Screamo

i'm a huge screamo fan
what about you peoples?

i just was introduced to this band called Ice Nine Kills. they're my new fav. anyone ever heard of 'em?
my fav song by them is In The Throws Of A Moral Quandry

I actually don't hate screamo, but i think it has hugely negative connotations.

I just checked out ice nine kills. not bad. but then again I'm really picky.

you might really like the blood brothers though, look them up! another good one is dd/mm/yyyy, although i dont think they're technically "screamo."

First wave screamo/post-hardcore is all right.
Not a big fan of most stuff out now, though I am liking Circle Takes the Square, good experimental screamo. Early Blood Brothers stuff is also really good.

I have some fave screamo songs but some just irritates my ear.

so you like fall of troy?

Nah.
I mean, they're not bad, I'm just not a big fan.
My ex-girlfriend was a fan though, we saw them live...fun energetic show.
I prefer At the Drive-In, too bad they're not around anymore.

The one thing I will say about them is that they have great band names,
But I just can't listen to this music.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think it's the vocals that really bother me.
Although a lot of bands make the same mistake speed metal bands make; they don't seem to realize that hard/loud/fast is not the same as good.

I don't know, it's a genre of sort of ambiguity for me, because of how much I like the music that influenced it. But maybe that's the problem; it doesn't do it's influences justice.

FUGAZI!!!!

you might have a point there. i just don't entirely agree. i picked up screamo a few years ago.
my first introduction to the rock/alternative scene was linkin park. i loved 'em. still do. i went and picked up hybrid theory cuz i loved 'em so much. i was listening to the cd and then the second song came on; One Step Closer. then it got to the screaming part and i was like, "what the fuck is this shit?!" i'd never heard it before. after i listened to 'em more, i started to like screaming. then i discovered all screamo bands and ones with more screaming in it. now i love it. i even did screaming/singing in a band for a while before our drummer bailed out on a gig and we kicked him out.

It's not the screaming that bothers me, it's just how fucking...whiney it gets sometimes, man. And high pitched.
Noise isn't really a problem for me.
And as far as influences, I was talking about punk/hardcore punk, mostly from the 80's (if we are talking direct influence here).
Actually, my taste for punk leaves me a little sore on most of what is considered alternative rock these days. It has to do with the point of the music, I think. The rock music of an era is most often driven by the culture of the younger generation. That's were that rebellious rock feel comes from. But by the 70's and 80's, rock was running out of things to rebel against. There wasn't any big wars or repressions or such, so punk came out of a rebellion for the sake of it; an anger against the stagnation and boredom of society. I don't mean to write a paper on music history here, but my point is this; modern alternative is influence by that punk feel, but it's watered down and unoriginal now, it just isn't genuine. I mean, after you run out of things to rebel against, and then rebel against everything based on the fact that you have nothing to rebel against, were do you go?
So I feel that music had hit a slow spot, and screamo is just another genre trying to recapture the frustration of a previous generation. This is why so many kids make big deals out of small problems and try to manufacture shit in their lives; it's a desire to suffer to justify that damned teen angst.

Dante1214 said it very well.
I pretty much agree.

wow. you're a very informed individual. i see where you're coming from. it was an interesting history of music. i love screamo for the sound alot of it. but some of it is just righteous in it's lyrics. i no a couple legit christian screamo band. not the "christian" bands that label themselves as that to appeal to a larger audience or just because the members are religious, but the actually christian bands that sing/scream about god and teachings. its not even that i'm christian. in fact i'm not religious. but i just lay back and enjoy the music. i just sing to sing and scream to scream. only half of the music i listen to do i actually decipher the meaning behind the music and lyrics. if you look at it from that perspective, there's nothing wrong with it.
aside from that, if you're not a fan of screamo, what's your preference in music? and why?

It's cool to like it, I guess, it just rubs me the long way, like I said.
And I like a lot of music; there are very few genres that I don't listen to entirely. So I can't really tell you why I like what I do, in general.
Sorry.

meh. 's fine
i listen to absolutely everything. it justs few songs or bands that i can't stand. not entire genres. i grew up on country, being from the south (Alabama), and got introduced to rock and pop when i moved up here (New York). i then expanded from there and eventually started liking everything.

I really don't get why is "hate it" part get 3 votes?
Is there any lady out there?
I definitely love screamo... not just screamo though...
I did love music in universal way, so people, if you do hate screamo, don't act like screamo is a thing that would make you puke...
really don't like how people doing that on youtube tough...

Love It as long as Norma Jean and Unearth count as scream-o.

yes they sure as hell do. i love norma jean. o'god the aftermath was an amazing album. do you like sullivan?

yeah it does piss me off when people do that. when people talk about like dante does then that's just fine. but i hate youtube comments that are like "this video sucks and this song sucks." or "god this video was a waste of my life." 1) it was your choice to listen to the song and watch the video so don't bitch and moan. 2)you're a douche bag.
seriously. i just hate youtube comments in general

and yeah i just plain love music. accept most mainstream pop. just can't stand it.

I like this genre, only I'm not sure if the bands I listen to fall into the screamo or post-hardcore genre. I don't understand the distinction between the two, seeing as they're pretty much alike. :oops:

Early Alexisonfire, UnderOath, FFAF and some As I Lay Dying to name a few. Keeps me tickin'. :)

love all them! the only one i'm positive is screamo (as defined by others {which is bullshit}) is alexisonfire. underoath is post-hardcore and as i lay dying is post-hardcore/metal

@DarkStarAlchemist
Alexisonfire rule! Though I have to say I'm too fond of the shift in their musical direction in "Crisis". It's not that it's bad, it just felt strange to me compared with their older stuff. Ah well, hopefully I'll be able to appreciate their next album.