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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/40-greatest-emo-albums-of-all-time-20160301

The list:

40. The Used, 'In Love and Death' (2004)
39. Panic! at the Disco, 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out' (2005)
38. Into It. Over It., 'Intersections' (2013)
37. Indian Summer, 'Science 1994' (2002)
36. Orchid, 'Gatefold' (1999)
35. Coheed and Cambria, 'Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness' (2005)
34. Owls, 'Owls' (2001)
33. The Jazz June, 'The Medicine' (2000)
32. Algernon Cadwallader, 'Some Kind of Cadwallader' (2008)
31. The Jealous Sound, 'Kill Them With Kindness' (2003)
30. Moss Icon, 'Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly' (1994)
29. Brand New, 'Your Favorite Weapon' (2001)
28. Paramore, 'Riot!' (2007)
27. Dashboard Confessional, 'The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most' (2001)
26. Rainer Maria, 'Look Now Look Again' (1999)
25. Cursive, 'Domestica' (2000)
24. Embrace, 'Embrace' (1987)
23. Taking Back Sunday, 'Tell All Your Friends' (2002)
22. Say Anything, '…Is a Real Boy' (2004)
21. The Get Up Kids, 'Four Minute Mile' (1997)
20. At the Drive-In, 'In/Casino/Out' (1998)
19. Brand New, 'Deja Entendu' (2003)
18. Saves the Day, 'Through Being Cool' (1999)
17. Mineral, 'The Power of Failing' (1997)
16. Drive Like Jehu, 'Yank Crime' (1994)
15. Dag Nasty, 'Can I Say' (1986)
14. Weezer, 'Pinkerton' (1996)
13. Jimmy Eat World, 'Clarity' (1999)
12. Texas Is the Reason, 'Do You Know Who You Are?' (1996)
11. Thursday, 'Full Collapse' (2001)
10. My Chemical Romance, 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge' (2004)
9. Fall Out Boy, 'From Under the Cork Tree' (2005)
8. Jimmy Eat World, 'Bleed American' (2001)
7. Cap'n Jazz, 'Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports ...' (1995)
6. American Football, 'American Football' (1999)
5. Braid, 'Frame and Canvas' (1998)
4. Jawbreaker, 'Dear You' (1995)
3. The Promise Ring, 'Nothing Feels Good' (1997)
2. Rites of Spring, 'Rites of Spring' (1985)
1. Sunny Day Real Estate, 'Diary' (1994)

Seeing this list is bringing back lots of memories of high school.

 

[maquiladora]

Weezer is emo?

 

[Cipher Peon]

Awwwww yessss a list for me!

Under The Cork Tree is such an incredible album, but I do think Infinity On High is better. But UTCT scored pretty damn awesome! Suck it Panic! fans
Also the MCR representation was Three Cheers? Darn, I think Black Parade and Danger Days are so much cooler.

Also my favorite album of all time is number 28!

Awesome list that made me happy

 

[gutshot]

Weezer is emo?

Their definition of emo seems to be very broad. Still you can't deny that Pinkerton is a great album.

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

Coheed is emo?

 

[Entropia]

Weezer is emo?

Yes.

Coheed is emo?

No.

 

[Peru]

I was such an Indian Summer fanboy in my teens, even made a website devoted to them.

 

[GamerJM]

Weezer is emo?

I didn't know Coheed and Jimmy Eat World were emo either

 

[Cipher Peon]

Their definition of emo seems to be very broad. Still you can't deny that Pinkerton is a great album.

I hate Pinkerton. So much.

But I respect it, so it has that at least.

 

[impact]

I didn't know Coheed and Jimmy Eat World were emo either

Jethro Tull won a hard rock/metal grammy

music genres mean nothing

 

[HouseDragon]

At The Drive In is emo? That's kind of a stretch, isn't it?

 

[Yaboosh]

Sunny Day Real Estate is emo?

 

[Ridley327]

I mean, there are emo elements to Coheed, but they're pretty firmly a prog act. Baffling inclusion to include the album that pretty much solidified their prog direction for good.

 

[distantmantra]

The entire time I was scrolling down the list I'm thinking "Where's SDRE? Where's SDRE? Oh, there they are."

Sunny Day Real Estate is emo?

Yep. As much as "emo" is a meaningless term, they've been considered emo since they first hit the scene in the early 90s.

 

[teruterubozu]

Has the Linkin Park discussion started yet?

 

[TheFlow]

Was epecting brand new, Tigers jaw, and basement :{

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Coheed is emo?

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness Coheed certainly was.

 

[gutshot]

I mean, there are emo elements to Coheed, but they're pretty firmly a prog act. Baffling inclusion to include the album that pretty much solidified their prog direction for good.

True, but it is their best album so...

 

[Owari]

Tell All Your Friends should be #1. This list is bunk.

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

I didn't know Coheed and Jimmy Eat World were emo either

JEW is most definitely emo.

Now I'm listening to MCR. Thanks, Rolling Stone

 

[Apdiddy]

Some of these albums I have a hard time seeing as emo (Coheed & Cambria, Paramore, Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy) but Sunny Day Real Estate is essentially emo.

Weezer's Pinkerton wrote the book on emo before it was even anything.

 

[HoldenGatsby]

Awwwww yessss a list for me!

Under The Cork Tree is such an incredible album, but I do think Infinity On High is better. But UTCT scored pretty damn awesome! Suck it Panic! fans
Also the MCR representation was Three Cheers? Darn, I think Black Parade and Danger Days are so much cooler.

Also my favorite album of all time is number 28!

Awesome list that made me happy

Conventional Weapons is their best album.

Totally agree about Infinity On High though, it's a much more interesting album. Less popular because it's more complex. (I sound like a douche)

I also wish that Pretty. Odd. was here. Besides those three though, the list is pretty solid.

 

[WEGGLES]

The Hotelier should have a place on this list... .

 

[Misha]

Weezer is emo?

they were. stuff like paramore, fallout boy, panic at the disco and my chemical romance aren't

 

[Yaboosh]

When you define a genre by stuff you don't like I guess you get surprised to find out stuff you like is also that genre.

 

[kitchenmotors]

Nice to see Thursday's Full Collapse on there. Such a great album.

 

[distantmantra]

When you define a genre by stuff you don't like I guess you get surprised to find out stuff you like is also that genre.

Mid to late 90s emo was very different thing than what we tend to think of from the 00's onward.

 

[Kill3r7]

Looking at these albums brings me back to my high school and college days. It seemed like every girl I knew was listening to Dashboard and Jimmy Eat World. I hated those bands with a passion.

Weezer toed the line especially with Pinkerton.

 

[Cheshire_Buddha]

Deja Entendu should be much higher.

Can't complain about the top spots too much, though.

 

[Pinkuss]

The Weezer thing jumped out at me too (them not really being emo).

The only other band I've ever listened to (outside of clubs) is Brand New and their best album is clearly Daisy.

 

[Yaboosh]

Mid to late 90s emo was very different thing than what we tend to think of from the 00's onward.

The definition of emo to me has always been Taking Back Sunday.

"And you could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath i would apologize for bleeding on your shirt."

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

Maybe this is because I was exposed to one too many shitty AMV's as a child and they are not actually considered emo, but not one Evanescence album?

 

[gutshot]

One album I'm surprised not to see included is Circa Survive's Juturna. Maybe Rolling Stone didn't consider it an emo album?

 

[jediyoshi]

Sunny Day Real Estate is emo?

Ah the beauty of genres losing their meaning over time. If it's reminiscent of scene or goth culture, you've got the wrong 'emo'.

 

[Vanillalite]

Sunny Day Real Estate is emo?

Proto Emo

In many ways they are the link from Post Hardcore to mid to late 90s style Emo.

 

[nukedeggs]

I didn't know Coheed and Jimmy Eat World were emo either

Jimmy Eat World is undeniably emo. Clarity is such a great album. Maybe later they morphed into whatever, but Bleed American and Clarity are both clear enough emo albums IMO.

Idk about Panic at the Disco being on there though. Or MCR. Man emo as a term is so diluted.

 

[Guess Who]

Weezer is not emo, but Pinkerton specifically arguably is.

 

[droggg]

At The Drive-In is not emo....and Deja Entendu should be way higher.

 

[Ridley327]

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness Coheed certainly was.

I think that The Second Stage Turbine Blade is the only album they've done that I would call emo. They flirted with the prog elements, but that did feel a lot more squarely in one category then. Every album after that had the prog influence get more and more pronounced, and I can't imagine anyone thinking otherwise on what they are these days.

Sure, that album introduced all the bullshit with The Writer and his girl problems, but it's still an album about an intergalactic race war that is being willed into existence by a guy who gets writing tips from a talking bicycle.

 

[Beardz]

Radiohead is emo?

 

[Sagely]

Has the Linkin Park discussion started yet?

Was genuinely hoping to see Hybrid Theory on the list, and I say this as a huge fan of theirs. But I suppose Linkin Park are known more as Nu Metal (whatever that means, considering how arbitrary these genres are).

Anyway, cool list - I'll have to listen to some of these. I was the emo-est of emo teens and haven't actually listened to any of these albums!

 

[joedan]

Where's The Cure's Disintegration?

 

[Vanillalite]

Weezer is not emo, but Pinkerton specifically arguably is.

This is how I'd take it too.

 

[droggg]

The Weezer thing jumped out at me too (them not really being emo).

The only other band I've ever listened to (outside of clubs) is Brand New and their best album is clearly Daisy.

..........wut?

 

[RobotNinjaHornets]

I'm gonna be honest, I don't really care about what's on these lists as long as they get some actual emo on there. And by that criteria, solid top 5.

The Hotelier should have a place on this list... .

I agree, H,LNIT is incredible

 

[WEGGLES]

Weezer is not emo, but Pinkerton specifically arguably is.

Pinkerton isn't "arguably emo" it's 100%emo.

 

[LiQuid!]

Yeah they do use a pretty broad definition of "emo" for this list, pulling from post-hardcore, and some experimental rock. Almost all of these bands were on my playlist in the 90's and early 00's and they've hit a lot of my favorites. Diary was literally my gateway into the entire emo genre and still a fantastic album.

If anything on this list is a little suspect it's inclusion of bands like Panic at the Disco and Fallout Boy. I wouldn't necessarily consider them emo as much as pop punk, but they were after my time.

Good list for the most part. I'd put a couple of these higher (Pinkerton and 4 Minute Mile were seminal for me personally), but that's probably mostly just because I haven't heard all of these.

 

[Quonny]

Emo is a weird term. I mean, yeah, they're emo in some way, but I see a lot of different genres that more aptly fit the music than "emo".

Emo is more of a culture than a genre of music. Just look at the list, you've got a ton of soft stuff, hard stuff, really off-the-beaten-path stuff, and so on.

dum lable

 

[Cipher Peon]

they were. stuff like paramore, fallout boy, panic at the disco and my chemical romance aren't

So then whatever they are, that's what I want more of. Because they're excellent (well maybe not Panic...) and I love their sound and their aesthetic!

 

[Misha]

Maybe this is because I was exposed to one too many shitty AMV's as a child and they are not actually considered emo, but not one Evanescence album?

they're nu-metal. same with linkin park


there really needs to be a guide for this kind of thing...

So then whatever they are, that's what I want more of. Because they're excellent (well maybe not Panic...) and I love their sound and their aesthetic!

well they're more of a pop-pop-punk* and got even poppier. I definitely wouldn't mind some more either. I'd expect it to come up in a few years once nostalgia sets in

*the extra pop is cause my one friend is into poppy punk and he complains that this kind of music is way too pop for even that