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

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

people accusing me of being an emo kid really stunted my emo development

love Moss Icon.

when she said that i'd pull up my coheed hoodie over my head and eyes and pout

This is lower than I expected - good record!

Also I have to admit, Say Anything are a real blind spot for me.

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

I gave this a vote but I think it might be the drumming that holds me back from loving them as much as I 'should'? I always feel like they should be tighter (or else more loose and free/noisy).

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79 [TIE]. Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
131 points, 4 votes
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79 [TIE]. Bedhead - Transaction de Novo
131 points, 4 votes

LIFETIME

(who are more pop-punk than anything but every early-00s emo band was inspired by them. especially all the mall emo lol)

greatest song ever made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLTUHMx8F7g

welp you weren't lying about an interesting patch of records placing below 77