Embrace - "Last Song" - 1986 - 9:30 Club

[ScienceofShadows]

I agree Ian is the best thing that ever happened to music!!

[Pilaf1984]

"Does a movement end with a band?" brilliant thought, sir.

[DRCification]

i am cool because I played that venue twice :)

[joeycadre]

i called the bands i love emo-core back in 1989 and i also called myself a punk. so what the fuck.

the term has been destroyed just like what the corporate "punk" rock has been.

just enjoy and fuck the labels.

[honchophil]

Aces!

Miss them.

Great times.

[ceymooney]

eah, but we used the word emo in the late 80's, emocore, etc. good word or bad, that was the tag going around back then, to distuguish itself, as hardcore/punk was dominated by macho/jock/thug vibe and explicitly political bands, then there was the whole mohawking and all that. emo/emocore distinguished bands like embrace and dag nasty and 7 seconds (remember the label posi-core?) from the more dominant threads at the time. the current use bears no current musical or cultural relevance.

[MEGAFREDO14]

@cardigansarecool shut up asshole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cryptomnesiia]

goddamn WHAT THE FUCK. WHY DOES IS MATTER WHAT THE GENRE IS FUCKING CALLED.

[JeloMulawin]

No, they aren't EMO, they are EMOTIVE HARDCORE PUNK, so technically they should be called EHP....

[Sensoriexpansion69]

Too bad they were too short lived as a group. excellent lp.

[dudesons441]

anyone WANT TO HELP ME TAB eMBRACE SONGS??? sorry for the caps lock mess up :P

[terrormachine78]

Thanks for uploading this.

[FascistFashion]

O kay people, there really is no such thing as emo. Yes, there was an underground movement of DIY Punk and Hardcore that incorporated melody, experimentation, abstract/poetic (or just not "bla bla bla F*ck you bla bla Hate bla bla anger) lyrics and tried to move away from violence and hypermasculinity that had infected hardcore music. None of these bands even called, or wanted themselves to be called "emo", no one even really knows where the term "emo" came from.

[unearth1980]

Ey whats up people. You all got it all wrong.

This is not the "EMO" Embrace band. The Embrace that are suppose to be EMO are americans not britsh. And they sound punk-hardcore .

[james619]

dude, this is the emo-core band embrace. this is not the british embrace. ian mackaye is here.

[punklover99]

well you know who Ian is so why call it emo-core he even said that term is bull shit it's fucking post-hardcore emo-core is shit

[james619]

dude they do make emocore sound. it doesnt mean if you hate emo that you cant play emo. it's the sound, and emo and post hardcore is pretty much very similar, because rites of spring created both genres. haha. peace dude!

[punklover99]

what the fuck are you on if you hate the term and what it's about why play the music but dont get me wrong tights is a good band but fuck that emo-core bullshit term there fucking post and just because they sound similar doesn't mean there the same thing dumb ass and rights didn't create post hardcore it was a band from Chicago named "Big Black" so there go's your fucking argument

[james619]

well, you just spelled "rites" wrong. still, the line between post hardcore and emo is thin. why do you need to be sooo mad about this? dude this is music, it should be uniting us music lovers, not dividing us. well there you go. well, rites kinda made the prototype for post, what came first? rites or big black? peace mate

[punklover99]

Big black came first and if you know of ian why disrespect the man with a term he hates it's like going up to a black guy and calling him a nigger why insult the man post all the way new trendys can keep there emo bullshit i'm sticking with oi ska punk old hardcore and post

[james619]

the term emo is hardly discrediting and not an insult if you knew what real emo is, and there are tons of bands out there that just dont want to be labeled into a genre. a lot do not want to be called nu metal, metal, and many others. even rites of spring do not want to be called emo although they pioneered the sound. even black sabbath didnt really knew at first that the music they invented was called metal. it's just a label, well, let's not argue about this anymore, peace!

[fearUncertaintyDoubt]

Wow, I haven't listened to my Embrace lp in close to a decade but this sounds allot more melodic than what I remember. Makes me think Ian's vocals are mixed way too high on the record which would have sounded better if he let the band stand out more. ego?

[gripper61]

think you is wrong...listen to the lp again...it's very melodic...and mixed right.

[paulkaiser]

i agree, the newest remastered is mixed perfectly, especially for early dischord.

[UserName123321a]

BEST THING EVER

[maison666]

so good dischord records at there best.

[littlevolcano]

I love Embrace. I was suprised to find a video of them performing live on here, so thank you for posting this.

[antidotevideozine]

too bad theres no bass in the mix..lookslikeahelluvalot going on. thanks for postin these aye!

[dontchokeonwords]

ian mackaye is the best thing that ever happened to music.

[EastCoastHC]

I am in love with ritesofspr. Is that bad?

[mcglue]

Michael Hampton was far and away the best guitarist in the Dischord pack --

[paulkaiser]

mcglue....you are completely right...Hampton was far beyond the others

[ritesofspr]

Yep. I always preferred Scream over MI.

[scottistrad]

Mission Impossible = Dave Grohl's band before Scream

[benkapp]

happened

[benkapp]

THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER