emo

A subgenre of hardcore music originating mainly from the D.C. hardcore punk scene in the late 1980s. The word is an abreviation of 'emocore'. Hardcore was mainly about politics and anger. Fugazi were the first emo band and their first album , '13 Songs', talked more about their emotions leading to the creation of the word.

Emo is now a word used by people with very small vocabularies for anybody bohemian/alternative (i.e. those who do not wear trackies or listen to rap music)

Emo bands include - Fugazi, Lifetime, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jets To Brazil, Jawbreaker, Texas is the Reason, Mineral.

Emo bands do NOT include - Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Lostprophets and more.

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