This POLL Will Become the Anthem of Your EMO Voting Thread / You're Two Floors Down CAMPAIGNING in the Back Room.

Here are some albums I've discovered so far through this poll that I'd like to include in my ballot:

I Hate Myself - Four Songs EP
American Football - S/T
Rainer Marie - Look Now, Look Again
Dear Nora - Mountain Rock
Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation

i hate myself i am especially surprised by how much i like - based on the name i was not expecting much

A reminder that you can also browse the nominations here list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18SXDjfBDU68ujpQnAephcYuQl36PWTFRNRfgHnd4E08/

And the spotify playlist here:
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/1zWI04ISPBer8XlzI3hb5D

xp yeah esp. where they were basically a goof on the genre they had some great tunes

Also I'd like to thank everyone for not nominating any Good Charlotte albums.

ah whoops, i knew i forgot to nominate all of the other mewithoutyou albums

Sample track from Okara - Months Like Years

neither Juno album is on Spotify or Bandcamp (which I find weird for a few reasons) and afaik can only be heard via these youtube playlists, only the first of which actually contains the entire album
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A033AC0F59F0BD1
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLupYV4mTfPgDrNsMkmxKEUxVPv4uuQpuS

i can't imagine these albums need me to campaign for them however i consider them not only the pinnacle of the genre but among the greatest albums ever made and any one who hasn't heard either should listen to both:

deja entendu
war all the time

Oh man, this is going to be fun.

I spotted one duplicate: Letterbox is listed twice, once for 'Brandston', once for 'Brandtson'.

What do they sound like?

Okara = mathy/dissonant/trebly/lo-fi; less screaming on Months Like Years

xp

Listening to a lot of these nominations is a weird experience for me. I get to relive both what drew me to some of this music as a teenager and also what pushed me away.

(I'm going for the most emo post.)

Speaking of which, I'll finally be able to properly digitize the 1996 emo cassette I played on after my USB tape deck arrives in the next week or two, lol.

Since I'm not sure how well-known The Appleseed Cast is around here, I just want to give a shout out to their masterpiece(s), Low Level Owl. It's like the title track of SDRE's Rising Tide stretched to two hours. It has everything. For everyone. It's that good.

Vol. 1

Vol. 2

xp - What's the tracklist?

Listening to a lot of these nominations is a weird experience for me. I get to relive both what drew me to some of this music as a teenager and also what pushed me away.

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 20 February 2017 18:04 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I get this, for example Thursday are a band I used to absolutely love but had stopped listening to by my early twenties, and I don't know whether I can face going "back there."

i must just have very high tolerance for going back in time. i've seen thursday and dashboard both live this year and loved both shows unapologetically

feel like there's a lot of continuity between late-'90s emo (texas is the reason et al) and popular mid-2000s emo in armor for sleep's dream to make believe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1novIhpL7LY

btw ppl voting in this poll who haven't listened to the one texas is the reason album, pls treat yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWtIDgu3Cm4

Haha, I'm playing that right now!

ok I'm gonna make my Juno pitch and then shut up about it

This is the Way it Goes and Goes and Goes
I think a lot of us go through that phase when we're young and we want things that are just ours. That's why I spent a lot of my adolescence listening to british bands no one else around me gave a fuck about or had even heard of. In the same way, Juno were an obvious band for me to latch onto because even at the time (the late 90s / early aughts) it didn't seem like they were getting the shine of other bands in their orbit (most obviously the Dismemberment Plan, with whom they split a 7-inch [their half was better imo]). Anyway, TITWIGAGAG still sounds fresh and dynamic to me thousands of listens later. The way "All Your Friends are Comedians" (and of the best singles post-hardcore ever produced) shifts back and forth from 6/8 to 4/4 without a halt in intensity always amazes me. No other band (with one possible exception) ever used three guitarists with greater ingenuity and grace - listen to the overlapping melodies and tones in "The Great Salt Lake." No other band combined the dynamics of post-rock ("Leave a Clean Camp...", "January Arms") with an emo feel more convincingly. I named my first college radio show after "A Listening Ear." As a now 30-year-old miserable basement fuckboy this is still completely my shit.

Sample tracks: "All Your Friends are Comedians," "The Great Salt Lake," "The Young Influentials"

A Future Lived in Past Tense
"Kitchen sink final albums" are one of my favorite kinds (see also: Young Machetes). In another thread, we were discussing how when you're young and impressionable, you're especially vulnerable to the whims of tastemakers, and I remember Pitchfork's middling review (basically slamming it for being too indulgent) causing me a lot of angst. I think this must have been one of the first albums I loved *for* its flaws and not in spite of them. The ludicrous song titles, the beyond-cryptic lyrics and even more anguished vocals, the glacially paced songs - I still love it all. The harmonic details are still completely ridiculous, now aided by Nate Mendel (SDRE, the Foos) on bass, and again what really impresses me is the fluidity of the songwriting and performances. Despite the many genres being touched on (now with an added 70s grandiosity) nothing feels artificially synthesized. This is one of those records you don't come back from after making, so I was the opposite of surprised when they split afterwards. I'm still angry that it's impossible to buy either of these albums on vinyl for less than three figures.

Sample tracks: "Covered With Hair," "Help is on the Way," "The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow"

Simon completely otm.

No other band (with one possible exception)
Sonic Youth?

My picks for A Future Lived would be "When I Was in ______" and "We Slept in Rented Rooms" btw

I was actually thinking of R*diohead there but right after I wrote it I knew I'd regret it lol

I thought you meant the Allman Brothers.

Seriously, that's some review. I'll listen to more Juno, for sure.

This is the first ILM poll I've been part of. Do people usually pitch for some/all of their nominations?

Logistical questions: Do we number our ballots? And can we vote for less than 30?

You can vote for fewer than 30. I'll let ArchCarrier answer whether you should number your ballot.

xp Often people do pitch for some of their nominations but it's not mandatory.

generally it's a good idea to campaign for beloved nominees if they're not well known, it can really shake up the results

I think TITR is gonna do well which by all lights it deserves.

xxp - No, you don't need to number your ballots, but make sure to start with your #1 album and list them from top to bottom.

Benton Falls - Fighting Starlight (how is that still missing I wonder)

Will take it as a compliment my parenthesized bewilderment got incorporated as fitting part of an emo album title.
People should listen to this if not known yet, for me some sort of missing link between Jawbox and Mineral or American Football with occasional screaming.

Very emo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G7sK3l9Khk

fuck I forgot to nominate Dismembermant Plan Is Terrified

Kinda kicking myself for not nominating Tegan and Sara's The Con. Nobody really calls it emo but it fits the definition as well as 70% of this list

Will take it as a compliment my parenthesized bewilderment got incorporated as fitting part of an emo album title.

indicative maybe of the genre that it didn't immediately jump out to me when i was scanning the list

fuck I forgot to nominate Dismembermant Plan Is Terrified

is terrified is on the list?

Here are some albums I've discovered so far through this poll that I'd like to include in my ballot:

I Hate Myself - Four Songs EP
American Football - S/T

yes! love these two, glad to see they're getting a little traction

also a heads up: you've got get up kids' something to write home about twice (with and without 'the'). might be my fault for nominating it without the the, in fact. sorrryyyyyy

^^ under "the dismemberment plan" btw, those the's are hell

Did no one really nominate anything by Rise Against? The Sufferer and the Witness seems like it would fit. I listened to "The Good Left Undone" a decent amount that year.

Ha, it occurred to me because "All Your Friends Are Comedians" made me think a bit of a non-mersh Rise Against (not a bad thing) in an oblique way.

so painful going thru this playlist. just got up to mark mission brand scar and was like i would love to listen to this album for the 10th time this year but i must skip it bc i have like 250 albums yet to go.

Although I guess the Juno album came out two years before the first Rise Against album so they would be the mersh "Comedians" if my random mental associations amounted to anything.

xp

Are you planning to listen to every album?

At the time, it felt like Thirty Ought Six were at least fairly well-known, but I feel like they're literally never mentioned anymore.

Hag Seed will be very close to the top of my ballot, I wanted to make sure to campaign for them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UYUMJlLmz8

In high school, Sunny Day Real Estate was the most important band to me. Jeremy Enigk contributed guest vocals to the song "Tourmaline" from this album which is what led me to track it down. Like literally every album that will make my ballot, it's one of those records I rarely listen to these days, but it's one that still holds up.

Anyway, power trio with lead bass!! Fuck, I love this record so much.

Are you planning to listen to every album?

i'm trying to -- we'll see how far i get

is terrified is on the list?

phew! the split listing messed me up I guess. definitely the most emo Plan album.

Now I'm feeling a little bad that I didn't listen to this Juno album in 1999.

You singlehandedly caused their demise, I'm told.

so painful going thru this playlist. just got up to mark mission brand scar and was like i would love to listen to this album for the 10th time this year but i must skip it bc i have like 250 albums yet to go.

― Mordy, Monday, February 20, 2017 4:09 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Def finding this to be an issue as well. Think I might just double down on my favs and re-familiarize myself with those then do the brunt of my discovery during the countdown and after.

Do you like Gospel?
This album is easily one of the best albums of the 00s.
http://i.imgur.com/TMI55Ng.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0w4VXJ2DBfUmX5StTj69q6

hehehe check the price

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/425688631

Sorry I literally just sent my ballot man... City of Caterpillar made it though. Glad someone else likes Shiner too!

There was quite a few shiner fans on here back in the day. Its probably how I heard of them.

ftr that Gospel album is loved by scott seward too. Whether youve voted or not you should play it. (as should anyone reading)

Screamo-prog! Fuck, this is great.

Told you!

oh no, i think i lost my shortlist :(

Did you look under the couch?

Yeah, Gospel sound v good a few tracks in, sort of like what I hoped Mars Volta would sound like.

I wish Mars Volta had sounded like Crime In Choir. (ex atd-i dudes who quit early and not the guys who were in the shitty band Sparta who i saw twice supporting Qotsa)

Wouldve voted Crime in Choir if they had been nommed

I voted btw Mordy, did you get it?

god damn i forgot how much i like this saetia record

i got it xp

fyi everyone we currently have 22 ballots!

just eyeballing it the results look like they'll be very interesting

lol ugh i nominated sunday's best and totally forgot to vote for them

shite, i forgot to vote fir Saetia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq7pOBE5LM4

incredible song

Mordy, the op says Sunday but saw you say in the other thread you need it by end of day today?

Apparently Sunday evening is enough time so that's when it'll close. Rollout on Monday. I'm thinking... 15 albums a day w/ 17 on the first day. wrap up on friday.

Not a top 300 then?

I voted. My ballot was ridiculous.

non ridiculous ballots should be thrown out imo

who else submitted a full 50

50? I thought it was 30

Of course Mordy's the boss, but there are no technical reasons why your ballots should only have 30 albums. 50 is fine by me.

― ArchCarrier, Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:26 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't even started to shortlist yet lol, probably gonna get six beers deep the night of, scan the noms list, and go strictly by feels

Then it's fine with me. If people who already submitted want to resubmit that's fine. Just make a note that it's a resubmission in your new ballot.

― Mordy, Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:28 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

err that middle bit was not supposed to be there but you get the point

damn

you've got a day to resubmit!

I voted for 50 albums

my ballot is in.

really weird (but awesome) group of albums in the end, had a lot of trouble ranking them in comparison to each other. really interested to see the results!

This City of Caterpillar stuff is absolutely amazing!

Told you so. Did you like Gospel?

Haven't listened yet. Compiling film ballot and sourcing outliers for my emo 50.

The Gospel album is better than City of Caterpillar (its screamo-prog)

i resubmitted my ballot btw

I wasn't going to vote in this but we're listening to Braid and...I might, you know

give a listen to Gospel.

Screamo-prog! Fuck, this is great.

― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 4 March 2017 18:04 (yesterday

We have been listening for a while now! It is some pretty incredible doom...

Voted 50, ridiculous

Sent a ballot, then sent a revised ballot, then gmail decided to screw with it. Please accept only the final email!

man are we gonna crack 30 ballots? that would be rad

we are at 30 right now - i'll accept ballots for about another hour and a half and then i'm sending them to archcarrier for processing.

oh snap. I better hurry

go spottie go!!!

Boom, done! so ready for this rollout.

30 ballots? That's great!

Mordy, you can close voting now. I'll get the results back to you before you get out of bed.

It's time!

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

Woohoo!!

Sad I had crazy family things come up and didn't vote. Will follow the results happily.

Yeah, I had a trip come up out of the blue and didn't get a chance to compile even a shortlist, so I feel that the poll may be lacking another elderly emo voter, but such is that fate.