gray matter might be classified in hindsight as an emo band. but in the 80s and early 90s that meant something different musically than late 90s or early 00s. by then there were all these subgenres already and i didn't like most of the whiny, poppy stuff. i like stuff like gray matter or embrace way more than turn of the century pop emo styles. but there were some good bands still. not taking into account the whole scene thing that came after 2000, all these mtv bands like the used. by then i was reverting back into a hip hop head and it was weird how it all blew up into this hair/nu metalesque thing a little later.
but all the harder stuff is nowadays hard to listen to for me as well. i was heavy into old chaotic screamo stuff and would download every obscure song i could find with soulseek. i still have a few 7 inches as well. they are all rare but still worthless, haha.
it's somewhat funny how punk and metal have their respective analogues in their subgenres and how they influence eachother throughout their history back and forth. in the sense that i never was a big metal head, but when i started to listen to more metal there were all these parallels. like how you have death metal and grindcore (and subsequently also death-grind) and how they are similar in themes and how they differ from their root genre in intensity if you will. or the parallels between the production and mood of an early black metal record and early primitive screamo bands (brittle guitars, vocals coming from the back, cavey/garagey production, at times similar album art). this might be an obvious truth and true for many other genres, that they have something like congruent evolution, but i think it's still interesting.
nowadays everything is pretty much a form of fusion music anyways. what's crazy how today i feel like there's all these retroactive labels popping up, especially when it comes to punk subcultures. terms like skramz and sasscore come to mind. i never heard of that back then.
kind of rambled off here. to get back on topic, here's a pop emo album i like very much to this day. kind of like a more intense version of karate.
Topic: 2000s Pop Emo (Read 9136 times)