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

just as an observation, the mall emo vs real emo vs whatever reminds me of glam vs metal and seems ultimately kinda boil down to some kind of underlying fear of dudes who wear too much makeup or have too many female fans idk

Was gonna bump the Los Camp! thread for this, but there's no search, and it seems relevant here because they explicitly (and proudly) label it emo

https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/article/los-campesinos-rank-their-first-five-records

My computer died and I couldn't figure out how to log in on my phone until now. My ballot went out with the PC, but The Moon Is Down was my #1 and I'm a little surprised it didn't place at all. Also, Sund4r, I voted for Okara in the low 20s, I'm sure you're not surprised.

Also, in re: the goth side of emo. Anyone else like Antioch Arrow? I thought they were supposed to be kinda gothy/flashy.

Hold on, is there gonna be a tracks poll?

Great poll! like everyone else, lots of great discoveries/rediscoveries. Low Level Owl has become my favourite find I think. I voted Devil & God #1, glad to see it so high.

Like that site you posted Sund4r, i always viewed emo like > hardcore comes around, some bands take ~emotion~ (sadness, rage, etc) to the max > Others come along and write poppier versions of it (which some is classified as Indie & some as Pop just depending on the usual rules of the pop/indie dichotomy) > then we end up with Emo-Any Genre from bands that interpolate some shit from the classic post-hardcore emotive base. So I think a big part of it is self (or fan) definition. Anyone can write a song about emotion, but to be emo you have to write ~emotional songs~, so Fugazi just kinda decided to not be Emo, the fans went for it and that was that.

That seems like a cop-out explanation now that it re-read it, oh well \_(")_/

Also, really liked Hotelier, don't know much about 4th wave stuff, but if its more like them i need to check it out

Didn't CMJ or someone try to retcon Springsteen's Nebraska as emo? That's why it's such a nebulous and contentious genre, once people started using it as a descriptor it could rightly be applied to nearly anything.

(I know, describing music, the horror)

bumping this thread to share that my high school girlfriend who is now a mother of four just posted a photo of her and Jim Adkins on facebook today

/emo

the 2nd Juno cd arrived yesterday. Just waiting on the first one to come

After a couple more listens, The Rising Tide has really clicked with me, the run from Rain Song to The Ocean is great. Tearing Out My Heart is amazing. SDRE ranking as of today: How It Feels > Rising Tide > Diary > LP2

holy shit why did I write off LC! before hearing Romance Is Boring?

You were angry that the singer trolled football fans?

nah he seems pretty sound tbh

lol awesome, welcome to the fold! should have suggested it when you were asking what emo sounds like Crying, would have bumped it higher.

u inspired me to play romance is boring again. it has really been growing on me and the show was (maybe unsurprisingly) full of so much life + vigor compared to the album that it really made me appreciate them a lot more.

We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed is probably their most emo album tbh. Relistened to it today and was floored by it all over again, but I also notice how much it plays like those first two Taking Back Sunday records. Same explosive, pun-based bitterness

Guys... want to join me in the

Papa was a POLLING STONE: It's the 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ~~~ TRACKS POLL

lol after my listening habits were affected over the last two weeks due to this poll, my spotify "discover weekly" playlist this week is 29 indie rock songs and a run the jewels track

Heh, you should see the YouTube sidebar on my wife's laptop. Nothing but emo FULL ALBUMs.

I can't stop listening to False Cathedrals. It gets better with each listen.

Lol yeah my YouTube suggested videos is all emo all the time now.

Probably listened to that Saetia album 4-5 times in the past week or so.

Shortly after the poll results came in, I felt strangely compelled to try to get in touch with Arlie from Juno to let him know how well the records did. He got back to me a few weeks ago.

Hi Simon, thank you! That is very surprising and kind. Apologies for delay, infrequently check FB. Xo, Arlie

hey thats cool!

that's awesome!

also we gotta redo this now that the new brand new is out

i'd put new brand new, manchester orchestra and sorority noise on my ballot today

run it back baby

we could always do a trax polllllll

My daughter was playing with the chickens today. One of their feathers is still laying in the hallway, and it looks almost exactly like this:

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3459241029_10.jpg

for your consideration: fightstar's grand unification

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CXSe8Sqrxk

just kind of a perfectly ambitious prog emo record, fits snugly among the early coheed albums + there are deftonesy screaming breakdowns!! i'm probably extra attached to it bc it's a concept album loosely based on evangelion lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMIAIf_IFM0

Oooooh

We should really do a tracks poll someday.

thanks for the tip on fightstar, these guys rock

thank you emo poll for introducing me to angel youth by last days of april

no thank you emo poll for not introducing me to sarge

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

that's a name I haven't heard in a while

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-emo-songs.html

this poll was so good, as is this list

god relationship of command is the most overrated record. Vaya (#100 in this poll) is SO MUCH BETTA!!!

I agree that it's uneven compared to many other ranking albums, iirc I had it around halfway down my ballot

relationship of command is not overrated at all

I think it's even, maybe too even. it's like ATDI had perfected the technical aspect of what they do, but kind had to mimic the spastic energy of their earlier stuff

*kinda

it's like the 'Keep it Like a Secret' of emo, great record but shut up already

we could always do a trax polllllll

― Spottie, Saturday, August 19, 2017 bookmarkflaglink

i guess we dont have to now but it would be fun to do it and see how ours would compare to the vulture one. good writing in their brad.

thank you!!

oh shit I glossed right over that byline, nice one brad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0gTGP0pW4Y&feature=youtu.be

I don't think that worked but video of a 1994 Angel Hair show: https://youtu.be/R0gTGP0pW4Y