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

Tbh, the first time I ever heard the term "emo" was in reference to Fugazi and Hoover. I don't really consider the really macho or hardline/sXe hardcore stuff to be emo but I'm fine with calling any arty post-hardcore emo. In mid-90s Ottawa, I thought of Union of Uranus as 'metal' and Okara and Shotmaker as 'emo'. I even thought Buried Inside was kind of 'emo' at their first couple of shows if only for Nick's before-song speeches but they were def on the metal side.

* macho metalcore/moshcore

I'm fine with calling any arty post-hardcore emo.

As in, this is how I thought of it 20 years ago. Obv, I get that the meanings of terms change, especially dopey made-up terms like "emo".

and nobody is more macho than sund4r

liking Witch Hunt and Space Ape thanks.

Crazy that this stuff is gonna be in the same rollout as Fall Out Boy, but here we are. Plenty to discover so far.

Crazy that this stuff is gonna be in the same rollout as Fall Out Boy,

They were both in my top 10.

nice

Oh, Saetia is right up my alley. Somehow I missed hearing them.

I was talking about them the other day sund4r

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87. Rival Schools - United by Fate
117 points, 7 votes

awesome. late discovery and addition to my ballot.

killer album, right at the center of so many styles

this was lower down on my ballot

Literally the 50th album I added to my ballot, about half an hour before I sent it in. Good find, Spottie!

I remember a friend at school being really into this when it came out. I didn't get round to listening to it though.

Rival Schools is a post quicksand Walter band right?

yes

Rival Schools were great. For some silly reason I forgot to vote for it. I used to play that record to pieces in 2001. I did vote for Quicksand though (and Jawbox).

I wanted to like Rival Schools way more than I actually did. Same goes for most of walter's bands. I love Quicksand to death tho

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86. Thirty Ought Six - Hag Seed
119 points, 4 votes

yuhhhhh

i love how gross that record sounds, but also how there feels like there's a real narrative to it as it slowly gets more accessible and exploratory

^ otm. When the album first got mentioned in the voting thread, I turned it off after a few tracks because I thought it didn't belong to the emo poll. But then 'Radon' came up on shuffle later on, and it almost was like a different band.

This thirty ought six album is great. Somehow never heard it before, but so far it's right up my alley

big [lol] tie coming up on the hour

must be avril lavigne tied with rites of spring?

never heard this 30-06. it's good

Can't wait to start listening to these! Spottie otm re: Existentialism on Prom Night chorus. 'Sing like you think no one's listening' is a refrain I have sung frequently for the last 12 years. That SR album was pretty high on my ballot - beautiful.

yeah i love that straylight run made it, that album was part of my great emo conversion

also: happy emo poll, there's a new dave bazan record http://www.stereogum.com/1925498/stream-david-bazan-care/music/album-stream/

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85 [TIE]. Jawbreaker - Bivouac
123 points, 4 votes
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85 [TIE]. Fireside - Elite
123 points, 4 votes
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85 [TIE]. blink-182 - Enema of the State
123 points, 4 votes

lmao

i voted for two of those records

i voted for one of them :p the fireside! that was a wonderful discovery from the nominations.

lol

i prefer take off your pants and the self-titled to enema

i disagree enema is a perfect pop blast

that isn't "perfect pop" with square quotes

the katydid will be torn apart, and its dismembered body carried back to the bivouac

So happy that Fireside made it!

enema is also like the shiniest punk record on earth

you put an 'n' instead of a 't'

Yes, Fireside!

Last time I heard Enema was when I started dating my wife. It still sounds good some fifteen years later.

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82. Shotmaker - Discography
127 points, 3 votes

Whoa, thanks, other two voters.

i guess i better listen to this

The Fireside record was a cool discovery from the noms thread for me too but it just missed my ballot in the end.

this next one is the last one for today and also TOO LOW

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81. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
128 points, 4 votes