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I cling to facts and truth. Many of your so-called reliable sources couldn't even tell you what Minor Threat and Black Flag sounded like let alone these bands. People that know what they're talking about usually see it as a waste of time to deal with idiots that don't, or that won't listen to the truth because it ruins their ""cool"" mainstream image of what they've been spoon-fed to believe about emo. Greenwald isn't any better of a source. He's just someone that wrote a bad book. Big deal. Don't you even understand why it'd be hard to get old articles on here? No internet existed. Bands broke up fast. Records are out of print. The record labels closed. No talking heads in the media knew what the hell emo was in the early 90's. Common sense. And this article doesn't even really talk about what makes emo emo, and I know someone like you couldn't do that either. Instead of talking about what kind of music or vocals are used, time is wasted on lyrical content. Those are words. Lyrics do not define music genres. Anyone can write a song about any topic they want. The point of the genre is to describe the actual music involved and how it's played. Where's the fact that bands very rarely used clean, melodic singing vocals early on? It was either a yelling/screaming type vocal from hardcore, or they would actually just talk in the songs like how bands like Indian Summer and Moonraker did. Genre is how you play, not what you say. That concept is lost here, along with many others.   "