If It Makes You Less Sad I Will POLL Emo Albums

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

Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt

..if that would be considered emo

Shotmaker - Discography

xxxxp my belief about polls: nominate according to how you understand the parameters, vote according to how you understand the parameters. if it's not a good fit ppl won't vote for it.

Hoover - Hoover

i think of cerulean salt as emo, so yeah let's nominate it

i hate sex - Circle Thinking

sund4r! shotmaker!!!!!

90s Ottawa represent. (Only made it to 5 Arlington twice before it closed, though.)

I got to Ottawa well after 5 Arlington. Only moved there in 1999 (and wasn't old enough to start going to shows until like 2000, 2001). The way people used to talk about Shotmaker in hushed tones though, wow. I listened to a few mp3s off of soulseek at the time but more or less forgot their name until now!!! currently listening to mouse ear, damn i like this even more thna I thought I would in 2017/at age 32!

what emo is like the Crying album btw

Oh, check out the Okara album if you don't know it. The Beatles to Shotmaker's Stones?? The best 90s band that no one heard, anyway.

xp Try Rush and Van Halen

Actually, you might like Okara too, imago!

Native Nod - Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World

(Seriously, I would also love to hear more stuff that sounds like Crying but I don't know that anyone is doing the precise thing they do.)

Collecting all noms here:
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/1zWI04ISPBer8XlzI3hb5D

thanks!

(wrong embrace in the playlist)
https://open.spotify.com/album/6hgvPpFtEUDYVsBwvkiSty

got it, thx.

Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead
Armor For Sleep - Dream to Make Believe
Pedro the Lion – Control
Pedro the Lion – Whole EP
Pedro the Lion – It’s Hard to Find A Friend

wondering if Idaho should be involved?

i have some more noms

Thursday - A City By the Light Divided
Thursday - Full Collapse
Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth
The Academy Is… - Almost Here
A.F.I. - Sing the Sorrow
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Élan Vital
Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance
Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
blink-182 - blink-182
The Ataris - So Long, Astoria

(obv trying to lure in markers w/ blink noms)

Was wondering when Blink would get nominated

My Chemical Romance - The Black PArade

Heh, I almost feel like I'm trolling, given what the rest of the noms are like, but I don't think I am (at least it's not all I'm doing)!

i don't think so! it's a broad aesthetic i'm looking for.

Be Your Own Pet are too garage to get in under the pop-punk umbrella right?

death cab for cutie - we have the facts and we're voting yes
i hate myself - ten songs
indian summer - science 1994
karate - karate
karate - in place of real insght
piebald - if it weren't for venetian blinds, it would be curtains for us all
pretty girls make graves - good health
pretty girls make graves - the new romance

Mohinder - Discography

sleepytime trio - memory-minus

Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales

wow! how did i miss this from just last year? it's great

Completely missed it as well, probably my favourite of the last few years now

https://twitter.com/cryingband/status/830232632449519618

also the poll of bands who have asserted that they're definitely not emo

also the poll of bands who have asserted that they're definitely not emo

― Mordy, Monday, February 13, 2017 5:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the first sign that they're emo

At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command

(And this poll is already the best ILM poll in the history of ILM. The river overfloweth)

I really love the Crying album but girlish indie-pop vocals + hard rock guitar shredding + chiptune synths isn't what "emo" calls to my mind either.

You're right Crying should definitely win this poll

Ha, I might even vote for them! I wasn't disputing their inclusion in Mordy's poll, just saying I can understand their reaction to the label.

i think i talked about crying being "emo" in the album poll thread but imo they're 1) not emo 2) happen to play with several bands that are emo 3) sometimes #2 makes you emo anyway

emo is entirely a phenomenon of reception theory

xp otm If I'd heard them outside of the emo thread and outside of being on Run for cover I would not be calling them emo

I probably said this before but my first exposure to them was when someone played the early single version of "Patriot" in plug. I thought they were a 70s prog/AOR band at first.

I am going to try my hardest to listen to at least some of every nommed album/band that is new to me

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!