oh you emoprog kids
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
TOO LOW
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
Haha waht
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
So happy Julien Baker placed! Also, Desaparecidos is bound to place, and rightfully so imho. Lifted... indeed doesn't hold up well tbh.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Emoprog forever. My #2. Every track holds up. This album is all over the place in the best possible way.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Ugly Organ is great so far!
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
I ended up giving this one some nostalgia points
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
I would invite a subpoll of 10+ minute emo album closers, Ugly Organ vs Lifted vs. Clarity vs. Is Terrified (and surely others)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
Mordy, sprained ankle and lifted are both listed with 226 points, did they tie or is it a typo?
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link
Lifted has a #1 vote which acts as a tiebreaker
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link
ah cheers
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:50 (seven years ago) link
yay! amazing album and another one that i could see placing higher in ten years
The flipside of this is, imagine what we might consider as being w/in the scope of "emo" a decade from now.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
second stage too low!!!!
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
also for a record where almost all of its songs tend to expand and expand they sure do nail the straight pop-punk track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv_zPBDsfAk
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
(that post also applies to in keeping secrets)
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
in lolcollege i was close friends with the namesake of "lifted"'s penultimate track... it kinda ruined her internet life when it was released
― gr8080, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
wow damn that *would* disrupt one's life
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
the second desaparecidos record is great and is also proof positive that conor oberst writes bad lyrics
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
Not to be genre-policing, but can someone explain to me how Julien Baker belongs in this poll? On first listen it sounds like 500 other singer-songwriters, but maybe I'm missing something.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
god i sure did fucking love lifted in high school (i'm revisiting it now)
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
its actually a thoughtful and accurate tribute, which somehow makes it even worse
xposts
― gr8080, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
I still don't understand why someone who's so weirdly good at writing pop-punk songs would stoop to writing Band of Horses b-sides
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
idk i don't think there's a lot separating julien baker from something like rainer maria's "rise." in interviews she talks about how much she loved fob and her songs, in terms of the way the chords move and the way she sings over them, show it imo
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
she also makes me very emotional
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
also her band (formerly the star killers, i don't remember their current name) is super emo
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
Not entirely conviced yet.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
highly recommended if you like sprained ankle btw https://thestarkillerstn.bandcamp.com/album/american-blues
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
emotional intensity maaaaan
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
xxp - Lol, I read that like the name of her band is Super Emo.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:34 (seven years ago) link
more seriously while she superficially sounds like a lot of other songwriters she is working in a very different register
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:34 (seven years ago) link
(i looked it up, her band's name is currently forrister)
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:34 (seven years ago) link
xp 'Superficially' is exactly the mode I was listening to her album while trying to finish something before a deadline.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
there wasn't this much controversy about pinegrove ac!!!!
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
it is kind of strange to have something like julien baker place so high and have zero of red house painters' 90's albums even be nominated (regardless of of toxic present-day Kozelek may be)
― gr8080, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
xp If I'd heard Pinegrove I might have.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
There are major Fevers & Mirrors vibes in that final stretch of Sprained Ankle. Same very intense, live play-by-play of bottoming out, something that's pretty unique to emo
― Evan R, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
I'll be curious how many of the top 100 will pass the "is this band emo" test, around 50% I'd guess (fwiw Julien Baker "passes" lol)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
lol, yeah. Also all aesthetic conventions aside, what other genre could this verse have come from?
And I haven't been taking my medsSo lock all the cabinets, and send me to bedCause I know you're still worried I'm gonna get scared againAnd make my insides clean with your kitchen bleachBut I've kissed enough bathroom sinks to make up for the lovers that never loved me
― Evan R, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
xp Not to give anything away, but there's one such band coming up shortly.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:54 (seven years ago) link
this is my first exposure to julien baker. uh, tough listen.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
the first time i listened to sprained ankle i was on the verge of a breakup without being really conscious of it. it destroyed me
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
oh man yeah i can't even imagine.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link
there is some kind of magic at spacebomb though, what a great-sounding record
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
― gr8080, donderdag 9 maart 2017 15:15 (forty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This one line's always stayed with me: Laura you were the saddest song in the shape of a woman.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
"funeral pyre" (her amazing recent single) suggests if anything her next album could be even more painful
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
I wrote an unusually personal thing about how that album became a kind of emotional rehab tool for me, helping me rebuild myself during the worst time of my life. I'm honestly not sure how I would have made it through without that record, but the tradeoff now is that hearing most of those songs again kinda makes me nauseous, the associations are so strong
http://shepherdexpress.com/article-29085-ben-gibbard-w_-julien-baker-a-the-pabst-theater.html
― Evan R, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
It does sound great but it's also mostly just what she sounds like, she has great tone and loop pedal deployment
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
thank you for sharing that, evan. good stuff.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
yeah she recreates that sense of space in every room i've seen her in xp
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
I think I'm starting to like this Crying album now. It's like if Trans Am were backing band and making a pop rock album
― Odysseus, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link