wait have y'all heard juno
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 7:34 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the ilx emo poll: the greatest juno discovery thread of all time
in typical fashion I now feel a bit bad (ok not actually that bad) for getting folks on the juno train for this poll cause on re-re-relistening I'm now convinced only the 1st album is emo "enough", the 2nd is mor like every new guitar genre of the last 25 years thrown in a magical blender
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 03:30 (seven years ago) link
i hadn't really thought about that. the first album is 100% emo from a thematic standpoint, the second less so but it has that dna more than like 5 things that have already made the countdown.
i really wish juno was on spotify and/or my CDs weren't in storage.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 03:53 (seven years ago) link
I ordered my CDs like two weeks ago but they're still not here yet :( :( :(
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 04:02 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's def more emo than say Refused. interestingly it shares a producer w/ Leaves Turn Inside You
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 04:03 (seven years ago) link
Re: Songs From Under The Cork Tree, it has some key anthemic tracks but imo they don't hit critical capital A anthemic FOB til Infinity (i looooove the Babyface tracks, he understood their theatricality, I mean he turned Thnks Fr The Mmrs into a demented FOB Broadway showtune )
Infinity is when Patrick & Wentz really mindmeld & when the band starts just routinely facemelting
anyway i guess we'll get to that :)
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 04:09 (seven years ago) link
i'm listening to swiss army + the problem w/ it is that with the exception of the title track the best songs on it (screaming + again i go unnoticed) both show up on tpyhctftm - and as better versions! (places' "screaming" has that excellent penultimate elongated "your hair is everywhere" refrain which swiss army's version appears to be missing)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 05:37 (seven years ago) link
So happy to see two more instant Fireside converts. It's like that scene in High Fidelity where John Cusack goes, "Let's sell a couple of Beta Band albums," and the moment he puts the record on in the store a customer wants to buy it.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 06:55 (seven years ago) link
Going through the Aereogramme discography this morning because it's been far too long. I never heard their Michael Jackson cover before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi3ph9Uj-go
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 11:30 (seven years ago) link
They also did a brilliant 'In the Fishtank' session with Isis, which I had completely forgotten about.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 11:36 (seven years ago) link
Someone on the Britpop thread wanted to do a poll on the Glasgow scene. I'd be so up for that.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 11:44 (seven years ago) link
Are you from Glasgow?
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 11:46 (seven years ago) link
No, Holland :)
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 11:50 (seven years ago) link
that Fireside record is very cool incidentally
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 8:30 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk the first four songs on the that album (after the intro) are kind of an opening emo salvo before the album drifts into abstraction. it counts i think!
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
No, Holland :)― ArchCarrier,
― ArchCarrier,
well dont go claiming Lanarkshire bands for Glasgow then!!! ;)
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
Haha, oops!
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 13:36 (seven years ago) link
But Wikipedia says
Aereogramme were a Scottish alternative rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1998, consisting of Craig B. (vocals, guitar), Iain Cook (guitar, programming), Campbell McNeil (bass) and Martin Scott (drums). Prior to their split in 2007, the band released four studio albums.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link
I know, never trust the internet, but you are the internet too, Odysseus.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
no, i didnt mean them, i meant all those Bellshill bands that would get nommed for a glasgow poll and the delgados/mogwai who are from motherwell/hamilton
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
before the countdown starts again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFjtEAE5GAA
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 13:47 (seven years ago) link
and Michael Stipe afterhttps://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/11.15.MichaelStipe2.jpg
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 13:52 (seven years ago) link
xp Wait, what? You want to exclude Mogwai from a Glasgow scene poll because they grew up 15 miles from the city?
Big LOL at that picture.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 13:52 (seven years ago) link
Realised I've still never heard an entire Dashboard Confessional album - I'll listen to whatever places highest.
Leaves Turn Inside You is a good record I used to absolutely love but it's another I didn't feel quite right voting for.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
good morning emo boys & girls!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:14 (seven years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41hQJOjI57L.jpg60. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring154 points, 4 votes, 1 number one
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
i'm seeing these guys tnite!
this poll reinforces the fact that i have no idea what emo is (bedhead, really?)
I'm not sure anyone does. I like music with complex rhythms and dissonant guitars and I like melodic hard rock anthems.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link
never liked 'em really (I saw them open for SFA in NY about...7-9 years ago? and found them super irritating) but I admire any band that far outlives the early hype cycle
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:21 (seven years ago) link
tbph i'm seeing them for the opener, i couldn't name a single one of their songs
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
<3 <3 my number 1, pretty much the soundtrack to my angsty late teens, a beautifully emo indie album musically and lyrically.
― devvvine, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ic%2B8BMHaL.jpg59. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most156 points, 4 votes
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:44 (seven years ago) link
way2low :'(
this is the blueprint 4 heartbreak
How many points did #1,2,3 get?
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
I think Dashboard and Promise Ring are the emo bridges too far for me
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
I like the promise ring. Does that make me emo?
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
this was my #3 fwiw
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
and Michael Stipe after
hair everywhere indeed
― gr8080, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
I think Dashboard and Promise Ring are the emo bridges too far for me― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:46 AM (eight minutes ago)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:46 AM (eight minutes ago)
this is interesting bc for me personally, promise ring is THE emo band and dashboard is embarrassing kabuki
i'll willfully admit that if the tables were turned and dashboard's debut were released in '96 and promise ring's in 2000 i would probably feel the opposite.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
and speaking of post-2000 blindspots... holy shit this fireside album!
― gr8080, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:02 (seven years ago) link
I just really hate the promise ring's vocals for some reason, idk maybe I'll get past it like I have with literally every other personal emo roadblock ever lol
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
I listened to the Los Campesinos album but it was a bit of a slog tbh. I enjoyed the Dashboard album but it was a late cut. I've always had the impression that Promise Ring were cringey-emo but I loved 'Nothing Feels Good'. I'm guessing it will be pretty high.
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
for sure
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/247/MI0000247737.jpg58. Jejune - This Afternoons Malady160 points, 7 votes
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
i guess i better listen to this huh?
Yeah this was a nice discovery for me. Has some nice shoegaze flavours.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
album of the year, every year
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
That looks almost identical to a colourshifted cover of an album that's bound to place later
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
I'm glad I don't give a shit about genre purity so I can take some credit for Sleep and Release and Young Machetes placing
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
and speaking of post-2000 blindspots... holy shit this fireside album!― gr8080, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:02 PM (five minutes ago)
― gr8080, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:02 PM (five minutes ago)
http://www.wanttoknow.nl/wp-content/uploads/turven.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
yes!!!
i remember seeing jejune play on a school night at my local all ages club in 97 or 98 and swooning like a maniac
― gr8080, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link