Run Quick EMO ALBUMS; Here I’ll POLL, You VOTED

Also Compound Red's record would have been my ballot/nomination. Feel like they're mostly forgotten. But there's a SDRE vibe to them, maybe Fireside (from what I remember, haven't listened to Fireside inawhile)

And with that, Brad persuades me to give this a chance.

I should give it a listen too.

this album does indeed rock

true story: i wrote an email to Jim Adkins asking him if "goodbye sky harbor" was about A Prayer for Owen Meany bc it was my favorite book and he replied about a month later thanking me for writing and confirmed that yes it was about A Prayer for Owen Meany and it was his favorite book too

i know this is the masterpiece but i still like static prevails and bleed american better

I don't mind Bleed American tbh, although "Sweetness" is the real standout.

weirdo xp

My mum loves a prayer fr owen meany. I bought it about 17 years ago and still not read it but i let her read it and shes read it a few times

Simon, are you from Ottawa? I'm trying to work out if I might have seen your hardcore band.

nah, but I'm not giving out any more hints lol

its so good!

xp

i meant to tell this story when static prevails placed, but i took my then eleven-year-old brother to see JEW play to a crowd of about 25ppl on a school night in 1997.

when clarity was all his freshman-year friends' favorite album a few years later he had major cool points

nice

Heh, there's going to be an all-90s cover band show tonight, with my friend playing in a Fugazi cover band, but I probably can't make it since I'm leaving Ottawa tomorrow.

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13. Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense (2001)
384 points, 10 votes, 1 number one

HOLY SHIT ONCE AGAIN I LOVE YOU ALL

I have a stronger emotional connection to TITWIGAGAG but I think I now agree with the apparent consensus that this is the better album, they seem to have just pushed right up to every limit

fuck yeah! cinderella story

wow

Simon wins!

― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Thursday, March 9, 2017 12:32 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I voted for the other Juno album based on one listen. I couldn't find all of this one.

I can't take all the credit but this is definitely my most substantive contribution to ILM, and indeed perhaps life itself

I only listened to the other one and voted for it. Excited to check this out soon.

also both Nate Mendel of SDRE and Nick Harmer of DCFC play on this album

and there's a secret code

can't believe hoos didn't drop in for this poll

damn

With all the enthusiasm for Juno and the fact theyre on the same label as Shiner, ive just bought both Juno cd's from discogs

xps
yeah amazed at lack of hoos

Oh man I've got soooo much listening to do after this poll.

Wish I hadn't clicked that abysmal Rob Mitchum review tho

honestly not much better than the Brent D rave for the first album where he calls them "the Radiohead of punk"

Oh dear

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12. Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology (1998)
385 points, 11 votes, 1 number one

lol

Another i cut from my ballot

this is a terrible album that i love and voted for

hahaha

i should have voted. frame & canvas and desaparecidos should have been way higher! come on those are like top 5 emo classics. along with appleseed cast's LLO. hmm, turns out that what should have happened aligns very closely with my personal held opinions, pretty odd!

Pretty. Odd.

"what should have happened aligns very closely with my personal held opinions" is a lost capn'n jazz lyric

fuck yeah jets to brazil, i revisited that album a few months back and was really surprised at how well it stood the test of time. since we're sharing JTB memories, the only time i saw them was at this local festival, written about here by one of ILM's own: http://www.popmatters.com/review/more-than-music-festival-2002/

also, thanks for the years in the countdown and recap!

that was the best fest/concert ive ever been to... so many great acts, many of which i was too young to appreciate

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11. The Wrens - The Meadowlands (2003)
396 points, 12 votes

woah

did not see that coming

TOO LOW

This is not what you had planned amirite gr80?

love it voted for it idc idc idc

lol lbi

RECAP SO FAR
100. At the Drive‐In - Vaya (1999)
99. Elliott - False Cathedrals (2000)
98. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site (2003)
97. Quicksand - Slip (1993)
96. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
95. Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails (1996)
94. Straylight Run - Straylight Run (2004)
93 (TIE). Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit (2000)
93 (TIE). Aereogramme - A Story in White (2001)
91. Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy (2004)
90. Saetia - A Retrospective (2001)
89. Angel Hair - Pregnant With the Senior Class (1997)
88. Embrace - Embrace (1987)
87. Rival Schools - United by Fate (2001)
86. Thirty Ought Six - Hag Seed (1995)
85 (TIE). Jawbreaker - Bivouac (1992)
85 (TIE). Fireside - Elite (2000)
85 (TIE). blink‐182 - Enema of the State (1999)
82. Shotmaker - The Complete Discography: 1993-1996 (2000)
81. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark • A Mission • A Brand • A Scar (2003)

80. Moss Icon - Lyburnum (1997)
79 (TIE). Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers (1997)
79 (TIE). Bedhead - Transaction de Novo (1998)
77. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (2002)
76. City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar (2002)
75. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014)
74. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come (1998)
73. Saves the Day - Through Being Cool (1999)
72. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are (2001)
71. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency (1999)
70. Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance (2000)
69 (TIE). Pinegrove - Cardinal (2016)
69 (TIE). Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
67 (TIE). Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now (1998)
67 (TIE). Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree (2003)
65. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You (2001)
64. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things (2002)
63. Aereogramme - Sleep and Release (2003)
62. Three Mile Pilot - The Chief Assassin to the Sinister (1995)
61. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes (2006)

60. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring (2010)
59. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most (2001)
58. Jejune - This Afternoon's Malady (1998)
57. The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014)
56. Paramore - Brand New Eyes (2009)
55 (TIE). Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again (1999)
55 (TIE). Jawbreaker - Dear You (1995)
53 (TIE). The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving (2000)
53 (TIE). Shudder to Think - Pony Express Record (1994)
51. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000)
50. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)
49. Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide (2000)
48. Hum - Downward Is Heavenward (1997)
47. The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile (1997)
46. Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World (2005)
45. Thursday - No Devolución (2011)
44. Cursive - The Ugly Organ (2003)
43. The Dismemberment Plan - Change (2001)
42. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
41. Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales (2016)

40. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle (2015)
39. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
38. Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002)
37. Converge - Jane Doe (2001)
36. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart (1994)
35. Thursday - War All the Time (2003)
34. Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are? (1996)
33. The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn (2003)
32. Fall Out Boy - Folie à deux (2008)
31. Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1994)
30. Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2 (1995)
29. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)
28. Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes (1999)
27 (TIE). The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis (2000)
27 (TIE). At the Drive‐In - In/Casino/Out (1998)
25 (TIE). The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl (2001)
25 (TIE). Paramore - Paramore (2013)
23. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime (1994)
22. Brand New - Deja Entendu (2003)
21. The Anniversary - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (2000)

20. Fugazi - Repeater (1990)
19. Cursive - Domestica (2000)
18. Braid - Frame & Canvas (1998)
17. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish (2002)
16. American Football - American Football (1999)
15. Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)
14. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity (1999)
13. Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense (2001)
12. Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology (1998)
11. The Wrens - The Meadowlands (2003)