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

The words you scribbled on the walls
With the loss of friends you didn’t have
I’ll call you when the time is right
Are you in or are you out?

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Huge thank you to ArchCarrier who helped me compile all of these ballots and format all the results for easy posting. I would’ve done a much worse job without your help.

And thanks to all the voters without whom this would just be a list of my favorite albums.

I will maintain a Spotify list during rollout - taking place over this week and finishing on Friday. The link to that is here: http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/2DxXJBmUeORd2Y1K4su1WE

Originally the rollout was going to be 77 albums long but because of a request from ArchCarrier, who says there are a bunch of interesting albums in the 78-100 range, I’ll start at 100. That means that we need to get started early and go quickly today and tomorrow to have enough time to luxuriate in the top 10 on Friday. Not sure yet how I’ll break it up into days so let’s just get to it.

These are ILX’s most heart-wrenching, soul-crushing, bitter and sad - like a frozen cheek on a cold September night - 77 100 favorite emo albums, starting with, at 77 100…

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100. At the Drive-In - Vaya EP
105 points, 3 votes

woooooo

hooooo!

And <blush> to your kind words!

I don't have any thoughts in particular about At the Drive-In but I have a friend from El Paso who says his dad ran a music store and that there was once a robbery and later read in an interview w/ Mars Volta that they had scored their early instruments from a record store in El Paso break-in... this maybe belongs in the completely true facts about bands thread.

this was the last thing cut from my ballot

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99. Elliott - False Cathedrals
105 points, 5 votes

xp I hadn't heard Vaya before, listening to it now. I love the backwards vocals on '300 MHz'.
Bad people though, stealing instruments.

woah, way too low! competition be fierce

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97. Quicksand - Slip
106 points, 4 votes

oops skipped ahead there by accident! i'll just post the next two then instead -- see you all in 40 min

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98. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
106 points, 3 votes

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97. Quicksand - Slip
106 points, 4 votes

Didn't vote for this Weakerthans record but I won't begrudge their appearance. There's not going to be much of a Canadian presence in this poll (I did not help much in this regard)

I don't think I had heard Elliott well enough when I deleted them from my ballot. They sound great now.

Quicksand the 1st of my votes to place

voted for False Cathedrals. Stunning album!

I like Superstitions n Travel

I love Slip but cut it from my ballot for being post-hardcore rather than emo (arbitrary I know but had to draw the line somewhere).

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96. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
109 points, 4 votes

i didn't vote for this bc i don't think of it as emo but i loved this album when it first came out

honestly I relistened to a couple bright eyes albums for this poll and it was an underwhelming experience, even Lifted mostly falls flat for me now

can anyone help me figure out who the vocalist from weakerthans sounds like? it sounds so familiar...

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95. Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails
110 points, 3 votes

every JEW album is gonna place isn't it

can anyone help me figure out who the vocalist from weakerthans sounds like? it sounds so familiar...

― Mordy, Monday, March 6, 2017 7:59 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he sounds like that one guy in propagandhi

hahaha

for real though due to overfamiliarity, if anything other people remind me of him not the other way 'round

lol no i know he's the same guy as the vocalist from propagandhi but he also sounds like i think an indie singer -- oh shit i think i just figured out who he reminds me of and it's an ilx poster.

Fallow probably isn't gonna place but I'd like to mention that back in the early 00s a certain anarchist hardcore-loving friend of mine confessed a deep love for "confessions of a futon-revolutionist" and why on earth do I remember this stuff

TOO LOW

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94. Straylight Run - Straylight Run
110 points, 4 votes

A blind spot for me. I like it so far!

i think most of these albums will be a blind spot for me but I still did a 50 album ballot.

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93 [TIE]. Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit
112 points, 3 votes

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93 [TIE]. Aereogramme - A Story In White
112 points, 3 votes

xp - I can only like an album that starts with a song called 'The Perfect Ending'.

Yes, my favorite Pedro the Lion album!

But I completely forgot to vote for Aereogramme...

'A Mind of Her Own' is so great:
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First two tracks of ASIW are incredible

Two bands I didn't get around to checking out properly in time to vote...

I do not recall Aereogramme being emo or screamo, more post-rock/metal.
Did Imago nominate them by any chance?

haha xp

Just remembered I had a Chemikal Underground sampler with an Aerogramme song on and yeah post-rock sounds about right.

Not that there isn't a lot of overlap there.

Aereogramme were post/indie-rock stylistically but in a real sense were very, very fucking emo

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91. Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy
113 points, 4 votes

too low

TOO LOW

Im not complaining. I gave Blonde Rehead a vote and they aren't emo either. But I just think I can spot an lj nom at 10 miles now :)

Didnt vote for SA cos i thought it was a lock for top ten without me... whooops

I think this is the first one of these that I voted for, ha.

Wow did no expect Straylight Run to make it.

Existentialism On Prom NIght has the perfect emo chorus imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=293h41Bd-Do
You would kill for this, just a little but, just a little bit, you would, you would...

I have no connection to Static Prevails by JEW. Always liked the other albums way more.

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90. Saetia - A Retrospective
114 points, 4 votes

I voted for this

no idea what this is

full alb here tho:
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oh looks like it's mislabeled on Spotify as the album 'collected'?

I love Slip but cut it from my ballot for being post-hardcore rather than emo (arbitrary I know but had to draw the line somewhere).

― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, March 6, 2017 7:56 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

...and then I went and voted for a bunch of post-hardcore anyway

would be interested to hear about people's thoughts about the differentiation between the two, where that line is drawn

saetia is some rad shit imo, voted for them

fun fact, my friend has a Saetia tattoo.

saetia fuckin rules

would be interested to hear about people's thoughts about the differentiation between the two, where that line is drawn

― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, March 6, 2017 10:40 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my entirely private distinction is that emo is generally more melodic, at least when the two terms actually diverge (they're one and the same circa embrace and rites of spring i think). but then: why do i think the boys life record is emo and not post-hardcore (actually i kinda think it's both)

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89. Angel Hair - Pregnant With the Senior Class
116 points, 4 votes

Another of mine

hmm never heard of this one

gettin' a lot of the hardcore noms out of the way

yeah I kinda figured that most of my votes would be boosting those records on the low end of the rankings

my entirely private distinction is that emo is generally more melodic, at least when the two terms actually diverge (they're one and the same circa embrace and rites of spring i think). but then: why do i think the boys life record is emo and not post-hardcore (actually i kinda think it's both)

"kinda both" sums up most of my final analysis on this stuff

mine too dan m. I know the pop stuff in the poll will dominate the top end

Angel Hair was super important to my formative musical experience/depression

best couple tracks on here?

would be interested to hear about people's thoughts about the differentiation between the two, where that line is drawn

Yeah it's really hard to pin down - for me the stuff on the post-hardcore side is more riffy, heavier, also less poppy in terms of songwriting (more angular?). Maybe a bit more rooted in the macho side of hardcore too. The screamo/Gravity Records type stuff really complicates things too! Anyway I'm sure people will disagree and would like to hear other takes too - I mean I ended up voting for Hoover and Drive Like Jehu but not Fugazi or Jawbox.

My #2!

Spottie, idk, maybe try "The Stool Is Cool" or "Space Ape". The "Stigmata Martyr" cover is probably the most accessible one and it really kicks tbh; sometimes I wonder if it's my favourite!

i'd agree with that assessment gavin, although i group hoover, drive like jehu, fugazi, and jawbox together and didn't vote for either of them (despite being no. 1 hoover fan 4ever)

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88. Embrace - Embrace
117 points, 5 votes

way too low. Another one of my votes.

I always liked "Witch Hunt Scene from Star Trek" as an insane freak out go to.

Bedroom scene from communion is a more mid tempo one that I like a lot.

woo first one i voted for, the best record mackaye's made

Oh yeah, that's a good one.xp

re: "Witch Hunt..."

i'm behind! fuckin saetia! another too low one.

here's a good saetia song from youtube, url'd it to avoid taking up too much vertical space

Tbh, the first time I ever heard the term "emo" was in reference to Fugazi and Hoover. I don't really consider the really macho or hardline/sXe hardcore stuff to be emo but I'm fine with calling any arty post-hardcore emo. In mid-90s Ottawa, I thought of Union of Uranus as 'metal' and Okara and Shotmaker as 'emo'. I even thought Buried Inside was kind of 'emo' at their first couple of shows if only for Nick's before-song speeches but they were def on the metal side.

* macho metalcore/moshcore

I'm fine with calling any arty post-hardcore emo.

As in, this is how I thought of it 20 years ago. Obv, I get that the meanings of terms change, especially dopey made-up terms like "emo".

and nobody is more macho than sund4r

liking Witch Hunt and Space Ape thanks.

Crazy that this stuff is gonna be in the same rollout as Fall Out Boy, but here we are. Plenty to discover so far.

Crazy that this stuff is gonna be in the same rollout as Fall Out Boy,

They were both in my top 10.

nice

Oh, Saetia is right up my alley. Somehow I missed hearing them.

I was talking about them the other day sund4r

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87. Rival Schools - United by Fate
117 points, 7 votes

awesome. late discovery and addition to my ballot.

killer album, right at the center of so many styles

this was lower down on my ballot

Literally the 50th album I added to my ballot, about half an hour before I sent it in. Good find, Spottie!

I remember a friend at school being really into this when it came out. I didn't get round to listening to it though.

Rival Schools is a post quicksand Walter band right?

yes

Rival Schools were great. For some silly reason I forgot to vote for it. I used to play that record to pieces in 2001. I did vote for Quicksand though (and Jawbox).

I wanted to like Rival Schools way more than I actually did. Same goes for most of walter's bands. I love Quicksand to death tho

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86. Thirty Ought Six - Hag Seed
119 points, 4 votes

yuhhhhh

i love how gross that record sounds, but also how there feels like there's a real narrative to it as it slowly gets more accessible and exploratory

^ otm. When the album first got mentioned in the voting thread, I turned it off after a few tracks because I thought it didn't belong to the emo poll. But then 'Radon' came up on shuffle later on, and it almost was like a different band.

This thirty ought six album is great. Somehow never heard it before, but so far it's right up my alley

big [lol] tie coming up on the hour

must be avril lavigne tied with rites of spring?

never heard this 30-06. it's good

Can't wait to start listening to these! Spottie otm re: Existentialism on Prom Night chorus. 'Sing like you think no one's listening' is a refrain I have sung frequently for the last 12 years. That SR album was pretty high on my ballot - beautiful.

yeah i love that straylight run made it, that album was part of my great emo conversion

also: happy emo poll, there's a new dave bazan record http://www.stereogum.com/1925498/stream-david-bazan-care/music/album-stream/

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85 [TIE]. Jawbreaker - Bivouac
123 points, 4 votes
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85 [TIE]. Fireside - Elite
123 points, 4 votes
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85 [TIE]. blink-182 - Enema of the State
123 points, 4 votes

lmao

i voted for two of those records

i voted for one of them :p the fireside! that was a wonderful discovery from the nominations.

lol

i prefer take off your pants and the self-titled to enema

i disagree enema is a perfect pop blast

that isn't "perfect pop" with square quotes

the katydid will be torn apart, and its dismembered body carried back to the bivouac

So happy that Fireside made it!

enema is also like the shiniest punk record on earth

you put an 'n' instead of a 't'

Yes, Fireside!

Last time I heard Enema was when I started dating my wife. It still sounds good some fifteen years later.

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82. Shotmaker - Discography
127 points, 3 votes

Whoa, thanks, other two voters.

i guess i better listen to this

The Fireside record was a cool discovery from the noms thread for me too but it just missed my ballot in the end.

this next one is the last one for today and also TOO LOW

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81. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
128 points, 4 votes

Bivouac too low! Would have been my number 1 to be honest if I hadn't dropped the ball.

Shotmaker is also too low.

What a joy this thread is already. Thanks for doing this. Hoping the "too low" comments continue well into the top 10

haha we did it sund4r! shotmaker makes the cut

xp too low maybe but given how relatively unknown they are it's great to see it place

Better too low comments than too high. (I've refrained from 1 so far haha)

I can't refrain! Dashboard TOO LOW definitely! This was my #5. Acknowledge that TPYHCTFTM is probably a better album, but this was released at the height of my emo discovery and I recorded every track on tape for the car and would insist on getting my mum to drive further than she ever needed to so that I would keep getting to sing it in the car. Love absolutely every track.

i can never remember the difference on those first few Dashboard albums tbf. Had to go back last week and listen to each one to be able to place them in my ballot somewhat correctly. In 2003 I just had a single mp3 cd with all the songs from each album plus some from the mtv unplugged release.

I'm in the opposite boat. Granted my tastes are pretty specific, but I don't dig 80% of these albums at all. I'm pretty excited to see whether or not that trend carries through the rest of the list

Cause now that I can see you,
I don't think you're worth a second glance.

this is my second favorite dashboard album and it's not as fully realized or complete like places but it's still chockfull of great melodies, sing-alongs, clever lines, etc. it was #15 on my ballot.

Those couple of records get mixed in my head. Twas the audiogalaxy era and I didn't have anything of theirs on album at the time, just random songs and whatever albums my wife played.

this is the one w/ their one radio hit (not counting their contribution to the spiderman sdtrk)

I'm in the opposite boat. Granted my tastes are pretty specific, but I don't dig 80% of these albums at all. I'm pretty excited to see whether or not that trend carries through the rest of the list

― Evan R,

No idea what you are into but I think the top 50 of the poll will be dominated by the big pop albums interspersed by some of the big 90s names

yea

kerr are you going to whine in all mediums throughout the entire duration of this poll or just today?

Hands Down at Reading 2006 was incredible. Never since been so into a singalong on that scale.

dashboard is the best singalong artist. i've only seen him in smaller venues but it's extraordinarily cathartic singing along w/ these songs w/ a bunch of strangers. i saw them a few months ago in philly and it was such a great show.

yeah its just belter after belter

(who's kerr?)

odysseus - he can be a chronic complainer but he's been moaning in this chat on fb all day about how this poll will be too poppy for his tastes and now he's whining on the thread. i guess whining is apropos to the pop punk genre but i feel like it's really not in the spirit of emo which should be more sincere + devastated than snot-nosed and bratty.

oh... well at least it's mostly relegated to FB then.

So jealous of that Dashboard gig. Praying for an international tour.

Amazing cover image itt btw!

I don't like a lot of the pop stuff either but idc if it places high

Yeah, I've never seen a show with such loud cathartic singing along as when I saw Dashboard in Seattle.

The chorus of Quicksand's "Head to Wall" is a great example of how post hardcore and emo can blur

Wow, this Pedro the Lion stuff is lovely. Great with the build and a twinge of dark folk in there...so nice.

I always considered post-hardcore to be a subsidiary of emo as much as of punk, even when it shares almost nothing in common with the sound...but that might just be because I came to like both at around the same time. They have pretty similar followings too imo... Different days/different t-shirts.

listen to Modern Lovers s/t and tell me the 2nd wave of emo wasn't based entirely on that album

the only time i saw dashboard was when they opened for 3eb a few years ago. for some reason my tickets allowed me to join a group of superfans in the dashboard dressing room where carrabba did solo acoustic versions of like "as lovers go" and etc. it rules

er, ruled*. i'm not still there

otoh eternally trapped in a dressing room listening to dashboard confessional does sound like some sort of hell

wow rude

sorry i mean i love them very very much but i was just thinking about if i could never listen to anything else ever again and while extremely appealing to me i don't find dashboard to be an infinite well of revelation

lol fair

I saw DC at an art college in Boston in 2001 sometime before the So Impossible EP came out. I don't think there were a lot of people singing along yet, since he hadn't broken through on the scale that he would a couple years later. I haven't seen him since, mostly because I never listened to A Mark etc.

haha we did it sund4r! shotmaker makes the cut

No idea what you are into but I think the top 50 of the poll will be dominated by the big pop albums interspersed by some of the big 90s names

yeah, I tend to like a lot of the Saddle Creek/Polyvinyl/indie-adjacent stuff, which isn't well represented yet, as well as punkier Dischordy stuff. Lots of my other favs I'm sure will place high (Hotelier, Paramore, that kinda stuff), but there were a lot of fringe LPs I voted for that I'm not even sure made the list, so it'll be cool to see. In the meantime I guess now is as good as anytime to try listening to Save Anything

how many people voted by the way?

30 total

looking forward to giving a few of these a listen.

also we

haha we did it sund4r! shotmaker makes the cut

xp too low maybe but given how relatively unknown they are it's great to see it place

3rd shotmaker vote here

o/

:D :D :D

also:

there was this band that barely existed in ~2002ish, called Roads to Shiloh, from Ottawa. They were maybe the best post-Shotmaker band from the era? Or maybe I'm biased because the lead singer was my improv coach when I was 14? YOU BE THE JUDGE.

The only song I can find on the internet, never mind the meme someone uploaded as a an album cover, this song is probably old enough to drive a car

RECAP

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

Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/7x105RTONzRc2FcsLFVJkO

One of the tracks on the Rival Schools album ("Holding Sand") is mysteriously absent from Spotify.

Such a varied countdown already.

Wait, lol, Will, did you take improv lessons from N1ck?? Those guys went to my high school, a couple years behind me.

I think Weights and Measures was the best early 00s Ottawa band in the broad post-hc/emo/math rock genre.

tt is playing loads of these and I keep wondering if they're Tool

are Tool emo

I would unironically like to hear someone like Brand New cover one of the more brooding Undertow-era tunes

tt is playing loads of these and I keep wondering if they're Tool

are Tool emo

― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 7:53 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk are you listening to quicksand

They were maybe the best post-Shotmaker band from the era?

some of my best pals in HS had a band for about a year that was such a beautiful rip-off of Shotmaker's sound - sadly i dont think any recordings exist

they were so solely invested in the sound that they just lazily stole the lyrics from chumbawamba's "tubthumping" for one song and ginuwine's "pony" for another

lol

out of a weird desire to just see what'll happen i sorta want you to listen to that say anything record lj

yeah it was quicksand and thirty ought six that made me think that

quite liked say anything from what i can tell!

saetia seemed like straight up black metal for one track lol

quite liked say anything from what i can tell!

hooray for theater kid emo

it is becoming clear that emo has more than three chord sequences

maybe as many as seven

sorry for the late start. everyone ready to begin?

yessssss

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80. Moss Icon - Lyburnum
129 points, 5 votes

Just a reminder that you said 'wow, this is some emo' about Say Anything.

classic

Oops, phone doesn't show xposts.

Yay!

gonna do my best to keep the playlist updated "live" (at least till 5pm ETish)

You know I've been running one too but I wouldn't mind ceding that to you - free up a little bit of my time.

good to know that i'm at least as good at drums as the moss icon guy

oh shit mordy I didn't see that lol!

here I was thinking I was being helpful but really I was just fucking up again like I always do (/emo)

to quote my wife from the first year we were dating, "aw poor emo boy :("

hahaha

people accusing me of being an emo kid really stunted my emo development

love Moss Icon.

when she said that i'd pull up my coheed hoodie over my head and eyes and pout

This is lower than I expected - good record!

Also I have to admit, Say Anything are a real blind spot for me.

good to know that i'm at least as good at drums as the moss icon guy

I gave this a vote but I think it might be the drumming that holds me back from loving them as much as I 'should'? I always feel like they should be tighter (or else more loose and free/noisy).

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79 [TIE]. Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
131 points, 4 votes
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79 [TIE]. Bedhead - Transaction de Novo
131 points, 4 votes

LIFETIME

(who are more pop-punk than anything but every early-00s emo band was inspired by them. especially all the mall emo lol)

greatest song ever made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLTUHMx8F7g

welp you weren't lying about an interesting patch of records placing below 77

LIFETIME!!

god i love this record so much

there's a parallel universe gr8080 with an "irony is for suckers" tattoo

lmao hell yeah

i almost submitted this album to the Jordan S listening club iirc but went with nation of ulysses instead

there is a lyric from an album that will definitely place in this countdown that I am *still* planning on getting a semi prominent tattoo of lol

Jersey's best Dancers and Hello Bastards both would have made my top ten.

the 2007 s/t wasnt nominated iirc, but for a reunion lp, was pretty solid imo

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77. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
133 points, 4 votes

so sick so sick of being tired
and oh so tired of being sick

i voted for a different tbs record but tbh this one has it all

it's not particularly recorded well and the songwriting is pretty disorganized and they would make way better records than this and yet it's so special

fuck i just realized i forgot to vote for piebald :-0

Fav song on this TBS record is prob Bike Scene

I love this albums. I never got into anything of their after it tbh. But this holds a special place in my heart for sure.

fuck i just realized i forgot to vote for piebald :-0

― gr8080, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 9:49 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HEY! they're not part of it

lol

so where's Odysseus?

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76. City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar
135 points, 4 votes

yeah I never listened to much TBS-esque music because those first two TBS albums did it all so perfectly. Never had any need for imitators (or, tbh, any more TBS albums)

haha GET IN THERE!

Campaigning, even in the last hours works folks!

A board I used to post on thought this album was one of the best records of the 00s. They weren't wrong.

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tt and I voted for this on the strength of one listen

is this black metal?

It sounded good on the basis of one listen, although I didn't vote for it.

is this black metal?

― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie),

hah, no.

First released in 2002, here is the original description of the album:

City of Caterpillar's debut LP is finally here. The 7 tracks spread out over 44 minutes sway with hypnotic fury and a nervous energy and passion lacking in a lot of bands these days. I personally have been waiting for this record since my former band played with them a couple years ago and they totally schooled us. It was one of those shows where you can't even think straight after and you want to stop playing guitar after they play because you'll never get it as right as they have. I eagerly checked my mailbox for the master once it had been recorded and once it arrived it proceeded to own my stereo for a month straight.

City of Caterpillar have been touring like crazy leaving many wondering, "where the fuck did these guys come from?" Sure the members play or have played in a number of well known and seminal bands, but listing them is redundant as City of Caterpillar have come into their own without riding on the coattails of previous projects. It's obvious they're not new to writing and playing as their live shows and recordings are consistently too strong to simply be attributed to an accident or luck. This is the record that will make even the most jaded hipster take notice and start listening to hardocre again (whether we want them to our not)

never heard of this

"Hey! They're not part of it" made me choke on my coffee.

city of caterpillar is some hardcore ass shit

Is this the band that sounds like Explosions in the Sky but with Henry Rollins on vocals?

lmao i was literally gonna say those words just now

Not that that's a bad thing, mind

If anybody likes City of Caterpillar then they should check out Malady. It's one of the guys from them + the singer from PG 99.
I think Robotic Empire reissued it this year

or you can listen/but digitally here https://thearchivistlabel.bandcamp.com/album/malady

xp - Haha, what?! Must be true then. And no, not a bad thing at all - I really like this.

oh wow i know we're all talking about city of caterpillar but i just want to say:

a) lifetime album is huge fun and
b) bedhead is not what i expected at all and it's v quite lovely

I was in the middle of 'When was the last time...' and was like damn this sounds like explosions in the sky w hardcore vocals (so not exactly but close enough) xp

yeah hadnt heard that lifetime record feels like ive been missing out on something

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75. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
136 points, 5 votes

huge album, not emo

'FUCKMYLIFE666' is the best song with the worst title I know of.

Screenshot from my media player:
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yeah i didnt vote any against me! they were outside the genre scope for me as well

that is a great song but also a great title imo

I didn't for them either btw.

I love Bedhead but never would have thought of nominating them for this poll

Against Me! as well

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74. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
137 points, 4 votes

huge album, not emo

agreed (for both)

two in a row

...
...
...

CAN I SCREAM

still the best intro ever

i play it for my kids at least once a week

^^^^solid parenting

I knew at least one punk purist who was a bit miffed at this album which very much helped cement its appeal

xp - To get them to sleep or to wake them up?

neither! to rock the f out in the car

usually on the drive to school

Your kids are probably older than mine :)

8, 6, 3, 1

not emo, voted for it

lol

xp - Almost! 6, 4, 2, 0

does steve aoki still open every set with "new noise"?

that was his thing for a while

ot but you both have 4 kids???

Apparently, yeah!

lots of refused's aesthetic is cribbed from nation of ulysses imo, kind of a thing that can't be unseen

i'm gonna try to stop mentioning NOU sorry

ive never listened to them i dont think but i have seen your posts about them b4 (prob from the j0rdan rec thread). need to listen, will do after this poll

4 kids emo crew unite

Was this ever meant to be just an emo poll? Post-hardcore is listed as eligible in the nominations thread.

as was pop-punk yeah

hi5 Spottie!

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73. Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
138 points, 4 votes

great great great great great great great record

Was this ever meant to be just an emo poll? Post-hardcore is listed as eligible in the nominations thread.

― jmm, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:35 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the lines were always gonna be blurry. i think it's cool these records are placing they just dont fit in the buckets i personally made for this poll. it would be more disheartening if the records were bad.

yessszs

In the meantime I guess now is as good as anytime to try listening to Save Anything

Ha, I guess I got Say Anything and Saves the Day mixed up. Which is which? And are they good?

fwiw the list is turning out pretty well from my pov and def fits in line w/ what i was hoping would come out of this poll

how is there not an emo band named 'Save Anything'

In the meantime I guess now is as good as anytime to try listening to Save Anything

Ha, I guess I got Say Anything and Saves the Day mixed up. Which is which? And are they good?

― Evan R, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:47 AM (twenty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saves the day i think with through being cool and stay what you are determined what emo would sound like for the following ten years or so

say anything came around later and at least on is a real boy their songs tend to shift from idea to idea with a theatricality that's like...idk, emo queen

emo queen is fair

One interesting takeaway from this poll already is it refutes the popular narrative that fans of second gen/'90s emo despise the third wave, mall-punky stuff. Obviously it's a modest sample size here but we haven't seen any of that in this thread, the enthusiasm carries across the sub-genres with tons of overlap

I could never get into Saves the Day for whatever reason

xp lol sorry to conform to the popular narrative! :D

it's been way too long for me to care much about this stuff anymore but yeah, back when it was all happening, mall-punk was not my favorite

i like all of the emo forms obv and think they're all deeply interrelated and have often felt v alone in this assertion

I don't know whether the division was ever as deep as it was portrayed. But it often didn't make sense. Like, Taking Back Sunday isn't that radical of a leap from Rites of Spring. In fact they're probably less of one than Sunny Day Real Estate or Death Cab For Cutie or whatever

im with brad

i like all of the emo forms obv and think they're all deeply interrelated and have often felt v alone in this assertion

brad I demand you write the definitive history of emo, preferably in book form

i once characterized the opening of jimmy eat world's "goodbye sky harbor" as post-hardcore and someone got mad at me bc post-hardcore according to him always involved screaming and being intro, but come on, that shit sounds like a gentler drive like jehu

feeling v alone in one's heartfelt assertions = emo in a nutshell!

brad I demand you write the definitive history of emo, preferably in book form

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 12:01 PM (twenty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all of the attempts to do this so far are incredible failures, not i think bc of the talent involved but bc of the genre's slipperiness. idk if i could do any better

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72. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
138 points, 6 votes

Well, that's interesting, because my ballot was mostly split between screamy post-hardcore and 00s commercial stadium rock, but I never got into most of the wimpy indie rock in between. xp to Evan

WOW TOO LOOOOW

thought this would be top 20 maybe higher, front to back perfect emo

damn, way too low

vote split, i guess :\

ive listened to "through being cool" about 8,000 times, "cant slow down" about 18 times and all other STD albums zero times

i also didn't vote for either of those std record which means my personal fav in reverie is... prob not gonna place

I'm sure I would love StD but as aforementioned they have been poisoned for me by personal associations, which is probably the most emo possible relationship to have with a band

in reverie still the greatest album of all time tho

i hope that you're ok

even though i'm dying

xxp otm

obv you dont get the 98 & 99 StD albums without the 95 & 97 lifetime albums

stay what you are rules so much still and i think i have different associations with every song. it also sorta reaches into their future and past simultaneously, "firefly" is like a long lost through being cool track in structure and tempo, "cars & calories" is as power pop as anything on in reverie

obv you dont get the 98 & 99 StD albums without the 95 & 97 lifetime albums

― gr8080, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 12:14 PM (five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yupppppp

Just saaaaaaaaaaail belllly up to the clooouuuuuuds, the rocks scraping our baaaaaaacks, to breath in the air we'll beeeeeee, the only thing that we haaaaaave

And if the hook sets iiiiiiiin the bottom of our lunnnnngs, we'll rip it out and lick the blood off with our tonnnnnngues.

those american std kids wearing shoes inside is disconcerting

the radio's playin' queen

we're rockin' out!!!

through being cool, stay what you are, in reverie is a helluva run

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71. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
140 points, 4 votes

SOS: too low

he said about a record he didn't vote for

shoulda voted for this

I caved and I'm listening to In Reverie at work and having all kinds of feelings for all kinds of reasons, so THANKS EVERYONE

i saw them live the week (day?) this was released - such a big beautiful dumb golden retriever of an album

I liked the first STD record because it sounded like Lifetime filtered through a more poppy filter. Didn't much care for the stuff after that, though I should revisit I think.

Love the Promise Ring.

fyi i'm going to drop these every 20 min so that we hit #61 by 5:00PM EST.

I voted for the promise ring (and the moss icon that placed earlier)

I'm going to be in a meeting for the next hour and if I miss a Juno record or something I'm gonna be (more) sad (than normal)

Wow, I completely missed STD during the voting period. Listening to 'See You' on headphones now, and wow! at those ghostly wooo-hoo-hoos before the second chorus.

(more) sad (than normal)

AS strongly as Brad feels about In Reverie I feel about Stay What You Are. I had it top 3.

voted for another Promise Ring alb but this is obv classic

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70. Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance
142 points, 4 votes

too high

yeah, not their best imo

not their best but was very integral for my emo listening path

I love the sound of the acoustic guitars and the superior version of 'Again I Go Unnoticed'.

I'll never forget that Dashboard Confessional MTV Unplugged special, which is one of the creepiest things I have ever seen. All those kids singing along, tranquilized by really pedestrian songs, like they'd fallen into some kind of cult

my older sis lives in Boca Raton and is a semi-super fan ie she got engaged at a roller skating rink to a Dashboard song. Anyway she was at the library w her kids and saw Carrabba there w his family. she sparked up a convo, their kids go to the same school, etc etc. he ended up inviting them over to his house for a bbq and chill. they are still in contact and friends.

lol xp that was a classic mtv unlpugged

felt like everyone had that playing on repeat in their apartments at college for like 6 months straight

I enjoyed that unplugged.

MTV Unplugged was imo the absolute worst thing he ever did and to this day i find it borderline unlistenable

havent listened to it since then (2003?) not really sure i care to visit again to solidify any opinion on it.

the unplugged is great to watch and hard to listen to. my cats love it for some reason

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69 [TIE]. Pinegrove - Cardinal
143 points, 5 votes
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69 [TIE]. Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
143 points, 5 votes

this tie alone is begging for its own poll

From Under the Cork Tree way too low, was my no. 6, know the later albums are more liked but hard to describe how massive this was when it hit my school

i was never a huge form under the cork tree fan (tho i've heard it many times bc significant other is from chicago) - i always felt their sound was a little generic and underbaked until infinity on high, but i was relistening to this during the poll and def the blueprint is there from the getgo. the band benefited substantially imo from shifting its emphasis from pete wentz to the true heart + soul of the band patrick stump. maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??

This poll is rolling out very nicely. I'm the guy who voted for Lifetime, Against Me and Refused, as said above it's all so interrelated that it doesn't matter to me.

from under the cork tree is actually imo at exactly the right place (lol 69 nice). it's def the least good fob album (even stump agrees)

i mean, least good fob album not counting evening out with your girlfriend which no one does

the band benefited substantially imo from shifting its emphasis from pete wentz to the true heart + soul of the band patrick stump. maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??

i mean, pete is 100 percent the heart of the band/the "frontman" throughout their entire career, but infinity is when stump starts singing the shit out of the songs

also we didn't nom some of the more recent albums but i want to note that they're all good and i was rocking out to american beauty / american psycho on a car trip recently. save rock and roll also not nominated and also great. when i'm falling asleep at the wheel they are the band most consistently able to wake me up.

this poll is making it very clear that i left emo behind in the 20th century

btw describing very emergency as a "big beautiful dumb golden retriever of an album" = perfecto

Wait, lol, Will, did you take improv lessons from N1ck?? Those guys went to my high school, a couple years behind me.

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 8:16 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup! I guess we went to the same high school then! (MHS?)

Yup (more like 03-04 but still) xps

it's def the least good fob album (even stump agrees)

Dear god they made an album worse than American Beauty/American Psycho?

btw describing very emergency as a "big beautiful dumb golden retriever of an album" = perfecto

you can use that for the book, just attribute it in a footnote, thx

i was never a huge form under the cork tree fan (tho i've heard it many times bc significant other is from chicago) - i always felt their sound was a little generic and underbaked until infinity on high, but i was relistening to this during the poll and def the blueprint is there from the getgo. the band benefited substantially imo from shifting its emphasis from pete wentz to the true heart + soul of the band patrick stump. maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??

― Mordy, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:08 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I def didn't love fall out boy at the time, didn't like them until infinity as well

Yup! I guess we went to the same high school then! (MHS?)

Yeah, I graduated (from OAC/Gr 13!) in 1997.

I also haven't liked anything since Folie a Deux

Too funny. I was the last year of OAC, in 2003. Gn1ck was smack in the middle between us.

btw, essential visual companion thread:

Lonely guy just thinking baout things

maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??

Feel like this was a very smart move on the band's part. Pete Wentz is so indelibly associated with the '00s that seeing him feels like receiving an email from MySpace. Patrick Stump is a much more versatile canvas to project an image on

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67 [TIE]. Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now
145 points, 4 votes
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67 [TIE]. Copeland – Beneath Medicine Tree
145 points, 4 votes

two great records

Knapsack I've loved for 15 years now, Copeland I only just discovered in the voting thread. Voted for both.

voted for both of these. copeland too low but happy to see it place at all.

and we're RATIONAL
but you never know

Outside of Against Me!, have any other women made this list yet?

i was thinking about that during the noms, not a lot showed up there. Paramore obv will place.

hoping for julien baker

Have no #1 votes shown up yet?

gonna be kinda upsetting if out of 100 albums Laura Jane Grace and Hayley Williams are the only women represented

fwiw I voted for dear nora :/

From Under the Cork tree is the only FOB I ever go back to on the reg

Maybe Circle Takes The Square will show up? xp

Too funny. I was the last year of OAC, in 2003. Gn1ck was smack in the middle between us.

Lots of punk bands when I was there. Fun fact: Popular singer-songwriter-cum-cafe owner Kathleen Edwards was also a MHS alum, in my year. She was cool.

gonna be kinda upsetting if out of 100 albums Laura Jane Grace and Hayley Williams are the only women represented

― Evan R, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:53 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pffft, no way. i guess discount probably won't sneak in but i'm expecting jejune, the anniversary, rainer maria (maybe)

Folie à Deux is def my FOB keeper but the hooks from "Sugar" and "A Little Less Sixteen Candles..." still get in my head sometimes.

i fucking love kathleen edwards xp

I never bought this Against Me album but I have really enjoyed it whenever I listened. Hits my classic indie rock buttons.

Folie à Deux is def my FOB keeper but the hooks from "Sugar" and "A Little Less Sixteen Candles..." still get in my head sometimes.

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:57 PM (fifteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my impression that stump dislikes cork tree is from a very old interview he did with absolutepunk (?) right before infinity where he said he liked approx three songs on the album (i'm guessing those two and "dance dance"). i like about six myself

Apparently I sat in Kathleen's desk in History class, or so Ms. Johnson told me.

it's impossible to confirm this bc absolutepunk is long gone xp

i love that i am just talking about my high school in the emo thread, so unrelated and yet so wholly appropriate

I love this Ottawa high school talk. I was last year of OAC at Canterbury.

I like "XO" and uhhh

count me in on the Kathleen Edwards lovefest

pffft, no way. i guess discount probably won't sneak in but i'm expecting jejune, the anniversary, rainer maria (maybe)

I'd be shocked if Rainer Maria makes the cut. They seem like the quintessential "I thought you were gonna vote for them" band

ditto the Kathleen Edwards love

I almost did but they got cut because I couldnt actually recall the album i liked

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65. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
145 points, 5 votes

also a huge kathleen edwards fan

lol

(me not unwound)

I almost did but they got cut because I couldnt actually recall the album i liked

― Odysseus, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 2:06 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was almost inevitably look now look again get it together kerr

xxp yeah Rainer Maria suffer from not having one clearly great album.

One thing I always respected about them is that their attempted mass appeal/spotlight album Long Knives Draw was much better than many other emo acts' of their era. Good album

fantastic album

great album, not emo imo

thats why i figured i couldnt vote for it

LTIU is probably a top 10 album of all time for me. I couldn't vote for it either

see also: Refused

I voted for it because I'm a rebel.

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64. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
150 points, 4 votes, 1 number one

that's our first #1 vote i think

this record is not emo at all imo but coincided with me listening to a lot of emo so fine, it's also home to the lyric "and i feel nothing" which is pretty emo

yay! :)

also maybe a little welcome based on the most recent discussion itt?

it's an album about worrying a lot and relocating to Omaha to hang out with emo people, I don't know how much more emo it gets

in FORM evan. in form

fuck, pinkerton is gonna be #1 nooooo

this rilo kiley band is indie rock 2 the bone

lol yeah it doesn't fit all the conventions, but listen to that group chorus on "With Arms Outstretched."

Incredible album. Can't believe it came out in 2002; I remember picking it up the day it came out and listening to it on a CD walkman

it's def an album i have Cried to. Often

also true of the other inevitable indie rock interloper the meadowlands

at least ppl in the same circle were also listening to rilo kiley at the time? as i remember it anyway? the wrens as much as i love them were just a whole different thing. that said i think i gave the meadowlands like a #30 on my ballot lol

It feels very of a piece with Paramore's s/t album, not just because of the easy comparison of two charismatic, fashionable redhead singers, but of how it uses one very strong personality and songwriting voice to bind together all sorts of different genre detours

Anyway most people must not consider it emo b/c that's the only thing that explains it placing so low (I just revisited my ballot and saw I left it off, but in hindsight I'd place it high on my list)

def not emo for me. sounds good tho

few albums capture me being super sad in college as well as execution

you say i choose sadness
that it never once has chosen me
maybe you're right

with arms outstretched is awesome great campfire singalong song

Interviewed Jenny Lewis last year and she likened her time in Omaha to summer camp, and yeah, this is the album that most captures that sense. There's a glamour to it that I still find intoxicating 15 years later, this sense that you're hanging out with all your closest friends. I love when albums create the sense of belonging

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63. Aereogramme - Sleep And Release
151 points, 4 votes, 1 number one

can someone explain aereogramme to me. is it prog

huh actually this is nice and something i would've LOVED in high school

was never a huge fan of this band/album but the opener absolutely RIPS. Kinda a BtS/Foo Fighters thing. Rest of the album is wonkier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLQ2lLviws4

Haven't heard this song in like 13 years. thx

oh yeah wow that song Rocks

never heard of this band.liking that song

Later on there's another monster, but with piano instead of bass:
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Just catching up, many xposts but I love the cover connection with the tie at #67 (I haven't heard either but they're on The List).

Their final album, My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go, is more post-rock and my favorite (although I'm in the minority with that opinion).

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62. Three Mile Pilot - The Chief Assassin to the Sinister
152 points, 4 votes

Brilliant album.

love 3mp

no one album more than any others fwiw

were you Ottowa dudes in to Three Penny Opera?

havent thought about them in years but i def listened to them a bunch

Yeah, I used to see them. I don't own anything by them, though.

Aaaahh! Rilo Kiley was my number 1! I know there's a lot of debate around the veracity of its emo musicality, and while I kind of get that, everything about its mood, tone and lyrics epitomise the genre for me. I love that the entire thing is just this gigantic reflection on fear of mortality and identity dysphoria. Aaaaah Jenny Lewis. <3

Is there something about government towns and hardcore?

oh i listened to part of that three mile pilot record before voting but never finished it. what i heard was v impressive

Been out all day, so miles behind but yay Pinegrove/FOB/TBS/Aereogramme. I forgot to nominate my favourite Saves the Day album (Can't Slow Down), so they didn't make it onto my ballot in the end. Pinegrove was my highest 21st Century entry (at #11). I totally didn't get it last year and then I saw them live and it's been on a loop ever since, I think it's pretty much perfect.

Sleep And Release was MY number one! Lovely synchronicity. Also voted for Rilo Kiley because tt p much made me (also played it for me and it was rly good & emotional)

last one for today and it's a doozy

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61. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
153 points, 4 votes

this is the best three mile pilot song: https://youtu.be/WcsWGydETxc

Love 3MP. I voted for this pretty high

young machetes is like.. i think one of the great swan songs

like doing everything they did before but better and more imaginatively

among all the other reasons to thank this poll i have to give it credit for getting me into the blood brothers years after i dismissed them as not my thing

I'd argue it's one of the only great political albums to come out of the Bush administration. Absolutely brutal, incredible stuff

remarkable album, made my ballot

young machetes is like.. i think one of the great swan songs

up there with The Argument where it's like, man, what's next? Oh damn, there is no next

and guy piciotto co produced!

and guy piciotto co produced!

lol thanks flagging

Simon, wanna give us the daily wrap-up?

uh I would but I'm on my phone lol

no worries i gotcha

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

Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/2DxXJBmUeORd2Y1K4su1WE

BPIB is legendary but I hated Crimes so much I didn't bother with YM. Guess I oughta

why in the world would you hate crimes

Wow, so Bivouac is the best

among all the other reasons to thank this poll i have to give it credit for getting me into the blood brothers years after i dismissed them as not my thing

― Mordy, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3:21 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ive tried dozens of times as well. sounding good right now tho yah

Wow, so Bivouac is the best

― tangenttangent, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3:45 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

I've probably listened to Bivouac more than any other album I own.

I think I listened to it when I was 14 and totally didn't get it at the time and have ignored it since. Favourite discovery of the rollout so far

i need to listen to that, and 3 mile pilot, and pinegrove, and bedhead

That Unwound record has never done a single thing for me, I've tried a handful of times over the years, cant find a way in.

Pinegrove was my highest 21st Century entry (at #11)

Self-edit. Obviously that's not true, I just forgot maths for a second. It is my favourite of this decade's emo releases though.

Jawbreaker have been a band I'd basically avoided because of the name? Which was an error

'Fernandez Must Die' just started up on the Fireside album and me and imago looked up at each other which means 'omg'

Wait you two are together? I'm confused

um why has nobody mentioned this album *ever*

we're charlton's very own ilx poll voting bloc. a formidable force

imago do you like three mile pilot

never heard. we're going to get around to everything though!

they are like post-punk fairytale music

this thread will be some rich, rich pickings for music i never really got around to before and an incredibly valuable resource of emotional rock music

imago needs to hear Three Mile Pilot before he goes to sleep. Brilliant band.

My fave 3MP song
https://youtu.be/KDnrSu-lju4

We have to listen to the entirety of every Dashboard release before that can happen.

that's a mistake! Every 3MP release is awesome. and Black Heart Procession were damn brilliant too.

The 3MP song gr80 posted is great. Reminds me of Broken Social Scene a bit?

Loads on here to discover. Laughed seeing Bedhead placed, but thinking about it, it makes perfect sense to see it under the emo banner. Good work guys.

I love that lj is going to be forced to sit through multiple (!) dashboard albums

Fireside is straight-up ridic, amazing music

I love that lj is going to be forced to sit through multiple (!) dashboard albums

He is going to love it!

I'm already crying

i only know emo through a freshman year crash course amongst friends but

99. Elliott - False Cathedrals - massive album, "drive on to me" is a mfin ANTHEM, like caffeinated "don't stop believing". the follow up album song in the air is really good too.

Don't wet the bed tonight xp

Fireside has been crushing! Instant favourite. Ty so much to whoever voted it in

i discovered it during the campaigning thread! it's amazing!

wait have y'all heard juno

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

I love that lj is going to be forced to sit through multiple (!) dashboard albums