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.
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
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, 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
i'm revisiting acceptance's phantoms and i really regret not nominating it! just wanted to say that!
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link
i thought i had nominated it but neglected to as well
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
Coheed alb rules
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
brad otm re 33. Devil in Jersey City is a perfect straight up pop-punk punch too.
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
Bright Eyes are definitely the least emo (to me) artist to place so far but I'm really not a fan so my bias may be clouding my judgement. I revisited Read Music/Speak Spanish last night and thought it was OK, I think I just struggle with Oberst's voice.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61IR8wNH3DL.jpg37. Converge - Jane Doe240 points, 7 votes
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
booooo (brilliant album but c'mon)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
I hear cries of not emo but too low from some and too high from others
― Odysseus, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
Once it was nominated there was no way i wasn't gonna vote for it
I mean I'm not gonna complain that hard about maybe the best rock band of the last decade making it in
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
if it had to place at least it's here
i guess i should've campaigned harder for the metalcore i nominated lol
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
too many people in this poll hate trve emo
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
nobody in this poll can even define emo spottie, lol
― Odysseus, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
i can
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
but i wont
"You wouldn't understand anyway."
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link
Ha, OK, this is even less emo than Bright Eyes (Then again I'm sure there were people on one of the metal polls arguing that Converge aren't metal so what do I know).
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link
exactly xp
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
i was prepared for this to place tho tbf
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
btw spottie the new acceptance record is really good!
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
oh really? nice, will listen now in place of converge
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, 9 March 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
i would have voted for petitioning the empty sky if it'd been nominated, glad this placed tho, too high, not emo, etc
― gr8080, Thursday, 9 March 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, March 9, 2017 10:02 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah! it's a little to u2-y and respectable but i think i like that?
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
too*
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51O%2BgTq6qhL.jpg35. Thursday - War All the Time243 points, 8 votes
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 March 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
my #2 -- too low :(
*hot take voice* i think this album is uneven. when it's good it's great though
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link