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I dunno, when I was a skater I listened to Minor Threat and all that DC punk. I know it later swtched over to a lot of Pennywise and OC punk for the younger generation, 311 was never big with my crowd. Fugazi is Fugazi and they just kick ass.
IMO this whole EMO thing started when people liked the image of punk/goth but were to scared to listen to anything harder than the Smiths(I'm not calling the Smiths EMO). Then when the east coast image met the west coast pop-punk somewhere in the mid-west, they had sex and got pregnant. They tried to abort it but the operation got botched. The result was a bunch of guys with no wieners. Since they had no wieners, they got confused and put on make-up. When they went outside, everybody made fun of them so they cried all the time. Since they were physically unable to play sports, they wrote songs. One MTV executive had the unfortunate experience of birth one of these once fabled creatures and played his songs on TRL. That "shim" was the lead singer for dashboard confessional. The rest is history.