If Edgar Allen Poe was a musician...

Stupid question, but if Edgar Allen Poe were a singer/songwriter today, what genre do you think he'd play? I think he'd be like Thrice sounds on "Vheissu". Dark emo/metal with melodic classical overtones.

PS: I wouldn't be posting so much, but I can't change the words under my avatar until I get to 1,000 posts....

 

You know, I participated in your "Favorite bands" thread, hell, I even went along with the "What did you listen to when you were younger," but this is taking it a bit too far.

 

He'd be in a grindcore band called Edgar Allen Poe and the Bloody Blood Vagina Blood

 

Nine Inch Nails!!!!!??????? "i wanna f*** you like an animal".... "bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve"...."will you bite the hand that feeds? will you stay down on your knees?"..... yeah NIN has the most poetic lyrics ever.

And I didn't say Thrice was full fledged emo, I said emo/metalcore. Like Eighteen Visions, Poison The Well, Atreyu, etc. There are different degrees and variations of emo. Just like how hard rock covers everything from Three Days Grace to Mudvayne.

 

Thrice is post-hardcore, not metalcore, not emocore, not screamo.

Plus "hard rock" refers to bands from the '80s, not bands from now.

 

WTH? Hard rock just refers to bands from the '80s? Yeah, and Mariah Carey isn't R&B because it only refers to singers from the '50s. Linkin Park won a Grammy for "Crawling" in guess what area? Hard rock. If the Grammies have a hard rock nomination, then it must mean that it still exists. Do your research before you say something like that.

But you can take consolation in the fact that Thrice is post-hardcore. But considering the fact that you think hard rock is limited to Kiss and AC/DC, I wouldn't expect you to know that emocore is a form of post-hardcore.

 

I think he'd be doing Sunn O))) type stuff.

EDIT: Or maybe some darker Type O Negative like sounds.

 

Congratulations! You've successfully pulled off a noob-feat we here at the LPA like to refer to, lovingly, as "baseless and senseless bashing."

I've done my research, but it appears that you haven't. I never said R&B doesn't refer to Mariah Carey. If you knew anything about how genres classify musicians, you'd know what I'm talking about. Talk to any respectable music magazine and they'd tell you the same thing about genres. AC/DC and Aerosmith are considered hard rock. Linkin Park is not.

For the record, using the Grammys as an example doesn't make any sense. They couldn't put artists or records in their proper genres if they tried.

Emocore's stylistic origins come from hardcore punk, not post-hardcore.

 

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That's better than the stuff I've heard, but it's still not Poe...
Come to think of it... Thrice isn't really either. I'm thinking it might be a total metalcore band, like Killswitch Engage. "The Rose Of Sharyn" is extremely similar to the poems "Annabelle Lee", "Lenore", and "For Annie".

Numb And Broken, here I stand alone
Wondering what were the last words I said to you
Hoping, praying that I'll find a way to turn back time
Can I turn back time?

What would I give to behold
The smile, the face of love?
You never left me
The rising sun will always speak your name

It won't be long, we'll meet again
Your memory is never passing
It won't be long, we'll meet again
My love for you is everlasting

I mourn for those who never knew you

It won't be long, we'll meet again
Your memory is never passing
It won't be long, we'll meet again
My love for you is everlasting

-Killswitch Engage

And I had to do Poe in school last year too, except it was my decision because we could choose whatever poem we like.