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Your top 5 Emo albums

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by andrewviolet

1: Jimmy Eat World- Clarity
2: Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary
3: Saves the day- Stay what you are
4: American Football- S/T
5: Rites of spring- End on End

andrewviolet | 27 Feb '08, 11:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

your top 6 emo albums

1: Jimmy Eat World- Clarity
2: Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary
3: Saves the day- Stay what you are
4: American Football- S/T
5: Rites of spring- End on End
6: Dashboard Confessional- Places You Have Come To Fear The Most


Okay,

then YES that would be my sixth favourite emo album.


Top 3:

Thursday - War All The Time
MCR - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Brand New - Deja Entendu


Texas is the Reason - Do you know who you are?

Knapsack - Day Three of my New Life
Mineral - End Serenading
Dag Nasty* - Can I Say
The Promise Ring - Very Emergency

First person to say Madina LOLake or suchlike will be taken away and clubbed to death!!!11

*I maintain that Dag Nasty were an emo band.


hmm

1. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
2. American Football - s/t
3. Mineral - The Power of Failing
4. Owls - s/t
5. Cursive - The Storms of Early Summer


for some reason

i really never got mineral.
the others are mint though.


SDRE - diary

JEW - clarity]
GUK - four minute mile
promise ring - very emergency
weezer - pinkerton*

*true emo


WUT?!!11!

NO MENTION OF ATREYU, FROM FIRST TO LAST OR BLESSED BY A BROKEN HEART?

SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME IN DEPTH WHAT EMO REALLY IS


well

american football- s/t
sunny day real estate- diary
texas is the reason- do you know who you are?
saves the day- stay what you are
dashboard- The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most

i'm crying whilst writing this...


oh shit,,,

and anything by OWEN at number 1...


eh?

why dear boy?


Not YOU, Daniel Kelly!

Slow board loading today so posts are taking forever to appear.


oh

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in no order

brand new - deja entendu
taking back sunday - tell all your friends
american football - american football
funeral for a friend - casually dressed
jimmy eat world - clarity

does Analphabetapolothology by Cap'n Jazz count?


I'll get a slagging, but...

1) Take This to Your Grave - Fall Out Boy
2) Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World
3) A Fever You Can't Sweat out - Panic! At the Disco
4) A City By the Light Divided - Thursday
5) The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance


5ive

1) Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary
2) Mineral- The Art Of Failing
3) The Dismemberment Plan- Change
4) Shudder To Think- Pony Express Record
5) Thursday- Waiting


SHIT!

how can i forget!

NEW END ORIGINAL- THRILLER

and anything by jonah, inc FAR... (except gratitude)


i absoltely completatlerbbeuy

forgot about shudder to think, SUCH a great band, good call sir


everyone also forgot about mineral

That's a cardinal sin in my book.


i already love mineral though

i just forgot about the genius of shudder to think


1. CHRISTIE FRONT DRIVE

STEREO


1. Brand New - Deja Entendu

2. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
3. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

Despite owning several albums that would be tagged as emo, none really come close to these 3, so I'm leaving it at that. Plus, I can't remember any more.


...

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Texas is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
Thursday - Waiting
Dashboard Confessional - Swiss Army Romance
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are


1 such blinding stars for starving eyes - cursive

2. end serenading - mineral
3. 10 songs - I hate myself
4. war all the time - thursday
I cant stretch to a 5th


top 5 is...

1 MCR - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love

2 MCR - Three cheers for sweet revenge

3 Brand New - deja entendu

4 Thursday - Cant decide which one I like the most

5 Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation


5

Statistics - Often lie
Coheed and Cambria - In keeping secrets of middle earth:3
Brand New - Deja entendu
Thrice - Vheissu
Receiving End Of Sirens - The Earth sings mi fa mi


I'm not sure what counts

and what doesn't any more.

At any rate, I love Texas is the Reason, Thursday's War All The Time, Weezer's Pinkerton, and I can't choose between Bleed American and Clarity. I'll say the Ugly Organ if it counts, but I'm *just not sure what counts any more*.

The Photo Album is good. So is Emergency and I. God, I don't know.


the ugly organ

i think it counts!also i think i would class biffy clyros blackened sky as emo.but then again much like danger i am unsure what counts and what doesnt


something to write home about - Get up Kids

Waiting-Thursday
Water and Solutions-Far
Read music/Speak Spanish-Desaparecidos
Diary-sUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE


Desaparecidos are brilliant

Wouldn't call that emo though.

Infact, fuck the nitpicking, they are good enough for most lists


1. Cap'n Jazz- Schmap'n Schmazz

2. Rites of Spring- End On End
3. Far- Water & Solutions
4. American Football- s/t
5. Rival Schools- United By Fate


WOT

NO ELLIOT?


oh wow

American Football - s/t
Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails (controversial)
Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
Cap'n Jazz - Analphabeta....

Then I'm not sure but either Elliott, Braid, Mineral or Texas is the Reason.


shit, I forgot Appleseed Cast

Low Level Owl Vol 1 is blatantly their best though.


Don't know about 5

but Boy Sets Fire- After The Eulogy would have to be in there somewhere!


death cab for cutie?

no?
YES


Ive never heard

of American Football, but Ill invest in their album as its had a good few mentions here but who is their sound closer to, the likes of Blink 182/New Found Glory or Thrice/Thursday?!


They could be compared to thursday

but their music is really mid paced and sad, they don't really 'rock' at all, its almost more like post rock in a way.


Cheers Andy

Maybe Ill try and check out some of there stuff from somewhere before investing!


They could be compared to Thursday

in that they are also a band who play guitars and once released an album!

In terms of bigger, more successfyl bands, think Minus The Bear


Really?

I guess they are strained and sound like they could break at any time, but the passion in Kinsella's voice is not the same as that in Rickly's. Not a comparison I'd ever have made, but each to their own


qwertyuiop[]

schmap'n shmazz
hello bastards
lyburnum
the power of failing
owls (if it counts, rites of spring if it doesnt)


Are Lifetime allowed?

If so I'm putting 5 Lifetime releases.


NO!

Lifetime were in no way associated with emo. They were melodic hardcore.


You learn something new everyday

For instance, I now know what to post if ever I want to wind you up


blah.

they're emo enough for me gosh darn it


..

BRAND NEW- DEJA
MCR- YOU BROUGHT...
TBS TEALL ALL YOUR FREINDS

THATS ALL YOU NEED


megaemo

texas is the reason - do you know who you are?
american football - s/t
brand new - deja entendu
the get up kids - something to write home about
thursday - full collapse


1) Further Seems Forever - The Moon Is Down

2) Thursday - Full Collapse
3) Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
4) Dashboard Confessional - Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
5) Kaddisfly - Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You A Unicorn


in no real order

jimmy eat world - clarity
far - water & solutions
weakerthans - left & leaving
promise ring - nothing feels good
get up kids - on a wire or something to write home about


...

1. Before And After Science
2. Another Green World
3. No Pussyfooting
4. Here Come the Warm Jets
5. Music for Films


Top 5 Emo Albums

1] "Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy"
2] "Thursday Afternoon"
3] "Another Green World"
4] "Music For Airports"
5] "On Land"


Oh shit!

:[


Tiger Mountain would probably be my favourite too.

Cue bouncing around the room to The Fat Lady Of Limbourg


1. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

2. Bright Eyes - Fevers And Mirrors (clearly 'emo')
3. The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
4. American Football - s/t
5. Thursday - War All The Time
6. Braid - Frame And Canvas


Mine are...

1. Spitalfield - Stop Doing Bad Things
2. Early November - The Mechanic
3. Nada Surf - Let Go
4. Saves The Day - In Reverie
5. The Junior Varsity - Wide Eyed

off the top of my head. Also Promise Ring are good...


Has anyone

else noticed that you could reverse the name of the emo bands and their album titles and someone...cough..errm... a friend of mine...perhaps...who knew nothing about emo, wouldn't be able to tell which was which?


this is harder than i thought it would be

1 brand new deja entendu(best album ever)
2 thursday full collaspe
3jawbreaker dear you
4 get up up kids four minute mile
5 jimmy eat world clarity


Haha!


1 Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

2 Brand New - Deja Entendu
3 The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
4 Mineral - Endserenading
5 Texas Is The Reason - Do You Know Who You Are

Honorable mentions - American Football, Capn Jazz, Thursday, Appleseed Cast, Promise Ring, Jawbreaker.

NOT EMO: Bright Eyes, Dismemberment Plan, The Weakerthans


i just downloaded

full collapse because of this thread!
i hope it's better than War all the time, cos that's proper shit apart from a couple of tracks..


full collapse

is consistently great. So is A City By The Light Divided, the newest one. War All The Time only has about 4 good songs though.


It's similar to tell all your friends

in that it might have dated a bit now, but it really was a landmark album.


Oh and

Thursday - Full Collapse
American Football - st
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity


I totally forgot

Saetia - A Retrospective and The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis!


spy versus spy

little lights


The following bands

from this thread surely don't count as emo?!?

Brand New, Dismemberment Plan, Rival Scools, Weakerthans, Bright Eyes, Nada Surf...

My 5:

Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Texas Is The Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
Far - Water & Solutions
JEW - Clarity
The Get Up Kids - Something to write home about


Brand New...

etc are definitely not emo. Just pop punk eh?


emo schemo

1. braid - frame and canvas
2. spy versus spy - little lights or the s/t ep
3. american football - s/t
4. indian summer - discography
5. owls - s/t

and an honourable mention to stapleton.


Best list yet.

But no Christie Front drive?!


+10 scene points to me then

how about we add the christie front drive/boy's life split for extra emo?

don martin 3 as well.

i just realised i've not included any of the gravity bands. oh well.


Glad I am worth scene points

Your band was named after a Spies song. Surely that's some right there?

My band is named after a Kossabone Red song!


without getting into what is / what isnt emo...

1. weezer - pinkerton
2. saves the day - through being cool
3. get up kids - something to write home about
4. jimmy eat world - bleed american
5. promise ring - very emergency

pretty obvious. but the best things in life always are.