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

I don't know whether the division was ever as deep as it was portrayed. But it often didn't make sense. Like, Taking Back Sunday isn't that radical of a leap from Rites of Spring. In fact they're probably less of one than Sunny Day Real Estate or Death Cab For Cutie or whatever

im with brad

i like all of the emo forms obv and think they're all deeply interrelated and have often felt v alone in this assertion

brad I demand you write the definitive history of emo, preferably in book form

i once characterized the opening of jimmy eat world's "goodbye sky harbor" as post-hardcore and someone got mad at me bc post-hardcore according to him always involved screaming and being intro, but come on, that shit sounds like a gentler drive like jehu

feeling v alone in one's heartfelt assertions = emo in a nutshell!

brad I demand you write the definitive history of emo, preferably in book form

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 12:01 PM (twenty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all of the attempts to do this so far are incredible failures, not i think bc of the talent involved but bc of the genre's slipperiness. idk if i could do any better

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72. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
138 points, 6 votes

Well, that's interesting, because my ballot was mostly split between screamy post-hardcore and 00s commercial stadium rock, but I never got into most of the wimpy indie rock in between. xp to Evan

WOW TOO LOOOOW

thought this would be top 20 maybe higher, front to back perfect emo

damn, way too low

vote split, i guess :\

ive listened to "through being cool" about 8,000 times, "cant slow down" about 18 times and all other STD albums zero times

i also didn't vote for either of those std record which means my personal fav in reverie is... prob not gonna place

I'm sure I would love StD but as aforementioned they have been poisoned for me by personal associations, which is probably the most emo possible relationship to have with a band

in reverie still the greatest album of all time tho

i hope that you're ok

even though i'm dying

xxp otm

obv you dont get the 98 & 99 StD albums without the 95 & 97 lifetime albums

stay what you are rules so much still and i think i have different associations with every song. it also sorta reaches into their future and past simultaneously, "firefly" is like a long lost through being cool track in structure and tempo, "cars & calories" is as power pop as anything on in reverie

obv you dont get the 98 & 99 StD albums without the 95 & 97 lifetime albums

― gr8080, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 12:14 PM (five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yupppppp

Just saaaaaaaaaaail belllly up to the clooouuuuuuds, the rocks scraping our baaaaaaacks, to breath in the air we'll beeeeeee, the only thing that we haaaaaave

And if the hook sets iiiiiiiin the bottom of our lunnnnngs, we'll rip it out and lick the blood off with our tonnnnnngues.

those american std kids wearing shoes inside is disconcerting

the radio's playin' queen

we're rockin' out!!!

through being cool, stay what you are, in reverie is a helluva run

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71. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
140 points, 4 votes

SOS: too low

he said about a record he didn't vote for

shoulda voted for this

I caved and I'm listening to In Reverie at work and having all kinds of feelings for all kinds of reasons, so THANKS EVERYONE

i saw them live the week (day?) this was released - such a big beautiful dumb golden retriever of an album

I liked the first STD record because it sounded like Lifetime filtered through a more poppy filter. Didn't much care for the stuff after that, though I should revisit I think.

Love the Promise Ring.

fyi i'm going to drop these every 20 min so that we hit #61 by 5:00PM EST.

I voted for the promise ring (and the moss icon that placed earlier)

I'm going to be in a meeting for the next hour and if I miss a Juno record or something I'm gonna be (more) sad (than normal)

Wow, I completely missed STD during the voting period. Listening to 'See You' on headphones now, and wow! at those ghostly wooo-hoo-hoos before the second chorus.

(more) sad (than normal)

AS strongly as Brad feels about In Reverie I feel about Stay What You Are. I had it top 3.

voted for another Promise Ring alb but this is obv classic

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70. Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance
142 points, 4 votes

too high

yeah, not their best imo

not their best but was very integral for my emo listening path

I love the sound of the acoustic guitars and the superior version of 'Again I Go Unnoticed'.

I'll never forget that Dashboard Confessional MTV Unplugged special, which is one of the creepiest things I have ever seen. All those kids singing along, tranquilized by really pedestrian songs, like they'd fallen into some kind of cult

my older sis lives in Boca Raton and is a semi-super fan ie she got engaged at a roller skating rink to a Dashboard song. Anyway she was at the library w her kids and saw Carrabba there w his family. she sparked up a convo, their kids go to the same school, etc etc. he ended up inviting them over to his house for a bbq and chill. they are still in contact and friends.

lol xp that was a classic mtv unlpugged

felt like everyone had that playing on repeat in their apartments at college for like 6 months straight