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

Thank you to everyone who participated in our nomination process. We have accumulated 475 sad, sad emo albums (and pop-punk, ska - not much of that - and other sundry mall rock classics) for this poll.

You have 30 votes for your ballots. Please copy/paste directly from the list. I've hopefully weeded out all duplicates.

Fill out your ballot on a standard email body and email it to ilxemopoll AT gmail DOT com by Sunday, March 5th.

Now to totally screw up ilx searches for terms for many years to come w/ this enormous nominations list:

3 - Dark Days Coming
89 Cubs - There Are Giants in the Earth
A.F.I. - Sing the Sorrow
Aereogramme - A Story In White
Aereogramme - Sleep And Release
AFI - Decemberunderground
Against Me! - Is the Eternal Cowboy
Against Me! - New Wave
Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
Against Me! - Transgender Disphoria Blues
Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
Alkaline Trio - Crimson
Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire
Alkaline Trio - Self-titled
All Time Quarterback - All Time Quarterback
All-American Rejects - Move-Along
American Football - American Football
American Nightmare - Background Music
Angel Hair - Pregnant With the Senior Class
Antarctigo Vespucci - Leavin' La Vida Loca
Antioch Arrow - In Love With Jetts
Antioch Arrow - The Lady is a Cat
Armor For Sleep - Dream to Make Believe
Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead
At The Drive-In - In/Casino/Out
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
At the Drive-In - Vaya EP
Avail - 4AM Friday
Avril Lavigne - Let Go
Banner Pilot - Hearts Beats Pacific
Bear Vs. Shark - Terrorhawk
Bedhead - Transaction de Novo
Beefeater – House Burning Down
Beefeater – Plays for Lovers
Benton Falls - Fighting Starlight (how is that still missing I wonder)
Billy Talent - Billy Talent
blink-182 - blink-182
blink-182 - Enema of the State
blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Blonde Redhead - Fake Can be Just as Good?
Bob Tilton - Crescent
Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation
Boys Life - Departures and Landfalls
Boys Night Out - Trainwreck
Boysetsfire - After the Eulogy
Braid - Age of Octeen
Braid - Frame & Canvas
Braid - Lucky to Be Alive
Braid - Movie Music Vol. 1
Braid - No Coast
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
Brandston - Letterbox
Brandtson - Dial In Sound
Brandtson - Letterbox
Brandtson - Send Us A Signal
Breathing Walker – S/T
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness
Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Broccoli - Home
Brody – Against Forgetting 7”
Burning Airlines - Mission: Control!
Camera Obscura - To Change the Shape of an Envelope
Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
Cartel - Chroma
Celeste - Misanthrope(s)
Cerberus Shoal – And Farewell to Hide Tide
Chamberlain - Fate's Got a Driver
Chore - Take My Mask and Breathe
Christie Front Drive - s/t
Chumped - Teenage Retirement
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
Circa Survive - Juturna
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
Clikatat Ikatowi - Orchestrated and Conducted By
Clikitat Ikatowi – Live August 29th and 30th, 1995
Cobra Starship - ¡Viva la Cobra!
Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth
Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
Constantines - Tournament Of Hearts
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Converge - Axe To Fall
Converge - Jane Doe
Converge - You Fail Me
Copeland – Beneath Medicine Tree
Copeland – Eat, Sleep, Repeat
Copeland – In Motion
Copeland – Ixora
Crash of Rhinos - Distal
Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
Cursive - Domestica
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Dag Nasty - Can I Say
Dag Nasty - Wig out at Denko's
Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance
Dear Nora - Mountain Rock
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Death to Tyrants - Experience Will Be Your Monument And Your Love
Decibully - City of Festivals
Decibully - Sing Out America!
Desaparecidos - Payola
Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak English
Dillinger Four - Midwestern Songs of the Americas
Dillinger Four - Situationist Comedy
Dillinger Four - Versus God
Discount - Crash Diagnostic
Discount - Last One
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Driver Friendly - Bury a Dream
Eastern Youth - 365-Step Blues
Eastern Youth - 其処カラ何ガ見エルカ (What Can You See From Your Place?)
Eastern Youth - 雲射抜ケ声 (May My Scream Reach the Clouds)
Elliott - False Cathedrals
Elliott - US Songs
Embrace - Embrace
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - What It Takes to Move Forward
Engine Kid - Angel Wings
Engine Kid - Bear Catching Fish
Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Envy - Insomniac Doze
Ethel Meserve - The Milton Abandonment
Everyone Everywhere – Everyone Everywhere
Fabric - Body of Water
Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
Far - Water And Solutions
Farside ‎– The Monroe Doctrine
Finch - What It Is To Burn
Fireside - Elite
Fireside - Uomini D'onore
Fisticuffs Bluff – S/T
Five Knuckle Chuckle - All Hammed Up!
Five Knuckle Chuckle - Charliee Horse
Foxing - Dealer
Foxing - The Albatross
Franklin – Major Taylor 7”
Franklin – S/T
Frodus - And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea
Fuel – Monuments to Excess
Fugazi - Repeater
Further Seems Forever - Hide Nothing
Further Seems Forever - How to Start a Fire
Further Seems Forever - The Moon is Down
Garden Variety - S/T
Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Glocca Morra – Just Married
Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
Grade - Under the Radar
Gray Matter - Food for Thought
Heroin – S/T 12”
Hey Mercedes - Every Night Fireworks
Hey Mercedes - Lose Control
Honor Role - Rictus
Honor Role – The Pretty Song
Hoover - Hoover
Hoover - The Lurid Traversal of Route 7
Hop Along - Get Disowned
Hopefall - The Satellite Years
Hot Water Music - Forever and Counting
Hot Water Music - Fuel for the Hate Game
Hotelier - Goodness
Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace There Is
Hum – Downward is Heavenward
Hum – You’d Prefer an Astronaut
Husking Bee - 4 Color Problem
i hate myself - 4 songs
i hate myself - ten songs
i hate sex - Circle Thinking
Ignition – Complete Services
in/humanity – the history behind the mystery/music to kill yourself by
in/humanity – the nutty anti-christ
Indian Summer - Discography
Indian Summer - Science 1994
Into It. Over It. - Intersections
Into It. Over It. – Proper
J. Church – Arbor Vitae
J. Church – My Favorite Place
J. Church – Nostalgic for Nothing
J. Church – The Drama of Alienation
Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Jawbox - S/T
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Jawbreaker - Bivouac
Jawbreaker - Dear You
Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?
Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
Jejune - This Afternoons Malady
Jeromes Dream - Seeing Means More Than Safety
Jets to Brazil - Four Cornered Night
Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Jets to Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails
Joan of Arc - A Portable Model of
John Henry West – S/T 7”
Johnny Foreigner - Johnny Foreigner vs. Everything
Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'til It was Light
Joyce Manor - Cody
Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense
Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes
Karate - In Place of Real Insight
Karate - Karate
Karate - The Bed Is in the Ocean
Kerosene 454 - At Zero
Knapsack - Day Three of My New Life
Knapsack - Silver Sweepstakes
Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now
La Dispute - The Rooms of the House
Lagwagon - Duh
Last Days Of April - Angel Youth
Lifetime - Hello Bastards
Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
Lync - These Are Not Fall Colors
Lync – Remembering the Fireballs
Mae - Destination: Beautiful
Mae - The Everglow
Matchbook Romance - Stories and Alibis
Matchbook Romance - Voices
Maximillian Colby – S/T
Merel - S/T
mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes
Mineral - The Power of Failing
Mock Orange - The Record Play
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Mohinder - Discography
Moneen - Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now?
Moss Icon - Lyburnum
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
Motion City Soundtrack - Even if It Kills Me
Motion City Soundtrack - Go
Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
Moving Mountains - Pneuma
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
My Chemical Romance - The Black PArade
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Native Nod - Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World
Neil Perry - Lineage Situation
New End Original - Thriller
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
North of America - Brothers, Sisters
Nuzzle – San Lorenzo’s Blues
Off With their Heads! - In desolation
Okara - Months Like Years
On the Might of Princes - Where You Are and Where You Want to Be
One Last Wish - One Last Wish
Orchid - Chaos Is Me
Orchid - Dance Tonight, Revolution Tomorrow
Orchid - Gatefold
Ordination of Aaron – S/T
oso oso - The Yunahon Mixtape
Oswego - II
Oswego - Just Getting Warmed Up EP
Owls - Owls
Ozma - Rock and Roll Part Three
Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd
Panic! at the Disco - A Fever you Can’t Sweat Out
Paramore - All We Know Is Falling
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Paramore - Paramore
Pedro the Lion - The Only Reason I Feel Secure
Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit
Pedro the Lion – Control
Pedro the Lion – It’s Hard to Find A Friend
Pedro the Lion – Whole EP
Penfold - Amateurs and Professionals
Penfold - Our First Taste of Escape
Pg 99 - Document #8
Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You
Piebald - If it Weren't for Venetian Blinds, it Would be Curtains for Us All
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Fuck With Fire
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Knife in the Marathon EP
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Planes Mistaken for Stars
Planes Mistaken for Stars - S/T
Policy of Three – Dead Dog Summer
Pop Unknown - If Arsenic Fails, Try Algebra
Portraits of Past - S/T
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Élan Vital
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
Pretty Girls Make Graves - New Romance
Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock
Quicksand - Manic Compression
Quicksand - Slip
Rainer Maria - A Better Version of Me
Rainer Maria - Long Knives Drawn
Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
Rainer Maria - Past Worn Searching
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Rest of My Life - Rest of My Life
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
Rival Schools - United by Fate
Royal Headache - High
RVIVR - Bicker and Breathe
Saetia - A Retrospective
Samiam - self-titled
Saosin - Saosin
Saves the Day - In Reverie
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy
Seaweed - Four
Sense Field - Building
Sense Field - Tonight and Forever
Sensefield - Building
Seven Storey Mountain - Based on a True Story
Shelter - Mantra
Shiner - Lula Divinia
Shiner - The Egg
Shotmaker - Discography
Shudder to Think - Funeral at the Movies
Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record
Shutdown - Icarus
Sleepytime Trio - Memory-Minus
Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning
Small Brown Bike - Our Own Wars
Smart Went Crazy - Now We're Even
Snowing - Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit
Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted
Solea - Solea
Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
Something Corporate - North
Sorority Noise – Joy Departed
Soulside – Hot Bodi-gram
Soulside – Less Deep inside Keeps
Sparkmarker - Products and Accessories
Sparta - Porcelain
Spy Vs Spy - S/T
Still Life – From Angry Heads with Skyward Eyes
Straylight Run - Straylight Run
Straylight Run - The Needles, The Space
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
Sunday's Best - Poised to Break
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2
Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide
Sweep The Leg Johnny - Sto Cazzo
Sweep The Leg Johnny - Tomorrow We Will Run Faster
Swing Kids - discography
Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be
Teen Suicide - It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot
Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
The Academy Is… - Almost Here
The Anniversary - Designing a Nervous Breakdown
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl
The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
The Appleseed Cast - Two Conversations
The Ataris - Anywhere but Here
The Ataris - Blue Skies, Broken Hearts... Next 12 Exits
The Ataris - End Is Forever
The Ataris - So Long, Astoria
The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
The Blood Brothers - Crimes
The Blood Brothers - March On, Electric Children!
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
The Brave Little Abacus - Just Got Back From the Discomfort-We're Alright
The Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers: Concern in So Many Things You Forget Where You Are
The Dahlia Seed – Survived By
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
The Dismemberment Plan - Is Terrified
The Early November - The Mother, The Mechanic, and the Path
The Early November - The Room's Too Cold
The Front Bottoms - Back on Top
The Front Bottoms – Talon of the Hawk
The Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound
The Get Up Kids - Guilt Show
The Get Up Kids - On a Wire
The Get Up Kids - Red Letter Day EP
The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
The Get Up Kids - Woodson EP
The Get-Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
The Good Life - Album Of The Year
The Good Life - Blackout
The Good Life - Novena on a Nocturne
The Hal Al Shedad – S/T
The Hated - Everysong
The Hated - What Was Behind
The Hated – Like the Days 2x7”
The Jazz June - The Medicine
The Jealous Sound - A Gentle Reminder
The Jealous Sound - Kill Them with Kindness
The Lapse - Betrayal!
The Lapse - Heaven Ain't Happening
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
The Locust - The Locust
The Menzingers - Rented World
The Movielife - Forty Hour Train Back to Penn
The One AM Radio - A Name Writ In Water
The One AM Radio - The Hum of the Electric Air!
The One AM Radio - This Too Shall Pass
The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
The Rye Coalition – Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet
The Rye Coalition – Their Side of the Karp/Rye Split 12”
The Secret Stars - S/T
The Spill Canvas - One Fell Swoop
The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
The Used - In Love and Death
The Used - The Used
The Van Pelt – Sultans of Sentiment
The VSS - Nervous Circuits
The VSS – 21:51
The Weakerthans - Fallow
The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
The Wonder Years - No Closer to Heaven
The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – Whenever, If Ever
The World is a Beautiful Place and I am Not Afraid to Die - Harmlessness
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers, of the Lion Sleepers when the Antelope Go Home
These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
Thirty Ought Six - Hag Seed
Three Mile Pilot - The Chief Assassin to the Sinister
Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance
Thrice - Vheissu
Thursday - A City By the Light Divided
Thursday - Full Collapse
Thursday - No Devolución
Thursday - War All the Time
Tigers Jaw - Tigers Jaw
Tiny Moving Parts – This Couch Is Long and Full of Friendship
Title Fight - Shed
Torches to Rome - S/T
Touche Amore - Is Survived By
Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
Touché Amoré - Stage Four
Turnover - Peripheral Vision
Twelve Hour Turn - Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction
Twelve Hour Turn - The Victory of Flight
Twelve Hour Turn/I Hate Myself - Split LP
Unbroken - Life.Love.Regret
Underoath - Define the Great Line
Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety
Uniform Choice – Staring into the Sun
Universal Order of Armageddon – S/T 12”
Universal Order of Armageddon – The Switch is Down
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
V/A - Post Marked Stamps Compilation
Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
Weezer - Pinkerton
Yaphet Kotto - The Killer Was in the Government Blankets
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Yellowcard - One For The Kids
Youth Funeral - See You When I See You

fuck yeah

thanks for doing this Mordy

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.

Ugh, I don't know what I'm doing wrong but yt won't embed for me any more, sorry.

The songs were 'This Situationist' from 'Lula Divinia', And the title track from 'The Egg.' They're awesome, honest.

Oh yeah, City of Caterpillar's pretty good too.

Shiner were great and not forgotten by me

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.