Hey everyone! I’ve got a new post over at The Jam Files about a classic emo album turning 25.
“I was on the phone with my friend of nearly 20 years the other night and as elder millennials are wont to do, we went down nostalgia’s often cruel lane. “Dashboard’s second album is 25,” I said. “That’s insane.” “Do you think that Chris Carrabba is like the godfather of emo?” my friend asked. That spawned a discussion on the timing of the coinage of genres and subgenres which is unnecessary to music appreciators like myself because I truly believe that genre is now dead and none of the categorizations matter unless you’re really trying to get someone who’s never heard something before to give it a chance. I do believe that for the sake of this article, calling Dashboard Confessional’s first major label release The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most “emo” will not have anyone disagreeing with me.” …
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