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

agreed on both points

248 35 1 0 Thursday - A City by the Light Divided

What...how...

I'm still bewildered that the genre turned into pop punk with make up and haircuts.
Not so much pop punk as that's inevitable I suppose things will get poppier as major labels get involved by why the make up/haircuts? where did that come from? It had been over a decade since the heyday of hair metal.
How did it end up like it has?

xp i guess i was its only voter?

Like it was weird to me when it went all dashboard confessional type stuff from a while then it changed drastically again. But I suppose hardcore dudes with acoustic guitars isnt that much of a stretch but changing again to what it did.

the move to dashboard and pop-punk and post hardcore etc makes perfect sense to me - the weird ingredient imo is where all the goth stuff comes from. AFI, MCR, Alkaline Trio - what's the source document for gothy emo music?

gotta say i didn't think i'd have to rep american nightmare? my bad.

american nightmare - am/pm

or maybe everyone just hates it. there are few things i can think of that are more "emo" (altho maybe it's just too "hardcore"?)

I was counting the good things about this city / The only good thing is you are not here

AFI I assume were Misfits fans. The others Marilyn Manson maybe?
It's the only thing I can think of but I am an outsider to emo. Though I was still buying Kerrang when these bands started coming through.

think it's just The Cure tbh

definitely for mcr

who was the first of the glammy/goth emo bands to get known outside of the scene?

mcr is definitely the first one i can think of

afi are barely emo but decemberunderground uses a ton of the genre's tricks

Angel Hair covered Bauhaus and the Locust's label is named "31G"!

129 83 3 0 Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth

huh. we may be the only place on earth to prefer second stage (we're right)

Wow. This was the best poll ever. Middy thank you so much - you are great!

And ArchCarrier you also are amazing!

This poll was dope. Knew hardly anything & have now dived into so much great music (like I have 10 more new favorite bands) & it has legit improved my mood this week

thanks to mordy & archcarrier and all the ilx emobears

haha emobears

:D

http://i.imgur.com/j0SBn0j.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NgVgKiK.jpg

emobear:

http://static.spin.com/files/field/image/110121-black-cards-1.jpg

Who is that?

pete wentz!

i know you shun mall emo but cmon

i was walking home from work just now listening to frame & canvas when i realized i was walking past the front door of where the old tower records used to be, the same spot where i purchased frame & canvas nineteen years ago :-}

https://i.imgur.com/LvQoDRz.jpg

...and where a student barber gave me an $8 haircut four years ago

:)

And it hasn't grown since? That's a bargain!

aw :)

sup

01 Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
02 Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
03 Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
04 The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
05 Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
06 The Wrens - The Meadowlands
07 Constantines - Tournament Of Hearts
08 Jawbreaker - Bivouac
09 Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
10 Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
11 Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense
12 Seaweed - Four
13 Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
14 Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now
15 Jawbox - S/T
16 Fugazi - Repeater
17 Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record
18 Knapsack - Day Three of My New Life
19 Bedhead - Transaction de Novo
20 Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
21 Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
22 Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
23 Hum – You'd Prefer an Astronaut
24 Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
25 Royal Headache - High
26 Burning Airlines - Mission: Control!
27 Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
28 Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
29 Knapsack - Silver Sweepstakes
30 Smart Went Crazy - Now We're Even

Had a wee look at the Rate Your Music alltime emo list

http://tinyurl.com/RYM-Top-Emo-Alltime

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mordy based on your list you are the most faithfully emo, i think the exercise might've benefited from you policing more aggressively after all

Shelter - Mantra

Ha wow!

man... I'm crying that I had to miss the final bit of the rollout today. just caught up.

Bold placed. emo to the max B-)

Copeland – In Motion
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Copeland – Beneath Medicine Tree
The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
Thursday - War All the Time
Mae - Destination: Beautiful
Armor For Sleep - Dream to Make Believe
Pedro the Lion – Control
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead
Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Mae - The Everglow
The Early November - The Room's Too Cold
Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance
The Get-Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl
Further Seems Forever - How to Start a Fire
The Spill Canvas - One Fell Swoop
Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Boys Night Out - Trainwreck
Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes
Sparta - Porcelain¬
Chamberlain - Fate's Got a Driver
Straylight Run - Straylight Run
Further Seems Forever - Hide Nothing
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
Paramore - Paramore
Matchbook Romance - Stories and Alibis
Penfold - Our First Taste of Escape
The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
Paramore - All We Know Is Falling
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
Thursday - Full Collapse
Rival Schools - United by Fate

biggest surprise non placements imo:

Pedro the Lion – Control
Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance

no Further Seems Forever

it pleases me that there wasn't that much overlap btwn voters for the Juno albums. time to get that reissue petition started.

Props to Mordy and ArchC for the poll, I've run two so I know how much time/effort it takes.

I had a blast over the last few weeks reacquainting myself with so much music I hadn't really visited in a while. Was fun re-forming opinions on this stuff at such a different phase in my life. As well as learning about so much more.

Genuine thanks to everyone involved in the nomming/rollout for keeping it light and fun. Ive got a lot of not-emo(!) gripes with a fair share of the picks but it doesn't matter in the end, great results anyway. My fav part of these types of threads is when people talk about their favorite tracks and album moments and specific details about those, and there was a lot of that itt. Hi5 to Brad, Simon, AC, Mordy, my closest neighbors I think.

<3 <3 <3

and yes having recently done the Cohen poll I am also aware of how much of a pain in the neck these are to run!

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(felt like someone needed to type those in an emo poll that prominently features makeoutclub-era bands)

Really regretting not voting for Orange Rhyming Dictionary now - listened to it last night for the first time in ages and it sounded great. Also it was the very first emo album I bought (January 2000 after seeing it mentioned in the NME). Happily I discovered I still have the CD lying around.

Best discoveries from the poll?

Mostly new stuff to me. Currently enjoying the Weakerthans and Appleseed Cast.

And not to harp on, but There Will Be Fireworks are worth a listen in this vein:

https://youtu.be/6-0LZ8my44s

https://youtu.be/Ia_o3kw6PGg

relistening to both juno albums today, thanking simon again for introducing me to my new favorite band of all time

honestly it's been almost a month and I don't know if my CDs are ever getting here so this seems as good a time as any

memorial thread of love and mystery for Juno, the Seattle rock band

SO I listened to 2 Jimmy Eat World and 2 Brand New albums and i thought they were ok.

Biggest discoveries for me were Thursday and Brand New.

There's some good OOP albums on this bandcamp from screamo/post-hardcore groups so maybe they should put out the Juno and Gospel albums?

https://thearchivistlabel.bandcamp.com/