If It Makes You Less Sad I Will POLL Emo Albums

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'm def going to try to listen to all of the noisier or post-hardcore albums (what I think they're calling "screamo" these days).

almost forgot J. Robbins!

Burning Airlines - Mission: Control!
Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Jawbox - s/t

Pedro the Lion - The Only Reason I Feel Secure
Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit
Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness

actually excited about this.

can i just go on the record for

Fall Out Boy - all of the Fall Out Boy albums <3

i'm gonna need you to specify them by name but i agree w/ the sentiment (at least infinity on high and onward)

fuck it let's do this

Aereogramme - A Story In White
Aereogramme - Sleep And Release

no apologies for arty british post-emo, no apologies at all

i saw Aereogramme live in San Francisco, had a blast.

i don't know if i'll vote since i mostly only like the emo-adjacent stuff but i'm looking forward to this

You could probably make a solid case for There's Nothing Wrong With Love as emo tbh

emo in content if not in execution

i haven't voted in an ilm non-year-end poll in a very long time (maybe ever?) but i am all in on this one

You could probably make a solid case for There's Nothing Wrong With Love as emo tbh

that's tricky, there's a buncha bands/records of that era that I'd prefer to classify as "rainy midwestern indie" (see also 764-HERO and early Modest Mouse)

I think I do have to quibble with classifying something as emo that no one would have called emo at the time.

(if we're talking about something that actually was released in 1994)

I mean, that's also the Meadowlands issue.

Very excited for this!

The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide

The Dismemberment Plan - Is Terrified
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Fugazi - Repeater
Against Me! - Transgender Disphoria Blues
Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Desaparecidos - Payola
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground
Hop Along - Get Disowned
Last Days Of April - Angel Youth
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
Pretty Girls Make Graves - New Romance
Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Solea - Solea
Title Fight - Shed
Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
Touche Amore - Is Survived By
Far - Water And Solutions

🤔

Alkaline Trio - Crimson
Brandtson - Letterbox
Fireside - Elite
Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes
Knapsack - Day Three of My New Life
Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Stating Right Now
oso oso - The Yunahon Mixtape
Pop Unknown - If Arsenic Fails, Try Algebra
Sense Field - Building

a quick bit of searching reveals a "is the meadowlands emo" discussion here in 2004 & there seems to be the occasional discussion in reviews from that time

BTW, I love this idea for a poll.

Sorry, typo in that second Knapsack album. It should be:

Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now

Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes

I already nommed the Juno albums but I am stoked to campaign on their behalf

<clinks beer glasses>

that record is incredible

I like A Future Live in Past Tense just as much despite (because of?) being maybe the most overblown independent rock record of the 00s

I'm willing to stan for that one. Except for the spoken word track that's a wonderful album.

I'm way more interested in this poll than I thought I'd be

Positively surprised by all the Juno-love here.

i have never heard juno!

I will go on about them lots later, for now I'll just say they married post-rock and post-hardcore more seamlessly than anyone. and also, three geetars.

Something Corporate - North
Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
Sense Field - Tonight and Forever
Further Seems Forever - The Moon is Down
Further Seems Forever - How to Start a Fire
Further Seems Forever - Hide Nothing
The Get Up Kids - On a Wire
Mae - Destination: Beautiful
Mae - The Everglow

I will go on about them lots later, for now I'll just say they married post-rock and post-hardcore more seamlessly than anyone. and also, three geetars.

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:53 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god help me I am this close to nominating oceansize