Which of the following have you done at a music show/concert?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If you don't know what any of these mean, then odds are you haven't done it.

(Except for maybe "pogo dancing", that basically just means jumping in place and bouncing.)

I've done all except crowdsurf.

[beesley]

Only mosh and pogo.

[dead0man]

mosh and hardcore dancing is the same thing?  I've certainly moshed.
I don't know what an emo tremble or floor punch is.
I think everyone has pogo'd, it's a natural response to certain types of beats.
I always considered myself too big to crowd surf.

[Ferguson97]

NOTA, and have only heard of mosh pit/crowdsurfing.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

mosh and hardcore dancing is the same thing?  I've certainly moshed.
I don't know what an emo tremble or floor punch is.
I think everyone has pogo'd, it's a natural response to certain types of beats.
I always considered myself too big to crowd surf.

No, hardcore dancing is like this stuff at 0:40 here:

The "emo tremble" and the associated "emo chest tap" is described here:

The trembler clasps his/her hands together (wringing them from time to time), leans forward, bounces quickly on the balls of the feet, and shakes the upper torso in time to the music. Once in a while the trembler will grab the back of the head and rock back and forth. The more the person likes the band, the more he or she will double over. Also, a reader submits: "i think you forgot the "emo chest tap" or just "the chest tap". this goes on a lot in the northeast...i particularly remember lots of chest tapping occuring at shotmaker shows."

Floorpunching is where you lean over and kind if rapidly throw your fists to the floor repetitively while jumping forward or backward...it kind of looks like someone is aggressively trying to start a lawnmower.

[Xing]

WI: Listened and analyzed the harmonic structure of the music.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

WI: Listened and analyzed the harmonic structure of the music.

Is that something that you would expect anyone to do at a New Found Glory show?

[NOVA Green]

Everything but:

1.) Crowd Surfing---- def a thing in some of the bigger Metal / Punk shows I went to in the late '80s / early /90s, but since many of the Gigs were pretty cool, people would take their chance doing that move, since there had been so many serious injuries esp when people in the crowd weren't there to catch and move a brother/sister along...

2.) Floorpunch--- Not familiar with this dance move, but looks to be associated with a "Narrowcast" straight edge sort of gig?

3.) Emo Terrible--- Don't consciously recall doing this even when finally seeing my Heavy Metal Classic band Black Sabbath live for the first time around in the mid 2010's.

Honestly, seems like a weird dance move even if I still wanted to listen to a classic Goth song such as "Screaming Women With Stake Knives" back in the late '80s.

Doesn't seem like a type of move where even the most hardcore Cure fans would make, but I guess it must be a thing now?

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

No Skanking but you include Emo Tremble & Floorpunching? Most of the time, I don't even know with these BRTD polls.

Also, isn't Circle Pit just a variation of Moshing?

Anyway, I've crowdsurfed at a Metallica show (And at one other show that escapes me, perhaps Green Day?), moshed at Slayer & Eagles of Death Metal shows & circle-pit at Flogging Molly & Sleep shows

[progressive85]

I'll need to consult the dictionary or at least Urbandictionary to find out what ANY of those words mean
but they all sound majorly majorly cool.


on first click onto UrbanDic:
Cumbrain
A person obsessed with sex to the point where it becomes a detriment to their abilities to socialize and think through problems.

lol.

[Xing]

WI: Listened and analyzed the harmonic structure of the music.

Is that something that you would expect anyone to do at a New Found Glory show?

No, but it's something I enjoy doing at the concerts I go to.

[NOVA Green]

No Skanking but you include Emo Tremble & Floorpunching? Most of the time, I don't even know with these BRTD polls.

Also, isn't Circle Pit just a variation of Moshing?

Anyway, I've crowdsurfed at a Metallica show (And at one other show that escapes me, perhaps Green Day?), moshed at Slayer & Eagles of Death Metal shows & circle-pit at Flogging Molly & Sleep shows

IDK.... knowing BRTD it might be more like a Circle Jerks originated style of dancing.

People can Urban Dictionary Circle Jerk, although the first definition that pops up there is NOT what it meant back in the dayz.      Interestingly enough I can imagine some Republican Avatars and Leaners attempting to reclaim the term "circle jerk" to describe the overt and pervasive Liberal and Leftist Dominance on Atlas.

I would strongly suggest that Atlas Members be extremely careful randomly googling the term at work, school, etc.... since well it could potentially lead you into places and websites which might get you in trouble within a professional work environment.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=circle%20jerk

So here is the band the Circle Jerks playing live in LA in 1981 a 5 minute clip. There are plenty of other live gigs available online but wanted to at least look at some of the "Old Skool" Punk style of dancing for data analysis, many of which are much longer in composition, so dive into the subject as independent researchers on your own:

[NOVA Green]

BRTD: Almost forgot---- ran into one of my neighbors whose also a Gen-X, but was from LA and did tons of gigs back in the dayz and we talked about mosh pits and dancing and all that, but you did not mention "Stage Diving" which used to be pretty pop in both the Punk & Metal Scenes back in the days...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

BRTD: Almost forgot---- ran into one of my neighbors whose also a Gen-X, but was from LA and did tons of gigs back in the dayz and we talked about mosh pits and dancing and all that, but you did not mention "Stage Diving" which used to be pretty pop in both the Punk & Metal Scenes back in the days...

That kind of falls under crowd surfing, although I guess it's true that it's possible to crowd surf without stage diving. Stage diving without crowd surfing though...ouch.

[Dr. MB]

moshpit - today

very intense

[vitoNova]

NOTA.

I appreciate the performance art, but personally not my thing.  (while listening to Black Flag's "TV Party" on my iTunes in the background and drinking my second cup of coffee this beautiful Saturday morning)