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
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:09 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pls be specific this is driving me crazy
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
beautiful record, voted for it. thx to brad for the heads up!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
some of the songs on RIP are incredible too, yet another band that feels like they had a ton more to say
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:12 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hmm
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah I can't figure that out either
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Yay, Los Campesinos! One of the most wordy albums I've listened to. Some many great lyrics on that one.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
So many great lyrics I mean...
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
Listening to fireside. Reminds me a bit of Commander Venus/Bright Eyes. But I like it so faralso nobody nommed Commander Venus?
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
btw i always thought of romance is boring as the beginning of the end for los campesinos but everyone's enthusiasm on the campaigning thread made me revisit it, and now i think it's their best album, all of the combustibility of the previous two records but magnified 100x
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
Listening to fireside. Reminds me a bit of Commander Venus/Bright Eyes.
― Odysseus, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:21 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait what
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
ok count me in on the Fireside camp. Would've voted for this if I'd heard it.
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
I'm listening to it again today and it's quite brilliant, sorry for not shutting up about Fireside I'll listen to everything else soon enough
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I can see that (regarding Romance Is Boring). Though I think their later albums are also pretty good (haven't heard the new one yet, but loved the first single).
Fireside later on, 2003, released a more meat and potatoes rock album called Get Shot, which I also kinda like but never revisited (and is nowhere near as goos as Elite - they really dropped the ball). Anyone familiar with that one? I saw them live during that era and distinctly remember a very poorly attended tuesday evening show in Vera, Groningen. They broke up after that tour i believe.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
Nowhere near as GOOD, damn typos.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
Going to dig out all my issues of Skyscraper I imported from the states to see if there's any good articles on some of these bands.
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
Marty, are you from Groningen?
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
Where do you go after releasing an 'emo' album with a 12-minute krautrock workout in the middle?
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
jejune is great, wow
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
No, I live about 50 miles from Groningen (but I do work there). I'm a Frisian.
xp
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1570207516_5.jpg57. Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace There Is169 points, 5 votes
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
damn
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
i voted for Goodness but this one is great too
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:34 (seven years ago) link
incredible album
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
xp - OK, cool. Vera was more or less my second living room from the mid-90s to the mid 00s but I didn't see that Fireside show.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link