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Ditto, "intelligent lyrics" are overrated imo. I used to put more stock in that sort of thing, but now lyrics have to be exceptionally dumb and annoying for me to notice. Actually, I listen to a lot of music in which terrible lyrics are part of the charm.

Emo can have gothy flourishes to it, especially more recent stuff. A lot of it is more based on hardcore punk and straightedge culture. It's a surprisingly broad spectrum (a rainbow of crap!)

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My God - Rainbow of Crap! Now there's a good band name!

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Pestilent Pregnant

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The Neck Romancers

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Bone Appetite

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Slow Devolution
Houses in Motion
Violent Porpoises
Submediants
The Tritone Paradox
Spacious
Miscreant and Malediction
Unabashed Filth
Nodules
Strange Creaking Noise
Lip of the Chasm
The Roman Nose
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
This Missive
Ululating
La Di Da
Pygmy Mountain Shrew
Skulks Often
Wrathful Deities
The (Guy With The) Annoying Lisp
(Not) Fond Of Spiders
(Of) Questionable Content
The(e) Full Pack
Whichever
You Fish On That Side...
Pleurisy
Blastocysts

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An update of previous things: I have a band, and we have a gig, in fact. We're called, quite simply, Autosuggestion, and we're opening for another band in Philadelphia in October. You can send me a PM for details if you like....

The name came about from the perverse idea I had of marketing (conceptually and sonically) disturbing and/or depressing music as "auto-suggestive therapy tapes"; It also implies self-hypnosis, and so mind control, which all music essentially is to varying degrees.

And, less intellectually, it is also the title of one of Joy Division's most morose tunes, a loping slice of schizoid trance music akin to something I might write or aspire to, albeit more aggressive at points than most of our material.

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You have my attention, of course. Let's hear a demo!

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This is slightly off topic, but seeing this thread reminded me of it.

Years ago, I thought that if I had a pub I'd call it The Victim of Sexism. The pub sign would be a 1950s style pin-up painting (after manner of Vargas, I thought).

I think that the idea arose from seeing a pub called The Hero of Inkerman. (Inkerman was a battle during the Crimean War.)

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Unfortunately, good doctor, I am currently not a member of a service by which I might upload a demo. If anyone is interested, however, I can send them a sampler of our material via e-mail (request by PM); If they are not so thoroughly dissuaded (and I would hope they are not), we plan to establish a mail order service, via which we will distribute our recordings.

Furthermore, video of our upcoming first* performance may well end up on YouTube, due to my band-mates' amateur film-making proclivities.

Of the likely set-list, we are absolutely sure of only three songs: A snaky instrumental with a very long title (our bassist wrote it; we call it "Tommy" for various reasons), an epic trudge simply known as "Night", and a twisted, synth-driven creature tentatively entitled "Exorcism". Also potentially playable are "Drowned", "Mirrors", and "Culpable, Shameless, Violent", the latter ironically an unabashed dance track...

*An earlier incarnation of this band appeared at a high school "battle of the bands" outside Philadelphia a few years back; We were missing both our vocalist and bassist, and so, not having a set name in the first place, we went on as Twice Removed... Or was it Thrice Removed? The brief appearance was further marred by technical difficulties and general confusion, although the performance went over fairly well with the audience, though...