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

Yeah, I can see that (regarding Romance Is Boring). Though I think their later albums are also pretty good (haven't heard the new one yet, but loved the first single).

Fireside later on, 2003, released a more meat and potatoes rock album called Get Shot, which I also kinda like but never revisited (and is nowhere near as goos as Elite - they really dropped the ball). Anyone familiar with that one? I saw them live during that era and distinctly remember a very poorly attended tuesday evening show in Vera, Groningen. They broke up after that tour i believe.

Nowhere near as GOOD, damn typos.

Going to dig out all my issues of Skyscraper I imported from the states to see if there's any good articles on some of these bands.

Marty, are you from Groningen?

Where do you go after releasing an 'emo' album with a 12-minute krautrock workout in the middle?

jejune is great, wow

No, I live about 50 miles from Groningen (but I do work there). I'm a Frisian.

xp

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57. Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace There Is
169 points, 5 votes

damn

i voted for Goodness but this one is great too

incredible album

xp - OK, cool. Vera was more or less my second living room from the mid-90s to the mid 00s but I didn't see that Fireside show.

fun emo fact: I went on a date in Ottawa with a girl who freaked out that I knew who the Hotelier were, we bonded over shared emo loves, had what seemed to be a v nice time, and then I never saw her again until a few months later when she was out walking with some dude she was definitely dating. the end

my issue with home is that the recording itself is not great but: those songs

to make the most banal point ever, I like the raw sound and think it perfectly suits the rawness of the EMOTIONS

idk when the mix is reduced to bass and drums in "in framing" and the bass sounds like it's being played in another room, it's mostly distracting, not raw

Hi, another dutch northerner and Elite fan calling in :) Haven't listened to it in 10+ years but will put it on tonight. It's sort of an anomaly (and definitely the peak) in their oeuvre.

it's because the bass is abandoned and alone xp

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56. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
170 points, 6 votes

Wow expected this to place higher, huge record.

the self titled will be way up for sure

i FEEEEEL no sympathy

Have a feeling Joyce Manor may have been a casualty of vote splitting

Never Votesplit Again

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55 [TIE]. Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
177 points, 7 votes
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55 [TIE]. Jawbreaker - Dear You
177 points, 7 votes

Dang, seeing three of my favs—Romance is Boring, Brand New Eyes and especially Home—place so low is kinda crushing. Feel like if this poll were done five or 10 years from now Hotelier would be a slam dunk top 10.

Have a feeling Joyce Manor may have been a casualty of vote splitting

man I hope not, they're one of the best rock bands on the planet at the moment imo

Dear You's slow critical rehabilitation has been amusing

Wow I wasn't able to check the thread since yesterday, a lot of interesting results!

gr8080 otm re: Promise Ring & Dashboard Confessional

Also I mentioned this in either the noms or campaigning threads and it probably got buried, but for all you new Fireside converts this is their most emo song imo:

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

ha yes, i was right, rainer maria!!!!!!!!!!!

that rainer maria record has some of my favorite lyrics ever on it

also dear you was a very crucial record for me in college even though i prefer the sprawl bivouac

The amazing thing about Brand New Eyes is it's somehow not even Paramore's best album.

It's also one of the only Rob Cavallo-produced album I can remotely stomach. His tactless, over-compressed, over-loud modern RAWK sound is the embodiment of everything shitty about commercial rock in the '00s, but somehow this album makes it work because Williams takes it almost like a kind of challenge, seeing if she can out bombast it

the skyline is two gazes long
and i crane my neck
to take it all in

i saw rainer maria on my birthday last year and even their new songs ruled (although they were v different)

two fantastic albums

i went on a blind date once to a rainer maria show

all the older punk bros i know scoff at Dear You, all the younger music bros swear its the best jawbreaker

ountain goats covering boxcar: https://youtu.be/xPRE35kjOcI

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Tbh I've never listened to a whole Jawbreaker album but "Chesterfield King" is the best song ever.

On Bivouac, I see.

xp Love that cover, watching COPS and reading Didion >>>

could only bring myself to vote for 24hr Revenge Therapy itp but their other albums are all great too

it placed yesterday but shouts out to the broken-ass guitar solo on rilo kiley's "spectacular views"

(xpost) Yeah I didn't vote for any Jawbreaker but 24 Hour Revenge Therapy was always my favourite - one of those cases of a record really striking the right balance between the sounds of the albums either side of it. I guess it will place pretty high up?

its not on this album, but its fun to sing "Kiss the Bottle" as "Kiss the Butthole"

orange rhyming dictionary gotta beat all jawbreaker itp

assume u guys have heard Jahbreaker, right? for the lols

https://jahbreaker.bandcamp.com/

orange rhyming dictionary gotta beat all jawbreaker itp

It'll be close I bet!

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53 [TIE]. The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
180 points, 5 votes
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53 [TIE]. Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record
180 points, 5 votes

my wife introduced me to Left & Leaving, which I voted for... previously I had always thought they were too wimpy emo for me and was pleasantly surprised