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21 Tunes We All Played On Repeat During Our Emo Phase
Published 00:10 20 Dec 2016 GMT
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We all had that phase. Don't pretend you didn't.
I mean, if you didn't – then why did you click on this article?
Just enjoy.
Your teenage angst in musical form.
I mean, so were all the songs on this list. But mainly this one.
What can we say? The video spoke to us.
It has a creepy intro, an exclamation mark in the band name and a curse word half way through. What more could you want?
The song you played when you just wanted to RUN AND CRY AND SCREAM AND WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANTED BECAUSE THIS SONG WAS SO GOOD IT'S INSANE.
Why weren't you and MCR mates?! You all would have gotten on so well.
You knew every word and were born ready for the 'WHERE ARE YOU' part.
Your relationship with the name Maria was forever changed after this song was released.
Because this song spoke to you in ways you didn't know songs could.
Back when Amy Lee was bae.
Because your parents just didn't get that you weren't perfect.
It also helped that they were headbanging on a roof at night and your dream was to headbang on a roof at night.
Meaningful.
Because no one did know what it was like to be like you.
It was like life was a riddle and they'd cracked it.
Because heavy metal and mullets was how you were raised.
Much more hard-hitting than their most prominent hit, Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
The first time you really, really screamed to a song.
Like, it kind of hurt. Even more than your middle-class upbringing did.
You watched this (through your enormous fringe) 1029374 times.
A one-hit wonder, but what a one-hit wonder it was.
God bless Billie Joe – he knew pain.
Sung on many the last day of a Gaeltacht course, accompanied by that one guy who went everywhere with a guitar.
Generally sung from the windowsill of your room, on a rainy day.
You don't know me. You don't even care, oh yeah.
A fucking heart-wrencher if there ever was one.
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