the emo canon

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.

the texas is the reason and get up kids albums on that list were my favourite albums when I was 15/16.

Brad, your playlist is a dream. Those Straylight Run and Coheed albums are my favourite. Might have to make my own one of these...

real lack of hot water music on these lists imo

theirs is a long discography I've never made up my mind about

they came up a few times in various discussions of that rolling stone article between friends & I

for my personal emo canon, their first few albums are up there... wheels kind of came off circa a flight and a crash, but that's true with a lot of bands. if I made the list, this would likely be on there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1zGBXPhecY

I don't know Hot Water Music, but listening now. This is amazing!

i'm embarrassed bc it seems v conventional + lame but after 15 min here's what i've got:

1. Brand New - Deja Entendu
2. Thursday - War All the Time
3. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear The Most
4. Braid - Frame & Canvas
5. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
6. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
7. Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be
8. Fall Out Boy - Folie à Deux
9. The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
10. Thursday - A City By the Light Divided
11. Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth
12. The Academy Is… - Almost Here
13. A.F.I. - Sing the Sorrow
14. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Élan Vital
15. Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
16. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
17. Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
18. Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance
19. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
20. blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

28. my chemical romance: three cheers for sweet revenge ha i was right in chat :p

Mine (in progress) has plenty of those too. I'm so glad Bright Eyes counts!

I almost put leaving through the window on mine, and honestly I should have a motion city soundtrack record on there, probably even if it kills me

i can hear the argument that bright eyes isn't emo and i for some reason i wouldn't vote for i'm wide awake or digital urn however i feel like lifted was v much a part of 'emo conversation' when it came out

i mean i included desaparecidos bc they are oberst's straight up emo band but i'm not mad at including bright eyes

thought for a lol second about including seven's travels

for some reason i wouldn't vote for i'm wide awake or digital urn however i feel like lifted was v much a part of 'emo conversation' when it came out

These were my thoughts too. I remember writing a review of it for the emo section fake magazine I made in school...

My list would look similar to these, but my sleeper picks would be the One Last Wish record, which is secretly even better than the Rites of Spring LP, and that last Hotelier record, which feels more and more classic every month

oh yeah i considered both of those!

13. thursday: no devolucion

Totally the best Thursday album. Everyone says Full Collapse but it's not, it's this.

yes!!!!

I wouldn't say that I'm proud of this list (there are an awful lot of classics I've just never even listened to), but I do love it unconditionally.

1. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
2. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
3. Weezer - Pinkerton
4. Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
5. The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
6. Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky
7. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
8. Brand New - Deja Entendu
9. Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
10. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
11. The Movielife - Forty Hour Train Back To Penn
12. The Get-Up Kids - Guilt Show
13. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
14. Straylight Run - Straylight Run
15. The Early November - The Room’s Too Cold
16. Chumped - Teenage Retirement
17. Sugarcult - Start Static
18. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
19. Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
20. Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation
21. Saves The Day - Can’t Slow Down
22. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
23. Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide
24. Further Seems Forever - The Moon is Down
25. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
26. The Juliana Theory - Emotion Is Dead
27. The Academy Is… - Almost Here
28. Thursday - War All the Time
29. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
30. Senses Fail - From the Depths of Dreams
31. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
32. New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones
33. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
34. Paramore - Riot!
35. Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
36. Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
37. Matchbook Romance - Stories and Alibis
38. The Used - The Used
39. Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
40. The Get-Up Kids - Something To Write Home About

And if anyone is interested, playlist here

great list! reminded me that one of my favorite abrupt emo shapeshifts was from the first matchbook romance album to voices (a record i love a lot)

I was so invested in the Stories and Alibis sound that I really couldn't get into Voices when it came out. I'd probably like it a lot more now.

My favourite emo metamorphosis was Sunny Day Real Estate's move into weird emo-prog.

i spent a lot of time with the rising tide recently and what a massive record

i really like the guitar and drum sounds on this stuff.

mare vitalis by appleseed cast is probably my favorite in this genre. beautiful melodies, great sound.

Mare Vitalis has two of the best opening tracks of any emo album.

lol I was listening to clarity the other day and thought "wow the drum sound on this record rules"

My favourite emo metamorphosis was Sunny Day Real Estate's move into weird emo-prog.

How It Feels to Be Something On is my favourite emo-related album bar none.