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

yes guitar, drums, vocalist. and i'm always impressed when these huge voices come out of these small singers.

is this the band l0u15 spilled the beer on?

lol yes well remembered (it was their merch tho and I cleaned it up with my shirt)

What I gathered from Youtube is that the synth tracks are pre-recorded and cued by the guitarist. Is that how it works?

yeah there's a backing track

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.

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.

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40. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
226 points, 6 votes

YES

one of the most transcendent live shows I've ever seen, I felt very lucky to catch her when I did

Another one I've never heard of

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")

speaking of covers, dashboard covers the title track on the EP they just put out

Oh good! I voted for this.

yay! amazing album and another one that i could see placing higher in ten years

"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.

(For her, I mean. I don't go around assuming other people's feelings, that I know of.)

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39. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
226 points, 6 votes, 1 number one

...this. otoh, really did not stand up to a relisten for me.

lmao

what a bummer if three bright eyes records placed and no desaparecidos

no way Read Music / Speak Spanish doesn't place.

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?

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/

thank u for reassuring me simon

revised: how righteous for read music to place over every bright eyes record

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.

My 2003 Livejournal bio and archive links etc were adapted from the Lover I Don't Have to Love lyrics...

ok one more for a bit bc i have to go to the car dealership and test drive the highlander

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38. Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
235 points, 7 votes

oh you emoprog kids

TOO LOW

Haha waht

So happy Julien Baker placed! Also, Desaparecidos is bound to place, and rightfully so imho. Lifted... indeed doesn't hold up well tbh.

Emoprog forever. My #2. Every track holds up. This album is all over the place in the best possible way.

Ugly Organ is great so far!

I ended up giving this one some nostalgia points

I would invite a subpoll of 10+ minute emo album closers, Ugly Organ vs Lifted vs. Clarity vs. Is Terrified (and surely others)

Mordy, sprained ankle and lifted are both listed with 226 points, did they tie or is it a typo?

Lifted has a #1 vote which acts as a tiebreaker

ah cheers

yay! amazing album and another one that i could see placing higher in ten years

The flipside of this is, imagine what we might consider as being w/in the scope of "emo" a decade from now.

second stage too low!!!!

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

(that post also applies to in keeping secrets)

in lolcollege i was close friends with the namesake of "lifted"'s penultimate track... it kinda ruined her internet life when it was released

wow damn that *would* disrupt one's life

the second desaparecidos record is great and is also proof positive that conor oberst writes bad lyrics

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.

god i sure did fucking love lifted in high school (i'm revisiting it now)

its actually a thoughtful and accurate tribute, which somehow makes it even worse

xposts

I still don't understand why someone who's so weirdly good at writing pop-punk songs would stoop to writing Band of Horses b-sides