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Go listen to Angel Hair or Hassan I Sabbah and tell me thats softer than Punk.

Good music is good music, no matter what the genre. To me, if its a written well or has been composed and/or arranged to be pleasing to the ear, I'll listen. Punk has its strong suits *The Misfits* and Emo has its own *Jimmy Eat World*, so i can go either or.

Punk- I think Emo is the stupidest sub culture since the Kogal explosion in Japan in the mid 90's to today. Emotional punk? cut the crap and give me the god ol' stuff like The Ramones, The Clash, The Misfits, Sisters Of Mercy and Sixousie and The Banshees anyday over that new cash cow trend

I LIKE PUNCK ALL THE WAY

Jimmy Eat World... hmmm... depends on wich period of emocore music you are refering to. As far as I'm concerned the mainstream scene knows nothing of emotional hardcore music.

For me... Punk Rock all the way... also like Hardcore Punk bands.

Emocore originated from punk bands experimenting with different lyrical styles. Without Punk Rock, emocore wouldn't exist.

Punk is dead... right rolleyes
Last time I checked a genre can't be dead unless there are actually no longer any bands playing the music or if it has lost most of its fans. Punk hasn't. Most of its fans confine themselves to the underground scene. Its quite stupid to say punk is dead when I hear tons of new stuff every week.

Regardless of what you consider to be emotive hardcore, the definition of emo is fixed and not something to be debated over as many people would like to think. There is very little difference between emocore music and hardcore punk. They are essentially the same only emocore dared to venture into deep discriptive emotional lyrics rather than anti-social/political themes.

People who say "punk is awesome but emo sucks" usually have no ******** clue what they are talking about and have probably heard very little of both genres.