By: Eric Gubbs (Author)
This book was about how post-hardcore/emo music evolved from what it was in the mid-1980’s to what it became before “emo” became a four letter word.
Eric Grubbs spent his time away from traffic radio researching and writing about this book. (Well,thats really a big effort to come up with this book and its all hard work.)
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I knew some of us dont fancy readings esp the long whiny winded piece of text.My post here is quite long but its rather informative.Especially for those into genre Post-Hardcore.Here a good form of info for you guys.I was introduced to this Post-Hardcore back in 2000.Since then i was into melodic hardcore...old/new school.Of course there's a big difference in each and every genre.Pls read up...and do give me your comment or anything...
Post-Hardcore
Post-hardcore is a music genre that evolved from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups who emerged from the hardcore scene, or took inspiration from hardcore, while concerning themselves with a wider palette of expression, closer to experimental rock.
The later 1980s and early 1990s saw the development of post-hardcore, which took the hardcore style in a more artistic and complex direction, much as the bands of the post-punk era did for classic punk rock. Washington DC, in particular the community surrounding Dischord Records, became a hotbed for post-hardcore, producing bands such as Hoover, Nation of Ulysses, Jawbox and Fugazi, who helped define the post-hardcore scene and included Dischord founder and former Minor Threat frontman Ian MacKaye. Other notable post-hardcore bands from the United States include Chicago's Big Black, New York's Quicksand and Orange 9mm, Seattle's Pretty Girls Make Graves, Atlanta's Light Pupil Dilate and El Paso, Texas' At The Drive-In.
Post-hardcore included and influenced other styles, such as 'emo' and 'math rock'. Early emo bands were influenced by hardcore bands like Rites of Spring, Minor Threat, and Black Flag. Emo bands are heavily influenced by hardcore punk's powerful lyrics, song structure and emotion. Sunny Day Real Estate are sometimes called the "first true emo band."
The Music
Post-hardcore is an offspring coming from hardcore punk,which had typically featured very fast tempos, loud volume and heavy bass levels.
Post-hardcore is typically characterized by its precise rhythms and loud guitar-based instrumentation accompanied by a combination of clean vocals and screams.
The genre has developed a balance of dissonance and melody, in part channeling the loud and fast hardcore ethos into more measured, subtle forms of tension and release. Jeff Terich of Treblezine states, instead of sticking to rigid constraints, these artists expanded beyond power chords and gang vocals, incorporating more creative outlets for punk rock energy.
The Bands
By the late 1990s several new bands that were inspired by the previous wave of post-hardcore had formed that would later usher the genre into the new decade and popularize the style. The most notable of these artists include: Thursday,Thrice,Finch and Poison the Well (although more metallic than other examples). Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw is a long-time friend of Thursday front-man Geoff Rickly,and also provided backing vocals on Finch's debut album What It Is to Burn.By 2003 post-hardcore had caught the attention of major labels including Island Records who signed Thrice and Thursday, Atlantic Records who signed Poison the Well, and Geffen Records who had absorbed Finch from their former label Drive-Thru Records. Post-hardcore also began to do well in sales with Thrice's The Artist in the Ambulance and Thursday's War All the Time which charted #16 and #7 respectively on the Billboard 200 in 2003.
Around this time, a new wave of post-hardcore bands began to emerge onto the scene that incorporated more pop punk and alternative rock styles into their music. These bands include: The Used,Hawthorne Heights,Senses Fail,From First to Last,Emery in addition to Canadian post-hardcore bands Silverstein and Alexisonfire.This group of post-hardcore bands gained mainstream recognition with the help of MTV and Warped Tour. The Used released some minor radio hits and later received gold certifications for their first two studio albums The Used and In Love and Death from the RIAA.Hawthorne Heights' debut album The Silence in Black and White was also certified gold.
This new style of post-hardcore is often classified as Emo or Screamo (specifically, the so-called 'Second Wave[citation needed]. At other times it has been described as Emo Post-Hardcore, due to drawing influences from both 80's Post-Hardcore bands and Emo bands like Rites of Spring. It generally features screamed and 'Clean' vocals, and has varying degrees of metallic tendencies. Lyrics are often introspective, while the music tends to be agressive semi-Punk Metal in its assault[citation needed]. Bands tend to be melodic, and punctuate their climaxes with cathartic yelps[citation needed].
Well, this definitely a good one that somehow i believe most of us didnt realize..... This strongs piece of inspirational words captured from..http://thegrowinglife.com/ which i posted here to share with you guys..So read on!!
The Paradox of Intelligence
More intelligent people tend to have jobs that require very high levels of mental engagement (not to mention, longer work weeks). If you’re a doctor, lawyer, accountant, consultant, teacher, etc., then chances are your thoughts are consumed by work-related activities (and that you have less-than-average amounts of free time).
Highly intelligent people are more likely to exchange their brainpower for money, and less likely to retain much of said brainpower for themselves. They’re more likely to enroll in mentally demanding graduate programs and accept mentally demanding jobs. (In the western world we’re taught that if we have the capacity to be a doctor then it’s somehow a “waste”? to work retail, make smoothies for a living, or become a farmer — even though a retailer worker, smoothie maker, or farmer get to own more of their thoughts).
Hence, the paradox of intelligence (POI) says that in general, the more intelligent you are, the less brainpower you’re likely to keep for yourself. The POI says that the smarter you are, the less you keep your mind for yourself. It says that the more intelligent you are, the greater the probability that an employer owns too much of your brainpower.
As a result of this paradox, intelligent people are losing the battle for their minds. They simply have less mental energy at the end of the day to ask the bigger questions. They have less mental energy and time needed to gain perspective.
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