ive been thinking a lot since bumping this thread/listening to these three albums yesterday:
Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good // Braid - Frame and Canvas // Get Up Kids - 4 Minute Mile //
what else belongs in the emo canon?
in no particular order, i'd start with:
the promise ring - 30° everywhere the promise ring - nothing feels goodthe promise ring - very emergencybraid - frame and canvasthe get up kids - four minute milethe get up kids - something to write home aboutjimmy eat world - static prevailsjimmy eat world - clarityjets to brazil - orange rhyming dictionarypiebald - when life hands you lemonspiebald - if it weren't for venetian blinds it would be curtains for us allcap'n jazz - analphabetapolothology
on the far ends of the spectrum i'd add shit like sunny day real estate and saves the day??
please feel free to use this thread to argue over the meaning of the word "emo" and to indulge in cute nostalgia
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
rainer maria - past worn searching and/or look now, look again
neither are their best record but those are the emo ones
jejune - this afternoons malady belongs here too
― pumping ugly muscles (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 05:38 (eleven years ago) link
if the hated had ever released an album i would be putting it here
― pumping ugly muscles (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
personal faves:
knapsack - day three of my new lifesunny day real estate - how it feels to be something onjawbreaker - 24 hour revenge therapy (too indie???)jets to brazil - orange rhyming dictionary
there are a lot of albums that are in my personal ~emo~ cannon that i guess really arent, i half lump stuff like 'fevers & mirrors' and early songs: ohia, june panic, 'it's hard to find a friend' in with this stuff because i cared a lot about it around the same time
― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
'poised to break' by sunday's best is another good one
― pumping ugly muscles (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
interesting sdre pick, lamp-- feel like most ppl would go w/ one of the first two?
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
like 'em or not, SDRE has to be on any emo canon list. probably the first two (maybe three) albums, though I think the last one, The Rising Tide, is their best.
i always think of Saves The Day as more pop-punk, tho.
what about that one Texas Is The Reason album?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 05:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i think LP2 is probably the cannon pick here but i started listening to emo stuff after looking for more stuff like songs: ohia and like silver jews so ive always sorta gravitated towards the beardier, slower stuff? ive actually put 'how it feels...' on rn, very quiet, in my apartment and its even more mellow and jammier than i remembered but it still kills p hard even if some of it sounds like built to spill
― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
"how it feels" came after a hiatus of a few years iirc?
always felt it and rising tide were more proggy and less emo-- both prob belong in any canon tho
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
saw them live when they toured in support of both those albums-- one time waiting outside a sold-out show at the metro for three hours watching ppl scalp tickets for $100 until finally getting one at face value minutes before sdre went on
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
do rites of spring count
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeah arent rites of spring the ~original~ emo band?
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 06:17 (eleven years ago) link
man i'm listening to Diary right now and if you swapped out the vocals this could be a pearl jam album almost?
rites of spring and embrace just sound like hardcore bands to me tbh
― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
Jawbox should be here too. I remember an article on these 90s second-wave emo bands (Braid, Promise Ring, etc) in Guitar World where nearly all of them cited 'Grippe' as an influence.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 07:28 (eleven years ago) link
Moss Icon was another band mentioned - their discography just got reissued.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 07:29 (eleven years ago) link
Did the Hated not have an album? I bought some sort of LP thing of theirs in the late 80s, maybe it was just a mini-album/EP. Had a 2 x 7" too which was a lot better iirc, though ultimately still kind of annoying. Think I picked these up cos I read in MRR that Bob Mould had produced one of their records or something. I found out to my cost that this was by no means a guarantee of quality.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 08:38 (eleven years ago) link
Another great, underrated emo band was Mock Orange (specifically their first two albums Nines And Sixes and The Record Play).
Should emo-hardcore-bands like Thursday be considered third- (or maybe fourth-) wave emobands?
― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
The Hated had a mini-LP and a LP-length demo that got presed to vinyl
used to be p impressed in oldilx days that the singer from The Hated posted here
― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
if I started posting like Mohinder and Angel Hair youtubes or whatever it would effectively ruin the thread right
― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
oh shit, col1n m33der right? that was the same guy?? I had never made that connection before
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 09:19 (eleven years ago) link
not sure why i am g00gl3pr00f1ng him btw, just seems polite to
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 09:20 (eleven years ago) link
iirc he hardly ever posted about being in a band but yeah
― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 09:22 (eleven years ago) link
today's amazing-to-me fact, thanking you djm
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 09:26 (eleven years ago) link
I was really into this stuff for a while and am still quite fond of some of it. Some others I liked:
The Appleseed Cast - Mare VitalisAmerican Football - s/tChristie Front Drive - Anthology CDElliott - False Cathedrals
I suppose Mineral deserve a place in the canon but I never liked them much.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm... a mixtape within reach from this era seems to also contain (on top of Braid/Get Up Kids/Promise Ring/Piebald) the likes of Samiam, Jejune, Lifetime, Seaweed, Superchunk, Joan of Arc, Pedro the Lion, J Church, Avail... (some of those are obviously not 'emo' by any definition, but they could sit side-by-side).
Strictly Ballroom were a big band in L.A. at the time (and contained the people that became Beachwood Sparks and Dntel). They were really great and only put out one album (called "Hide Here Forever," which is about as emo as it gets - it's a great album, though). They were dubbed, by the press - or maybe the band themselves - "enocore," because they did lots of ambient soundscapes in between screamy stuff.
I remember this scene was always mocked by punks, but it really did reach a self-parody saturation point pretty quickly. I remember going to (the late, lamented, legendary) No Life in L.A. to see an instore by a bunch of emo bands and two of them were named after lyrics from other emo bands (December's Tragic Drive (an SDRE lyric) and something like Patient Boy, or some Fugazi thing!)
A surprising amount of it holds up well, though, as far as I'm concerned!
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 10:11 (eleven years ago) link
Another small band that didn't get a lot of national recognition but made scene waves was Ashes from Washington, D.C. - really pretty female vocals over palm-muted crunchy chords. They actually probably pre-dated the third-wave stuff, but their album is great. Wait - if RoS and Embrace were first wave emo, and Promise Ring et al were third-wave, what made up the second wave?
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
Lifetime! How could I forget them! One of my favorite bands EVER, though I personally they're a bit closer to straight up punkrock. All of their albums are great, including the reunion one from 2007.
― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
@ Walter: about the emo-waves, this site might give you a clue:
http://www.fourfa.com/
― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
Lifetime were great. I have Max to thank for introducing me to them iirc.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
City Of Caterpillar - S/T
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:12 (eleven years ago) link
Hated officially released one full-length lp, the 2x7" ep, two album-length cassettes, and a 7" ep while they were still going. Tonie "Fucking Thief" Joy released a full-length lp and never listened to the test-pressing because he is a fucking moron, so it's at the wrong speed. Hated stuff was all self-produced, no Moulds in sight. Discography is coming and will blow the world away, but it's not coming on Troubleman. I may or may not be this M33d3r dude, but I sure didn't sing for the Hated. Did and do play a lot of bass.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
might be because 1st wave emo was hardcore. :)
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
The M33d3r person played bass, I mean. I don't know who I am or what I do.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
Oh my golly
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
Feel bad about -ve comments now, but if it's any consolation, Hated got me in reading Rilke so props for that
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
TEXAS IS THE REASON
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
No prob. Hated people all still annoyed that the Joy-vandalized "What Was Behind" 12" is what most folks know.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, definitely! Lots of people rep for the first EP, too, but I never really liked it. Do You Know Who You Are is classic, though.
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), miércoles 11 de julio de 2012 3:29 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
reunion show in nyc october 25th and lpr
i feel a lot of bands would probably qualify for this thread.
― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), miércoles 11 de julio de 2012 5:16 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's funny because i'm only in here hoping that the *core end of the spectrum rears its head
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
*october 25th at lpr
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
!
i mean if we're already that far along in the timeline (and that far out in terms of genre) i will totally not feel bad for pulling a
Majority Rule - Interviews with David Frost
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol forgive my porous memory 3WU
City Of Caterpillar LP is good but I shd get round to offloading it given it seems to go for £30 or so easily enough and I've not played it in years
― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
I think Saves the Day's Stay What You Are should be included, because it definitely is a prime example of where the "emo" thing went in the early 2000s. I hesitate bringing them up because I know how loathed they are, but I would argue that Dashboard Confessional's The Place You Have Come to Fear the Most should be a part of the canon. Not because its a good record, but because, again, its a pretty solid example of the genre's evolution over time. For a better Carraba related album though, maybe Further Seems Forever's The Moon is Down.
I also might toss out Bright Eyes' Letting Off the Happiness.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
1985. What did you do when you were 16?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePxcBXsmuuI
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
nice!
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
1988, and more heard (and therefore ripped-off) at the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6DjkIloPpA
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
Late '89, unreleased, commonly bootlegged, the best stuff we did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AevJDUQv8Mw
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
hey I remember that second song alright! the singing's not really my thing, but the music still stands up so kudos to that m33d3r guy
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
Brad, your playlist is a dream. Those Straylight Run and Coheed albums are my favourite. Might have to make my own one of these...
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
real lack of hot water music on these lists imo
― pratt truss it (dan m), Friday, 4 March 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
theirs is a long discography I've never made up my mind about
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 4 March 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
they came up a few times in various discussions of that rolling stone article between friends & I
for my personal emo canon, their first few albums are up there... wheels kind of came off circa a flight and a crash, but that's true with a lot of bands. if I made the list, this would likely be on there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1zGBXPhecY
― pratt truss it (dan m), Friday, 4 March 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
I don't know Hot Water Music, but listening now. This is amazing!
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
i'm embarrassed bc it seems v conventional + lame but after 15 min here's what i've got:
1. Brand New - Deja Entendu2. Thursday - War All the Time3. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear The Most4. Braid - Frame & Canvas5. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge6. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American7. Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be8. Fall Out Boy - Folie à Deux9. The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good10. Thursday - A City By the Light Divided11. Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth12. The Academy Is… - Almost Here13. A.F.I. - Sing the Sorrow14. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Élan Vital15. Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window16. Cursive - The Ugly Organ17. Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground18. Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance19. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life20. blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
― Mordy, Friday, 4 March 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
28. my chemical romance: three cheers for sweet revenge ha i was right in chat :p
― Mordy, Friday, 4 March 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
Mine (in progress) has plenty of those too. I'm so glad Bright Eyes counts!
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
I almost put leaving through the window on mine, and honestly I should have a motion city soundtrack record on there, probably even if it kills me
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 4 March 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
i can hear the argument that bright eyes isn't emo and i for some reason i wouldn't vote for i'm wide awake or digital urn however i feel like lifted was v much a part of 'emo conversation' when it came out
― Mordy, Friday, 4 March 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
i mean i included desaparecidos bc they are oberst's straight up emo band but i'm not mad at including bright eyes
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 4 March 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
thought for a lol second about including seven's travels
― Mordy, Friday, 4 March 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
for some reason i wouldn't vote for i'm wide awake or digital urn however i feel like lifted was v much a part of 'emo conversation' when it came out
These were my thoughts too. I remember writing a review of it for the emo section fake magazine I made in school...
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
My list would look similar to these, but my sleeper picks would be the One Last Wish record, which is secretly even better than the Rites of Spring LP, and that last Hotelier record, which feels more and more classic every month
― Evan R, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah i considered both of those!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 4 March 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
13. thursday: no devolucion
Totally the best Thursday album. Everyone says Full Collapse but it's not, it's this.
― mozart, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
yes!!!!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 4 March 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
I wouldn't say that I'm proud of this list (there are an awful lot of classics I've just never even listened to), but I do love it unconditionally.
1. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground2. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things3. Weezer - Pinkerton4. Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade5. The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It6. Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky7. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar8. Brand New - Deja Entendu9. Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave10. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends11. The Movielife - Forty Hour Train Back To Penn12. The Get-Up Kids - Guilt Show13. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish14. Straylight Run - Straylight Run15. The Early November - The Room’s Too Cold16. Chumped - Teenage Retirement17. Sugarcult - Start Static18. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism 19. Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings20. Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation21. Saves The Day - Can’t Slow Down22. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me23. Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide24. Further Seems Forever - The Moon is Down25. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge26. The Juliana Theory - Emotion Is Dead27. The Academy Is… - Almost Here28. Thursday - War All the Time29. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American30. Senses Fail - From the Depths of Dreams31. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most32. New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones33. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command34. Paramore - Riot!35. Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out36. Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance37. Matchbook Romance - Stories and Alibis38. The Used - The Used39. Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring40. The Get-Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
And if anyone is interested, playlist here
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
great list! reminded me that one of my favorite abrupt emo shapeshifts was from the first matchbook romance album to voices (a record i love a lot)
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 4 March 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
I was so invested in the Stories and Alibis sound that I really couldn't get into Voices when it came out. I'd probably like it a lot more now.
My favourite emo metamorphosis was Sunny Day Real Estate's move into weird emo-prog.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
i spent a lot of time with the rising tide recently and what a massive record
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 4 March 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
i really like the guitar and drum sounds on this stuff.
mare vitalis by appleseed cast is probably my favorite in this genre. beautiful melodies, great sound.
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 4 March 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link
Mare Vitalis has two of the best opening tracks of any emo album.
― pratt truss it (dan m), Saturday, 5 March 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
lol I was listening to clarity the other day and thought "wow the drum sound on this record rules"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 March 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
How It Feels to Be Something On is my favourite emo-related album bar none.
― Gavin, Leeds, Saturday, 5 March 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
many killer albums mentioned here
My favorite emo album which no one seems to acknowledge is an emo album is Juno's This Is the Way It Goes and Goes
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 March 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
i had never listened to the indian summer comp before that rs list and i regret it!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 March 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
i do love how every cd and mp3 copy of this record was made by someone holding a microphone next to a turntable (i assume)
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 March 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
i forgot armor for sleep!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
― Gavin, Leeds, Saturday, March 5, 2016 1:16 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just hearing this for the first time, loving it!
― calstars, Monday, 7 March 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
Cool! It really is a unique record I think.
9. the anniversary: designing a nervous breakdown10. driver friendly: bury a dream
I gave these two from Brad's list a go over the weekend, had never heard either of them before, both great.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 7 March 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link
I eventually fell in love with Joan of Arc's A Portable Model of
― stanley krubrick (rip van wanko), Monday, 7 March 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
Ha, I just came here to say essentially exactly this. Also had not heard any Jejune before. Listening now and dying. There is so much joy in this playlist.
― tangenttangent, Monday, 7 March 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
My favorite part of ilx is getting recommendations like this
― calstars, Monday, 7 March 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
Another of my favorites, hopefully along these lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx0P6Ef015I
I tried to make a top 40 over the weekend and kept getting sidetracked, I hope to post one eventually.
― pratt truss it (dan m), Monday, 7 March 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, March 6, 2016 3:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Would have a hard time picking between their first two albums. Always loved the loose concept of WTDWYAD.favs off both albums:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkJ-lKbdrR0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sEptKoWMeM
― unleashed profanity-laced tirade (Spottie), Monday, 7 March 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
i'm not one to be like "wow x album is y years old! wow now i too am old" but louder now being 10 years old nearly gets me there
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
That was very much my summer before uni album. So many aggressive seaside strolls...
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
i didn't put boys night out's trainwreck on my list upthread which was a huge mistake imo
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
emo's fantastic planet
Attention all bookmarkers: Are you aware ofThis POLL Will Become the Anthem of Your EMO Voting Thread / You're Two Floors Down CAMPAIGNING in the Back Room.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
question: did The Anniversary's "Designing A Nervous Breakdown" actually influence other bands? Or do I just think/wish it did/should've?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
I heard the contemporary band Slow Mass' album 'On Watch' and was shocked how good it is--and how much it completed the thought of the sort of music I listened to when I was 16-19 and then thoroughly abandoned and left behind.
So it compelled me to listen again to the music I'd really loved back then (circa '96-'99) and I ended up making a mix that really surprised me. The title and artwork style come from an internet radio station I had from my dorm room my freshman year of college...
https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/musicophilia_00_various_-_a-boy-his-pet-heart_1994-1999_cover-a.jpg?w=1024
https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/musicophilia_00_various_-_a-boy-his-pet-heart_1994-1999_cover-b.jpg?w=1024
Various – ‘A Boy & His Pet Heart’1994-1999SIDE A01 [00:00] For Carnation – “On the Swing” (‘Marshmallows’ 1996)02 [02:00] Ida – “Tellings” (‘I Know About You’ 1996)03 [06:20] Hum – “Stars” (‘You’d Prefer An Astronaut’ 1995)04 [11:30] Everyone Asked About You – “Last Dance” (‘Let’s Be Enemies’ 1998)05 [14:15] The Promise Ring – “Red & Blue Jeans” (‘Nothing Feels Good’ 1997)06 [17:05] Cap’n Jazz – “Oh Messy Life” (‘Schmap’n Shmazz’ 1995)07 [19:05] Don Caballero – “Room Temperature Suite” (‘What Burns Never Returns’ 1998)08 [24:30] That Dog – “You Are Here” (‘That Dog’ 1996)09 [29:00] Karate – “This, Plus Slow Song” (‘In Place of Real Insight’ 1997)SIDE B10 [31:15] Rainer Maria – “Breakfast of Champions” (‘Look Now Look Again’ 1999)11 [34:45] Rodan – “Bible Silver Corner” (‘Rusty’ 1995)12 [41:35] Red House Painters – “Summer Dress” (‘Ocean Beach’ 1995)13 [44:25] Sunny Day Real Estate – “J’Nuh” (‘LP2’ 1995)14 [49:15] Pedro The Lion – “Almost There” (‘Whole’ EP 1996)15 [52:20] Low – “Don’t Understand” (‘Secret Name’ 1999)16 [59:05] Versus – “Thera” (‘The Stars Are Insane’ 1994)17 [63:50] Beekeeper – “Two Men” (‘Ostrich’ 1998)18 [66:15] Jejune – “Regrets Are Unanswered Dreams” (‘This Afternoon’s Malady’ 1998)[Total Time: 1:11:40]
SIDE A
01 [00:00] For Carnation – “On the Swing” (‘Marshmallows’ 1996)02 [02:00] Ida – “Tellings” (‘I Know About You’ 1996)03 [06:20] Hum – “Stars” (‘You’d Prefer An Astronaut’ 1995)04 [11:30] Everyone Asked About You – “Last Dance” (‘Let’s Be Enemies’ 1998)05 [14:15] The Promise Ring – “Red & Blue Jeans” (‘Nothing Feels Good’ 1997)06 [17:05] Cap’n Jazz – “Oh Messy Life” (‘Schmap’n Shmazz’ 1995)07 [19:05] Don Caballero – “Room Temperature Suite” (‘What Burns Never Returns’ 1998)08 [24:30] That Dog – “You Are Here” (‘That Dog’ 1996)09 [29:00] Karate – “This, Plus Slow Song” (‘In Place of Real Insight’ 1997)
SIDE B
10 [31:15] Rainer Maria – “Breakfast of Champions” (‘Look Now Look Again’ 1999)11 [34:45] Rodan – “Bible Silver Corner” (‘Rusty’ 1995)12 [41:35] Red House Painters – “Summer Dress” (‘Ocean Beach’ 1995)13 [44:25] Sunny Day Real Estate – “J’Nuh” (‘LP2’ 1995)14 [49:15] Pedro The Lion – “Almost There” (‘Whole’ EP 1996)15 [52:20] Low – “Don’t Understand” (‘Secret Name’ 1999)16 [59:05] Versus – “Thera” (‘The Stars Are Insane’ 1994)17 [63:50] Beekeeper – “Two Men” (‘Ostrich’ 1998)18 [66:15] Jejune – “Regrets Are Unanswered Dreams” (‘This Afternoon’s Malady’ 1998)
[Total Time: 1:11:40]
Download/stream: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2020/05/25/a-boy-and-his-pet-heart-1994-1999/
― Soundslike, Monday, 25 May 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
Whoa, that Slow Mass album is really good! Thanks for the recommendation.Well recorded, good riffs/songwriting, really nice heart-wringing Low-y/Rainer Maria-y M/F harmonies--aspects of them also remind me a bit of Helms Alee in terms of contemporary bands coming at that sensibility more from the metal realm.
(This mix looks great too--was always at a very slight remove from late'-90s emo, but I still hold a good chunk of it close to the cardigan, har)
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the Slow Mass album really threw me for a loop. 1st, because it's a type of music I thought I didn't care about in the least (or at least, hadn't in 21 years); and 2nd, because it's a "revival" of a style, and yet, to my ears, it's honestly better than all but the very best "original" exemplars of that style, and as good as the best. As a sum-total album, I think it's probably the best post-hardcore/emo album I've heard.
https://slowmassmusic.bandcamp.com/album/on-watch
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
For 1992 this was pretty ahead of the curve:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2DTvKGZXaM
Seaweed is so primed for a Greatest Hits comp, their albums were all pretty uneven but there were at least 2 bangers on each release.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 12 March 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
Can't say I expected to see City of Caterpillar reunite for a new album on Relapse in 2022...
https://cityofcaterpillar.bandcamp.com/album/mystic-sisters
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
https://thehardtimes.net/lists/we-put-on-a-sweater-vest-and-a-pair-of-thick-rimmed-glasses-to-rank-the-top-50-emo-songs-of-the-90s-while-we-looked-up-our-ex-from-high-school-on-facebook/
decently solid list imho
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:11 (eight months ago) link
that is a pretty solid list!
thought this revive might be about Billy Corgan complaining about not being included in a book about emo:
losing my mind at the idea that Billy Corgan is mad Smashing Pumpkins are “left out” of emo history pic.twitter.com/CpM8Kalb0z— Leor Galil (@imLeor) July 17, 2023
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:21 (eight months ago) link