SciFiBoy - I had very similiar experience as you. There is a record label called Deep Elm Records and they have a CD compilation that is titled Emo Diaries. Now... I've been listening to this since like '97 since the first one came out. There are 11 so far. Anyway, so this is the music I listened to and I went out and bought CD's from the bands on these CD's and I started saying a listened to EMO... well since I think it was '01 I saw this magazine that said "What is Emo?" with saves the day on the cover... now, I have listened to saves the day since their first cd and I always classified them as Pop Punk with the likes of Blink 182. But like it start progressivly getting worse. After '01 whenever I would say Emo people would think of people screaming and crying in a mic and wearing eyeliner and girl pants. This is why I started just naming bands. And when I do if they go "Oh so you listen to bla blah blah" and put in a genre I'll just agree with them.

5% of all radio airplay is Metallica songs.

Bands you should know of: Metallica, ACDC, Motley Crue, KISS, Guns N Roses, System of a Down...fuck it:

AC/DC
AFI
All-American Rejects
Alice In Chains
Amon Amarth
Anthrax
Apocalyptica
Atreyu
Ashes To Empire
Avenged Sevenfold

Black Sabbath
Blink 182
Blue Öyster Cult
Brand New
Breaking Benjamin
Bon Jovi
Boston
Buckcherry
Bullet For My Valentine

Chiodos
Crooked X
Crossfade
Crush 40

Disturbed
DragonForce
Dream Theater

Evanescence

The Fall of Troy
Finger 11
Fireflight
Five Finger Death Punch
Flyleaf
Fuel

Green Day
Godsmack
Good Charlotte
Guns 'N Roses

Hinder

Iced Earth
Iron Maiden

Journey
Judas Priest

Kansas
The Killers
KISS
Korn

Lacuna Coil
Led Zeppelin
Lifehouse
Linkin Park (pre-2007-2008)
Limozeen
Limp Bizkit

Mastodon
Matchbox 20
Megadeth
Metallica
Motley Crüe
Mott the Hoople

Nickelback
Nightwish
Nirvana

The Offspring
Ozzy Osbourne

Pantera
Papa Roach
Paramore
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
P.O.D.
The Postal Service
Puddle of Mudd

Queens of the Stone Age

The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rise Against
Rush

Saliva
Saving Abel
Seether
Shine Down
Simple Plan
Sixx AM
Slayer
Slipknot
Skid Row
Staind
Sum 41
Sworn Rival
System of A Down

Theory Of A Dead Man
Three Days Grace
Trans Siberian Orchestra
Trapt

UnderOath

Van Halen

Weezer
Weird Al Yankovic
The Who

Oh yeah, and all of Queen's radio singles are the worst songs ever composed save for Bohemian Rhapsody.

 Post is Full of so much fail.

^I can understand you not liking Limp Bizkit but Bon Jovi? What are you a communist?

He wanted a list of bands he should know about, not listen to. So take that. Noob.

Lol... Snesboy. I guess you are right. He did ask for a list of bands to know about. and what he should know about for Limb Noodle and Nickleshit is that they suck hard balls.

Either Way that is an Awful list Awful list a lot of good stuff, some pretty historically significant groups but weighed down by so much garbage.

I actually appreciate that list snesboy! I'm actually listening to the songs on youtube and wiki-ing the albums and artists.
JEDE3 is giving me a great history lesson as well
Thank all of you ^_^

I'll copy my fav bands that are in my profile, that's what you should know

Speaking seriously, you should really check the first 10, they're the ones I think are the best (and specially the first 4)

The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, The Who, The Police, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nirvana, Wings, Eagles, Guns N' Roses, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Bon Jovi, Duran Duran, Genesis, Camel, Kansas, Rush, Jethro Tull