daizerbo 1 year ago
Growing up in Chicago in the midst of a huge scene in the 90's, I skewed towards bands like Cap'n Jazz and Braid. I loved the pop punk from the guys I met via skating, 88 fingers, Bollweevils, but I loved that atonal, minor chord sound that I heard from "emo" bands even more. When I really started seeing bands like this, i always thought, Jawbox, Fuguzi. Later I knew it was a movement all our own, midwest! This vid is great because I used to dress in the same style, still do now a bit.
eracguy 1 year ago
Wisconsin's Finest! Emo pioneers.. When music and shows were fun, exciting, and a bit crazy.. When if you got a doc martin in your face.. You were a happy boy... because that was a good show! Miss you guys!
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@yowatsupdudesweet How about nice warm cup of STFU?
drogaz1 1 year ago
at the start the the drummer looks like lead singer from weezer
Miteour17 1 year ago
this song sounds like the foo fighters, not hating, just saying. I love this song
hebesphenomegacorona 1 year ago
411 vm europe 2003... great soundtrack, best song in the video, sick song to shred to, nuff said...
deanerspace1231 1 year ago
@ganstamannirvana93 Don't forget Thursday, Posion The Well, Spitafield, And Engine Down. :)
giutar24 1 year ago
@giutar24 Those are also great bands. Even though Poison the Well is more metalcore than they are emo.
drogaz1 1 year ago
music videos..........whatever happened to you?
jamesalanstrickland 1 year ago 2
That was major pass interference committed on the ginger bread man.
SuttonSantiniPaulo 2 years ago
Yeah, that's a fifteen yard penalty, automatic first down.
30degreeseverywhere 1 year ago
quite poor sound...
LeBob25 2 years ago
welcome to youtube!
InGloriousColour 2 years ago 4
@LeBob25 i believe sloopiness and slower tempo was what this kind of bands wanted back on the 90's, and i think it's better cause they might sound exactly like this live, not like modern music that sounds fantastic on record because of studio tricks and then sound like crap live
DevilDriver20 3 months ago
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in that years (96-99) it seems like u.s.a. bands wanted to be english...
vastowildbrothers 2 years ago
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is this a christian band?
Slyteradon 2 years ago
you are.
bartlebybartleby 2 years ago
nice, thats hilarious, you should write for George lopez
Slyteradon 2 years ago
can i use you as a reference in my application?
bartlebybartleby 2 years ago
i don't know, i think you're overqualified already
Slyteradon 2 years ago
Good old stuff! :D
GodsReflex 2 years ago
I saw PR open up for HUM back in 98'. Yes I feel old...
SuttonSantiniPaulo 2 years ago 9
That woulda been a great show. Both of those bands are great.
wreckedbasket19 2 years ago 2
(L)
maritoloser 2 years ago
I should be really into these guys because I love a lot of 90's emo, but for some reason I never got into them. This song is ok.
notyoursavior78 2 years ago
What 90`s emo bands did you like? Im not big on these either to be honest.
sdtuu 2 years ago
Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbreaker, Texas is the Reason to name a few.
notyoursavior78 2 years ago
I agree, I never really liked the "Pop- Punk" style of Emo. I always liked the harder, Indie bands like SDRE and Mineral and the half Screamo, half Post- Hardcore bands like Indian Summer or Julia.
ganstamannirvana93 2 years ago 19
I should check those bands out. I heard/seen the names before, but I never listened to any of their stuff.
I listen to Saetia which is like full on screamo, but the lyrics are soo good and I like that short lived band of the late 90's. They'd be even better with more understandable screaming imo.
notyoursavior78 2 years ago
great bands dude
HardSkaPunk 2 years ago
@ganstamannirvana93 -Most of your "emo"bands today combine Post Hardcore and Screamo to get their sound. Pop Punk is okay. But you got to be careful what you mix with it. Jimmy Eat World and Saves the Day, although they do toomuch of it now, did it well 9 years ago. Btw, Texas is the Reason is my personal favorite.
MasterAdam100 1 year ago
@ganstamannirvana93 you should check out moss icon, and nation of ulysses
Invadrshanee 1 year ago
@Invadrshanee I have, they're both great.
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@ganstamannirvana93 Now, I never said I didn't like it.
drogaz1 1 year ago
bands from milwaukee can kill it man. this shitz old skool rad.
crankdowna 6 months ago
One of the best emo bands ever and easily one the best bands i've seen live! The only other emo band that comes close is Pop Unknown! Thank god for Jade Tree Records and Deep Elm Records they opened my eyes to whole different type of music back in 98.
trustfulrocket 2 years ago 2
wow, does it really matter whats emo and what not? cant it just be music? for goodness sakes people
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jBird223 2 years ago
I &heart; davey
hideandsleep 2 years ago
THE BEST SHIT!!!LOVE IT!!!
pokerrdawg 2 years ago
this song is adorable
PepitoPreet 2 years ago
awesome song, awesome video
thomargh 2 years ago
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this is not emo, people that think this are delusional or about 15 years old and didn't grow when this stuff was first released. please before you speak, educate yourself on a subject before becoming opinionated.
thestripeisonfire 2 years ago
i saw this band in john hiltz's basement when they only had a 7" and nobody knew them. they were anemo band then that sucked, and they are still an emo band that sucked. your opinion that this isn't emo is just as opinionated as my statement that they suck. they are opinions. who said you were the fact police. fact this is emo. deal with it.
epanter 2 years ago
Actually, you are the one who needs to be educated. Emo used to mean bands like The Get Up Kids, Braid, Sunny Day Real Estate and The Promise Ring. Now of course it's stuff like My Chemical Romance,Fall Out Boy and AFI.
drogaz1 2 years ago 39
Actually, emo started in the 80's as punk sounds with more "emotional" lyrics and punkers labeled these bands as emo. Such bands include Minor Threat and Rites of Spring. Some people even considered Black Flag and Fugazi as emo. No doubt it has evolved over the years, like every other genre, but so many different sounds have been lumped into emo now, its just silly. Anyway, why label music? People should just listen to what they like and not care what others listen to. Not saying you do drogza1.
norem4c 2 years ago 3
Black Flag is THE FARTHEST thing from emo!!!!! Wow, people actually say that they are? Unbelievable. Fugazi/Minor Threat and Rites of Spring... meh, whatever. Think what you want to think about those bands. but if there was ever a band that graced this earth that was the anti-emo, it was Black Flag.
That is all.
iwatchvideos918 2 years ago
I've never really listened to Black Flag, I just remember reading that in some music forum a while back. .I dont know if i would call Fugazi emo either and I dont like Minor Threat.
norem4c 2 years ago
umm why did this get -3
iwatchvideos918 2 years ago
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Probably because you're a faggot. "Anti-emo"? No one in the 80s even knew what the fuck emo was. But yeah, they did a song entitled "Depression", where they talk about having no friends and how girls don't want to fuck them...if you didn't know. Anyway...have you ever read anything Rollins wrote? Solipsist is some pretty fucking emo shit, I'm not going to lie...I mean, I can't speak for the rest of the band. But his literature gets pretty damn cliché and whiny.
MajorityRule 2 years ago
@drogaz1 agreed.
mattreedah 1 year ago
@drogaz1 Everything after The Promise Ring isn't emo but rather pop-punk. A shame too, AFI used to be good hardcore punk.
LibertineObscene 1 year ago
@drogaz1 but MCR and FOB are actuallly pretty good. being the only goo emo bands recently
chobitz7 1 year ago 2
@chobitz7 I never said I disliked them. I like a lot of modern emo bands including MCR, AFI, FOB, Brand New, Say Anything, Circa Survive and a few others. I tend to favor "golden age" emo bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral, The Promise Ring and Jimmy Eat World.
drogaz1 1 year ago
@drogaz1 ah, ok man. cool
chobitz7 1 year ago
@drogaz1 OMFG how can you say that mcr and fob (MTV sellout ) are emo damn they have nothing to do with the sound, the diy, independent label an 7s of the 90s emo . They are only call emo cause it sell to do , wake the fuck up kid.
How can you listen to a promise ring and then comment that fob and mcr are the good emo band right know.
TRUEROMANCEMOVIE 1 year ago
@TRUEROMANCEMOVIE I don't think that's what he meant. I think he was saying "this is what emo really meant and now this what people think it is."
LibertineObscene 1 year ago
@TRUEROMANCEMOVIE Really? Brand New sounds nothing like Sunny Day Real Estate, even on there later albums? And Say Anything Sounds nothing like The Get Up Kids or Braid? The Ghost of You by MCR doesn't display any obvious influence from SDRE at all? Also how does The Promise Ring sound anything like say, Rites of Spring or Gray Matter? If you want to be such a purist at least be consistent. I'm allowed to have my opinion and you are allowed to have yours.
drogaz1 1 year ago
@drogaz1 sup my name is Pete wentz from fall out boy you can see me on the cover of us weekly or star magazine with my beautiful wife aslhey simpson...
TRUEROMANCEMOVIE 1 year ago
@TRUEROMANCEMOVIE That doesn't really answer anything. If you are trying to say FOB are sell outs then you are kind of correct in some respects but when was emo a genre that had a subculture with rules and values like punk? Plus, FOB are more emo-pop than pure emo. Also, you don't see Max Bemis, Jess Lacey or Gerard Way on the cover of US Weekly so your claim fails to answer any of my questions about those bands.
drogaz1 1 year ago
@drogaz1 This is just ridiculous. All of you please do your homework. If it doesn't sound anything like punk then how can you consider it emo? The genre has it's roots in punk. I don't consider brand new emo anymore and I never considered 30 seconds to Mars an emo band. Do you guys even know what kind of bands started all of this? Bands like minor Threat, Grey Matter and Beefeater. People who took the hardcore punk scene in a more personal direction.
feetoffthesky 1 year ago
@feetoffthesky Brand New sounds about as punk as this. And who said anything about 30 Seconds to Mars? I don't really think I would consider them an emo band at all personally. And how are Minor Threat emo? Most of there songs sound pretty political to me.,
drogaz1 1 year ago
@drogaz1 Which is weird because AFI has been around longer than most of the bands you mentioned. Albeit as a hardcore punk band.
myguitardidyermom12 1 year ago
@myguitardidyermom12 I know! AFI is sometimes called Goth too (completely different music scene/culture from Emocore). Old AFI before they went Pop-Rock was actually pretty good. Nothing at all like old school emo which is good too.
LibertineObscene 1 year ago
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crazypoopsticks 1 year ago
@drogaz1 well said.
requena79 1 year ago
@drogaz1 Emo has become a derogatory term that is used to describe any kind of modern music these days that has any semblances of punk within it. This and the bands that you mentioned were actually part of the second wave that became much less focused on the punk and straight edge parts of the movement. If you listen to saves the day or AFI's really old shit it shows the dividing line between first wave bands (minor threat, etc) and second wave bands. AFI, however, became part of third wave.
feetoffthesky 1 year ago
@feetoffthesky WORD! remember embrace?
rudobuquadrant 1 year ago
@drogaz1
and b4 that, it referred to the hardcore punk scene that turned more "emotional" like Rites of Spring,Embrace and hardcore bands like indian summer.
souljaboyisbad 1 year ago
@drogaz1 My Chemical Romance is not emo.
fishtankfreak 1 year ago
@drogaz1 You are stupid. MCR used to be emo (their first 2 albums), Fall Out Boy have never been emo, but yeah a lot of people think them emo for some reason. AFI was never emo. They are hardcore/horror punk, later alternative
BTW i realize this comment is 2 years old
LongviewGD182 8 months ago
@LongviewGD182 MCR were never emo.
Baitenator 6 months ago 4
of the full lengths, only the first has that emo sound. this shit is indie pop all the way. way to tell if art is good is if could not have been simple to make but is made to look easy. this is pop music never designed to get popular. not my favorite album of theirs but definately the best i think
gsyverson 2 years ago
Back when "emo" was honest.
ducksducks 3 years ago 3
before it turned into pop-punk too
Smalley123 2 years ago 3
i wish i could have seen them on tour with jets to brazil . i'm pretty sure it would beat the last few shows i went to... scratch that i am 100% sure.
allwehear 3 years ago
Oh man I wish I could go back to the days of TPR and JTB touring, love em both!!
slamamanca629 2 years ago
saw them both in montreal back in 97 or 98....i had tears of joy listening to TPR and it was my first time listening to Jets to Brazil. I have goosebumps just remembering it.
CthulhuEye 2 years ago
You can't just tell that the lead singer has a lisp.
Powne00 3 years ago
papapara papapara pa paa
maritoloser 3 years ago
some one mentioned jawbreaker. dont forget jets to brazil! i only found jawbreaker after jets so i owe a lot to them and to blake. promise ring are so wonderful. it sucks that i missed them in the time that they defined.
oh well.
we have fall out boy...i guess...
:(
theunhappyhours 3 years ago
OMG JAWBREAKER you just hit me over the head with memories! JET BLACK.
SYNDICADO 3 years ago
i was born in 90. but god i really wish i could of been a teen in the 90s to experience all the amazing emo music of that time. today just makes me so sick. listening to this song makes me want to cry cause i feel so nostalgic hahaha -.-
breerenee 3 years ago 6
YEAH!
xDookieCookiex 3 years ago
I gotta say, it was pretty awesome.
A mix tape could get you laid. It was a great time to be a guy with good hair.
ShipwreckedLife 3 years ago 2
That is retarded, I am pretty sure at the time the Promise Ring entered the scene, "EMO" was still a swear word. Instead of labeling bands why don't you take it for what it is worth. I hate the word Emo---every fucking song is emotional. I am pretty sure you are a girl, because I am sick of these pussy guys walking around making good music look bad. Why can't the scene kids claim their gay bands without dragging my favorites into it?
LebbyMN 3 years ago
well..my name is bree so its obvious i'm a girl. and labels exist for a reason, even though people use them incorrectly all the time. what are you ranting about anyway with scene kids and stuff like that? shut up you look stupid. I know TPR and certain other bands did not want to be called emo but whatever thats what they are always affiliated with. Do you think anyone is going to talk about TPR and call them "the music of the early 90's" seriously get real.
breerenee 3 years ago
Scene kids are faggots though.
Can't disagree there.
Powne00 3 years ago
well, EMO wasnt even the word. People didnt know what to call it. i remember THRASHER magazine calling it "WATERD DOWN PUNK".
BUT HEY! if you really want to go back to some real foundation shit, check out JAWBREAKER and MXPX.
SYNDICADO 3 years ago
Jawbreaker is decent, MxPx fucking sucks dick.
Anyway, I'm sick of people bringing up "emo" in the comment section of this video. Fuck off and just listen to the music will you? Christ.
MajorityRule 2 years ago
Jawbreaker is "decent"??? Lol. More like fucking incredible.
iwatchvideos918 2 years ago
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Nah, I used to think they were the best thing since getting your dick sucked too...but then I realized that they are pretty overrated. It's whatever I guess.
MajorityRule 2 years ago
Ooopsie, I meant Promise Ring**. DUH.
wehitconcrete 3 years ago
I am pretty sure The Promise Ring would never want to be grouped in along with the word "emo." Does anyone remember when the word was almost derogatory?
LebbyMN 3 years ago
Gnewikow of the Promise Ring in an article from Guitar World in 1999..."I could validate the point that we are an emo band, and I could also go on the other side and invalidate it. It all comes down to whoevers asking, their perception of what it is. Emo is the most ridiculous thing to say. What band isnt emotional?
dyollmailliw 3 years ago 3
YEAH! I remember bands like Jawbreaker, Get Up Kids, and Promise Band would get offended when the word "emo" was brought up in interviews. And back then, it meant something less than what it means now: bitch ass suicidal eye-liner shit.
wehitconcrete 3 years ago
Well Said!
TroyShellie 3 years ago
You say that like emo is a bad thing, I mean todays stereotype is, but this was emo. this was the emo genre its just perception of it that's changed.
Empsiess 3 years ago
Wikipedia really nails it if you check it out; based on their definitions, these guys were part of the second wave--and I love them for it.
jwithington 3 years ago
Yeah, except the AOL emo chat was the joint! haha
RIP my youth
ShipwreckedLife 3 years ago
my favorite song by them is Electric Pink
Kagome1015 3 years ago
i love this song
reminds me of when i was little
im only 15 so yeah
makes me happy
say12thebear 3 years ago
davey looks like flea to me.
gorefaggot 3 years ago
ps.. buy a jawbreaker or hotwater music album.. and learn something...
xanthein22 3 years ago
saw them first in toronto in 99..met a guy on tuesday...said we should see them on saturday...thought i was going to die on QEW..we got there in torontos china town..i got a sprite at chinese resturant fortune cookie said "an empty stomach is politicaly incorrect"..i survived the drive there and back..the show was amazing...it was a good night...i love this emo crap..the only people who call it emo are the kids who werent there for it... it wasnt emo it was good music that spawned sh"t...
xanthein22 3 years ago 3
This is the REAL emo.. Now emo doesn't exist anymore..
vittux7 3 years ago
why are people still arguing about what's emo? just enjoy the music and don't worry about labels.
sowhat248 3 years ago 3
I agree, sowhat. :]
SugarLies 3 years ago 3
Even if they were, they, along with Sunny Day Real Estate are original emo. Before it became a fad instead of music. Anyway, they rock. Love em.
drummergabe 3 years ago 2
+1 for effort, but what people don't tend to realise is that emo technically isn't a genre of music, but a sub culture... Although you're right with this band being one of the fore runners to the aforementioned sub culture. Along with Rites of Spring, Sunny day, jimmy eat world etc.
BenLynusIsntDead 3 years ago
Sub culture? Why is it a sub culture, you say? Just curious. I understand that straightedge is a sub culture, but i'm not sure about emo.
weihoozie 3 years ago
dont forget texas is the reason
urokr 3 years ago 3
kids have battered this emo look, made the promise ring nutin in return. very good band with texas the 2 cracked it buy the 7 inch split.. i think maritime have a chance perhaps the 3rd lp will be the one davey deserves...
keep steady and dont flake exciting times ahead.
fastairs 3 years ago
wow it like coll
oliversweeny 3 years ago
nice voice sexy
xxashley1989xx 3 years ago
Maritime is better... MKE music has come a long way... Check out these MKE bands:
Decibully
Atlatl
Brief Candles
its sick...
rogej0453 3 years ago
more mature and evolved but without the Promise Ring there is no Maritime
Heyerme 3 years ago
Agreed:) And without Capn Jazz there would have been no promise ring. Oh Davey and his musical projects.
rogej0453 3 years ago
LMFAO INDIE bhahahahha how can a indipendent music label be a genre of music hahaa.
LeeTronX 3 years ago
I don't know; the same way a chunk of minerals (aka a ROCK) can be a genre of music.
flamebait07 3 years ago 2
rofl, how can an emotion be a type of music?
MyYellowBrickWall 3 years ago
EMO= Emotional hardcore.
That's it's original definition
Emo isn't an abbreviated term for the word Emotion.
Superstarseven 3 years ago
Not to sound jerky 'n stuff, cous i like TPR, but its not plain emo, its like indie/emo, and its more pop oriented than most emo.
Nizzemanden 3 years ago
True. More Sunny Day Real Estate than Indian Summer.
HowJamp 3 years ago
Exactly what i meant =]
Nizzemanden 3 years ago
This is one of my favorite songs by The Promise Ring
transguyjace 3 years ago
I like this voice
Pomacea111 3 years ago
this music video is golden
moogrocker 3 years ago
gayest video ever. fucking love this band!
jlancia 3 years ago
this is real emo and not that bullshit u see every day with tight jeans and horrible hair , taht is called haircore not emo
this is emo
they just screw this scene
shinno9 3 years ago 4
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This is Fake
KnockedUpBoy 3 years ago
who knows what kind of car that is
iamemocore 3 years ago
emo was started by Rites of Spring
mootallica 3 years ago
Wax, even!
eversincealways 3 years ago
lol i love how people take more time tagging music w/ genres rather than just enjoying it...even ian mckaye hates the whole "emo" label. he's been against the tag since he was in embrace back in the 80s
YamadaEntertainment 3 years ago 2
Well said.
ch90000 3 years ago
Your all idiots...
Demolition63 3 years ago
Hell yes.
eversincealways 3 years ago
lol you have no idea what you are talking about get your facts right before you talk this is actuelly true emo and emo started in the early 90s by a guy named guy piccioto
saporoth0 3 years ago
1984-5ish
iamemocore 3 years ago
1983
eversincealways 3 years ago
Ironic comment, asshat.
eversincealways 3 years ago