If It Makes You Less Sad I Will POLL Emo Albums

I hope you find out what you want.
I already know what I am.

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Emo, screamo, pop-punk, skate punk, mallcore, post-hardcore, ska punk, psychobilly and Warped Tour music.

This poll is genre inclusive so I won’t be policing nominations but every one should more-or-less have an idea of the genre aesthetic being polled. Classic 70s punk doesn’t really belong here (Sex Pistols, the Clash) but some Dischord albums are okay (if just on the edge) as well as other proto-emo bands (and in fact I’m very interested in stretching the lineage of this kind of music as far back as it goes without becoming unreasonable).

We’re polling albums, not tracks (though if there’s enough demand I don’t mind running a track poll either concurrently or sequentially).

We will run with one week of nominations. Next Monday (2/20) I will open the voting thread. Per request voting will run for two weeks. Rollout will begin around 3/6.

Here are 10 albums to start off the nominations:

Brand New - Deja Entendu
Thursday - War All the Time
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
Braid - Frame & Canvas
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

it's happening!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sByRl7VVT4

YEAAAAAAHHHHHH

can we do a song title poll as well?

NPR clued me into this new emo band this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDbkANrP-H8

Yeah! That's a good idea. Vote for your favorite song title and I'll run it as a secondary poll during the album rollout.

Woo!

Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
Embrace - Embrace

Early aughts emo was very much filtered through mtv2 for me so looking forward to checking out a lot of the stuff that wasn't getting through to 12 year olds.

I def want a trax poll but fine if not.

Do we get the usual 25 noms or just whatever?

thanks in advance Mordy

The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
The Blood Brothers - March On, Electric Children!
At the Drive-In - Vaya EP
Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes
Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense
Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
Chore - Take My Mask and Breathe

however many u want. tracks poll depending on participation in this one.

Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
One Last Wish - One Last Wish
Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace There Is
Hotelier - Goodness
Cursive - Ugly Organ
Cursive - Domestica
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak English
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Paramore - Paramore
Blood Brothers - Young Machetes

The Good Life - Novena on a Nocturne
Cursive - Domestica
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?
Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
Teen Suicide - It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Panic! at the Disco - A Fever you Can’t Sweat Out
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Weezer - Pinkerton

The Wrens - The Meadowlands

lol it begins

Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Joyce Manor - Cody
Against Me! - Is the Eternal Cowboy
Against Me! - New Wave
Antarctigo Vespucci - Leavin' La Vida Loca
Dear Nora - Mountain Rock
The Menzingers - Rented World
The Wonder Years - No Closer to Heaven
Royal Headache - High
Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You

lol it begins

Y'know Big Star is pretty emo...

I find it amusing that said comment was in relation to The Meadowlands and not Pinkerton.

Was gonna say

I feel like Pinkerton has been grandfathered into emo by now, but not gonna push it.

yeah for better or worse Pinkerton is an essential inclusion imo

just for fun I'ma throw in some of the CanCon of my youth

Moneen - Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now?
North of America - Brothers, Sisters
The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving

All-American Rejects - Move-Along
The Good Life - Blackout
The World is a Beautiful Place and I am Not Afraid to Die - Harmlessness
89 Cubs - There Are Giants in the Earth

Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I

was trying to think of a subtle-ish thread troll and dismemberment plan was one of the couple i came down to. beat me to it.

Here Come the Warm Jets

lol

Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Hopefall - The Satellite Years
Ethel Meserve - The Milton Abandonment

And if we're allowed compilations:

Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology

Flagging 89 Cubs because they're one of the great mid-'00s indie-emo bands nobody remembers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAw_akqfj6c

Also nominating a couple Decibully records, because they were secretly the best Polyvinyl band

Decibully - City of Festivals
Decibully - Sing Out America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwjmIweBJg

Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Theory
Jawbreaker - Dear You
Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Elliott - US Songs
Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
Smart Went Crazy - Now We're Even
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You

The Dismemberment Plan - Change

Hot Water Music - Forever and Counting
Hot Water Music - Fuel for the Hate Game
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Planes Mistaken for Stars
Mock Orange - The Record Play
The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
Cursive - Domestica
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2
Small Brown Bike - Our Own Wars
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy

Rainer Maria - Past Worn Searching

Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?

A thousand albums, three chord sequences

;)

I have never listened to any Promise Ring, Braid, Saves the Day or Cap'n Jazz. I guess this is my chance to rectify this gap

xp in the spirit of this thread i'd like to compare your hurtful words to a geyser of blood drained from my veins

lmao

Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
Elliott - False Cathedrals
Jejune - This Afternoons Malady
The Jazz June - The Medicine
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy

i already disagree with at least five of the nominations so this'll be fun lol

Dag Nasty - Can I Say
Rival Schools - United by Fate
3 - Dark Days Coming
Christie Front Drive - s/t
Driver Friendly - Bury a Dream
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
American Football - American Football
The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl
Shudder to Think - Funeral at the Movies
The Get-Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are

Dang, I gotta think about this some more. off the top of my head

Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted
Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
i hate myself - 4 songs
Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers

and

American Nightmare - Background Music
^^^ not sure if to call the band American Nightmare or Give Up The Ghost or American Nothing or whichever moniker

prob more to come
aaaaand xp gavin just wrote like 4 of mine so lemme just delete those real quick

yesss appleseed cast

Pinegrove - Cardinal

And if we're allowed compilations:

Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology

― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, February 13, 2017 2:09 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

would've been inclined to vote for burritos, inspiration point etc. as an album i.e. the first 12 tracks of analphabetapolothology but also it's not like there's a bad track on the compilation or that i'll be unhappily voting for it

Yay!

Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
The Movielife - Forty Hour Train Back to Penn
The Get Up Kids - Guilt Show
Straylight Run - Straylight Run
The Early November - The Room's Too Cold
Chumped - Teenage Retirement

This thread needs more trolling. Someone nominate Joy Division.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD1DbtVP1Og

what is this poll's tolerance for arty indie with emo leanings

Ha, my post-hardcore-obsessed teenage friend did cite Joy Division as one of the pioneering emo bands, alongside Rites of Spring.

Okara - Months Like Years
Angel Hair - Pregnant With the Senior Class

it's not bad but in my eyes was so thoroughly eclipsed by deja entendu that it's like by a different band - a much more conventional scene band.

ot but just bc it's where i'm upto in the playlist: is there a more chutzpahdik moment in the history of this genre than writing a song about teens hooking up during the holocaust? and somehow it works???

you know who was a fucking brilliant band, was Fireworks

Fireworks - Gospel
Fireworks - Oh, Common Life

Your favorite weapon coming in this late is unexpected.

There are also many albums on RYM that are not nominated.

jimmy eat world - static prevails

The Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers: Concern in So Many Things You Forget Where You Are
Crash of Rhinos - Distal
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - What It Takes to Move Forward
mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes
Moving Mountains - Pneuma

I'm still on a Thursday kick. I can't believe I'd never heard of this band before this week. Have you all heard this? So good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1MY-1-CWwM

I'm going through some of the RYM albums now. Lotta screamo.

Also I just listened to the Weakerthans' Left and Leaving in full for the first time in maaaybe a decade and it's held up beautifully.

at some point today I'm gonna try out Is A Real Boy for the first time

It's not bad, holds up better than most of that wave of commercial emo imo.

This is where I admit that I never really gave Cap n Jazz a fair chance before but they sound great right now. (I know I heard all of An Alphabetapolothology in a car one time in 1998 and didn't click with it.)

xxp - the Empire! Empire! I nominated a little earlier is also from the RYM list. Nice and melodic.

Also, kind of relieved to see I'm not the only one who has major emo-gaps in their life.

It took me a minute to figure out that thew parenthetical is actually part of their name - that's an impressive level of fuckery

at some point today I'm gonna try out Is A Real Boy for the first time

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, February 19, 2017 8:57 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pls liveblog your experience

cosign

Boy Sets Fire - After the Eulogy

If Pop pop-punk counts

Avail - 4AM Friday

Avril Lavigne - Let Go

Jimmy Eat World - Futures

This is where I admit that I never really gave Cap n Jazz a fair chance before but they sound great right now. (I know I heard all of An Alphabetapolothology in a car one time in 1998 and didn't click with it.)

In the end, I couldn't hang with the vox.

Speaking of Cap Jazz - I didn't love the album but I'm listening to American Football now and this is def more my kind of thing

btw - I want to open voting thread tomorrow so get your noms in! in true slacker fashion you'll have until i actually start the new thread at some pt tmmrw to get them in - I'll do one last sweep before i post the new link here.

what do we think - are we comfortable not having any green day albums in this thing?

Green Day - Uno
Green Day - Dos
Green Day - Tre

i was thinking american idiot probably makes the most sense - dookie somehow feels a little too early? idk tho i think i'm probably ok not including either if ppl don't care.

Billy Talent - Billy Talent

at some point today I'm gonna try out Is A Real Boy for the first time
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, February 19, 2017 8:57 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pls liveblog your experience
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Sunday, February 19, 2017 2:15 PM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosign
― Mordy, Sunday, February 19, 2017 2:26 PM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you got it

two songs in and a. bemis is as full-on as I've always heard and b. these are some serious fuckin guitars

he sings like he's learned how to from imitating/singing along to someone else but I can't tell who

the opening to "the writhing south" was kinda offputting but the chorus is pretty mega

again the guitar breaks are RIDICULOUS wtf why does no one ever talk about this

why is it that only one man bands have audible bass parts

tbh some/most of these songs could use an edit but they also all seem to feature at least one really distinctive/great part

I think "Every Man Needs a Molly" is my favourite.

"spidersong" is the first one I'm not sure about, which is impressive

the way "an orgy of critics" just becomes a totally different song for about 30 seconds made me freak the fuck out, likee instead of a middle 8 it has a middle song

I think part of the difficulty of the idea of the emo poll is the nostalgia factor, which makes it difficult to pick up new favorites to vote for the way you could with eg one of the year end polls. mostly you just end up deepening your love for records you already adore (as has been the case with me + the weatherthans, juno, fireworks). but I could see throwing this a few points.

Since they seem to be getting some attention here,

The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site

can't believe you're just going to skip commenting on alive with the glory of love

it was right in the middle of that ridiculous sugar rush of opening tracks, I was still dizzy tbh

it feels like it's losing steam a bit in the back stretch but still pretty strong

should I phear in defense of the genre

lol @ the last two songs

I think part of the difficulty of the idea of the emo poll is the nostalgia factor, which makes it difficult to pick up new favorites to vote for

should I phear in defense of the genre

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, February 19, 2017 9:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's super patchy and at one point real smdh ("died a jew") but it had several of their best songs and it's just generally weird that this really ambitious emo double album exists

honestly I had to switch to something else midway through the first disc

lol

but I did take a moment to specially listen to "died a jew" and woooooow so he's one of those "needs someone at his side to tell him no sometimes but never had one" dudes huh

otm

also you didn't like "the church channel" or "girlfriend"?

This POLL Will Become the Anthem of Your EMO Voting Thread / You're Two Floors Down CAMPAIGNING in the Back Room.

I don't know if you've ever run a marathon before, but the thing about it is that it's not just running two half marathons, it's running that second half marathon after you just did the first one

my point is I'll give this say anything album another crack when I haven't just listened to an hour of say anything xp

Mordy, you rule. What an undertaking!