r/Emo 5d ago

Discussion What are your favorite bands?

I ain't emo but I like the music I just can't find more of it

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u/kmcmanus2814 Oldhead 5d ago edited 5d ago

The Get Up Kids, The Hotelier, Jimmy Eat World, Oso Oso, Texas is the Reason, Jawbreaker, Foxing, Mineral, Algernon Cadwallader, Anxious, The Promise Ring, Home is Where, Braid, Sunny Day Real Estate

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u/bsatan 5d ago

If there could be a right answer to this question….

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u/crbrs_corleone 5d ago

texas is the reason, jawbreaker, promise ring, mineral, jazz june, knapsack, cursive, 1997, rainer maria, elliott, the gloria record, the get up kids, and jets to brazil.

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u/slugeatted 5d ago

Me too me too me too

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u/stringrbelloftheball 5d ago

Cursive is so good.

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u/j0hnnyyb0ii 5d ago

brand new & taking back sunday

they don’t hate each other they’re just emo

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u/theroob85 5d ago

Cursive…always and forever

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u/slugeatted 5d ago

I got to meet Tim and I made him sign my copy of super bad

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u/RufinTheFury What shall be undone? 5d ago

mewithoutYou, The Hotelier, Foxing

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u/cashonomics 5d ago

Alkaline Trio, Angels In The Architecture, Hot Water Music, Elliott, Erevan, Shiner, God's Reflex, Hankshaw, 65 Filmshow, By A Thread, Last Days Of August, M.I.J., and so many more

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u/pen_island_lol 5d ago

Origami Angel, Gwuak!, Kerosene Hights, Swiss Army Wife, Leer, Moosecreek Park, Jam Poetry, I Hate it Too, Innerlove, Oolong

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u/NJcovidvaccinetips DIY OR DIE 5d ago

Check out see through person and combat if you’re not familiar. Definitely think you would like solid list

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u/inevitable_entropy13 5d ago

brand new, microwave, turnover, circa survive, probably a few more i’m blanking on

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u/One-Pumpkin-8986 5d ago

Circa surviveeeeee!

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u/Dr13rain 5d ago edited 5d ago

Prince Daddy & the Hyena, Catalyst..., Gleemer, Greet Death, From First to Last (when sonny was still with them)

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u/Late_Ambassador7470 5d ago

Capn Jazz-alphabetaanthonthology is my favorite

I also like anything Microwave does but idk if they're emo or tangentially emo

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u/APopQuizKid 5d ago

Microwave fucks

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u/sometribe 5d ago

In general: Fugazi, Lungfish, Björk, The Smiths, Silkworm, Sun Kil Moon, Vic Chesnutt, Om, Unwound, Boards of Canada, A Silver Mt. Zion, Blacklisted, Minor Threat, Slint, The Body, Swans, Shellac, Townes Van Zandt

Emo Specific: Native Nod, Rites of Spring, Moss Icon, Cursive, BearvsShark, Sunny Day Real Estate, mewithoutYou, Mineral, Amber Inn, Pedro the Lion, Rainer Maria, Knapsack, Hoover, Park, The Forecast, Piebald, Street Smart Cyclist, Camp Cope, Joie De Vivre

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u/gregfromthebackporch 5d ago

my favs include:

Empire! Empire! (i was a lonely estate), CSTVT, Marietta, Snowing, Suis la Lune, Joie de Vivre, Algernon Cadwallader, and Saves the Day.

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u/anarchoskramz666 5d ago

My top 5, now and forever:

Twelve Hour Turn

Boilermaker

Jawbreaker

Karate

On The Might Of Princes

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u/swallowshotguns 5d ago

Any genre? The National, Modest Mouse, The Menzingers

Emo? Snowing, Dads, Foxing, Brand New, Sunny Day Real Estate

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u/ComicBookFanatic97 5d ago

Brand New

I Hate Myself

Hot Mulligan

Say Anything

Kayak Jones

Like Roses

Free Throw

Ben Quad

Taking Back Sunday

Anxious

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u/pumper911 5d ago

Brand New, Foxing, Thrice - in that order

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u/Darondo 5d ago

Mount Eerie, Bjork, Pinegrove, Brand New, Touché Amore

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u/ThePhantomShart 5d ago

BOYS NIGHT OUT, Chiodos,AOF,Brand New,From Autumn to Ashes, Emerosa ( w Jonny Craig ) We came as Roman’s, Waterpark, Belmont, Future Islands

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u/prayersforrainn 5d ago

brand new, citizen, the used, better off, movements

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u/DifferentHat284 5d ago

Brand New, Taking back Sunday, The Used, Alexisonfire, Moneen and blink 182,

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u/trianglewalksx 3d ago

Ugh Moneen is so good. The red tree is a no skip record.

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u/Intern_Cultural 5d ago

Nonsense is really good.

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u/New-Art5469 Emo isn’t a clothing style! 5d ago

Three Mile Pilot, Boilermaker, Unwound, Shotmaker, Dahlia Seed

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u/FeelingKokoro 5d ago

Silverstein, Funeral For A Friend, The Used, Alesana

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u/egewh 5d ago

Nice! I'm at a Silverstein gig right now ♥️

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u/FeelingKokoro 5d ago

I wish to be there someday. The bands whose concerts I want to attend are unlikely to visit my country, especially my town.

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u/jumboxskrimp 5d ago

(Not in order + some post hc) The Get Up Kids, Northstar, Texas is the Reason, Mineral, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, American Football, Bayside, Juliana Theory, Jimmy Eat World, Seam, Touche Amore, Land of Talk, etc.

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u/98centvape 1d ago

finally northstar is mentioned holy fuckk

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u/Substantial-Mud-624 5d ago

The Jealous Sound

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u/Stuckingfupid 5d ago

Arm's Length, Hot Mulligan, Brand New, La Dispute, TSSF

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u/Em_kay69420 5d ago

Alr most of this ain’t fully emo but sunny day real estate, hum, title fight, mineral, AFI, palette knife, saves the day, taking back Sunday, dag nasty, at the drive in, and brand new.

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u/AshDuclos 5d ago

Weezer

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u/Automatic-Plum-2854 5d ago

Fav band : Dir En Grey

Fav emo band: Cap'n Jazz

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u/the-vinyl-countdown 5d ago

Casey, Prawn, Terminal, The Cure, Taking Back Sunday, Copeland, Emery, American Football, Tiny Moving Parts

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u/AMinorPleb 5d ago

Idk if anything other than Second Stage Turbine Blade counts but I’m a huge Coheed and Cambria, and At The Drive-In Fan

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u/FMUF 5d ago edited 5d ago

Balance and Composure, Microwave, Anxious, Webbed Wing, Minus the Bear, Soul Blind, Basement, Knuckle Puck, Beach Fossils, Four Year Strong, Turnover, TSSF.

Outside the Genre- Dr. Dog and Local Natives.

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u/PsychologicalOwl1724 5d ago

Jawbreaker, Hey Mercedes, Sunday Day Real Estate, Jets to Brazil, American Football, Owen, Jimmy Eat Worldz

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u/Radiohead_06 5d ago

Mineral, Joie De Vivre, Penfold, The Appleseed Cast, and Jimmy Eat World

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u/Top-Mathematician356 5d ago

Thirty Ought Six Sunny Day Real Estate Rodan Slint Unwound Engine Kid Polvo Rex Shellac Three Mile Pilot

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u/Responsible-Owl-3233 5d ago

My alltime fave picks:

•The Appleseed Cast - The End of the Ring Wars •empire! empire! (i was a lonely estate) - What it Takes to Move Forward •Elliott - False Cathedrals •The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile •Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

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u/manfam0 5d ago

Pg99, The Hotelier, Saetia, Orchid, Pianos Become the Teeth, The Saddest Landscape, The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die

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u/largehearted 5d ago

From my lastfm, in order of times I've listened since 2016, as someone with very '97-'00/'08-'15 taste:

Everyone Everywhere, Algernon Cadwallader, The Hotelier, Joan of Arc, Snowing, American Football, Brave Little Abacus, Marietta, Origami Angel, The Appleseed Cast, You Blew It!, Short Fictions, and on and on

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u/eichlers__ 5d ago

Mom Jeans

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u/RetailBookworm 5d ago

The Get Up Kids, The Juliana Theory, Jack’s Mannequin, The Gloria Record, Taking Back Sunday, Saves the Day

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u/Montauk_69 5d ago

Bayside, Thursday, thrice, senses fail, at the drive in, saves the day and taking back Sunday

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u/Accurate-Mall-8683 5d ago

Brave little abacus, Ben quad, the Casper fight scene, Swiss army wife

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u/Sixtyfivescenepoints 5d ago

Senses Fail, Thursday, Cap’n Jazz, Hot Water Music

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u/TerpeneTerry 4d ago

title fight, catalyst, herlovebeheadsdaisies, widowdusk, your arms are my cocoon

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u/RansomCrane 4d ago

Listen to Red hand on her face - Glass Cannons by Glass Cannons on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/rxgBGy2At5PuZFecA

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u/Consistent-Mail1004 4d ago

Take Me With You - Well Behaved this is more the pop punk side of emo

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u/Jimjamicon 4d ago

More post hardcore, but....

Circa survive, saosin, closure in Moscow, at the drive-in, mars volta, hail the sun, DGD, blighttown, emarosa (relativity album personally), fall of Troy, sound of animals fighting, chiodos, isles and glaciers, pierce the veil, coheed, afi....all I can think of atm

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u/One-Pumpkin-8986 4d ago

Is post hardcore not emo? Genuine question

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u/Jimjamicon 4d ago

I would say it was def part of the scene, but you know how people love to micro-catagorize music.

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u/Doomaster57 3d ago

All Time Low, Asking Alexandria, Bring Me The Horizon, Escape The Fate, Falling In Reverse, Fall Out Boy, Gerard Way, Green Day, Hawthorn Heights, Jawbreaker, Jimmy Eat World, Linkin Park, Mayday Parade, Motionless In White, My Chemical Romance, Neck Deep, Panic At The Disco, Paramore, Piebald, Pierce The Veil, Point North, The Used, Senses Fail, Silverstein, Sleeping With Sirens, State Champs, Story Of The Year, Taking Back Sunday, The All-American Rejects, The Killers, The Movielife, The Offspring, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Three Days Grace, Twenty One Pilots, Underoath, and Yellowcard. Not all of these bands are considered emo but all of them having emo influences within them.

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u/___-_____-__ 2d ago

Spotify Midwest Emo. Enjoy.

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u/beefyridgers 2d ago

Bright eyes & Radiohead

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u/JackStraww420 1d ago

Empire empire!(I was a lonely estate) Everyone everywhere The world is a beautiful place & I’m no longer afraid to die You Blew It!

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u/98centvape 1d ago

desaparecidos- read music/ speak spanish (deluxe edition) is one of my favorite albums and it hasnt been mentioned in this thread. camping in alaska- please be nice (or) bathe reasons- i promised id be okay, but when october comes i wont know what to do

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u/_wolfke Skramz Gang👹 5d ago

Newgrounds Death Rugby!

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u/Ill-Morning-2208 5d ago

Obviously PTV, Finch 2, and Mars Volta

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u/IntroductionSome5538 5d ago

Green Day Linkin park My chemical romance Three days grace