Top 10 Emo Songs

What is it about music and human moods or emotions? Light, breezy, poppy tracks are for those happy days, wailing rock and hardcore sound for the angry beast within and soulful, melodramatic tracks for the pensive or thoughtful mood. For angst and heartbreak, for days when you feel the whole world is against you, for the times when you do not want to live anymore and no one can understand what you are going through, the definitive genre is Emo. Emo music is not sad and sobby lyrics paired with classical or depressive music. Rather, it combines the explosive highs and stirring notes of rock music with deep, personal and very confessional lyrics. Emo tracks make excellent air guitar songs.

The genre of emo music is synonymous with mutinous, sullen teens, who are actually screaming their hearts out internally with greasy, scraggly hair and beaten up sneakers. Most emo bands dress this way too. Songs deal with a variety of personal problems or issues, with a very explanatory and depressive twist. Breaking up with a girlfriend, the unfairness of life, trying to get a girl to like you, a messed up first date... are a few examples. To really understand the flow of emo music and get you into the emo frame of mind, here's a small lyrical excerpt from Blink-182's I Miss You track:

Where are you and I'm so sorry
I cannot sleep I cannot dream tonight
I need somebody and always
This sick strange darkness comes creeping on so haunting everytime