why_blues_is_more_emo_than_emo knot meat because if you only have a few words to say to a lover you can't live without as she's walking out the door, it isn't going to be all the justifications and references and subtleties, it's going to be simply, don't leave. those are our instincts, that's what we really mean. you wave a t-bone in front of a dog, and he might have specific thoughts on it from the day, but generally, he just knows the old familiar hunger and the comfort it promises. that seems to me, emotion. none of this newfangled noise which is too complex to feel to the bone entirely. it takes you almost there always and then backs away, instead of screaming out don't leave. it's too complex to touch and too simple to enlighten. it offers the mixings of emotions and poetic, philisophical understandings, but has not the courage to commit to either, or the maturity to capture both. it takes a rare bob dylan to do that sort of thing. so most of emo comes off as bad 7th grade poetry. and most of the blues, speak without words, and when words are used, are used how real people would use them. no time for all the complexities, that's there, that's life, that's the music - all you have the time or the desire or the need (because the other person knows this is all that matters as well) to say, is don't leave baby, don't leave. 040422 ... CONCRETEMOOSE Comparing blues to emo is lame. Emo, face it, just sucks. Blues is the music of the suffering black man. Emo is the music of depressive, nerdy white kids, in their angsty 14-24 years. Blues doesnt have to exell or to be refreshing, its just a way to vent ones agony at the rest of the world, based around an butt simple guitar scale. How different is this for emo... 050629 ... stork daddy yeah...if you read any of that...i was basically saying that i don't like emo, or people's current fascination with it. 050629 ... jane don't leave, baby - don't leave... 050630 ... stork daddy i wish somewhere deep i could, but i never get past that door. 050630 what's it to you? who go blather from