Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good // Braid - Frame and Canvas // Get Up Kids - 4 Minute Mile //

4 minute mile obviously

Gotta go with Braid...

I once liked Braid enough to go to a Hey Mercedes concert and download a Firebird Project album, so I'll go with them. Although, in retrospect, I only listened to "Killing a Camera", "A Dozen Roses" and "Never Will Come for Us". It's been a few years since I listened to any of them. Humming the last two in my head, I'm guessing they haven't aged well, but I bet "Killing a Camera" still holds up.

Hey mercedes were pretty rad imo

"the new nathan detroits" is the best song on any of these records but nothing feels good is awesome through and through.

great poll grady. going with frame and canvas here.

Humming the last two in my head, I'm guessing they haven't aged well

yeah, this makes a whole lot of sense. no.

worst music ever

(for real this time)

Braid.

ah, nostalgia. i'm going with nothing feels good

Get Up Kids

get up kids.
the best promise ring album was obv 30degrees everywhere. braid, well.

Man, did I love the Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile and Braid - The Age of Octeen when I was a teenager.

one nine nine five! when we were ten past nine!

i can't believe ian is choosing get up kids

god i hated this shit

well don't you win

Actually, with the grad students off Thrill Jockeyin' and the kids with pants that actually fit at these basement poetry-punk shows, I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under my alt-rock ass.

man i almost forgot making this-- i can be a pretty serious poster when drunk!

oh yeah i was going to have a jimmy eat world one on here too but Static Prevails seems too early and Clarity seems too late

PS- Promise Ring by a country mile

man i didn't remember the promise ring record until i clicked the image of the cover...i loved that album too!

Actually, with the grad students off Thrill Jockeyin' and the kids with pants that actually fit at these basement poetry-punk shows, I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under my alt-rock ass.

― da croupier, Saturday, January 3, 2009 5:37 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LOL

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Hey Mercedes.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

promise ring felt the most pretentious at the time but the least embarrassing now.

wrong.
promise ring still more embarassing than get up kids, ESPECIALLY the two albums being compared.

i can't believe ian is choosing get up kids

― cutty, Saturday, January 3, 2009 12:03 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Frame and Canvas robbed against 4MM

promise ring felt the most pretentious at the time but the least embarrassing now.

― gr8080, Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is interesting. I need to reappraise all three.

YOUUUUUUUUU
YOU'RE ALWAYS
YOUR
ALWAYSS
DRESSSSST AND BUUUUTONED UP

^^^^^^^^^^

The results of this poll are fine, but should have been Something to Write Home About tbh. That should have also won.

BA BA BA DA BA BA BA BA DA BA DAA
DOO DOO DOO DO DO DO AND YOU

i love all of these goddamn fucking records

The only one I can even imagine playing now is PR. I put "Red and Blue Jeans" on an Important Mixtape

dudes at work have been jamming Nothing Feels Good a LOT lately.

i like 'b is for bethlehem' a lot

GOT A COUGH
MY THROAT KILLS FROM SINGING
MY EARS ARE RINGING
AND THE STAGE IS SLOWLY SINKING

i will fuck w/ all three of these albums for the rest of my life-- they're getting close to being weird old guy music already

PR is the obvious choice here, I say. But then, I think Very Emergency is better than Nothing Feels Good.

might hit a pr reunion tour show in the neighborhood. tough calls...

enjoy all these far more than 99.99% of current indie rock

The drumming on the Braid album is incredible. The songs are, too, really! I saw a whole hell of a lot of these bands in that '97-98 stretch. I was always a big Dischord fan and people I knew who were also into more arty punk just HATED this stuff. But all of these acts had some tunes!

Love all these. Kinda. Not going to listen to them again to find out.

Best heard on cassette in a smokey little hatchback en route to see your mate's hardcore band support the latest Tim Kinsella travesty. Other cassettes included Native Nod "Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World", Cable "When Animals Attack", Chisel "It's 8AM All Day" and Kill Rock Stars compilation that never got listened to. "Twoism" by Boards of Canada would soundtrack the ride home.

i listened to the 2nd Piebald record last nite to see if it held up as well as these three.

it didn't.

I just did that with Piebald lately as well. You are so right. Did not enjoy.

I am totally going to see them next month. lol.

i think i'm going to see Refused in 2 weeks

Nice. I saw them once many years ago.

I think Very Emergency is better than Nothing Feels Good.

EMO

xpost I do. But it's close. NFG is great.

Hmm, well, maybe I should go back and listen and make sure I stand by that.

Did not expect a Promise Ring-related crisis of opinion today.

very emergency is cute and all but its no NFG

otm

same goes for "something to write home about" - its a great album tied up w/ a lot of late teens nostalgia for me, but it just doesn't ~fit~ with Nothing Feels Good and Frame and Canvas the same way Four Minute Mile does.

i left Static Prevails and Clarity off this poll for the same reason

new thread:

the emo canon

The higlight of Four Minute Mile, though, is the least emo sounding song - the total Weezer one where he goes "Oh Amy / Don't hate me / for running away from you" or whatever with that synth riff. Didn't the synth player break apart and form Reggie & The Full Effect?

I saw The Get-Up Kids reunion show on their Euro tour last september. They were still quite good but had gotten significantly older. They ended their set with that Oh Amy-song and Ten Minutes from Something To Write Home About.

I recently found out that Rop Pope, TGUK's bassplayer, is also playing bass in Spoon (who are one of my favorite bands since the last two years).

frame and canvas STILL sounds good imo

some of the best and most consistent drumming, also. wholehearted recommendation to young drummers looking to be awesome

Aye.

"You're painting floors while your pals are renaming the stars / get up, get up, and go do what you started / if you want to be a martyr - try harder!"

love this:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21125-nothing-feels-good/

The world of Nothing Feels Good doesn't pinpoint specific, identifiable emotions. It is a state of being, one where an overactive mind and overstimulated body are aren’t exactly at war, but struggling to attain common ground. It’s feeling like your heart is pumping Mountain Dew straight to your brain and your central nervous system can’t be trusted. Davey von Bohlen himself is at a loss for words to describe it: many of Nothing Feels Good’s inscrutable, quotable lyrics are a result of internal miscommunication: "I got my hands on the one hand, and I don’t know where to put them", "I married a room, where I’ll at least keep my hands in order", "how do I explain your body to the rest of my day?"

of these three records, frame and canvas