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

Hey it's not emo without a little tragedy

Definitely going to have to listen to Gospel.

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45. Thursday - No Devolución
199 points, 6 votes

Another brilliant final album

iirc this was top five for me

it came out the same year as let england shake and i always associate them with each other bc they're both ghostly reinventions

...I completely forgot to vote for this it turns out, thankfully it did fine without me

when you first notice the buried horns on "Fast to the End" >>>>>>

it came out the same year as let england shake and i always associate them with each other bc they're both ghostly reinventions

literally dropped everything I was doing to go play this after reading this. I don't even recall reading/hearing anything about this album

they sound absolutely nothing alike but I can see how someone would associate their ~vibes~

10 minutes in and I'm getting Leaves Turn Inside You vibes more than anything, which, well fuck yeah bring it

So far this is my favorite of the albums I discovered as a result of this poll.

they sound absolutely nothing alike but I can see how someone would associate their ~vibes~

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:54 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it's all vibe

finally listening to the Gospel album and it's incredible (tho I concur with the "not emo" diagnosis)

It's screamo though

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44. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
205 points, 7 votes

one of my faves

i've always thought the ugly organ was pretty uneven compared to domestica but the first five or so tracks are all fire

Great album, look for it in the local discount bin

I still don't understand this genre that encompasses both a pedro the lion album and jimmy eat world

I have The Ugly Organ on CD and im sure its more grey than green on the cover

hey man we haven't even gotten to Converge yet

xpost to akm

did anyone else do a "where's tim" scan of the accompanying art after hearing "I'm hiding in the leaves / in the CD jacket sleeve"

no but we'll be doing a few "WHERE'S JIM" scans over the next couple days

oh common life is not going to place bc it disappeared from the noms but i would really like to isolate it as a record on which a pretty trad pop-punk band stretched out a lot and ended up making a really resonant album about death and trauma, and i've found i grow closer to it as i get older. i also think they're a pretty incomparable band lyrically

is there going to be any more blink 182?

Yup, it's a stellar album. Gospel is also very good, "I Was Born in the Dark" is a master class in songs under 150 seconds that nevertheless cram in a dozen musical twists xp

Don't think it even got nominated by Mama, I'm Swollen was a way underrated LP with like 4 knockout songs on it. My favorite post-Ugly Organ Cursive album

until very recently i preferred gospel. i go back and forth. fireworks were the first modern pop-punk band i really fell in love with xp

"even strangers are asking you / 'what the hell is wrong with him?'" on "one more creature dizzy with love" just kills me

I can't believe they didn't include a version of the title track, what a gorgeous song that is

i programmed a version of the album where the title track is the opener. makes it a masterpiece imo lol

(i think potentially they wrote and recorded the title track after turning in the album. heard that somewhere)

damn, would have *killed* as the side 1 closer

anyway that's enough out of me re: a song that's not on an album that's not gonna place lol

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43. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
208 points, 5 votes

false!!!!!

needs more emo

Change is maybe like the 9th falsest thing to place so far!

lol true i just like yelling about it

i appreciate the diversity in this poll but it's also super weird

I was soooo excited for this to come out and didn't really know what to make of most of it when it did. One of the first albums I can remember to just totally confound my expectations.

I loved "Helena" so much! "Hang 'Em High" is one of my favourite deep cuts from Three Cheers.

i guess i would argue that it's wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too prog for this poll but it's also great so fine

it's my fav d plan record

Tbh, what I liked about what people were calling emo when I was first exposed to it was that it was like a new kind of prog rock.

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Wednesday, March 8, 2017 1:33 PM (six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel this! that gospel record just seems to slip out of even my expansive emo venn diagram

I am on a national express, alone, achey and tired from another city I didn't need to go to; this thread is perfect for me. Thanks guys.

I couldn't not vote for this, one of my favourite albums of the '00s (and definitely a big part of my initial emo phase).

"Sentimental Man" / "Face of the Earth" is one of the great opening salvos

uhh anyway this is another killer album I didn't actually vote for

Tbh, what I liked about what people were calling emo when I was first exposed to it was that it was like a new kind of prog rock.

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Wednesday, March 8, 2017 1:33 PM (six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel this! that gospel record just seems to slip out of even my expansive emo venn diagram

― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson),

One of you should do a hardcore/post-hardcore poll

I voted for a different Dismemberment Plan album

one of the more amusing inadvertently combined Spotify profiles

OK only just looked Gospel up and looooool.

This was the original list of genres on the nomination topic:

Emo, screamo, pop-punk, skate punk, mallcore, post-hardcore, ska punk, psychobilly and Warped Tour music