Pfft!

thats awesome...i have no problem with the get up kids or promise ring...

too late bitches!

...yeah you do fucking suck. At least you realized it yourself.

I think Sunny Day, Fugazi were before TGUK....

thank you for 18-year old emo sluts.

I apologize for my terrible taste in music.

I just realized the date on that article is the end of July, but it's good anyway.

@11:20 There were a ton of bands before both of those as well. Soulside, Faith, Nation of Ulysses etc...

I almost forgot about emo...thanks for reminding me.

pretty sure all three of their upcoming shows - gramercy, irving plaza AND music hall - are all completely sold out. not too shabby.

i remember seeing them at coney island high in 2007...they were more like an indie weezer than embrace or sunny day real estate...

they werent half bad...

Listen, The Get Up Kids are great for teens first discovering and getting into music. Most of their stuff is really straight ahead and catchy matched with apathetic lyrics that teens can easily dig. Eventually, most of these teens as they grew up began challenging themselves with different genres of music and music like that of the Get Up Kids started sounding cheesy/mundane. Hence them getting left behind and no longer having a following. I also doubt the current teenage generation has any interest in their music.

Jack-offs like Pete Wentz were the teens who never grew out of that type of "emo" music. They decided that was all the music they needed and any other kinds of, at least guitar based music were not cool enough or maybe too challenging for their simple minds. Hence, the big rip off of Get Up Kids with bands like Fall Out Boy.

The thing is Get Up Kids actually wrote music that was genuine and tolerable while you can't say that for about 100% of the posers that followed.

p.s. I always had respect for Get Up Kids for releasing an album like "On A Wire" which completely alienated their fan base and was actually a pretty wonderful album. At least when I was 14 it was.

TGUK as an acronym = geigh

"I think Sunny Day, Fugazi were before TGUK...."

yea sunny day, fugazi, minor threat, and rites of spring were all first wave 'emo'. James is right, the scene totally sucks now, good article. looking forward to the music hall gig

coney island high in 2007? i think you might mean 1997.

11:44pm well put. TGUK were the first indie-ish band I got into as a teen. Before that, I was listening to horrible music like New Found Glory and crappy mainstream 3 chord pop punk. With TGUK, I became interested in better music. I somehow found The Cure and The Smiths. Then I found Sonic Youth. Now I think bands like Fuck Buttons, aA, Growing and Ecstatic Sunshine are awesome. Never would've imagined I'd progress this much upon hearing The Red Letter Day EP over a decade ago.

Aa* my bad

Easily one of the worst bands ever conceived.

"minor threat were all first wave 'emo'..."

you are a retard.

Wow 11:45am

Minor Threat as first wave emo? wtf wow I can't believe how dumb you are. You're so stupid it makes me want to throw my computer at you through my connection and hit you in the stupid face for saying such a retarded thing. Wow first wave really? wtf man who do you think you are? Mr. Wikipedia or something? Go fuck your hole you don't know hardcore like I do. My dad was in Minor Threat and we also don't live in Williamsburg. First wave emo wasn't Minor Threat you douche horder. I can't even tell you how far off you are with your stupid facts because you're wrong. I hope Minor threat doesn't see this. Fucking waste of retard go back to Vassar and get a job in Williamsburg when you're finished reading up on first wave emo then we can talk but until then wow you're so dumb for saying that because everyone knows Minor Threat was not not emo but definitely hardcore except members were in emo bands after that influenced Get Up Kids but not really and Williamsburg is cool in summer but move out there in springtime will be best so my dad in Minor Threat can help you.

Did you forget to mention that your dad was in Minor Threat, 12:38? Oh no, I see squeezed it in there

lmao

re: Waves of Emo

Pretty hard to quantify but Moss Icon, Rites of Spring, Embrace, the Hated, Ignition, early Shudder to Think would be what I considered the first wave - and it was more a feeling than a specific sound like it is these days.

Sunny Day was most definitely not part of that "wave." But I am going to see them Sunday...

Emo is the new hair metal..
Penelope Speers should make a Decline Of Western Civilization pt.3. The Emo Years

Horrible as to what it has become..

Lets not forget that the drummer of Fall Out Boy was in fucking RACE TRAITOR.

lets also not forget that the bassist from the get up kids is the bassist in spoon.

to all the people that think minor threat has nothing to do with first wave emo. dc hardcore in the early 80s had A LOT to do with what emo then became, please see the history lesson below

http://www.fourfa.com/history.htm

"What does that say about us? I don't know. Maybe we sucked." "

BINGO!

Don't forget, my dad is in Minor Threat and if you move to williamsburg in the springtime he will help you

To even MENTION Sunny Day in the same sentence as Minor Threat, Fugazi, Rites of Spring is laughable. I have no clue why people consider Sunny Day Real Estate some sort of seminal band. I was a huge fan of hardcore and some early "emo" bands, but I NEVER owned a SDRE record and never saw anything special or "cutting-edge" about them. Not to mention the fact that some of them are born-again christians- YUCK!

I don't know why I feel the need to chime in, but something about taking shots at The Get Up Kids rubbed me wrong.

I met these dudes in the mid-nineties when they were out supporting Ethel Meserve and Braid, and ran into them periodically as they worked themselves up to headlining tours at medium-sized venues. For years they worked the same basements, DIY venues, fests, etc. as every other independent band at that time. They lived in a van and slept on floors just like everybody else. They were just typical midwestern indie dudes -- very genuine guys that were gracious to their fans and thankful for the opportunities they were getting. Like their music or not, TGUK have earned their little place in mid-nineties alt rock.

Also, Pete and Andy from Fall Out Boy were doing the same thing as TGUK -- playing in basements and other DIY venues, sleeping on floors, etc. They were both in Race Traitor, Pete was in Arma Angelus and they were pretty nice, regular dudes in the mid- to late-nineties. Say what you will about FOB, but these guys cut their teeth in DIY hardcore and paid their dues.

Does anyone else see the similarities between the current wave of emo (which is definitely closer to hair metal), and what is going on with Wavves, Vivian Girls, Times New Viking and the Hot-Topicization of the first wave of lo-fi sh!tgaze (i.e. Guided By Voices, Thomas Jefferson Slave Appartments, etc.)?

Emo didn't come in waves, it came in cut marks on your wrist or arm because you're teenage boy/girlfriend (the line is ambiguous) told you that you have terrible taste in music.

Dude - that Wentz guy was once the singer of Skrewdriver - he faked a car crash and death - and now he's doing Miley Cyrus or some shit. You ever see Ian and Wentz in the same bathroom stall at the same time? don't think so.

now you realized that your emo band and all the other emo bands fuckings suck.

I read these same quotes a couple weeks after Bamboozle somewhere. Guardian (and BV) are way late on this...

ho hum I like Girls

There are a very select few bands I listened to in high school and still like. Get up kids is one of them. I still have that Godfatherlike GUK shirt. As for Fall out Boy. Way to bring back Guy liner! Fags. And I don't mean that as in literally Gay. I mean that they should actually be set on fire as if they were kindling!

I rode the emo waves. I saw fugazi live at city gardens and the get up kids at bowery ballroom. All I can say is: I'm old

@ Anonymous 1:27 PM

She already made pt 3. in 1998

I like it very much.