Which is / was worse?

Grunge
Total votes: 7 (18%)
Emo
Total votes: 32 (82%)
Total votes: 39

Negative Thunderdome: Emo vs. Grunge

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tommydski wrote:Well, that's exactly the problem with these labels.

"Hipster", "Emo" and "Goth" just ends up meaning anything and everything you dislike bound in a neat little package for you to vent your own personal insecurities on. As a description of a type of music, it is now completely barren because it is up to each individual's hatred to decide what defines it. So "Emo" can mean effeminate, camp, over-dramatic, over-produced, young, homosexual - whatever you want to hate this morning.

Gawd, the labelling of music is really silly. Except Crap or Not Crap of course!



I remember when emo was all about wearing black with matted black hair and whining with the voice of a fourteen year old girl. It's changed slightly to be more about fashion now, hasn't it?

See, it's all about what's popular with the youth - I see emo as the "new grunge".
- Andy

Negative Thunderdome: Emo vs. Grunge

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Depends on how you're defining the terms. If you're using the mainstream definitions (i.e., Pearl Jam vs. My Chemical Romance), then grunge is better by a few steps.

But grunge, as it was defined in the late 80s and pre-Nevermind 90s, included Mudhoney, Green River, Tad, Screaming Trees, etc., as well as some of the sonically similar AmpRep bands, like the Cows. Rites of Spring were okay, but they don't hold a candle to the awesomeness that is Tad.

I don't think I've ever seen Fugazi or Jawbox classified as an emo band.
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