[kj] OT: somewhat rapturous Bauhaus CD review...

[Alexander Smith]

Anyone remember Senator Flux?  I didn't mind them. But, honestly, fuck  
all that shit.

Alex in NYC


On Dec 16, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Leigh Newton wrote:


> When I started becoming aware of emo as a musical genre in the late  

> 90s, it was mostly bands like Braid, The Promise Ring, Dashboard  

> Confessional, Saves the Day and whatnot that I was hearing about.  

> Mostly clean-cut, very handsome looking young men singing songs of  

> love-lost whilst jacking off in front of a full-length mirror. At  

> some point, most of these bands really came to terms with the fact  

> that there was no difference between them and the likes of Bon Jovi,  

> which explains why the eyeliner started coming into play. That  

> started the snowball-effect of emo and goth coalescing into one big  

> melting chocolate cake (or that's what most of these gaylords look  

> like to me anyways). It's definitely a weird evolution. When I was a  

> lad, there wasn't much difference between an emo-kid and an indie- 

> rock type kid as far as fashion went. Just some dude in tight,  

> thrift-store clothes, Buddy Holly glasses and a fuckin back-pack.  

> That was emo.

>

> And it SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED too.

>

> ----- Original Message ----

> From: B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net 

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> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 11:12:36 AM

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: somewhat rapturous Bauhaus CD review...

>

>

> I'll be forever amazed at how "emo," which I always understood to be a

> mid-80s post-punk musical movement, came to be conflated with  

> "goth." A

>

> few years ago on a discussion forum someone said, "Just you wait,

> they'll come up with a way to combine emo with goth, and it'll be

> called

> goth-mo or some shit." Looks like that really did happen.

>

> This is Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat expaining, derisively, "emo," in

> ...

> 1986:

>

>

> http://youtube.com/watch?v=mbdh0Qm_5A0

>

>

> Now, how what he is describing would come to mean eyeliner, a black  

> 80s

>

> skater flop, bangs-over-one-eye hairdo, etc., is beyond me. Basically,

> America's cultural stewards need to be sent to the gas ovens, because

> whoever is in charge of steering this shit has no idea what they're

> doing.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

>

> LONESTYLE at aol.com wrote:

>> Nice Oilver. ;)

>>

>> ~LB

>>

>>

>> In a message dated 12/15/2007 1:18:25 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,

>> bq at soundgardener.co.nz writes:

>>

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