100. At the Drive-In - Vaya EP99. Elliott - False Cathedrals98. Quicksand - Slip97. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site96. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning95. Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails94. Straylight Run - Straylight Run93 (TIE). Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit93 (TIE). Aereogramme - A Story In White91. Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy90. Saetia - A Retrospective89. Angel Hair - Pregnant With the Senior Class88. Embrace - Embrace87. Rival Schools - United by Fate86. Thirty Ought Six - Hag Seed85 (TIE). Jawbreaker - Bivouac85 (TIE). Fireside - Elite85 (TIE). blink-182 - Enema of the State82. Shotmaker - Discography81. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
80. Moss Icon - Lyburnum79 (TIE). Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers79 (TIE). Bedhead - Transaction de Novo77. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends76. City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar75. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues74. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come73. Saves the Day - Through Being Cool72. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are71. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency70. Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance69 (TIE). Pinegrove - Cardinal69 (TIE). Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree67 (TIE). Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now67 (TIE). Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree65. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You64. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things63. Aereogramme - Sleep and Release62. Three Mile Pilot - The Chief Assassin to the Sinister61. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
60. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring59. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most58. Jejune - This Afternoons Malady57. Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace There Is56. Paramore - Brand New Eyes55 (TIE). Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again55 (TIE). Jawbreaker - Dear You53 (TIE). The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving53 (TIE). Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record51. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes50. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge49. Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide48. Hum – Downward is Heavenward47. The Get-Up Kids - Four Minute Mile46. Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World45. Thursday - No Devolución44. Cursive - The Ugly Organ43. The Dismemberment Plan - Change42. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors41. Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
― devvvine, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
I think more than half of my top ten won't place :/
Unless it turns out everyone loves Jeromes Dream
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
well you know who they got another vote from
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link
hey were Cave In nominated?― Odysseus, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:31 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinoh whoops! i don't think so but i would've voted for until your heart stopsi realize how hypocritical this is of me― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson),
― Odysseus, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:31 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalin
oh whoops! i don't think so but i would've voted for until your heart stops
i realize how hypocritical this is of me
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson),
Me too, but I thought you would be more a Jupiter fan
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
nah hardcore cave-in 4ever
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:02 (seven years ago) link
i like the other stuff but it doesn't do it for me like that record
Jupiter is a pretty definitive post-hardcore album in my opinion, literally a hardcore band that stopped playing hardcore and started playing something else. Braid sounded like a hardcore band on Frankie Welfare Boy Age 5, and by Frame and Canvas were following more pop tropes than anything.
That said, Jupiter is not emo and I wouldn't have voted for it.
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
I think I can define what /isn't/ emo better than what /is/.
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link
Well you have always been the most emo person I know!
― Odysseus, Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:15 (seven years ago) link
Listening to that Crying album, it's v fun i dig it
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:49 (seven years ago) link
This thread has inspired me to give Fall Out Boy another chance...the plan was to work my way through chronologically (skipping the first one), but From Under the Cork Tree was just not my thing at all so I gave up. Got to listen to about half of Infinity on High at work today and yeah this is way better.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 9 March 2017 01:01 (seven years ago) link
i was at isis and piebald shows back in the day, those bands all knew each other b/c boston is small but NO ONE at the time would have called isis emo (or converge or cave in tbh)
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 March 2017 01:46 (seven years ago) link
Otm
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:33 (seven years ago) link
Woo Los Compensinos did me the favor of playing the one song by them I really know (romance is boring) right off the bat.
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:39 (seven years ago) link
yo how was crying??
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Really great I had no idea it was such a small band making such a big sound
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:56 (seven years ago) link
i can't post while at work so i miss all these roll-outs. i also didn't get to listen to any album before this poll so my ballot was limited. in fact i only ranked a Top 10 but submitted a Top 25. not very emo i'm afraid. so if Bright Eyes has aged that badly i'm sorry. also Imago, i voted for A Story In White for my Aereogramme pick.
8/25
― Bee OK, Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link
― Mordy, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:56 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is it still just three ppl? crazy if so.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 March 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
yes guitar, drums, vocalist. and i'm always impressed when these huge voices come out of these small singers.
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 March 2017 03:13 (seven years ago) link
is this the band l0u15 spilled the beer on?
― just another (diamonddave85), Thursday, 9 March 2017 06:26 (seven years ago) link
lol yes well remembered (it was their merch tho and I cleaned it up with my shirt)
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 9 March 2017 10:58 (seven years ago) link
What I gathered from Youtube is that the synth tracks are pre-recorded and cued by the guitarist. Is that how it works?
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 9 March 2017 13:05 (seven years ago) link
yeah there's a backing track
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 9 March 2017 13:24 (seven years ago) link
Listening to Three Cheers, I didn't rank it high enough. Just consistent hooky rock energy.
The thing is, this does sound like a pop version of 90s Dischord/post-hardcore to me. "Screaming Infidelities" just makes me think of a male Jewel or some shit.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 9 March 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
This thread has inspired me to give Fall Out Boy another chance.
These days more than ever I really feel Folie a Deux is their only consistently great album, though most of Save Rock and Roll is strong.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41F1oYbrhAL.jpg40. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle226 points, 6 votes
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
YES
one of the most transcendent live shows I've ever seen, I felt very lucky to catch her when I did
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
Another one I've never heard of
― Odysseus, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:08 (seven years ago) link
also I really hope she records a covers EP or something one day cause her covers are stunning (that I've heard, DCFC's "Photobooth" and Jawbreaker's "Accident Prone")
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:09 (seven years ago) link
speaking of covers, dashboard covers the title track on the EP they just put out
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link
Oh good! I voted for this.
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
yay! amazing album and another one that i could see placing higher in ten years
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
"Rejoice" is maybe the most shattering song I've ever heard. Also, a friend of mine works with profoundly at-risk youth and "Go Home" really struck a nerve.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link
(For her, I mean. I don't go around assuming other people's feelings, that I know of.)
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61q7hAclsRL.jpg39. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground226 points, 6 votes, 1 number one
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
...this. otoh, really did not stand up to a relisten for me.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
lmao
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
what a bummer if three bright eyes records placed and no desaparecidos
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
no way Read Music / Speak Spanish doesn't place.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
I did like this album but not heard it in years. I need to dig out my cd's and give the 3 albums I have a listen
Desaparecidos album I still love but ive never heard the recent one. was it any good?
― Odysseus, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:29 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it was solid as hell
Just in case it doesn't place, another classic from the Fork archives: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2288-read-music-speak-spanish/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:29 (seven years ago) link
thank u for reassuring me simon
revised: how righteous for read music to place over every bright eyes record
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:29 (seven years ago) link
Lol. I love Read Music/Speak Spanish, but this is my favourite Bright Eyes album by a mile and this was third on my ballot and forever in my heart. This was the first 'weird' emo album I ever owned and the fact that it took me so many more listens to get into and interpret just made it all the more rewarding.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
My 2003 Livejournal bio and archive links etc were adapted from the Lover I Don't Have to Love lyrics...
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
ok one more for a bit bc i have to go to the car dealership and test drive the highlander
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61faSq-r%2B-L.jpg38. Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade235 points, 7 votes
oh you emoprog kids
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
TOO LOW
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
Haha waht
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
So happy Julien Baker placed! Also, Desaparecidos is bound to place, and rightfully so imho. Lifted... indeed doesn't hold up well tbh.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link