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

Isn't it more extreme than Drive Like Jehu? DLJ played at 45 maybe?

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 8:19 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah something like that, a hardcore band that heard jehu and tried to imitate that sound

all you blood brothers fans should also check out the Past Lives album and the first Jaguar Love album (but for the love of God stay far away from the second!), they were their equivalent of the Sparta/Mars Volta split

first jaguar love album rules

I love it so much, the production is a bit flat but they had such a cool sound, and it's wild to hear johnny give'r on such vibrant, poppy songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvlkROtaZEI

My #4 has already placed, as well as two other things in my top 20 (Saetia and Very Emergency). My #4 was The Swiss Army Romance, which for my money was easily the best DC album.

Crimes is one of my favorite albums of all time, truly an amazing piece of work. I still haven't really gotten into Young Machetes. Maybe I'll give it another shot tonight. I didn't vote for any Blood Brothers because I'd never thought of them as emo. Same with Refused and Unwound. But that's the interesting part about the way this poll was run, the relative emo-ness of an album seems to influence its ranking.

Rainer Maria should show up. I voted for three of theirs, one in my top 15.

My favorite Lifetime album is the one from the 70s with Tony Williams on it, but I'll give their 90s albums another shot.

wait have y'all heard juno

― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 7:34 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the ilx emo poll: the greatest juno discovery thread of all time

― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 7:34 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in typical fashion I now feel a bit bad (ok not actually that bad) for getting folks on the juno train for this poll cause on re-re-relistening I'm now convinced only the 1st album is emo "enough", the 2nd is mor like every new guitar genre of the last 25 years thrown in a magical blender

i hadn't really thought about that. the first album is 100% emo from a thematic standpoint, the second less so but it has that dna more than like 5 things that have already made the countdown.

i really wish juno was on spotify and/or my CDs weren't in storage.

I ordered my CDs like two weeks ago but they're still not here yet :( :( :(

yeah it's def more emo than say Refused. interestingly it shares a producer w/ Leaves Turn Inside You

Re: Songs From Under The Cork Tree, it has some key anthemic tracks but imo they don't hit critical capital A anthemic FOB til Infinity (i looooove the Babyface tracks, he understood their theatricality, I mean he turned Thnks Fr The Mmrs into a demented FOB Broadway showtune )

Infinity is when Patrick & Wentz really mindmeld & when the band starts just routinely facemelting

anyway i guess we'll get to that :)

i'm listening to swiss army + the problem w/ it is that with the exception of the title track the best songs on it (screaming + again i go unnoticed) both show up on tpyhctftm - and as better versions! (places' "screaming" has that excellent penultimate elongated "your hair is everywhere" refrain which swiss army's version appears to be missing)

So happy to see two more instant Fireside converts. It's like that scene in High Fidelity where John Cusack goes, "Let's sell a couple of Beta Band albums," and the moment he puts the record on in the store a customer wants to buy it.

Going through the Aereogramme discography this morning because it's been far too long. I never heard their Michael Jackson cover before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi3ph9Uj-go

They also did a brilliant 'In the Fishtank' session with Isis, which I had completely forgotten about.

Someone on the Britpop thread wanted to do a poll on the Glasgow scene. I'd be so up for that.

Are you from Glasgow?

No, Holland :)

that Fireside record is very cool incidentally

in typical fashion I now feel a bit bad (ok not actually that bad) for getting folks on the juno train for this poll cause on re-re-relistening I'm now convinced only the 1st album is emo "enough", the 2nd is mor like every new guitar genre of the last 25 years thrown in a magical blender

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 8:30 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk the first four songs on the that album (after the intro) are kind of an opening emo salvo before the album drifts into abstraction. it counts i think!

No, Holland :)

― ArchCarrier,

well dont go claiming Lanarkshire bands for Glasgow then!!! ;)

Haha, oops!

But Wikipedia says

Aereogramme were a Scottish alternative rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1998, consisting of Craig B. (vocals, guitar), Iain Cook (guitar, programming), Campbell McNeil (bass) and Martin Scott (drums). Prior to their split in 2007, the band released four studio albums.

I know, never trust the internet, but you are the internet too, Odysseus.

no, i didnt mean them, i meant all those Bellshill bands that would get nommed for a glasgow poll and the delgados/mogwai who are from motherwell/hamilton

before the countdown starts again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFjtEAE5GAA

and Michael Stipe after
https://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/11.15.MichaelStipe2.jpg

xp Wait, what? You want to exclude Mogwai from a Glasgow scene poll because they grew up 15 miles from the city?

Big LOL at that picture.

Realised I've still never heard an entire Dashboard Confessional album - I'll listen to whatever places highest.

Leaves Turn Inside You is a good record I used to absolutely love but it's another I didn't feel quite right voting for.

good morning emo boys & girls!

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60. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
154 points, 4 votes, 1 number one

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.

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

tbph i'm seeing them for the opener, i couldn't name a single one of their songs

<3 <3 my number 1, pretty much the soundtrack to my angsty late teens, a beautifully emo indie album musically and lyrically.

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59. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
156 points, 4 votes

way2low :'(

this is the blueprint 4 heartbreak

How many points did #1,2,3 get?

I think Dashboard and Promise Ring are the emo bridges too far for me

I like the promise ring. Does that make me emo?

this was my #3 fwiw

and Michael Stipe after

hair everywhere indeed

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)

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.

and speaking of post-2000 blindspots... holy shit this fireside album!

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

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.

for sure

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58. Jejune - This Afternoons Malady
160 points, 7 votes

i guess i better listen to this huh?