the emo canon

indian summer and saetia are good calls imo

did anyone mention i hate myself?

wow that's a real band name!

those guys rocked

man the guitarist from embrace was really something else.
love mike hampton so much. happy by his band the snakes is one of my favorite dischord-related obscurities - a kinda indefensible parody record with that happens to have some really amazing anglo-pop songs on it. it isn't remotely emo but, um, check him on that one last wish upthread!

POX EMO BANDS

indian summer
moss icon
current
policy of 3
mohinder
hoover
rites of spring
embassy
assfactor 4 (do u count them as emo? i count them as emo, or punk rock i guess.)
native nod (dave from this band, along with his girlfriend, just put out a really good roots-pop rekkerd with killer harmony vox. the band is called trummors. i love it.)

one time i went to a piebald show and ppl were shouting for "grace kelly" and travis was like "yeah we don't really play that anymore" and that's when i knew the scene was over #emorecollections

ha i think that happened at a fugazi show where a guy was threatening to kill them if they didn't play minor threat.

yeah some things never change

btw a funny thing that happened -- someone my wife entirely missed this scene -- we were watching tv the other night and an ad came on for dashboard confessional playing somewhere huge (msg?? idk) and she was like "what?? what the hell is this awful music??" and i O_O and felt that she was so lucky, in a way.

there was a time when, along with beck's midnite vultures' album, i would hear dashboard confessional ALLTHETIME anytime i hung out with anyone from high school. /exaggeration

yeah i liked i hate myself.

my trinity was always really saetia, you & i, and joshua fit for battle

― fauxmarc, jueves 12 de julio de 2012 19:04 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow that was a lie, i didn't even get into jffb til after the fact. it was saetia, you & i, and ORCHID. orchid ruled.

trying to remember some of the other bands that had members of those like the assistant (female on vocals!) and there was another big one with primarily you & i people but i can't remember the name.

forget how much i was into yaphet kotto too

oh wow and THE SADDEST LANDSCAPE

european: suis la lune, the death of anna karina

Lync was sooo goooood.

Were smoking popes considered emo?

Orchid? fuck yeah. Jerome's Dream anyone?

Amazingly, the links here still work: http://fugitiveequilibrium.blogspot.ca/2009/02/okara-revisited.html

I don't know how many people from outside Ottawa have any memory of Okara but I loved them.

i tried getting into jd but it never really happened

On the extreme weirdo screamo end:
Antioch Arrow - In Love With Jetts

On the indie poppier side:
No Knife - Hit Man Dreams

Seam - The Pace is Glacial
Seam - Are You Driving Me Crazy?

Yes, Walter - definitely - good addition.

Sense Field - Building, Tonight And Forever
Christie Front Drive - Discography
Mineral - The Power Of Failing, Endserenading
Samiam - Soar, Billy, Clumsy

Navio Forge sums it all up.

two candidates I didn't see mentioned, from the pop-punk and screamo sides of the spectrum, respectively

midtown - save the world, lose the girl
finch - what it is to burn

midtown discography particularly interesting now bc of the success of cobra starship

i think i saw midtown like 3 times! i'm positive i had that album too.

I was big on midtown but that second album totally turned me off, I remember it being really sterile and charmless compared to LTWSTG. revisiting now out of curiosity

whoops STWLTG rather, acronym butchery

ha how could i forget the opening hook

I remember kinda liking their third album, Forget What You Know, at the time it came out, but I'm fairly certain I haven't heard it in 7 or 8 years now.

I find the preponderance of chill beard dudes on emo threads fascinating

After I saw the ridiculously po-faced song titles I couldn't bring myself to even give the third midtown album a try.

"Armageddon" – 0:45
"To Our Savior" – 2:47
"Give It Up" – 3:39
"Is It Me? Is It True?" – 3:08
"God Is Dead" – 1:04
"Whole New World" – 3:38
"Empty Like the Ocean" – 4:27
"Nothing Is Ever What It Seems" – 3:37
"The Tragedy of the Human Condition" – 1:09
"Waiting for the News" – 2:59
"Until It Kills" – 3:51
"Hey Baby, Don't You Know That We're All Whores" – 2:37
"Help Me Sleep" – 3:04
"Manhattan" – 2:39
"So Long as We Keep Our Bodies Numb We're Safe" – 13:13

can we get some love for the Don't Forget To Breathe comp?

esp the fireside, promise ring, drive like jehu, and hot water tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzpTHJTt0VI

god sunday's best is the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yelDVLLeG0U

^loooove that album

every little thing they do is magic.

the OP is a troll post right?

i went on a blind-date once to a show where rainer maria opened for ...and you will know us by the trail of dead

the ellipsis here really had me waiting for something surprising

last summer i listened to the first rainier maria record while driving alone at night 25 miles to lake superior, with the quieter parts during the 35mph parts in town and the anthemic shit hitting when I got out to the middle of nowhere with no cops and a five mile straight shot where I was singing along with the windows open and drinking a leinenkugel, it was the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zB3Ugvc1QQ

ooh that sunday's best song is dope, very early brand new

obviously they predated brand new but that's my limited-experience reference point

shudder to think (+tuscadero!) playin the black cat in dc for it's anniversary thing in sept

acceptance: phantoms

rs put together a list of the top 40 emo albums that's both encouraging and baffling, so i made a counter list and i'm pretty happy with both it and the playlist i made out of it https://open.spotify.com/user/unbornwhiskey/playlist/3ktgSgWrciPMS9GvE20s5x

of course i forgot acceptance phantoms but what can you do

post yr list plz! i'll make mine (i think you've already seen my top 6) and post it if u do!

1. brand new: the devil and god are raging inside me
2. texas is the reason: do you know who you are
3. paramore: paramore
4. fall out boy: folie a deux
5. saves the day: in reverie
6. cap'n jazz: burritos whatever etc. tippy-toed over
7. jimmy eat world: clarity
8. at the drive-in: relationship of command
9. the anniversary: designing a nervous breakdown
10. driver friendly: bury a dream
11. jejune: this afternoons malady
12. split lip/chamberlain: fate's got a driver
13. thursday: no devolucion
14. brand new: deja entendu
15. lifetime: jersey's best dancers
16. elliott: false cathedrals
17. johnny foreigner: vs. everything
18. braid: frame & canvas
19. sunny day real estate: lp2
20. knapsack: day three of my new life
21. sunday's best: poised to break
22. saves the day: through being cool
23. mewithoutyou: brother, sister
24. say anything: ...is a real boy
25. jawbreaker: bivouac
26. straylight run: straylight run
27. boys life: departures and landfalls
28. my chemical romance: three cheers for sweet revenge
29. taking back sunday: louder now
30. the promise ring: very emergency
31. the jazz june: the medicine
32. the get up kids: something to write home about
33. thrice: vheissu
34. i hate myself: 10 songs
35. fall out boy: take this to your grave
36. desaparecidos: read music/speak spanish
37. coheed and cambria: second stage turbine blade
38. still life: from angry heads with skyward eyes
39. rainer maria: look now look again
40. further seems forever: the moon is down

many of these are questionably emo and i included zero screamo on purpose (it always feels like at that point i should include, like, converge)

Humph.