Emo is Hardcore

My fiance, Justin, and I have been talking about wedding music.  Specifically, the first dance.  While I'd like something jazzy and classic like Billie Holiday or Frank Sinatra, especially since it fits into the theme of the wedding, he's pretty adament about having "our song:"

Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song

What better place than our wedding to let the cat out of the bag that we were a bunch of pot-smoking, Pink Floyd-loving hippies?  Sorry grandma, but we met in college.

Since Justin won that battle, I've been researching some good ceremony music.  I'm a huge acoustic fan, so Dave Matthews and Jack Johnson are definitely on my list.  However, I was surprised by how much emo music I found.  Awesome emo music.  Hardcore emo music.  The kind of shit that makes 14-year-old girls dye their hair purple and write suicide letters. 

Not to rag on emo.  Embarrassingly, I used to listen to a lot of it in high school.  Dashboard, Bright Eyes.  Oh yeah.  One time I got so drunk at a Deathcab for Cutie concert that I passed out in the middle of the crowd.  Bam.  Face to floor.  I suppose that sort of behavior is acceptable at, say, an Ozzy concert, but really...Deathcab?

Makes me think emo really IS hardcore.

Alas, here is a list of my favorite ceremony songs:
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me (Instrumental)
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights
Ben Harper - Forever
David Gray - This Year's Love
Say Anything - I Want to Know Your Plans (Acoustic)
Dashboard Confessional - Stolen (Acoustic)
Dave Matthews Band - #40

P.S.
I could see this happening at our wedding...