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Vlog. The truth. Listen to these real emo bands before you write off emo as bad. Emo is not about cutting, a haircut, and a pair of jeans, or about teenagers or queer sexuality or homosexuality. It is about good, strong music, that is a form of post-hardcore, hardcore, melodic hardcore, punk rock, pop punk, indie rock and nothing more. Real emo is not about gimmicks or something to sell to alienated 13yr olds. It is not about suicide. It is not about fashion. It is not about christian rock worship music. It is about composition and good music which majority of it has been underground, very overlooked, unrecognized, ignored, not promoted, and so forth. Not say if it did become successful would make it "not real." Just the media, mainstream trendsetters, corporate product creators who see dollar signs in their eyes, utterly killed it, stole it's identity, and said "we are god, and this is what emo is, and by the way ignore the music part (which was the main point), just be trendy, young, and stupid, and buy in." and now we have "omg black veil brides is my favorite band and I am emo....rites of spring? embrace? who are they" Hook, line and sinker.

To be honest, out of any music genre, emo is just about being human, and showing human traits through music, and isen't focused on anything else. It's the one genre where you get to actually be that.

Post-Hardcore/Hardcore types(80's and early 90's):
Husker Du
The Faith (proto-emo)
Embrace
Egg Hunt
Rites Of Spring
One Last Wish
Rain
Hated (Or written as The Hated)
3
Dag Nasty
Fugazi
Moss Icon
Fire Party
Kingface
Gray Matter (early stuff)
Soul side
Beefeater
Nation Of Ulysses

Screamo(90's)
Heroin
Antioch Arrow
Portraits Of Past
Still Life
I Hate Myself
I Have Dreams
Indian Summer
Pg 99 (Emoviolence)
Current
Navio Forge
Mohinder
Orchid (Emoviolence/Grindcore)
With Love
Merel
Maximilian Colby
Reach Out
Lincoln
Frail

Post-Hardcore/Emocore 90's
Hoover
Policy Of 3
Native Nod
Drive Like Jehu
Universal Order Of Armageddon
Introspect
Plunger
Sarin
Sleepytime Trio
Silver Bearing
Chain In Thread
Floodgate
Breakwater
Planes Mistaken For Stars
Jawbox (Alternative rock)
Sense Field (Alternative rock)
Shutter To Think (Alternative rock)
Lungfish
William Martyr 17
Evergreen


Emo Pop Punk (90's)
7 Seconds (New Wind, Ourselves albums)
Samiam
Sludgeworth
Ethyline (Alternative rock)
Jawbreaker
Alkaline Trio
The Lawrence Arms (some of their stuff)
Garden Variety
The Get Up Kids
Screeching Weasel (some songs here and there)
Dynamite Boy
Riverfenix (or as Fenix Tx)
Blink 182 (some of their stuff)
Knapsack
Monsula (some of their stuff)
The Bouncing Souls (half of their stuff)
Mxpx (a few songs)
Jimmy Eat World
Lifetime
Saves The Day
Eversor
Emanuel Nice
Slap Of Reality (some of their stuff)
Two Line Filler
Face To Face (Ignorance Is Bliss Album)

Emo Indie (90's)
Sunny Day Real Estate
Texas Is The Reason
The Promise Ring
The Get Up Kids
Jimmy Eat World
The Appleseed Cast
Mineral
American Football
Braid
Cap N Jazz
Joan Of Arc
Jets To Brazil
Benton Falls
Pop Unknown
Karate
Christie Front Drive
Bright Eyes
Jejune
Weezer (some songs on Pinkerton and first album)
Buford
Pohgoh
The Jazz June
Camber
Race Car Riot
Triple Fast Action
Only Airplanes Count
Lazycain
Death Cab For Cutie
The Van Pelts
Northstar

Emo-Pop (Or Scene beginnings) (2000's)
New Found Glory
The Ataris
Yellowcard
Simple Plan
Count The Stars
The Starting Line
Motion City Soundtrack
Midtown
Fall Out Boy
Paramore
The Academey Is...
The All American Rejects
Cute Is What We Aim For
The Starting Line
My Chemical Romance
Better Off Dreaming
Panic At The Disco
Mayday Parade
All Time Low
Allister
Amber Pacific
Capital Lights
Self Against City
Socratic
Boys Like Girls

Emo-Post Hardcore and Screamo (2000's)
Taking Back Sunday
Finch
Thrice
Thursday
AlexisonFire
Underoath
Story Of The Year
Billy Talent
The Movielife
The Used
Hawthorne Heights
Saosin
Matchbox Romance
Funeral Diner
City Of Caterpiller
The Saddest Landscape
Cursive
A.F.I. (Sing The Sorrow)
At The Drive In
Nite Ratz
Gwen Stacy
The Red Jumpsuit Apperatus
The Almost
Dead Poetic
Our Last Night
There For Tomorrow
Secret & Whisper
Escape The Fate
Before Their Eyes
From Autumn To Ashes
I Am Ghost

Emo-Pop Punk (2000's)
Chris Kinch
Noise By Numbers
The Methadones (a few songs)
Less Than Jake (anthem album)
Box Car Racer
+44
Pulley (Together again for the first time album)
The Ataris
Autopilot Off
The Afterclap

Emo-Indie (2000's)
Dashboard Confessional
Ever Since Yesterday (local Baltimore band)
Race Canyon (local Baltimore band)
The Postal Service
Death Cab For Cutie
The Apathy Eulogy

Indie Emo ("Emo Revival) 2010's
Dikembe
Snowing
The World Is A Beautiful Place and I am no longer afraid to die
Empire, Empire! I was a lonely estate
A Great Big Pile Of Leaves
Transit
Tigers Jaw
Basement
You Blew It!
Have Mercy
Their, There, They're

Emo Punk Rock/Pop Punk (2010's)
Title Fight
The Social Mishaps

Screamo (2010's)
The Saddest Landscape
Pianos Become The Teeth