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

one of the most emo records that has nothing to do with "emo" as a "scene" that i can think of!

I mean, I love the album but doesn't really have the same DNA I don't think. *shrugs*

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10. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)
405 points, 11 votes

I mean, I love the album but doesn't really have the same DNA I don't think. *shrugs*

much in the same way that ducks and platypuses share no dna and yet that bill

sure, I guess. But you wouldn't call a platypus a bird.

Drowned in Sound: 10/10
AllMusic: 4.5/5
Pitchfork: a piece of garbage review and a 3.5 http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4261-bleed-american/ lol

I want to thank this poll for my belated JEW conversion

but would you call a platypus emo?

i would

salt sweat
sugar on the asphalt

^

bleed american came out the year i took off from college and lived in tempe, az with some friends. i worked at a cafe where 75% of JEW had been employed at one time and i went to 9th & ash on many tuesday nights.

if it looks like a duck and walks like a platypus it must be emo

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9. The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About (1999)
408 points, 13 votes, 2 number ones

too low jk it's a little high but i love this record

was jamming it this morning while i showered, good shower singalong record

also in my experience this album melts the heart of even the most hardened emo hater

not as good as 4 min mile but good

I voted for this one. Their best album by far.

^^^ see

People always seem amazed I liked the Get Up Kids

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8. Weezer - Pinkerton (1996)
424 points, 13 votes

hah, so at least its not #1

lol i nommed this but couldn't vote for it

I think if The Black Parade isn't #1 now I'll be happy whatever is

would have been hard for me to leave it off so i'll take credit for it not being higher

god damn u

I voted for this but would've felt bad if it had won.

same

I liked it enough when Pinkerton came out but I just did not want it to win

this epitomizes "not emo"

yet...

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7. Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me (2006)
462 points, 11 votes, 1 number one

TOO LOW

too looooow. my number 2, hadn’t listened to brand new before the poll and fell in love with this. One of the best rock albums of the century.

Had a terrible job interview last week and listened to it three times on the train home.

Thank you for adding the release years.

The poll is making me realise that I might be a Cursive fan. Domestica is sounding even better than The Ugly Organ.

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6. Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring (1985)
478 points, 14 votes, 3 number ones

was hopnig y'all were joking about pinkerton placing but ok

TOO LOW

my #1

devil and god def the best rock record of recent memory. my no. 2 as well

I hoped it would at least beat The Black Parade

the black parade is not gonna place

rites of spring record is great but it set a template that i think multiple bands improved upon. for instance i like the embrace record way more

otm

I like this a lot more than Embrace, Ian MacKaye's stuff pre-Fugazi is a bit... immature I feel.

your emotions are nothing but politics

Brad I've got to say thanks for your bigging up of The Devil and God... on one of the other emo threads - I'd always written off Brand New for some reason but I love this record.

Rites of Spring is all time, though in hindsight I wish I had nominated End on End instead of the s/t, because End on End pairs that record with their All Through a Life EP, which contains three or four of their best songs:

"All Through a Life" – 2:27
"Hidden Wheel" – 2:31
"In Silence/Words Away" – 3:00
"Patience" – 1:58

They all kinda melted into the same album in my memory, but that EP is essential. Sort of functions as closure for the project, too, since those songs serve as an unexpected happy ending

Diary AND How it Feels haven't placed yet? Dang sunny

Rites of Spring is definitely my favourite first-wave emo record.