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

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

not to mention "Sigh Your Children" which is an extremely lolemo way to end a record

A Perfect Teenhood is more emo than most of this poll haha

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19. Cursive - Domestica (2000)
312 points, 8 votes

fuck yeah

this was the predictive (and retrospective) thematic strk for the worst period of my life, so of course I voted for it highly

awesome, another discovery that made my top ten.

really curious if rites of spring & still life are gonna show up or if they got 101'd

RoS for sure

TO PROVE YOU STILL FEEL
YOU ONLY FEEL
SORRY FOR YOURSELF

still life def got 101d

from angry heads with skyward eyes is a classic 4ever tho

one of the starkest and most stressful rock albums ever, no relief or release at all (or when it comes it feels mocking)

You're really selling it Simon!

I mean, it also rocks and has riffs and stuff

lol just realised we still have meadowlands coming up

yeah I think I know 15 of the remaining slots, the rest are mysterious to me

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18. Braid - Frame & Canvas (1998)
316 points, 7 votes

WAY too low

oh whoops forgot that one lol

this album comes so close to being too clever for its own good so many times but just barely stays course

also this post-reunion braid track would be high on my tracks ballot https://youtu.be/BF4r32HxhFs

Don't sleep on No Coast either

Oh now this is too low

tt played me about two songs off this and I put it in my top 5 I think?

I voted for the fugazi but had to cut the Braid album from my longlist as I hadnt heard it in years