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If anyone's still out there this late on this Friday night before a four-day holiday weekend, here's that Braid-by-request installment in our "12 Days Of 90s Emo," and obviously these Illinois fellows, who broke up on the eve of the decade ending (roughly right after this clip was filmed), are one of the key bands where you can now really see mod radio emo lurking under the post-hardcore skin. (More than most of his peers I can imagine Bob Nanna emo-ing up a TRL countdown.) Meanwhile, I worry that I'm being too off-the-cuff with these songs, and not sharing enough gross emo details about the various post-collegiate traumas they soundtracked, thereby reneging on the whole emo project. Maybe I've just suppressed them?
Braid - "The New Nathan Detroits" [YouTube]
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i, unfortunately, was 14 in 1999, so i missed the seeing-braid-live boat, and was forced to sit through numerous hour plus hey mercedes sets, something i would not wish on my worst enemy.
what gets overlooked with most of these emo bands was the level of musicianship..the dudes in braid were all really great players...especially the drummer. the drum intro to new nathan's detroit continues to blow my mind.
any get up kids love coming up in the 12 days of emo?
THANK YOU!
Genius shit. I love how Bob's voice was so dense and tangled and kind of croaky while Chris was the yelpy foil who could really cut through. Lyrically, similiar contrast. Bob overclocking every metaphor to see how far he could push the language towards being a physical response and Chris dispensing "Yeah!"s that said what Nanna's verbiage couldn't. I caught the reunion tour a few years back. They've maybe lost a step, but "Forever Got Shorter" at the end floored me so it doesn't matter. Cool, time for more Whiskey and RockStar!
I hate(d) this band and always thought they were the most turgid of all the emo bands of the day. They may have been great players or whatever, but these songs just came off as cheesy to me. This, and the Get-Up Kids, were the reason I jumped off the emo train for good.
all that manic energy just popping out from under the music. ah god this brings back memories. i always thought that braid and promise ring both shot out from the demise of cap'n jazz in opposite directions (noone in braid came out of cap'n jazz, but friction, bob's old band, i think came up around the same time in that area. i'm still jealous of a friend of mine that flew out to chicage for cap'n jazz's last show).
Does anybody remember the Chicago Tribune write-up on this show that referred to "Bob Croach"? It happened and it's a really amusing read.
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