'90s emo/alternative-ish upbeat melodic bands appreesh

[alexander]

without getting into arguments over which bands are alternative and which bands are emo and which bands are both and which bands are neither,

gods reflex
The Tie That Binds
The Get Up Kids (first album)
Propagandhi (first album)
Weezer
Penfold
Jimmy Eat World (first album and first EP)
Sunny Day Real Estate
The Juliana Theory
Texas Is the Reason
Weston
Knapsack
Taking Back Sunday
Dawson High
Samiam
Lifetime
Pulley
Jawbreaker
etc

APPREESH.

[alexander]

teeelll your mooom you need a daaaayyy offffff
so we can plaaayyyy ooouuut in the raaaiiiiiiinnn
we'll caatch a riiiidddee tooo theee mmaaaaallllll,
go down to the arcaaade
caaause that's where aaaalllll the coooool kiiiiids haaaaaaaaannnnnngggggg



no other band could ever make those lyrics sound like the saddest shit ever

[forzamadrid]

Propagandhi is love.

[wounderaser]

some of these bands also fall under the term "pop-punk" unfortunately. i love the first get up kids album, weezer blue album rules too.

[alexander]

the term pop-punk is too much of an oxymoron for me to stomach.

[matt]

none of that is emo. the fact that you are calling that emo on a messageboard involving cmhwak is ludicrous. you are really bad at this messageboard.

[alexander]

I really don't care about your hostility at all. nor am I astoundingly interested in old people going "Mineral is post-emo-indie-pop-shoegazecore-rockmo" blah blah. good for you.

this music puts me in far too good a mood to care about that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQYrbG04b4

[GnarlesManson]

jawbreaker is probably my favorite band

lifetime and texas is the reason are also bands i really like/like, respectively

[tonyxvx]

Propagandhi is love.

[Pete > You]

Honestly, I never really got into this stuff. If it's your thing, it's your thing, but this always struck me as the music of weak pretty boys. Not that it isn't without its gems. I really do like Christie Front Drive's second album and Elliott's U.S. Songs, but that's about it.