Weezer: Greatest EMO band?

[9erempiree]

Weezer is the greatest EMO band before EMO was coined a term. Many people know I got the Apple TV and Vevo app is fantastic.

Wanted to listen to a Weezer song but they are playing me a marathon of their videos. Forgot how many great songs they had.

[Levity]

Weezer is the greatest EMO band before EMO was coined a term. Many people know I got the Apple TV and Vevo app is fantastic.

Wanted to listen to a Weezer song but they are playing me a marathon of their videos. Forgot how many great songs they had.

weezer was pretty mediocre after the blue album. but yeah, that album and everything before it was pretty golden.

[KevinNYC]

Yeah, Blue Album and Pinkerton are A+ albums, 90's classics.

The Green Album was their last good record I liked.

Are they considered emo?

[BasedTom]

their early stuff from the 90s is great, but I'm not really sure if its accurate to call them an emo band...much less the BEST

[Levity]

Are they considered emo?

to me, emo is such a weird term. when people refer to emo, they usually say its whiny songs about girls and shit like that. and people are quick to label "bright eyes" emo, when in fact, he rarely writes songs about girls. instead, more about being fcked up on drugs and introspective things like that. so i guess it really depends on what you consider emo to mean.

[Levity]

Biggest rock song of summer '99 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9e69s9Fspc
to this day, i still have no idea how they got so big.

haha. i think carson daly and TRL made them much more popular than they ever should have been. Chocolate starfish in hotdog flavored water??? i mean, what the fck is that shit.

[hateraid]

Bonus for having their offspring The Rentals

[KevinNYC]

Was Blink-182 emo? They were big in '99. Maybe they started the emo stuff, I don't know.
I don't think so. They were kind of straight, retro bratty punk pop. Also wasn't emotional immaturity a big part of their persona?

From Wikipedia

Emo /ˈiːmoʊ/ is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace.

As the style was echoed by contemporary American punk rock bands, its sound and meaning shifted and changed, blending with pop punk and indie rock and encapsulated in the early 1990s by groups such as Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate.

Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the platinum-selling success of Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional and the emergence of the subgenre "screamo".