Anything that's called emo pre 1997 or so isn't really connected to what is called emo today...the "emo" scene was originally bands like rites of spring, embrace, and dag nasty...thats the first place i think the term is taken seriously... now those bands have little in common with weezer, the get up kids, asnd sunny day real estate---the bands that get the emo tag in the 90's...not really punk rock anymore...certainly no real connection to the early hardcore scene... the late 90's early 00's emo bands --- taking back sunday, new found glory, jimmy eat world... were certainly influenced by those early 90's bands, but they had a clearly different sound...they were more or lesss influenced by blink182 and greeen day more than anything else... what we have now as emo is certainly connected to the punk rock scene...but not to bad brains, black flag, and minor threat like the early dischord bands were...or even to husker du...the bands we have now are more an offshoot of early 90's pop punk...and late 90's hardcorebe that the christian kind or not... weezer, sunny day, etc...get the emo tag because of the lyrics and the aesthetic, but they do not fall under the generic emo tag that gets attached to everything that sounds sorta punkish today...