from under the cork tree is actually imo at exactly the right place (lol 69 nice). it's def the least good fob album (even stump agrees)
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
i mean, least good fob album not counting evening out with your girlfriend which no one does
the band benefited substantially imo from shifting its emphasis from pete wentz to the true heart + soul of the band patrick stump. maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??
i mean, pete is 100 percent the heart of the band/the "frontman" throughout their entire career, but infinity is when stump starts singing the shit out of the songs
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
also we didn't nom some of the more recent albums but i want to note that they're all good and i was rocking out to american beauty / american psycho on a car trip recently. save rock and roll also not nominated and also great. when i'm falling asleep at the wheel they are the band most consistently able to wake me up.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
this poll is making it very clear that i left emo behind in the 20th century
― gr8080, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link
btw describing very emergency as a "big beautiful dumb golden retriever of an album" = perfecto
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
Wait, lol, Will, did you take improv lessons from N1ck?? Those guys went to my high school, a couple years behind me.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 8:16 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup! I guess we went to the same high school then! (MHS?)
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Yup (more like 03-04 but still) xps
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
it's def the least good fob album (even stump agrees)
Dear god they made an album worse than American Beauty/American Psycho?
― Evan R, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
you can use that for the book, just attribute it in a footnote, thx
― gr8080, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
i was never a huge form under the cork tree fan (tho i've heard it many times bc significant other is from chicago) - i always felt their sound was a little generic and underbaked until infinity on high, but i was relistening to this during the poll and def the blueprint is there from the getgo. the band benefited substantially imo from shifting its emphasis from pete wentz to the true heart + soul of the band patrick stump. maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??
― Mordy, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:08 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I def didn't love fall out boy at the time, didn't like them until infinity as well
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I graduated (from OAC/Gr 13!) in 1997.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
I also haven't liked anything since Folie a Deux
Too funny. I was the last year of OAC, in 2003. Gn1ck was smack in the middle between us.
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
btw, essential visual companion thread:
Lonely guy just thinking baout things
― gr8080, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??
Feel like this was a very smart move on the band's part. Pete Wentz is so indelibly associated with the '00s that seeing him feels like receiving an email from MySpace. Patrick Stump is a much more versatile canvas to project an image on
― Evan R, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51GqzN4-ajL.jpg67 [TIE]. Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now145 points, 4 votes---------------------------------https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RQhOQfofL.jpg67 [TIE]. Copeland – Beneath Medicine Tree145 points, 4 votes
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
two great records
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
Knapsack I've loved for 15 years now, Copeland I only just discovered in the voting thread. Voted for both.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
voted for both of these. copeland too low but happy to see it place at all.
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
and we're RATIONALbut you never know
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Outside of Against Me!, have any other women made this list yet?
― Evan R, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
i was thinking about that during the noms, not a lot showed up there. Paramore obv will place.
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
hoping for julien baker
Have no #1 votes shown up yet?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
gonna be kinda upsetting if out of 100 albums Laura Jane Grace and Hayley Williams are the only women represented
― Evan R, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
fwiw I voted for dear nora :/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
From Under the Cork tree is the only FOB I ever go back to on the reg
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:55 (seven years ago) link
Maybe Circle Takes The Square will show up? xp
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
Lots of punk bands when I was there. Fun fact: Popular singer-songwriter-cum-cafe owner Kathleen Edwards was also a MHS alum, in my year. She was cool.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
― Evan R, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:53 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pffft, no way. i guess discount probably won't sneak in but i'm expecting jejune, the anniversary, rainer maria (maybe)
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
Folie à Deux is def my FOB keeper but the hooks from "Sugar" and "A Little Less Sixteen Candles..." still get in my head sometimes.
i fucking love kathleen edwards xp
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
I never bought this Against Me album but I have really enjoyed it whenever I listened. Hits my classic indie rock buttons.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:57 PM (fifteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my impression that stump dislikes cork tree is from a very old interview he did with absolutepunk (?) right before infinity where he said he liked approx three songs on the album (i'm guessing those two and "dance dance"). i like about six myself
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:59 (seven years ago) link
Apparently I sat in Kathleen's desk in History class, or so Ms. Johnson told me.
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
it's impossible to confirm this bc absolutepunk is long gone xp
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
i love that i am just talking about my high school in the emo thread, so unrelated and yet so wholly appropriate
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
I love this Ottawa high school talk. I was last year of OAC at Canterbury.
― jmm, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
I like "XO" and uhhh
count me in on the Kathleen Edwards lovefest
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
I'd be shocked if Rainer Maria makes the cut. They seem like the quintessential "I thought you were gonna vote for them" band
― Evan R, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
ditto the Kathleen Edwards love
I almost did but they got cut because I couldnt actually recall the album i liked
― Odysseus, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/321/MI0000321089.jpg?partner=allrovi.com65. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You145 points, 5 votes
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:09 (seven years ago) link
also a huge kathleen edwards fan
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
lol
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
(me not unwound)
― Odysseus, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 2:06 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it was almost inevitably look now look again get it together kerr
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
xxp yeah Rainer Maria suffer from not having one clearly great album.
One thing I always respected about them is that their attempted mass appeal/spotlight album Long Knives Draw was much better than many other emo acts' of their era. Good album
― Evan R, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
fantastic album
― Odysseus, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link
great album, not emo imo
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link