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

Yes, well deserving of the number 7 spot :)

nice

Just catching up and wished I'd voted, now - kind of assumed I wouldn't have known enough to be objective. But, hell, SDRE are great and Jehu are transcendent (though I'm even mess sure of the parameters of the genre seeing them here).

yank crime is one of my five favorite records ever and i know it's firmly considered emo but it never really scanned as such to me. obv no complaints with it showing up here.

i sing along to this album at least 4-6 times during the year. i know it word for word by heart. it's like the absolute height of "clever" emo lines. "If looks could really kill, then my profession would staring." "And these are the words you wish you wrote down / This is the way you wish your voice sounds / Handsome and smart / Oh, my tongue's the only muscle in my body that works harder than my heart." "We saw the western coast. / I saw the hospital. / Nurse the shoreline like a wound." -- and it's just packed w/ bangers back to front. i'm v in love with this album.

"Call me a safe bet. / I'm betting I'm not."

I didn't vote but always wanted to check out that Juno album on the strength of a great SPIN review, which compared it to Loveless and Tom Verlaine's Dreamtime (???) and said that it replaced the guitar hero with the guitar victim

SPIN was also how I'd heard of Rainer Maria; they really got behind a lot of this stuff back in the day

Also Drive Like Jehu: waaay lower than expected

i think i got into juno b/c of that review

drums on Time Bomb are the best ever xp

Yeah, that was the first one that stopped me in my tracks - guitar sound too. Drums are great on "The Other Side" too.

(superpowers too)

DLJ 2 aggro 2 b emo, imo

otm

does this mean hot snakes is gonna place?

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21. The Anniversary - Designing a Nervous Breakdown
305 points, 10 votes

wow, forgot about this one

ah great no. 1 pick

perfect album seriously

thx ilx, yr top 10. see you tomorrow for -1 through -20!

lol

hah.

tbh i was expecting this one to appear way down the list so i'm glad it got this far

Til We Earned a Holiday love that middle section

i don't think i've ever listened to this. i wasn't into your majesty and i don't think i investigated further.

well good news it doesn't resemble your majesty at all!

this is forever

― 龜, Thursday, March 9, 2017 8:26 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

joyce manor, we hardly knew ye :(

Anniversary was my #2 yayayay

I like that some people simply voted for the records they like while disregarding a shared definition of emo, because I'm really enjoying the variety here. And I'm also happy that people who love those same not-necessarily-emo records chose to exclude them from ballots, because it kept a lot of that stuff from hijacking the top 20.

i guess i could wait until it places but every time i listen to how it feels to be something on i am absolutely knocked out by the last three tracks

just like...can't think of an album that ends better right now

Liking the Appleseed Cast stuff a lot. On Reflection currently making me levitate. Reminds me of a cracking and criminally underheard Scottish band from a few years back called There Will Be Fireworks.

well good news it doesn't resemble your majesty at all!

― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, March 9, 2017 4:40 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah you're right! this is a decent scrappy emo record.

Brad otm. How It Feels is one of the best albums of the 90s

sadly I'm thinking Orchid, CTtS and Joyce Manor might not make it
anyhow, attempting to predict....

10. Nothing Feels Good
9. How It Feels to Be Something On
8. Relationship of Command
7. Analphabetapolothology
6. Clarity
5. The Devil and God
4. Rites of Spring
3. Something to Write Home About
2. American Football
1. Diary

doubt clarity will be that high, i feel like bleed american gets more love here but idk

tbh i'm surprised clarity didn't place already so maybe i'm wrong

voted Clarity much higher than Bleed which i think is kind of uneven but don't know how representative i am

great poll results everyone, we can wrap this up now imo

post your ballots its over

great poll results everyone, we can wrap this up now imo

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, March 9, 2017 3:22 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a future lived in past tense hasn't placed yet

Dear Dad - I'm having trouble feeling sad / Your words find secret pathways through my spine

sorry mordy but i think we missed number 36 today between Jane Doe and War All the Time

oops, you're right. sorry everyone - i was so distraught over war all the time placing so low i must've just totally missed it. belatedly, here u go, your number 36:

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36. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
241 points, 7 votes, 1 number one

i even had it cued up but it was in another tab in my browser and instead of noticing it i opened a new tab and skipped ahead to Converge

Bonus addition!

Good to see the Jaw bands well represented

luckily nobody had posted the recap

man I am really loving Brand New

they're kinda like a more grownup/serious FOB

damn i can prob give up on Swing Kids placing now

np Brand New for the first time ever