This book forever changed my view of the music industry, it's an in-depth look at the the bands featured and their journey through formation, and sometimes even through their end in the hands of major labels. Things in the industry have forever changed since bands like Nirvana and Green Day broke into the major music barrier, opening the doors for many famous acts.

I decided to listen to the albums mentioned while reading the book, it was a nice way to get to know some of those bands and be more familiar with some that I have always been a little bit reluctant to listen to, here's the list:

Green Day - Dookie (1994)

Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1994)

Jawbreaker - Dear You (1995)

Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)

Nirvana - In Utero (1993)

Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails (1996)

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity (1999)

Blink 182 - Dude Ranch (1997)

At The Drive-In - In / Casino / Out (1998)

Blink-182 - Enema of the State (1999)

At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000)

Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique (1989)

The Donnas - American Teenage Rock’n’Roll Machine (1998)

Thursday - Waiting (1999)

The Donnas - Spending The Night (2002)

Thursday - Full Collapse (2001)

Rancid - And Here Comes The Wolves (1995)

The Distillers - self-titled (2000)

Rancid - Indestructible (2003)

The Distillers - Coral Fang (2003)

My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002)

My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004)

Spinnerette - Self-titled (2009)

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)

Rise Against - The Unraveling (2001)

My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)

Rise Against - RPM10 (2003)

Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose (2002)

Rise Against - Sire Song of The Counter Culture (2004)

Against Me! - As The Eternal Cowboy (2003)

Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness (2004)

Against Me! - Searching For a Former Clarity (2005)

Green Day - American Idiot (2004)

Against Me! - New Wave (2007)

Against Me! - White Crosses (2010)

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014)

(highlighted my favorites!)

A preview picture from Amy Fleisher Madden’s book NEGATIVES: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)

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I'm looking for a book I used to own,

It was a comic book called "Emo" and it was really thin the cover was in all black with EMO written on it I believe in red, the O filled in and a small × in the middle of it,

The cover also featured a pill bottle, I believe spilled with the pills coming out of it?

It was given to me by a friend as a joke when I was about in 5th or 6th grade but my memory's bad so I'd say between about 2014-2018 and by then the book had already been "well loved", the cover was coming appart and it honestly kinda looked like it could've been from a convention / self published

I never caught the name of the author, and I never read the book's actual contents, because from the cover and the firdt page, I'd gathered it was actually a pretty dark comic and I wasn't comfortable reading that kind of thing back then,

I know it spoke of the topic of s*cide or at least attempting

I gave my older brother the book because, him being emo, I figured he'd probably enjoy it, and I have no idea if he still has it to this day, if he does he'd have no idea, and I don't feel like looking for it myself in his room

But yeah, mainly wondering, has anyone ever heard of this book?