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

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

80. Moss Icon - Lyburnum
79 (TIE). Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
79 (TIE). Bedhead - Transaction de Novo
77. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
76. City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar
75. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
74. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
73. Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
72. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
71. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
70. Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance
69 (TIE). Pinegrove - Cardinal
69 (TIE). Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
67 (TIE). Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now
67 (TIE). Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree
65. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
64. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
63. Aereogramme - Sleep and Release
62. Three Mile Pilot - The Chief Assassin to the Sinister
61. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes

60. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
59. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
58. Jejune - This Afternoons Malady
57. Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace There Is
56. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
55 (TIE). Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
55 (TIE). Jawbreaker - Dear You
53 (TIE). The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
53 (TIE). Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record
51. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
50. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
49. Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide
48. Hum – Downward is Heavenward
47. The Get-Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
46. Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
45. Thursday - No Devolución
44. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
43. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
42. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
41. Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales

I think more than half of my top ten won't place :/

Unless it turns out everyone loves Jeromes Dream

well you know who they got another vote from

hey were Cave In nominated?

― Odysseus, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:31 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalin

oh whoops! i don't think so but i would've voted for until your heart stops

i realize how hypocritical this is of me

― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson),

Me too, but I thought you would be more a Jupiter fan

nah hardcore cave-in 4ever

i like the other stuff but it doesn't do it for me like that record

Jupiter is a pretty definitive post-hardcore album in my opinion, literally a hardcore band that stopped playing hardcore and started playing something else. Braid sounded like a hardcore band on Frankie Welfare Boy Age 5, and by Frame and Canvas were following more pop tropes than anything.

That said, Jupiter is not emo and I wouldn't have voted for it.

I think I can define what /isn't/ emo better than what /is/.

Well you have always been the most emo person I know!

Listening to that Crying album, it's v fun i dig it

This thread has inspired me to give Fall Out Boy another chance...the plan was to work my way through chronologically (skipping the first one), but From Under the Cork Tree was just not my thing at all so I gave up. Got to listen to about half of Infinity on High at work today and yeah this is way better.

i was at isis and piebald shows back in the day, those bands all knew each other b/c boston is small but NO ONE at the time would have called isis emo (or converge or cave in tbh)

Otm

Woo Los Compensinos did me the favor of playing the one song by them I really know (romance is boring) right off the bat.

yo how was crying??

Really great I had no idea it was such a small band making such a big sound

i can't post while at work so i miss all these roll-outs. i also didn't get to listen to any album before this poll so my ballot was limited. in fact i only ranked a Top 10 but submitted a Top 25. not very emo i'm afraid. so if Bright Eyes has aged that badly i'm sorry. also Imago, i voted for A Story In White for my Aereogramme pick.

8/25

Really great I had no idea it was such a small band making such a big sound

― Mordy, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:56 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is it still just three ppl? crazy if so.

yes guitar, drums, vocalist. and i'm always impressed when these huge voices come out of these small singers.

is this the band l0u15 spilled the beer on?

lol yes well remembered (it was their merch tho and I cleaned it up with my shirt)

What I gathered from Youtube is that the synth tracks are pre-recorded and cued by the guitarist. Is that how it works?

yeah there's a backing track

Listening to Three Cheers, I didn't rank it high enough. Just consistent hooky rock energy.

The thing is, this does sound like a pop version of 90s Dischord/post-hardcore to me. "Screaming Infidelities" just makes me think of a male Jewel or some shit.

This thread has inspired me to give Fall Out Boy another chance.

These days more than ever I really feel Folie a Deux is their only consistently great album, though most of Save Rock and Roll is strong.

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40. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
226 points, 6 votes

YES

one of the most transcendent live shows I've ever seen, I felt very lucky to catch her when I did

Another one I've never heard of

also I really hope she records a covers EP or something one day cause her covers are stunning (that I've heard, DCFC's "Photobooth" and Jawbreaker's "Accident Prone")

speaking of covers, dashboard covers the title track on the EP they just put out

Oh good! I voted for this.

yay! amazing album and another one that i could see placing higher in ten years

"Rejoice" is maybe the most shattering song I've ever heard. Also, a friend of mine works with profoundly at-risk youth and "Go Home" really struck a nerve.

(For her, I mean. I don't go around assuming other people's feelings, that I know of.)

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39. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
226 points, 6 votes, 1 number one

...this. otoh, really did not stand up to a relisten for me.

lmao

what a bummer if three bright eyes records placed and no desaparecidos

no way Read Music / Speak Spanish doesn't place.

I did like this album but not heard it in years. I need to dig out my cd's and give the 3 albums I have a listen

Desaparecidos album I still love but ive never heard the recent one. was it any good?

Yeah it was solid as hell

Just in case it doesn't place, another classic from the Fork archives: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2288-read-music-speak-spanish/

thank u for reassuring me simon

revised: how righteous for read music to place over every bright eyes record

Lol. I love Read Music/Speak Spanish, but this is my favourite Bright Eyes album by a mile and this was third on my ballot and forever in my heart. This was the first 'weird' emo album I ever owned and the fact that it took me so many more listens to get into and interpret just made it all the more rewarding.

My 2003 Livejournal bio and archive links etc were adapted from the Lover I Don't Have to Love lyrics...

ok one more for a bit bc i have to go to the car dealership and test drive the highlander

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38. Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
235 points, 7 votes

oh you emoprog kids

TOO LOW

Haha waht

So happy Julien Baker placed! Also, Desaparecidos is bound to place, and rightfully so imho. Lifted... indeed doesn't hold up well tbh.