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why is there such high tension between the older grunge generation and the newer emo generation? It just seems odd because they seem to hold a lot in common. It seemed like Cobain in particular was against the tough guy attitude and pro-homosexuality, yet a lot of these old grungers throw around derogatory terms like gay and fags with these new emo bands. It is just retarded for them to throw these terms around when their own scene stood against that very thing. I really don't care much anymore but I just think a majority of the people are completely retarded on this and care way too much about it.
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lock,delete, burn to the fucking ground.
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cause "grunge" bands actually rocked and they we're more upset with life, depression, government, standards of society hoping for a better world or life while emo are morbidly upset about their high school girlfriend leaving them
and that's my unwarranted generalization of the day!
this thread is almost as pointless as this post
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
the original title of this thread is forever bound to the fail post.
what was it?
The biggest difference as near as I can see it is that the standard bearers for the grunge bands often had better lyrics (people like lanegan, vedder, and corgan write/wrote very well), the music was heavier, and the big thing is that the primary singers (people like vedder, cobain, staley, corgan, lanegan, cornell, even wieland) all had really powerful and compelling voices--they weren't all conventionally good, but they were all striking, and it gave the music a feeling of depth that many grunge fans feel most 'emo' band lacks--it sounded lived in which made lyrics that could be melodramatic seem less so.
Plus there were also bands associated with 'grunge' like U2, REM, NIN, and Radiohead that, while not having that sound, were very much tied into the music of the era and gave it extra crediblity--again, I'm not sure that the 'emo' bands of today have artists like that. Maybe I'm wrong.
But I agree that calling the bands you don't like gay or fags is bad.
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