I was just thinking about that. The list is pretty broad and I'm surprised AT didn't make the list. or Glassjaw for that matter. seems to be in the same vein as most of the weird stuff they picked.
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Rolling Stone ranks the top 40 emo albums of all-time
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I was just thinking about that. The list is pretty broad and I'm surprised AT didn't make the list. or Glassjaw for that matter. seems to be in the same vein as most of the weird stuff they picked.
One youtube later, I respectfully disagree.
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my chemical romance were so good.
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Not the best list in the world but considering it's Rolling Stone it's actually pretty great. Nice mix of the different emo waves. Top 7 are on point.
Yeah it's weird to have people agreeing with that. I guess emo as a musical genre really doesn't mean anything if they are considered emo.
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Sorry, but if you listen to mall emo you can still hear the influences of bands like Braid, SDRE, TGUK, Promise Ring, and American Football. They're very much connected.
I don't remember if I was emo for the girls or the emotions. I don't remember either working out particularly well for me. Pretty fun list, brings back a ton of memories.
Taking Back Sunday is still one of the worst live acts I've seen in my life, yet when my girlfriend tells me her Taking Back Sunday stories they are totally opposite.
Taking Back Sunday is still one of the worst live acts I've seen in my life, yet when my girlfriend tells me her Taking Back Sunday stories they are totally opposite.
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Good Apollo probably isn't the best choice but Second Stage is totally emo.
first album is very emo-ish imo. also their best album.
it's weird watching your favorite band growing up slowly dip in quality until you come to the realization that they just kinda suck now
FirstBlood
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What a strange list of amazing albums surrounded by complete garbage.
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Don't bring actual good albums into this discussion.
Snark aside, I always thought Jimmy Eat World were more bad pop-punk than emo?
Nah. They began as a post-punk band, then became more of a melancholic pop band, went on to lean towards sorta kinda alternative rock for a few albums and their recent studio output is best classified as garbage.
No. Goth/post-punk and emo have more or less nothing to do with each other. Although I guess what has been classed as emo in recent times, stuff like My Chemical Romance, could be seen as sort of Goth Lite, like Marilyn Manson was seen as goth in the late 90s/early 2000s, even though he didn't have much to do with goth besides taking some visual cues from the genre/subculture.
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Bruh, power pop Fall Out Boy is not. Sloan, The Knack, Big Star, Wedding Present, Stone Roses, Guided by Voices, etc.
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guided by voices are screamo
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Shit, I didn't recognize many of these bands. Only knew about half of them.
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All those Brand New albums but no the Devil and God are raging inside me.
I wouldn't consider Coheed Emo either. All their albums are great though besides year of the black rainbow.
I wouldn't consider Coheed Emo either. All their albums are great though besides year of the black rainbow.
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Gunna drop this again, but Stereogum has a "Golden Era of Emo" playlist here ( https://play.spotify.com/user/stereogum/playlist/54c8LAIVAvki35FooqY5JB ) that encompasses a lot of the 90s stuff. http://www.stereogum.com/1685920/30...lden-era-of-emo/franchises/ultimate-playlist/
Those were just examples of irritating bands that have forever tainted the emo genre. Wasn't imply they were power pop - pop punk and power pop was part of same statement.
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Owls is the best album on the list, but not emo, even if it was listened to by mostly emo kids.
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Where is Finch - What It Is To Burn
or maybe it's not emo?
or maybe it's not emo?
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Did drive-thru records ever release a good album
drtomoe123
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Steel Train's Trampoline
It's emo but it's one of those albums that ruined emo because it allowed hot topic emo to happen.
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Maybe that's why theres no Story of The Year, Yellowcard etc...
the two best new found glory albums, the movielife has a gambling problem, and a few great early rx bandits albums
A lot of the stuff in the top 20 I remember playing on college radio in the late 90s. My view of emo at the time was mostly midwestern 20 somethings playing somewhat angular indie rock that girls liked. They were influenced by Sunny Day Real Estate and Minor Threat, sometimes they sang, and sometimes there was a screamy guy. Sometimes it was pop punk with some math rock cords and timing for variation. I liked Braid alright, they seemed really influenced by Jawbox. I never considered Drive like Jehu to be emo, or Dismemberment Plan, who toured with some emo bands. Most of the ones on that list, I never listen to now.
I never understood the whole goth = emo thing in the 2000s. To me goth is Bauhaus or Dead Can Dance or some Siouxie Sioux, nothing I would remotely equate to emo.
I never understood the whole goth = emo thing in the 2000s. To me goth is Bauhaus or Dead Can Dance or some Siouxie Sioux, nothing I would remotely equate to emo.
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How is Your Favorite Weapon and Deja Entendu in there but no The Devil and God? Smh
I had some fun with this one, trying to recall the bands that were "popular" at the time. According to it, Karate is emo, but not Jawbox or Hot Water Music. Interesting that Drive Like Jehu is also considered emo, but 3 Mile Pilot is not (they didn't even know who they were)
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Brand New is an Emo band at times but I'm not sure The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me is an Emo album. A loooooot of that album has to do with religion and stuff. I mean there are still emo elements in it but as a whole not sure I would classify it that way.
Also Brand News best album
And I could see how a lot of people could say its emo. Its depressing as hell and dark most of the time, but to me Emo is more about relationships and less about personal self doubt. Thats just my interpretation though
When did you see TBS live? I saw them at a really tiny theater the size of maybe half a high school gym a few months after Tell All Your Friends came out before John Nolan left the band and he carried that show HARD. I always thought Mascherino was a poor replacement.
I like RxBandits *shrugs*
You forgot Algernon, the Get Up Kids, and Texas is the Reason. But I feel like you are the only one that gets it in here so I like you.
That list is so awkwardly mixed with real emo and music that was just thrown that term because "why not".
Even weirder that Worship and Tribute didn't make it then. Or maybe that explains it.
This is a joke, right?
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