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

luckily nobody had posted the recap

man I am really loving Brand New

they're kinda like a more grownup/serious FOB

damn i can prob give up on Swing Kids placing now

np Brand New for the first time ever

oooooh

also I say YES to Juno

that was ok

a future lived in past tense hasn't placed yet

I just refuse to believe this will actually happen

I was sure that Jawbox would go top 20! brilliant album, front to back killers

Juno is not on spotify, correct?

nor any other streaming services lol

I found the Spin review people were talking about and it was paired up with Rainer Maria's Look Now Look Again!

https://books.google.ca/books?id=I5x8l8IaNUMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA132&redir_esc=y&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false

100. At the Drive-In - Vaya EP
99. Elliott - False Cathedrals
98. Quicksand - Slip
97. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
96. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
95. Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails
94. Straylight Run - Straylight Run
93 (TIE). Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit
93 (TIE). Aereogramme - A Story In White
91. Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy
90. Saetia - A Retrospective
89. Angel Hair - Pregnant With the Senior Class
88. Embrace - Embrace
87. Rival Schools - United by Fate
86. Thirty Ought Six - Hag Seed
85 (TIE). Jawbreaker - Bivouac
85 (TIE). Fireside - Elite
85 (TIE). blink-182 - Enema of the State
82. Shotmaker - Discography
81. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
80. Moss Icon - Lyburnum
79 (TIE). Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
79 (TIE). Bedhead - Transaction de Novo
77. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
76. City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar
75. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
74. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
73. Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
72. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
71. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
70. Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance
69 (TIE). Pinegrove - Cardinal
69 (TIE). Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
67 (TIE). Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now
67 (TIE). Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree
65. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
64. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
63. Aereogramme - Sleep and Release
62. Three Mile Pilot - The Chief Assassin to the Sinister
61. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
60. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
59. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
58. Jejune - This Afternoons Malady
57. Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace There Is
56. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
55 (TIE). Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
55 (TIE). Jawbreaker - Dear You
53 (TIE). The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
53 (TIE). Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record
51. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
50. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
49. Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide
48. Hum – Downward is Heavenward
47. The Get-Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
46. Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
45. Thursday - No Devolución
44. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
43. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
42. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
41. Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
40. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
39. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
38. Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
37. Converge - Jane Doe
36. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
35. Thursday - War All the Time
34. Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
33. The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
32. Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
31. Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
30. Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2
29. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
28. Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes
27 (TIE). The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
27 (TIE). At The Drive-In - In/Casino/Out
25 (TIE). The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl
25 (TIE). Paramore - Paramore
23. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
22. Brand New - Deja Entendu
21. The Anniversary - Designing a Nervous Breakdown

gr8080 - there's a couple of Juno full albums on youtube that I listened to today that were decent

only some of AFLIPT is on YT, I gots mp3s if you want 'em

they have a definite My Bloody Valentine flavor to them
though the opening spoken word song had me worried, I was like oh god is this gonna be like a whole album of atmospheric slam poetry or bad Tool outtakes of answering machine messages and whatnot

so glad even more of you guys are getting into juno.

the spoken word on great salt lake i can see being concerning but man the guitar tones are still some of the best ever, just really nice rich overdriven tones.

it's hard for me to pick one song from that record but the slide leads on "a listening ear" are unreal.

brand new is not like something i will hate on but that 2003 stamp means i was just on to other stuff and even now it has a polish that i don't think serves it well. when pop-punk sort of integrated itself into emo was when i checked out.

Brand New has a wordy "let me sing to you my livejournal" quality that I dig. Plus the polish doesn't really bug me but I'm already a FOB ride or die so that kinda goes without saying

speaking of FOB, I relistened to From Under The Cork Tree on the way to work and even though I *know* the later albums sound better, I forgot how much I freaking LOVE to sing along to these songs...so I can't rate it as low as I know I should. *flips emo hair*

xxxp Same boat here. That overblown L.A. douchebag American Idiot Rob Cavallo-style production chases me away from about 90% of the 2000s emo stuff. Brand New might be one of the few bands that transcends it, but that canned rock sound is usually a deal breaker for me. Much prefer the "our producer didn't even want to be in the room with us" aesthetic of most of the 90s stuff

transcends to the cover art too imo

https://i.imgur.com/wkBVpx3.jpg https://i.imgur.com/l4ar4mc.jpg

u know how similar and yet so different those two albums are gonna sound just looking at them

I wish y'all could just get down w both... like me

I started w wave 2 so I had to work backwards and it was hard to get into that stuff at first for the exact opposite reasons as Evan

for yr own special sweetheart was my #1

b-side '68' should have been on the album

Spottie, what music were you listening to before you got into the second wave stuff?

Rap

And r&b, some punk, alt rock, grunge

I was a big bad religion fan in high school which I guess was my gateway into this stuff?

Huh, that's interesting. That was pretty much my diet, too. But I think a big part of it is just age. For anybody who came up in the 90s (or before) and witnessed the rise and fall of the alternative nation, where underground rock became this kind of excessive, gaudy, major-label burlesque, a lot of 2000s commercial emo is a hard sell, because it explicitly embraced those big-budget, major-label trappings most of the best punk and indie releases of that era were rejecting.

I've warmed quite a bit to that blockbuster sound, and can kind of appreciate the audacity of it now, but for people who came up listening to Dischord or Touch & Go or whatever, it was so alien---just like, a kind of uncool that almost felt arrogant. I hadn't thought much about the experience of coming at the music backwards, going from the plastic wrap mall punk stuff to the rawer stuff.

I always thought it was kinda easier to work backward from a commercial gateway, though. Like, I feel like being a Green Day fan who gradually goes back to the Sex Pistols and Black Flag or w/e is probably far easier than a 80s punk trying to get into Green Day or Blink-182 (probably the band that marks a generational divide among rock fans more cleanly than any other I can think of)

oh I should say I was into Green Day and Blink, not sure how I forgot those. first two cds I bought were August & everything after and Dookie when I was 12 ('93)

I always thought it was kinda easier to work backward from a commercial gateway, though. Like, I feel like being a Green Day fan who gradually goes back to the Sex Pistols and Black Flag or w/e is probably far easier than a 80s punk trying to get into Green Day or Blink-182 (probably the band that marks a generational divide among rock fans more cleanly than any other I can think of)

― Evan R, Thursday, March 9, 2017 10:17 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this seems right in general

awesome poll (wish i had voted!) but would it be possible to get the year along with the album during the rollout if it isn't too much trouble?

― just another (diamonddave85)

Since you asked: here's a shiny new version of the

RECAP

100. At the Drive‐In - Vaya (1999)
99. Elliott - False Cathedrals (2000)
98. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site (2003)
97. Quicksand - Slip (1993)
96. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
95. Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails (1996)
94. Straylight Run - Straylight Run (2004)
93 (TIE). Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit (2000)
93 (TIE). Aereogramme - A Story in White (2001)
91. Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy (2004)
90. Saetia - A Retrospective (2001)
89. Angel Hair - Pregnant With the Senior Class (1997)
88. Embrace - Embrace (1987)
87. Rival Schools - United by Fate (2001)
86. Thirty Ought Six - Hag Seed (1995)
85 (TIE). Jawbreaker - Bivouac (1992)
85 (TIE). Fireside - Elite (2000)
85 (TIE). blink‐182 - Enema of the State (1999)
82. Shotmaker - The Complete Discography: 1993-1996 (2000)
81. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark • A Mission • A Brand • A Scar (2003)

80. Moss Icon - Lyburnum (1997)
79 (TIE). Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers (1997)
79 (TIE). Bedhead - Transaction de Novo (1998)
77. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (2002)
76. City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar (2002)
75. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014)
74. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come (1998)
73. Saves the Day - Through Being Cool (1999)
72. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are (2001)
71. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency (1999)
70. Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance (2000)
69 (TIE). Pinegrove - Cardinal (2016)
69 (TIE). Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
67 (TIE). Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now (1998)
67 (TIE). Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree (2003)
65. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You (2001)
64. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things (2002)
63. Aereogramme - Sleep and Release (2003)
62. Three Mile Pilot - The Chief Assassin to the Sinister (1995)
61. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes (2006)

60. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring (2010)
59. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most (2001)
58. Jejune - This Afternoon's Malady (1998)
57. The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014)
56. Paramore - Brand New Eyes (2009)
55 (TIE). Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again (1999)
55 (TIE). Jawbreaker - Dear You (1995)
53 (TIE). The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving (2000)
53 (TIE). Shudder to Think - Pony Express Record (1994)
51. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000)
50. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)
49. Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide (2000)
48. Hum - Downward Is Heavenward (1997)
47. The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile (1997)
46. Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World (2005)
45. Thursday - No Devolución (2011)
44. Cursive - The Ugly Organ (2003)
43. The Dismemberment Plan - Change (2001)
42. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
41. Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales (2016)

40. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle (2015)
39. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
38. Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002)
37. Converge - Jane Doe (2001)
36. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart (1994)
35. Thursday - War All the Time (2003)
34. Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are? (1996)
33. The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn (2003)
32. Fall Out Boy - Folie à deux (2008)
31. Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1994)
30. Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2 (1995)
29. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)
28. Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes (1999)
27 (TIE). The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis (2000)
27 (TIE). At the Drive‐In - In/Casino/Out (1998)
25 (TIE). The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl (2001)
25 (TIE). Paramore - Paramore (2013)
23. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime (1994)
22. Brand New - Deja Entendu (2003)
21. The Anniversary - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (2000)

Liking the Appleseed Cast stuff a lot. On Reflection currently making me levitate. Reminds me of a cracking and criminally underheard Scottish band from a few years back called There Will Be Fireworks.

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski)

(I mean the Fireworks band of course; I've been enjoying Appleseed Cast for years.)

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20. Fugazi - Repeater (1990)
306 points, 8 votes

1, 2, 3, ...

i arbitrarily hated all emo in high school until i saw the video for "sic transit gloria" on mtv2, then my taste slowly reshuffled over the next few years

Another great album I didn't feel right voting for!

yeah i couldn't vote for any fugazi

Not emo, but it's classic and I voted for it. Feel like I should've nominated The Argument and stuff

classic, didn't vote for it

Was Trail of Dead nominated? Or will I get a thread ban for even asking that?

I thought about nominating the first two albums!

Seeing the roll-out the scope of what ilm considers emo is so broad, ST&C would've fit nicely imo (emo).

I listened to The Argument for the first time in the run up to this. Tremendous album!

first two tod albums def have emo embedded in them

yeah, "Richter Scale Madness," "Half of What," "Mistakes and Regrets," "A Perfect Teenhood" all emo af, it's just that nagging SY influence that stands in their way