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

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49. Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide
187 points, 6 votes

damn there is gonna be so much SDRE in this top 50 huh

hell yeah

Fuck yeah! This is the best swan song EVER. My #3.

this is not the one I voted for but it's good!

beautiful record

i think i didn't realize how good it was until paramore covered "faces in disguise" on the riot tour

i left this off my ballot and had Dairy in its place, which is stupid bc this is prob the SDRE i love the most

my circle of friends in lolcollege had 2 bros who listened to metal exclusively and when this album came out we evangelized to them relentlessly until they became dudes who listened to metal and the new SDRE exclusively. about a dozen of us went and saw them on this tour together and were so zealous in our singing along and swaying that most of the rest of the audience took note and the band at one point acknowledged us

awesome

this album is way more Pearl Jam than emo imo, but who cares

singing along and swaying

exactly.

but we looked cooler and the music sounded way better

Anyone who thinks Diary is better should listen to 'Disappear'. Or 'Snibe'.

Or their very best song, which they put in the final spot on their final release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Ef1RxDr_U

I could listen to that thing all day (and I have, actually).

can I start to post bad old Pitchfork reviews http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7583-the-rising-tide/

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48. Hum – Downward is Heavenward
189 points, 4 votes

oh boy

omg lol @ pfork review

this isn't *really* emo (though the vocals help) but I couldn't not vote for it, my #4 and an all-time favorite

lmao

Ten bonus points for Imago!

some of the greatest, most expensive guitar sounds ever

God, that review.

I mainly felt OK voting for it cause I had a lot of extremely emo times listening to it

you guys should probably also check out the Dear You review lol

yeah this was the album cover I was talking about

great, great album

love that hum record to death. wanted to vote for it but so many other albums just felt more right to me.

might have been my #4 too

189 points and four votes mean the other two votes must have been really fuckin high too (assuming 50 for a no. 1?)

SDRE and Hum back to back <3

I felt too much out of my depth to vote in this poll, had no idea which way the emo pendulum would swing. Turns out it's surprisingly going into very different directions. Which is good. Should have voted. Rising Tide is the one for me, as great as Diary is.

glad mordy did a top 100. l

I will forever maintain that this album would not be the commercial disaster it was had they released "Green to Me" or "If You Are to Bloom" as the lead single ("Comin' Home" was a *terrible* choice)

if nothing else they both had sweet earwormy opening riffs

Liking Hum so far, should have gotten round to them years ago. Think they were definitely an influence on Oceansize, and I now realise Lantlos' last album was basically a heavier version of this

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47. The Get-Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
198 points, 6 votes

classic

FORGIVE ME!

iirc without four minute mile fall out boy would not exist

we're going to have to work out the most emo cover in the top 100 when this is all done

189 points and four votes mean the other two votes must have been really fuckin high too (assuming 50 for a no. 1?)

"Don't Hate Me" is ground zero for The Weezer Effect

Have never been able to get into Rising Tide as much as the other SDRE albums but I'll keep trying.

Re: Pitchfork's old emo reviews, nothing beats all the Joan of Arc ones, I've never known a publication hate a band so much.

i only voted for one get up kids record but even that felt weird bc i feel like all of their best songs are on unrelated eps

sund4r has raved about Hum for years

I voted for a different get up kids record

we're going to have to work out the most emo cover in the top 100 when this is all done

Ha! Regardless of what else places I'm voting Tell All Your Friends.

i drove 200 miles round-trip to see GUK the night before i graduated high school

I ended up not voting for any Get Up Kids. I listened to bits of a couple records and they didn't hit me like I thought they were going to. And yet I really like "I'm a Loner, Dottie, a Rebel..." which reminds me I forgot to vote for the Post Marked Stamps comp CD.

I saw the Hold Steady open for the Get Up Kids years ago. Weird bill. The emo kids were not into THS. Six months later I saw THS again in a small venue and mentioned the show to Craig outside the club. His response: "Well, when you fuck with emo, emo fucks with you."

breakdown in "fall semester" is all time

I voted for a different get up kids record

I had this on my list and one of their EPs in my top 10.