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

one of the starkest and most stressful rock albums ever, no relief or release at all (or when it comes it feels mocking)

You're really selling it Simon!

I mean, it also rocks and has riffs and stuff

lol just realised we still have meadowlands coming up

yeah I think I know 15 of the remaining slots, the rest are mysterious to me

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18. Braid - Frame & Canvas (1998)
316 points, 7 votes

WAY too low

oh whoops forgot that one lol

this album comes so close to being too clever for its own good so many times but just barely stays course

also this post-reunion braid track would be high on my tracks ballot https://youtu.be/BF4r32HxhFs

Don't sleep on No Coast either

Oh now this is too low

tt played me about two songs off this and I put it in my top 5 I think?

I voted for the fugazi but had to cut the Braid album from my longlist as I hadnt heard it in years

it will sound better than you remember

2 down, 1 to go:

Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good // Braid - Frame and Canvas // Get Up Kids - 4 Minute Mile //

haven't been able to stop listening to lp2. goldsmith's ghost notes on "iscarabraid" are incredible, i don't think i ever noticed them before. can u believe dave grohl recorded over all of goldsmith's drum tracks for the colour and the shape? (i can but what a shame)

It's going to be fun when 4 None Blondes top this poll

well yknow you can't spell "4 non blondes" without...oh actually nevermind

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17. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish (2002)
322 points, 9 votes, 1 number one

YES!!!

can't stand bright eyes but this record is indisputable

Listening to Braid again for the 1st time in years and it really should have been on my ballot.

This is also great and also went straight into my ballot after a couple of songs

this album proves that oberst is emo cause the only way you wouldn't make a bunch more records like this was if you hated fun

I thought Desaparecidos would be top 10. Great album.

This was my number one!!

the perfect situation for conor oberst's voice is extremely loud electric guitars, which is why bright eyes records always sound like gross miscalculations to me

haven't heard any of the last three.

amazing album

can't imagine you wouldn't love desaparecidos spottie

will def check it

love the keyboards on this album too

this album proves that oberst is emo cause the only way you wouldn't make a bunch more records like this was if you hated fun

lol

the perfect situation for conor oberst's voice is extremely loud electric guitars, which is why bright eyes records always sound like gross miscalculations to me

He wanted to move away from the sound of Commander Venus

lol I forgot how ridiculous the "candid" "man on the street" clips on this album are <3 <3 <3

hate bright eyes so much that I've never listened to this despite all of the praise. need to finally break down and check it out.

to reiterate brad's earlier point I'm extremely stoked that this soundly defeated all the bright eyes albums

I love that the b-sides flow into each other with a segue, classic rare advanced wanker move

Someone had nominated this album as Read Music/SpeakEnglish, and it almost ended up that way in the rollout, if only just one person out of nine hadn't corrected it :)

I had no idea Billy Milano was an ilxor

xpost Yeah I noticed that when voting - I couldn't very well put the wrong title for my number one. It deserved better!

I'm not sure if anyone has linked to this masterpiece of experimental criticism yet:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2288-read-music-speak-spanish/

lol I did earlier, though there's plenty more where that came from

this album was so good it transcended my teen pitchfork-reader bias

OK, I wasn't sure, and too lazy to check.

This is a great album btw. Hadn't heard it before.

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16. American Football - American Football (1999)
352 points, 10 votes

this album set a template from which emo is still recovering

still: great record

yeeeah

but in terms of kinsella bro emo it rightfully placed beneath cap'n jazz