Many thanks to the poll runners, personally most grateful for the discovery of the Anniversary and Appleseed Cast, I threw them two votes at the end of my ballot, which is otherwise the stuff on the noms list that I have a history with:
Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'til It was LightDeath Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting YesFall Out Boy - Take This to Your GraveHotelier - Home, Like Noplace There IsJohnny Foreigner - Johnny Foreigner vs. EverythingDismemberment Plan - Emergency & IFall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Treeblink-182 - Enema of the StateBrand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside MeMotion City Soundtrack - Commit This to MemoryDeath Cab for Cutie - Something About AirplanesThe Promise Ring - Nothing Feels GoodAmerican Football - American FootballParamore - ParamoreBrand New - Deja EntenduSunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something OnFugazi - RepeaterSunny Day Real Estate - DiaryThe Anniversary - Designing a Nervous BreakdownThe Appleseed Cast - Mare VitalisJawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
― Mercer Finn, Sunday, 12 March 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
just as an observation, the mall emo vs real emo vs whatever reminds me of glam vs metal and seems ultimately kinda boil down to some kind of underlying fear of dudes who wear too much makeup or have too many female fans idk
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:02 (seven years ago) link
Was gonna bump the Los Camp! thread for this, but there's no search, and it seems relevant here because they explicitly (and proudly) label it emo
https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/article/los-campesinos-rank-their-first-five-records
― Evan R, Monday, 13 March 2017 01:49 (seven years ago) link
My computer died and I couldn't figure out how to log in on my phone until now. My ballot went out with the PC, but The Moon Is Down was my #1 and I'm a little surprised it didn't place at all. Also, Sund4r, I voted for Okara in the low 20s, I'm sure you're not surprised.
Also, in re: the goth side of emo. Anyone else like Antioch Arrow? I thought they were supposed to be kinda gothy/flashy.
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Monday, 13 March 2017 05:36 (seven years ago) link
Hold on, is there gonna be a tracks poll?
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 13 March 2017 06:55 (seven years ago) link
Great poll! like everyone else, lots of great discoveries/rediscoveries. Low Level Owl has become my favourite find I think. I voted Devil & God #1, glad to see it so high.
Like that site you posted Sund4r, i always viewed emo like > hardcore comes around, some bands take ~emotion~ (sadness, rage, etc) to the max > Others come along and write poppier versions of it (which some is classified as Indie & some as Pop just depending on the usual rules of the pop/indie dichotomy) > then we end up with Emo-Any Genre from bands that interpolate some shit from the classic post-hardcore emotive base. So I think a big part of it is self (or fan) definition. Anyone can write a song about emotion, but to be emo you have to write ~emotional songs~, so Fugazi just kinda decided to not be Emo, the fans went for it and that was that.
That seems like a cop-out explanation now that it re-read it, oh well \_(")_/
Also, really liked Hotelier, don't know much about 4th wave stuff, but if its more like them i need to check it out
― Will (kruezer2), Monday, 13 March 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
Didn't CMJ or someone try to retcon Springsteen's Nebraska as emo? That's why it's such a nebulous and contentious genre, once people started using it as a descriptor it could rightly be applied to nearly anything.
(I know, describing music, the horror)
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 01:48 (seven years ago) link
bumping this thread to share that my high school girlfriend who is now a mother of four just posted a photo of her and Jim Adkins on facebook today
/emo
― gr8080, Thursday, 16 March 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
the 2nd Juno cd arrived yesterday. Just waiting on the first one to come
― Odysseus, Thursday, 16 March 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
After a couple more listens, The Rising Tide has really clicked with me, the run from Rain Song to The Ocean is great. Tearing Out My Heart is amazing. SDRE ranking as of today: How It Feels > Rising Tide > Diary > LP2
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 16 March 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
holy shit why did I write off LC! before hearing Romance Is Boring?
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 16 March 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
You were angry that the singer trolled football fans?
― Mordy, Thursday, 16 March 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
nah he seems pretty sound tbh
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 16 March 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
lol awesome, welcome to the fold! should have suggested it when you were asking what emo sounds like Crying, would have bumped it higher.
― devvvine, Thursday, 16 March 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
u inspired me to play romance is boring again. it has really been growing on me and the show was (maybe unsurprisingly) full of so much life + vigor compared to the album that it really made me appreciate them a lot more.
― Mordy, Thursday, 16 March 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed is probably their most emo album tbh. Relistened to it today and was floored by it all over again, but I also notice how much it plays like those first two Taking Back Sunday records. Same explosive, pun-based bitterness
― Evan R, Thursday, 16 March 2017 22:56 (seven years ago) link
Guys... want to join me in the
Papa was a POLLING STONE: It's the 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ~~~ TRACKS POLL
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
lol after my listening habits were affected over the last two weeks due to this poll, my spotify "discover weekly" playlist this week is 29 indie rock songs and a run the jewels track
― gr8080, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Heh, you should see the YouTube sidebar on my wife's laptop. Nothing but emo FULL ALBUMs.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
I can't stop listening to False Cathedrals. It gets better with each listen.
― cajunsunday, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link
Lol yeah my YouTube suggested videos is all emo all the time now.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
Probably listened to that Saetia album 4-5 times in the past week or so.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 00:10 (seven years ago) link
Shortly after the poll results came in, I felt strangely compelled to try to get in touch with Arlie from Juno to let him know how well the records did. He got back to me a few weeks ago.
Hi Simon, thank you! That is very surprising and kind. Apologies for delay, infrequently check FB. Xo, Arlie
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 20 August 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
hey thats cool!
― Spottie, Sunday, 20 August 2017 04:22 (six years ago) link
that's awesome!
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 August 2017 04:27 (six years ago) link
also we gotta redo this now that the new brand new is out
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 August 2017 04:28 (six years ago) link
i'd put new brand new, manchester orchestra and sorority noise on my ballot today
― Mordy, Sunday, 20 August 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link
run it back baby
― Spottie, Sunday, 20 August 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
we could always do a trax polllllll
My daughter was playing with the chickens today. One of their feathers is still laying in the hallway, and it looks almost exactly like this:
http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3459241029_10.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
for your consideration: fightstar's grand unification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CXSe8Sqrxk
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 August 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
just kind of a perfectly ambitious prog emo record, fits snugly among the early coheed albums + there are deftonesy screaming breakdowns!! i'm probably extra attached to it bc it's a concept album loosely based on evangelion lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMIAIf_IFM0
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 August 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
Oooooh
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 August 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
We should really do a tracks poll someday.
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 5 August 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
thanks for the tip on fightstar, these guys rock
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
thank you emo poll for introducing me to angel youth by last days of april
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
no thank you emo poll for not introducing me to sarge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyHJtERScYs
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
that's a name I haven't heard in a while
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/article/best-emo-songs.html
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
this poll was so good, as is this list
― devvvine, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
god relationship of command is the most overrated record. Vaya (#100 in this poll) is SO MUCH BETTA!!!
― rip van wanko, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
I agree that it's uneven compared to many other ranking albums, iirc I had it around halfway down my ballot
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 14 February 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
relationship of command is not overrated at all
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 14 February 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
I think it's even, maybe too even. it's like ATDI had perfected the technical aspect of what they do, but kind had to mimic the spastic energy of their earlier stuff
― rip van wanko, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
*kinda
it's like the 'Keep it Like a Secret' of emo, great record but shut up already
― rip van wanko, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
― Spottie, Saturday, August 19, 2017 bookmarkflaglink
i guess we dont have to now but it would be fun to do it and see how ours would compare to the vulture one. good writing in their brad.
― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
thank you!!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
oh shit I glossed right over that byline, nice one brad
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0gTGP0pW4Y&feature=youtu.be
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 13 April 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link