This POLL Will Become the Anthem of Your EMO Voting Thread / You're Two Floors Down CAMPAIGNING in the Back Room.

which one?

the room's too cold

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'

It's funny bc I was thinking this album kinda reminds me of a less literate deja entendu

(No pejorative intended)

the Chumped vocalist reminds me a lot of Andrea Zollo vox

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?

whats your saves the day beef?

first up...Braid, maybe?

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

Wait
For
Everything emo in you
Comes out

xxxxp - I'll be 40 in April, so I guess that settles it.

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.

deja is great but I much prefer their next one

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.

whats your saves the day beef?

too strongly associated with a problematic person in my life (the emo-est of beefs)

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

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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

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

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 Horse
All Hammed Up!

ha I know a coupla folks from Orangeville, I'll have to ask if they heard of em

I'm 40 Sund4r, so congrats, old guy award probably goes to me.

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=6rjnH3jL7AA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7slGajKCOI

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

iirc i think i learned about jejune on this ilx thread

the emo canon

I'm 40 Sund4r, so congrats, old guy award probably goes to me.

it could add an interesting stat dimension to the results if we all submitted our ages lol

^^^^^excellent thread xp

ugh that's making me realize i forgot to nominate phantoms by acceptance

simultaneously emo, indie pop, and shoegaze, and which is sometimes my favorite record in any of those subgenres

The hardest part of this poll is going to be deciding whether or not to vote for some of my favorite records ever that I never considered emo.

yeah I'm not gonna vote for Unwound, Converge, and some others. I may vote for the Wrens though because I get the same satisfaction of idenficiation/immersion from them as I do from emo bands, if that makes any sense

I'm listening to the straylight run for the first time (the second album) and uhhh I think this is what I wanted out of Pretty. Odd.

Yeah Unwound is probably my favorite LP on the whole list but I won't vote for it.

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.

the opening track is great but imo actually seems a bit out of place w/ the rest of the album which is tremendous on its own virtues. boy who blocked his own shot, quiet things that no one ever knows, okay i believe you but my tommy gun don't, guernica -- i mean like every track at least to me is incredibly memorable w/ a v distinctive musical aesthetic and maybe more importantly just chockfull of really clever lyrics. idk if you were paying attention to the lyrics while you were listening but they're a big part of the appeal to me. it's also a fantastic album to sing along really loudly to while you're feeling sad and driving somewhere.

I like Deja Entendu a lot but I can't help feeling that The Devil and God makes it sound a bit quaint.

i like devil & god but somehow it's not as lyrically interesting to me. musically probably more impressive but i don't think deja entendu is a slouch in that department either, just a bit more conventional

i think deja entendu might be the greatest transitional album of all time; it's definitely suffering from an identity crisis but if anything that makes it better, both rejecting and embracing what made your favorite weapon work, trying to make something both ambitious and poppy, straightforward and oblique. i prefer devil and god but they're kinda equally special imo

idk if you were paying attention to the lyrics while you were listening but they're a big part of the appeal to me. it's also a fantastic album to sing along really loudly to while you're feeling sad and driving somewhere.

2) I'm one of the happiest guys on the planet

fp

dgi

flagging ur post bc u self-identified as happy in the emo thread

if ur happy get out

LOL

Agreed tbh

idk if i'm often sad tbph, more like perpetually angsty and anxious

i'll allow it

I didn't nominate anything cause I was never really into the late '90s early '00s pop-punk emo, but this is a damn fine list of albums. I'll try to get a ballot together.

xxp - That's why you're running the poll and not me. I'm going to put on an I Hate Myself album now and see if it helps...

OK gonna attempt to campaign for two of the bands on my nomination list: Hot Water Music and Small Brown Bike...

At their core these are very similar acts. Three word band names! Dense, detuned guitars! Scruffy dudes howling over each other in gruff voices! Both take cues from acts that came before: HWM, say, Leatherface; and SBB, say, HWM and Jawbreaker. Both at/were near the top of my late 90s-early 00s post-hardcore/emo-core/punk fandom.

Fuel for the Hate Game and Forever and Counting are the essential HWM albums for me because they manage to be both strong and sensitive, lyrical and gutteral, and complex yet simple in their execution in true punk style. The lyrics are damn near impossible to decipher (especially considering the singers are frequently singing different lines at the same time) but they still bring a sense of unity, purpose, and optimism. Musically, their rhythm section and syncopated play has always impressed me... dare I say they can even be "groovy"?

Key tracks for me: On Fuel, "Turnstile", "Blackjaw", "Drunken Third". On Forever, "Better Sense", "Just Don't Say You Lost It", "Minno".

Small Brown Bike, at first, sounds very similar to HWM. I know they played shows/toured together, and both were mainstays of No Idea Records during their careers. SBB is a bit more emo, I'd say -- more songs about relationships and less about scene unity. The fact that they're from my home state of Michigan definitely plays into their selection on my part, I've probably seen them live a dozen times. At times they feature three vocalists taking on different levels of screaming/shouting the words, often answering one another. Of these two albums, Our Own Wars is the earlier and probably the more complete work, but the production and live execution of Dead Reckoning was amazing in its time. Neither have held up as well as I feel the HWM albums have, but I still love them.

Key tracks: On Dead Reckoning, "Sleeping Weather", "This Ship Will Burn", "I Will Bury You In Me". On Our Own Wars, "The Cannons And Tanks", "Zerosum", "Make This A Holiday" -- the last being the best SBB song ever and one I'm not ashamed to admit I will scream along with at full volume if given the chance.

"listen to I Hate Myself and see if that helps" would be an excellent name for the poll imo

Turnstile is one of my fave songs ever.

All of the experts say you ought to start them young. / That way they'll naturally love the taste of corporate cum.

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