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Rolling Stone ranks the top 40 emo albums of all-time
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StarlordDial
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MCR's Black Parade is not on the list ? Dafuck lol
MrCunningham
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Really? Because I don't really think of Emo when I hear the song Buddy Holly. That seems like a bit of stretch to me.
Also, does this mean that "Emo" is like a thing again?
Purple Cheeto
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Personally I'd bump #9 and #10 a lot lower. Neither of those albums are quintessential in my mind.
It's been a thing again for a few years now.
It's been a thing again for a few years now.
TarpitCarnivore
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I think the list is being handled from the view of which albums shaped or guided the genre. I remember when Brand New first started playing around and the impact of that album was immediate.
Buddy Holly isn't on Pinkerton.
RavenSan
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Wait, The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile is on the list instead of Something To Write Home About
That's just objectively wrong. And it should be top 5.
Hell yeah.
*internet fist bump*
That's just objectively wrong. And it should be top 5.
Hell yeah.
*internet fist bump*
OnionPowder
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This list is absolute garbage and really what I expected from a major media outlet on anything related to Emo.
Paramore (not emo) beating Algernon Cadwallader. REALLY?
Not emo
Paramore (not emo) beating Algernon Cadwallader. REALLY?
Not emo
crooked spin
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interesting opinion and kinda shows how nebulous the label is -- in my opinion Brand New stops being emo at Devil and God and fully enters "alt rock" by Daisy so choosing Deja makes the most sense. shrug!
This is the most positive takeaway from this list.
If there is ANYONE posting in this thread that has listened to any of this music but has not listened to Diary, you need to make that priority #1.
You think, right now, Devil And God has less impact than Favourite Weapon?
There are bands now that pretty much copy their formula on that record (I'm looking at you Citizen).
This is a bad list apart from the genre classics (that are hard to get wrong).
RobotNinjaHornets
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That's not quite true, somehow IIOI and Algernon Cadwallader got in at 38 and 32
Alk3 have always been very very firmly placed in pop-punk.
I'd call it pop-punk but that is definitely a rad album *thumbs up*
OnionPowder
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>10. My Chemical Romance, 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge' (2004)
>The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die missing from the list
kill me
>The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die missing from the list
kill me
Tragicomedy
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Way to low for The Get Up Kids. That's a quintessential album for the genre. Top five.
Wellllll, Your Favorite Weapon pretty much defined that Long Island sound right?
Devil and God and Daisy are totally emo records. It's just Jesse alternating between screaming/singing about everything is awful over heavy distortion. I don't know how that isn't emo.
But, even so, Your Favourite Weapon is as pure of a pop-punk record as it can be.
Cipher Peon
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Yeah! Paramore is way too low! Riot! should be at number 1 because it's the bestest album of all timeThis list is absolute garbage and really what I expected from a major media outlet on anything related to Emo.
Paramore (not emo) beating Algernon Cadwallader. REALLY?
Not emo
MrCunningham
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The older you get, the faster these things just pass by you. Weird, because it didn't even seem like that long ago when it was a first time fad.
But then again it probably was 15+ years ago. Fuck.
I guess so. Pinkerton is one of the few Weezer albums that I have no recollection of.
The record is a pretty straightforward pop-punk record in a time when everyone was doing pop-punk. It was also pretty niche.
Maybe it defined something but I'm not seeing it. I wouldn't put it above Devil and God anyway.
And I love that record btw.
xDUMPWEEDx
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gutterboy44
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using the words, "very very" and "firmly" when talking about sub genres of sub genres of music is a fools errand. I disagree, but we will never get past agreeing to disagree. Alkaline Trio aside, it is a shitty list imo, even with the most stringent definitions of emo.
OnionPowder
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That's because emo was just butchered by media. This list is really like making a Top 40 Rap Albums and putting Anthrax on there.
Actual emo bands are bigger than ever, btw, holmes. The emo revival is real.
Just last year Harmlessness was probably one of the best albums released.
I mean the problem is mostly just that in the mid-late 90s is was pretty well defined what was emo, but as the 00's rolled around emo started seeping into half dozen other genres that sounded nothing alike and as long as you were singing about chicks and romance you got caught under the umbrella term. That's mostly why nothing on this list offends me. Some of it was after my time, but I'm sure to the kids out there that bopped to Panic at the Disco albums that was an important, seminal album to them... I guess.
Pretty much.
Plenty of good emo records coming out every year. Actual emo records, not "Panic At The Disco emo".
They really butchered that term.
Yea seriously. Half their discography should be on this list. Looks like they just focused on the whiny soft pop "punk" stuff.
If i remember correctly, when Weezer first broke big, the emo label was used quite a bit with them.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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No AFI? garbage list.
This list is absolute garbage and really what I expected from a major media outlet on anything related to Emo.
Paramore (not emo) beating Algernon Cadwallader. REALLY?
Not emo
How is Pinkerton emo but Black parade isn't?
TheWarrior
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IOH is probably my least favorite of their first 4 albums. Looking back Folie is my favorite album, I feel like they grew up with that one and Patrick's voice really shows some range. FUCT has the anthems and I can see why it made this list
. Although I can listen to the first 4 albums on shuffle still to this day and not skip a song.
Gunstarheroes
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Yeah, when you do a self-insert album into your giant sci-fi epic about how your now wife (before they were married) cheated on you, and every song is basically about how it fucked you up, i'd say it fits.
Then again the album also has a talking demon bike. So ya know, not totally the same
John Dunbar
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nothing from the smiths? bullshit list.
HoldenGatsby
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I could never really get into either of those albums. They're not bad by any means, but I only like the odd one or two songs. My wife would agree with you though.
Originally I thought the same way, but the more I listened to it the more I love IOH. Can definitely see what you mean though.
Pinkerton and Black Parade are nothing alike.
Black parade is a mainstream rock record that has tons of stadium rock influences with a bunch of guys in costumes. Pinkerton is an awkward dude talking about his awkwardness over weird rock in the most personal way possible.
They don't relate at all. And one is emo and the other isn't.
PassiveObserver
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Damn bruh people are really stretching with their definitions of emo.
Jazzy Network
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I feel In Keeping secrets of the Silent Earth was more emo and a better album overall. I never considered Coheed emo though.
I've never seen the Cure classified as Emo. Post-Punk or Goth sure. Emo always makes me think of Rites of Spring, Embrace, Jawbreaker or anything on the Dischord Records label. I guess it mutated from there but I never really followed it that much. A lot of the bands on the list seem more like Pop-Punk to me and I always thought of Coheed as more Prog Rock.
OnionPowder
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Not emo
They aren't even close to emo. Just because they have emotional lyrics doesn't make a band emo.
Yep.
xDUMPWEEDx
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And here's my honorable mention:
TheWarrior
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Time for me to dust off the iPod. I will revisit IOH. Which will lead to me listening to Folie a few times.
which will most certainly result in me playing Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a bad bet on repeat.
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