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
Really great I had no idea it was such a small band making such a big sound
― 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
Emoprog forever. My #2. Every track holds up. This album is all over the place in the best possible way.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Ugly Organ is great so far!
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
I ended up giving this one some nostalgia points
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
I would invite a subpoll of 10+ minute emo album closers, Ugly Organ vs Lifted vs. Clarity vs. Is Terrified (and surely others)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
Mordy, sprained ankle and lifted are both listed with 226 points, did they tie or is it a typo?
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link
Lifted has a #1 vote which acts as a tiebreaker
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link
ah cheers
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:50 (seven years ago) link
The flipside of this is, imagine what we might consider as being w/in the scope of "emo" a decade from now.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
second stage too low!!!!
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
also for a record where almost all of its songs tend to expand and expand they sure do nail the straight pop-punk track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv_zPBDsfAk
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
(that post also applies to in keeping secrets)
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
in lolcollege i was close friends with the namesake of "lifted"'s penultimate track... it kinda ruined her internet life when it was released
― gr8080, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
wow damn that *would* disrupt one's life
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
the second desaparecidos record is great and is also proof positive that conor oberst writes bad lyrics
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
Not to be genre-policing, but can someone explain to me how Julien Baker belongs in this poll? On first listen it sounds like 500 other singer-songwriters, but maybe I'm missing something.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
god i sure did fucking love lifted in high school (i'm revisiting it now)
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link