Good emo albums

no guru · **Posted:** Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:19 am

Radcliffe Wrote:

yay.

also:

Hegel · **Posted:** Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:08 am

not too much extra to add to this, but I would have bit the Pink Album by SDRE on this list as well as Diary. Fuck HIFTBSO.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:44 am

yeah, Knapsack.

anything by them qualifies.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:13 am

Cap'n Jazz

Braid-Frame & Canvas

spun this quite a bit in college.

Shotmaker

amazing comp. Great band.

Jets To Brazil-Four Cornered Nights

Joan of Arc-The Gap

I really liked this album for a six month period.

thrillhouse · **Posted:** Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:30 pm

i need a workable 'emo' definiton. i had no idea knapsack counts.

DHRjericho · **Posted:** Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:35 pm

thrillhouse Wrote:

i need a workable 'emo' definiton. i had no idea knapsack counts.

i wasn't sure but people often claim they are. Definitely a cooler version of the term...i guess.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:37 am

thrillhouse Wrote:

i need a workable 'emo' definiton. i had no idea knapsack counts.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=77:4525

There's pretty much nothing on this page I can dispute. I think they nailed it.

loserdork · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:19 am

All things relating to The Impossibles...

The Impossibles

The Stereo

Imbroco

Slowreader

and of course...

Weezer's Blue Album

and

Pinkerton

Sketch · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:19 am

Far - Water & Solutions
Juno - This is the Way It Goes and Goes
Rainer Maria - A Better Version of Me
Modest Mouse - Moon and Antartica

Modem · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:38 pm

The Stereo = emo? Come on.

I will add these to the list, though:

Texas is The Reason:

and

Quicksand

paladisiac · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:11 pm

Sketch Wrote:

Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica

if this counts as emo, this has my vote.

Stone red's dark sunshine · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:17 pm **Posts:** 1096

(1) I don't consider 1/2 of the albums in this thread to be emo (even under an expansive definition).

(2) Nobody has mentioned the greatest (and pioneering) emo album yet:

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i remember when sunny day realestate came out i thought they were a crappy version of superchunk.

they probably sound nothing alike, but that's what my 19 year old ears thought.

Timis · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:41 pm

Stone Wrote:

(1) I don't consider 1/2 of the albums in this thread to be emo (even under an expansive definition).

(2) Nobody has mentioned the greatest (and pioneering) emo album yet:

i agree - my choices were in the vien of the original poster....after i threw a couple out there - i realized that there are actually a shit ton of GREAT emo bands.

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:47 pm

Stone Wrote:

(1) I don't consider 1/2 of the albums in this thread to be emo (even under an expansive definition).

Bob Mould is the Led Zeppelin to all the Whitesnakes.

aFreshStart4Me · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:56 pm

As the the self proclaimed 'oldest living emo fan', I have to agree alot of the bands you guys listed are not emo. I mean the Buzzcocks are clearly not emo and neither is Modest Mouse. Seriously, you guys are reaching.
Some of my standards are;
Taking Back Sunday
Jimmie Eat World
The Format
The Jealous Sound (ex Knapsack frontman)
Plain White T's
Thursday
Motion City Soundtrack
Before Braiile
At the Drive in
Sparta

there are many more,those are just off the top of my head

Modem · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:57 pm

I've only heard one Motion City Soundtrack album, but it didn't sound like emo to me. It was pretty much pure hi-octane pop-punk.

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:59 pm

aFreshStart4Me Wrote:

As the the self proclaimed 'oldest living emo fan', I have to agree alot of the bands you guys listed are not emo. I mean the Buzzcocks are clearly.

I pretty sure both Radcliffe and myself were being facetious in a "this stuff is better than that stuff" way.

Sketch · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:02 pm

aFreshStart4Me Wrote:

I mean the Buzzcocks are clearly not emo and neither is Modest Mouse.

I don't see how different MM is in sound or lyrical themes than a band like 764-HERO, yet the latter is generally accepted in a lot of emo convos.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:48 pm

aFreshStart4Me Wrote:

As the the self proclaimed 'oldest living emo fan', I have to agree alot of the bands you guys listed are not emo. I mean the Buzzcocks are clearly not emo

Uh yeah. The point was that emo has always been an unclassifiable genre because its allegedly distinguishing traits are shared by a wide variety of non-emo bands.

And any criteria you use to delineate an emo band, I'll put money down that the Buzzcocks not only meet that criteria, but are also deliver the best songs.

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:52 pm

I see current emo defined as "when the guy starts singing his voice is both horribly abrasive and non-descriptly juvenile sounding."

greezy · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:16 pm

Sketch Wrote:

aFreshStart4Me Wrote:

I mean the Buzzcocks are clearly not emo and neither is Modest Mouse.

I don't see how different MM is in sound or lyrical themes than a band like 764-HERO, yet the latter is generally accepted in a lot of emo convos.

agree, especially old modest mouse. tell me how "trailer trash" doesn't qualify, musically or lyrically.

katie, a princess · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:25 pm

red Wrote:

the honorary title

seconded

Timis · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:25 pm

katie, a princess Wrote:

red Wrote:

the honorary title

seconded

want that new album BAD

Timis · **Posted:** Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:32 pm

katie, a princess Wrote:

red Wrote:

the honorary title

seconded

new song (i think its the mastered version)

http://www.myspace.com/thehonorarytitle

"untouched and intact"

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