Beer-loving punk rockers rightly make fun of emo bands, because anything that takes itself seriously needs to have the piss taken out of it at least once a night, but emo’s shameless desire to attain a gravity so profound that the earth gives way underneath it doesn’t mean that it isn’t any good. This is the mistake made by the assembled anti-emo forces: they talk real loud about how whiny and self-interested the emo boys are, but can’t seem to make even one record half so passionate as Born Against’s The Rebel Sound of Shit and Failure.
