The 100 Greatest Emo Songs of All Time A sweeping look at rock’s most misunderstood genre. “Rites of Spring existed well before the term did, and they hated it.” —Musician-activist Jenni Toomey, speaking on behalf of perhaps the first emo band in Andy Greenwald’s Nothing Feels Good “The stupidest fucking thing I’ve heard in my entire life.” —Ian MacKaye on “emo-core” in 1987 Let’s just blame it al