I think TITR is gonna do well which by all lights it deserves.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 20 February 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 20 February 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
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
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Monday, 20 February 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link
fuck I forgot to nominate Dismembermant Plan Is Terrified
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 20 February 2017 19:44 (seven years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Monday, 20 February 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Monday, 20 February 2017 19:50 (seven years ago) link
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 EPAmerican Football - S/T
I Hate Myself - Four Songs EPAmerican 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
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Monday, 20 February 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link
^^ under "the dismemberment plan" btw, those the's are hell
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Monday, 20 February 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 20 February 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Monday, 20 February 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link
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.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 20 February 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
xp
Are you planning to listen to every album?
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 20 February 2017 23:11 (seven years ago) link
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.
― cwkiii, Monday, 20 February 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link
i'm trying to -- we'll see how far i get
― Mordy, Monday, 20 February 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
phew! the split listing messed me up I guess. definitely the most emo Plan album.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 20 February 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
Now I'm feeling a little bad that I didn't listen to this Juno album in 1999.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 20 February 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
You singlehandedly caused their demise, I'm told.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 20 February 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
― Mordy, Monday, February 20, 2017 4:09 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Def finding this to be an issue as well. Think I might just double down on my favs and re-familiarize myself with those then do the brunt of my discovery during the countdown and after.
― Spottie, Monday, 20 February 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
Lol xp
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 20 February 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
Two oldies that are not on Spotify:
Indian Summer - Science 1994Mohinder - Discography
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 20 February 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
It's slowly dawning on me that I might be the oldest person on this thread.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
im 35 idk
― Spottie, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 00:21 (seven years ago) link
37 ftw
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
didn't like straylight run much when it first came out - i think bc i didn't like taking back sunday back then (only really got into them a little bit after where you want to be and until today i'm not a huge fan of tell all your friends) but this is very nice + pleasant
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link
i like this early november album too
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link
which one?
― Spottie, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 02:57 (seven years ago) link
the room's too cold
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
yeah love that album. I was not ready for the massive three disc 'the mother the mechanic and the path' concept album when it came out. wasn't expecting it. grew to like it and it actually primed me for the shift in sound/style that brand new introduced a few months later w 'The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me'
― Spottie, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:02 (seven years ago) link
It's funny bc I was thinking this album kinda reminds me of a less literate deja entendu
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
(No pejorative intended)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:07 (seven years ago) link
the Chumped vocalist reminds me a lot of Andrea Zollo vox
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:26 (seven years ago) link
gonna try to listen to at least all the multiple nomination bands I've near heard, except for Saves the Day, for reasons
first up...Braid, maybe?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:30 (seven years ago) link
whats your saves the day beef?
― Spottie, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
Frame and Canvas a great place to start imho
A DOZEN ROSES IN THE CAR / AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE
^^ one of the great lines in emo history
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:39 (seven years ago) link
WaitForEverything emo in youComes out
― THAC0 Pastorius (Tom Violence), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link
xxxxp - I'll be 40 in April, so I guess that settles it.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 06:29 (seven years ago) link
Deja Entendu suffers from having such a brilliant and novel opening track (after the intro). The rest of the album doesn't really stand out for me, especially after having heard almost nothing but emo for the past week. 'Jaws Theme Swimming' is great, though.I'll definitely relisten before I vote, but for now I don't really get all the praise.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 07:18 (seven years ago) link
deja is great but I much prefer their next one
― Spottie, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 07:23 (seven years ago) link
BTW, is there a technical term for that trick where a singer overlaps the end of the previous line with the next one, like Brand New does in 'Sic transit gloria' and 'Jaws Theme Swimming'? My favorite example of this is Kim Gordon in 'JC' from Dirty.
I'm thinking of starting a thread about this technique.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 07:26 (seven years ago) link
too strongly associated with a problematic person in my life (the emo-est of beefs)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 08:09 (seven years ago) link
― Mordy, Monday, February 20, 2017 7:25 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
both straylight run albums are incredible imo, they're both kinda reactionary non-emo emo albums, especially the first, which exists in a v strange aesthetic space between emo and singer-songwriter-y stuff. second is a great ambitious indie pop album like the format's dog problems
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link
there are so many saves the day records and they're all good-to-great but i always rep most for the least emo and most power-pop of their records, in reverie, the songwriting is incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBh6ueNaN6c
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 12:57 (seven years ago) link
got busy with family and missed the end of the nominations period, but the list looks awesome, will have to start whittling down ASAP, and try some of these ones out, Thirty Ought Six sounds really interesting on first blush, i still love SDRE's Diary a lot so anything Enigk-related is an automatic listen.
I have to rep for my nomination Five Knuckle Chuckle, they are absolutely skate-punk (w/ slighly pop-emo lyrics at times) but really great nonetheless and I think the voters in this thread would be the most likely on this site to enjoy this particular shit. Both albums are on youtube. They keep the speed to the nines the whole time so they never quite slowed down enough to write something that was really radio ready. They gave me their albums for making a donation to a charity of my choice, so I guess it figures they had to give it up and get real jobs, i suppose that wasn't the best business plan. That and there isn't a huge market for skate punk bands in Orangeville, ON.
Charliee HorseAll Hammed Up!
― Will (kruezer2), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
ha I know a coupla folks from Orangeville, I'll have to ask if they heard of em
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 14:14 (seven years ago) link
I'm 40 Sund4r, so congrats, old guy award probably goes to me.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
Gonna campaign for the One Last Wish album. Rites of Spring's post-Rites of Spring band, with the same raw-throat conviction, but an overall more hopeful, lighter, poppier spirit. One of the great dead ends in underground rock history, imo, since the LP wasn't released until well after the fact (too late to be influential), but it imagined a cross between emo and '80s guitar-pop that never existed elsewhere. Every song is great, song for song as solid at Rites of Spring, so it's not a stretch to think it could've become a touchstone if it had ever been pressed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rjnH3jL7AAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7slGajKCOI
― Evan R, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
the record not on spotify that i'm most aggressively going to campaign for is jejune's this afternoon's malady, which is simultaneously emo, indie pop, and shoegaze, and which is sometimes my favorite record in any of those subgenres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivkEDtbIFM0
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
iirc i think i learned about jejune on this ilx thread
the emo canon
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
it could add an interesting stat dimension to the results if we all submitted our ages lol
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
Haven't listened yet. Compiling film ballot and sourcing outliers for my emo 50.
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 5 March 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
The Gospel album is better than City of Caterpillar (its screamo-prog)
i resubmitted my ballot btw
― Odysseus, Sunday, 5 March 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
I wasn't going to vote in this but we're listening to Braid and...I might, you know
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Sunday, 5 March 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
give a listen to Gospel.
Screamo-prog! Fuck, this is great.― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 4 March 2017 18:04 (yesterday
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 4 March 2017 18:04 (yesterday
― Odysseus, Sunday, 5 March 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link
We have been listening for a while now! It is some pretty incredible doom...
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 5 March 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
Voted 50, ridiculous
― tangenttangent, Monday, 6 March 2017 01:25 (seven years ago) link
Sent a ballot, then sent a revised ballot, then gmail decided to screw with it. Please accept only the final email!
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Monday, 6 March 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link
man are we gonna crack 30 ballots? that would be rad
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 6 March 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Monday, 6 March 2017 03:30 (seven years ago) link
oh snap. I better hurry
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Monday, 6 March 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
go spottie go!!!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 6 March 2017 04:07 (seven years ago) link
Boom, done! so ready for this rollout.
― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Monday, 6 March 2017 04:43 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 6 March 2017 06:33 (seven years ago) link
It's time!
Run Quick EMO ALBUMS; Here I’ll POLL, You VOTED
― Mordy, Monday, 6 March 2017 12:46 (seven years ago) link
Woohoo!!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 6 March 2017 12:49 (seven years ago) link
Sad I had crazy family things come up and didn't vote. Will follow the results happily.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 6 March 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 6 March 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link