Run Quick EMO ALBUMS; Here I’ll POLL, You VOTED

odysseus - he can be a chronic complainer but he's been moaning in this chat on fb all day about how this poll will be too poppy for his tastes and now he's whining on the thread. i guess whining is apropos to the pop punk genre but i feel like it's really not in the spirit of emo which should be more sincere + devastated than snot-nosed and bratty.

oh... well at least it's mostly relegated to FB then.

So jealous of that Dashboard gig. Praying for an international tour.

Amazing cover image itt btw!

I don't like a lot of the pop stuff either but idc if it places high

Yeah, I've never seen a show with such loud cathartic singing along as when I saw Dashboard in Seattle.

The chorus of Quicksand's "Head to Wall" is a great example of how post hardcore and emo can blur

Wow, this Pedro the Lion stuff is lovely. Great with the build and a twinge of dark folk in there...so nice.

I always considered post-hardcore to be a subsidiary of emo as much as of punk, even when it shares almost nothing in common with the sound...but that might just be because I came to like both at around the same time. They have pretty similar followings too imo... Different days/different t-shirts.

listen to Modern Lovers s/t and tell me the 2nd wave of emo wasn't based entirely on that album

the only time i saw dashboard was when they opened for 3eb a few years ago. for some reason my tickets allowed me to join a group of superfans in the dashboard dressing room where carrabba did solo acoustic versions of like "as lovers go" and etc. it rules

er, ruled*. i'm not still there

otoh eternally trapped in a dressing room listening to dashboard confessional does sound like some sort of hell

wow rude

sorry i mean i love them very very much but i was just thinking about if i could never listen to anything else ever again and while extremely appealing to me i don't find dashboard to be an infinite well of revelation

lol fair

I saw DC at an art college in Boston in 2001 sometime before the So Impossible EP came out. I don't think there were a lot of people singing along yet, since he hadn't broken through on the scale that he would a couple years later. I haven't seen him since, mostly because I never listened to A Mark etc.

haha we did it sund4r! shotmaker makes the cut

No idea what you are into but I think the top 50 of the poll will be dominated by the big pop albums interspersed by some of the big 90s names

yeah, I tend to like a lot of the Saddle Creek/Polyvinyl/indie-adjacent stuff, which isn't well represented yet, as well as punkier Dischordy stuff. Lots of my other favs I'm sure will place high (Hotelier, Paramore, that kinda stuff), but there were a lot of fringe LPs I voted for that I'm not even sure made the list, so it'll be cool to see. In the meantime I guess now is as good as anytime to try listening to Save Anything

how many people voted by the way?

30 total

looking forward to giving a few of these a listen.

also we

haha we did it sund4r! shotmaker makes the cut

xp too low maybe but given how relatively unknown they are it's great to see it place

3rd shotmaker vote here

o/

:D :D :D

also:

there was this band that barely existed in ~2002ish, called Roads to Shiloh, from Ottawa. They were maybe the best post-Shotmaker band from the era? Or maybe I'm biased because the lead singer was my improv coach when I was 14? YOU BE THE JUDGE.

The only song I can find on the internet, never mind the meme someone uploaded as a an album cover, this song is probably old enough to drive a car

RECAP

100. At the Drive-In - Vaya EP
99. Elliott - False Cathedrals
98. Quicksand - Slip
97. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
96. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
95. Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails
94. Straylight Run - Straylight Run
93 (TIE). Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit
93 (TIE). Aereogramme - A Story In White
91. Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy
90. Saetia - A Retrospective
89. Angel Hair - Pregnant With the Senior Class
88. Embrace - Embrace
87. Rival Schools - United by Fate
86. Thirty Ought Six - Hag Seed
85 (TIE). Jawbreaker - Bivouac
85 (TIE). Fireside - Elite
85 (TIE). blink-182 - Enema of the State
82. Shotmaker - Discography
81. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar

Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/7x105RTONzRc2FcsLFVJkO

One of the tracks on the Rival Schools album ("Holding Sand") is mysteriously absent from Spotify.

Such a varied countdown already.

Wait, lol, Will, did you take improv lessons from N1ck?? Those guys went to my high school, a couple years behind me.

I think Weights and Measures was the best early 00s Ottawa band in the broad post-hc/emo/math rock genre.

tt is playing loads of these and I keep wondering if they're Tool

are Tool emo

I would unironically like to hear someone like Brand New cover one of the more brooding Undertow-era tunes

tt is playing loads of these and I keep wondering if they're Tool

are Tool emo

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idk are you listening to quicksand

They were maybe the best post-Shotmaker band from the era?

some of my best pals in HS had a band for about a year that was such a beautiful rip-off of Shotmaker's sound - sadly i dont think any recordings exist

they were so solely invested in the sound that they just lazily stole the lyrics from chumbawamba's "tubthumping" for one song and ginuwine's "pony" for another

lol

out of a weird desire to just see what'll happen i sorta want you to listen to that say anything record lj

yeah it was quicksand and thirty ought six that made me think that

quite liked say anything from what i can tell!

saetia seemed like straight up black metal for one track lol

quite liked say anything from what i can tell!

hooray for theater kid emo

it is becoming clear that emo has more than three chord sequences

maybe as many as seven

sorry for the late start. everyone ready to begin?

yessssss

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80. Moss Icon - Lyburnum
129 points, 5 votes

Just a reminder that you said 'wow, this is some emo' about Say Anything.

classic

Oops, phone doesn't show xposts.

Yay!

gonna do my best to keep the playlist updated "live" (at least till 5pm ETish)

You know I've been running one too but I wouldn't mind ceding that to you - free up a little bit of my time.

good to know that i'm at least as good at drums as the moss icon guy

oh shit mordy I didn't see that lol!

here I was thinking I was being helpful but really I was just fucking up again like I always do (/emo)

to quote my wife from the first year we were dating, "aw poor emo boy :("

hahaha