I'm still bewildered that the genre turned into pop punk with make up and haircuts. Not so much pop punk as that's inevitable I suppose things will get poppier as major labels get involved by why the make up/haircuts? where did that come from? It had been over a decade since the heyday of hair metal. How did it end up like it has?
― Odysseus, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:35 (seven years ago) link
xp i guess i was its only voter?
― Mordy, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Like it was weird to me when it went all dashboard confessional type stuff from a while then it changed drastically again. But I suppose hardcore dudes with acoustic guitars isnt that much of a stretch but changing again to what it did.
― Odysseus, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
the move to dashboard and pop-punk and post hardcore etc makes perfect sense to me - the weird ingredient imo is where all the goth stuff comes from. AFI, MCR, Alkaline Trio - what's the source document for gothy emo music?
― Mordy, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
gotta say i didn't think i'd have to rep american nightmare? my bad.
american nightmare - am/pm
or maybe everyone just hates it. there are few things i can think of that are more "emo" (altho maybe it's just too "hardcore"?)
I was counting the good things about this city / The only good thing is you are not here
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Friday, 10 March 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
AFI I assume were Misfits fans. The others Marilyn Manson maybe?It's the only thing I can think of but I am an outsider to emo. Though I was still buying Kerrang when these bands started coming through.
― Odysseus, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
think it's just The Cure tbh
― devvvine, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:45 (seven years ago) link
definitely for mcr
who was the first of the glammy/goth emo bands to get known outside of the scene?
― Odysseus, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:50 (seven years ago) link
mcr is definitely the first one i can think of
afi are barely emo but decemberunderground uses a ton of the genre's tricks
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Friday, 10 March 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
Angel Hair covered Bauhaus and the Locust's label is named "31G"!
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Friday, 10 March 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link
129 83 3 0 Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth
huh. we may be the only place on earth to prefer second stage (we're right)
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Friday, 10 March 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
Wow. This was the best poll ever. Middy thank you so much - you are great!
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
And ArchCarrier you also are amazing!
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
This poll was dope. Knew hardly anything & have now dived into so much great music (like I have 10 more new favorite bands) & it has legit improved my mood this week
thanks to mordy & archcarrier and all the ilx emobears
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
haha emobears
― Odysseus, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:10 (seven years ago) link
:D
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:11 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/j0SBn0j.jpg
― Odysseus, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:12 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/NgVgKiK.jpg
― Odysseus, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:14 (seven years ago) link
emobear:
http://static.spin.com/files/field/image/110121-black-cards-1.jpg
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
Who is that?
― Odysseus, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link
pete wentz!
i know you shun mall emo but cmon
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
i was walking home from work just now listening to frame & canvas when i realized i was walking past the front door of where the old tower records used to be, the same spot where i purchased frame & canvas nineteen years ago :-}
https://i.imgur.com/LvQoDRz.jpg
― gr8080, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:31 (seven years ago) link
...and where a student barber gave me an $8 haircut four years ago
― gr8080, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:32 (seven years ago) link
:)
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
And it hasn't grown since? That's a bargain!
― Odysseus, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
aw :)
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
sup
01 Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart02 Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime03 Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy04 The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site05 Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary06 The Wrens - The Meadowlands07 Constantines - Tournament Of Hearts08 Jawbreaker - Bivouac09 Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On10 Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You11 Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense12 Seaweed - Four13 Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again14 Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now15 Jawbox - S/T16 Fugazi - Repeater17 Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record18 Knapsack - Day Three of My New Life19 Bedhead - Transaction de Novo20 Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring21 Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary22 Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album23 Hum – You'd Prefer an Astronaut24 Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health25 Royal Headache - High26 Burning Airlines - Mission: Control!27 Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux28 Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About29 Knapsack - Silver Sweepstakes30 Smart Went Crazy - Now We're Even
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:45 (seven years ago) link
Had a wee look at the Rate Your Music alltime emo list
http://tinyurl.com/RYM-Top-Emo-Alltime
― Odysseus, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:51 (seven years ago) link
gradAy
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 11 March 2017 00:54 (seven years ago) link
mordy based on your list you are the most faithfully emo, i think the exercise might've benefited from you policing more aggressively after all
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 11 March 2017 01:09 (seven years ago) link
Shelter - Mantra
Ha wow!
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Saturday, 11 March 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
man... I'm crying that I had to miss the final bit of the rollout today. just caught up.
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Saturday, 11 March 2017 05:06 (seven years ago) link
Bold placed. emo to the max B-)
Copeland – In MotionBrand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside MeSaves the Day - Stay What You AreJimmy Eat World - Bleed AmericanDashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the MostCopeland – Beneath Medicine TreeThe Appleseed Cast - Mare VitalisThursday - War All the TimeMae - Destination: BeautifulArmor For Sleep - Dream to Make BelievePedro the Lion – ControlJimmy Eat World - ClarityCirca Survive - On Letting GoThe Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home AboutCoheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine BladeJets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming DictionaryArmor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are DeadThrice - Artist in the AmbulanceTaking Back Sunday - Tell All Your FriendsKnapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right NowBrand New - Deja EntenduMae - The EverglowThe Early November - The Room's Too ColdDashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army RomanceThe Get-Up Kids - Four Minute MileParamore - Brand New EyesThe Appleseed Cast - Low Level OwlFurther Seems Forever - How to Start a FireThe Spill Canvas - One Fell SwoopDashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A ScarDeath Cab for Cutie - TransatlanticismBoys Night Out - TrainwreckSaves the Day - Through Being CoolJuno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and GoesSparta - Porcelain¬Chamberlain - Fate's Got a DriverStraylight Run - Straylight RunFurther Seems Forever - Hide NothingSunny Day Real Estate - DiaryTaking Back Sunday - Louder NowSomething Corporate - Leaving Through the WindowParamore - ParamoreMatchbook Romance - Stories and AlibisPenfold - Our First Taste of EscapeThe Promise Ring - Nothing Feels GoodParamore - All We Know Is FallingMotion City Soundtrack - Commit This to MemoryThe Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean ItThursday - Full Collapse Rival Schools - United by Fate
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Saturday, 11 March 2017 05:11 (seven years ago) link
biggest surprise non placements imo:
Pedro the Lion – ControlThrice - Artist in the Ambulance
no Further Seems Forever
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Saturday, 11 March 2017 05:16 (seven years ago) link
it pleases me that there wasn't that much overlap btwn voters for the Juno albums. time to get that reissue petition started.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 March 2017 05:20 (seven years ago) link
Props to Mordy and ArchC for the poll, I've run two so I know how much time/effort it takes.
I had a blast over the last few weeks reacquainting myself with so much music I hadn't really visited in a while. Was fun re-forming opinions on this stuff at such a different phase in my life. As well as learning about so much more.
Genuine thanks to everyone involved in the nomming/rollout for keeping it light and fun. Ive got a lot of not-emo(!) gripes with a fair share of the picks but it doesn't matter in the end, great results anyway. My fav part of these types of threads is when people talk about their favorite tracks and album moments and specific details about those, and there was a lot of that itt. Hi5 to Brad, Simon, AC, Mordy, my closest neighbors I think.
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Saturday, 11 March 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 March 2017 05:55 (seven years ago) link
and yes having recently done the Cohen poll I am also aware of how much of a pain in the neck these are to run!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 March 2017 06:08 (seven years ago) link
</3 </3 </3
(felt like someone needed to type those in an emo poll that prominently features makeoutclub-era bands)
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:54 (seven years ago) link
Really regretting not voting for Orange Rhyming Dictionary now - listened to it last night for the first time in ages and it sounded great. Also it was the very first emo album I bought (January 2000 after seeing it mentioned in the NME). Happily I discovered I still have the CD lying around.
― Gavin, Leeds, Saturday, 11 March 2017 10:43 (seven years ago) link
Best discoveries from the poll?
― Odysseus, Saturday, 11 March 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
Mostly new stuff to me. Currently enjoying the Weakerthans and Appleseed Cast.
And not to harp on, but There Will Be Fireworks are worth a listen in this vein:
https://youtu.be/6-0LZ8my44s
https://youtu.be/Ia_o3kw6PGg
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 11 March 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
relistening to both juno albums today, thanking simon again for introducing me to my new favorite band of all time
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 March 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
honestly it's been almost a month and I don't know if my CDs are ever getting here so this seems as good a time as any
memorial thread of love and mystery for Juno, the Seattle rock band
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 March 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
SO I listened to 2 Jimmy Eat World and 2 Brand New albums and i thought they were ok.
― Odysseus, Saturday, 11 March 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
Biggest discoveries for me were Thursday and Brand New.
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 11 March 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
There's some good OOP albums on this bandcamp from screamo/post-hardcore groups so maybe they should put out the Juno and Gospel albums?
https://thearchivistlabel.bandcamp.com/
― Odysseus, Saturday, 11 March 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link
The forcefedglass album on there is fantastic if you like screamo.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Saturday, 11 March 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
omg the Quicksand/Rival Schools axis of melodic Catherine Wheel-y post-hardcore is my JAM
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Saturday, 11 March 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link