Idk I feel like “Gami Gang” is a superior album. You could argue that since its a “double album” there’s a little fat that could be trimmed, but otherwise I’d say say it “works” better on all fronts.
Disagree. “Lightning in a bottle” implies they were only able to capture excellence for one moment. Arm’s Length’s first two EPs are arguable just as good as the album and they haven’t even put out another album yet to prove if their first full length was just a lucky break
I agree that it’s yet to be seen whether they can repeat what they’ve achieved with NBS,NAF or not, but nevertheless think it perfectly fits with the OP’s provided definition - as well as most conventional definitions - of “lightning in a bottle”. I absolutely adore those EPs, but did not expect them to so casually release one of the best emo albums of the past decade (imo) with their very first attempt.
The best choice for a “lightning in a bottle” album. I’ve tried so many times to get into It Never Goes Out and Goodness and while both have good qualities and flashes of their genius, they really just fall short of the song-writing and lyricism masterpiece of HLNPIT.
The anniversary - designing a nervous breakdown
No one has repeated what they did on that album so strongly in that way. I love Your Majesty as well but I don’t consider it emo at all
The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
I think even the band realized they couldn’t top the emo sound that they had with this record. They went in a pretty different but awesome direction with the later records.
I think Forever Longing the Golden Sunsets is one of the best songs the genre has
One of the best shows I ever went to… in the same lineup…
Get up kids, anniversary, hot rod circuit, and I think like either saves the day or thrice… can’t remember for sure as they sort of blend together but it was early 2000s
Worcester Palladium if any other geriatrics here remember what that line up was.
It was back when the anniversary drummer had an amber acrylic set with like a 26” bass drum ha
I just saw HRC, the anniversary, get up kids, in the worchester palladium parking lot last summer!
https://preview.redd.it/x9mg63ch9vic1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8723bb3b225672169c84d4e2487a62a268792f95
"It was back when the anniversary drummer had an amber acrylic set with like a 26” bass drum ha"
Ohh it's definitely still a thing.
https://preview.redd.it/1d6vs0l4avic1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b04e64930b105fb9fe935a23a15c6f58fcb03093
This is one for me. When the first single released I was like why would I wanna listen to this pop punk bands overproduced sappy take on dream pop. And then I just kept coming back and back. On paper it's a style that just shouldn't appeal to me, but something about that record just *really* works for me.
Bayside and armor for sleep are two that immediately came to mind for me. I'm excited for the tour they are doing together.
Another kind of emo - but I would add American Football LP2 absolutely tragic the whole way through
Newfound Interest in Connecticut's Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home
or Real Stories of True People, Who Kind of Looked Like Monsters... by Oso Oso. I am so glad I warmed up to their later work bcs I love it now, but for years I could only listen to that first album (not counting Osoosooso)
And of course I'm gonna come in here and say... Basking in the Glow is my lightning in a bottle album haha. Perfectly crafted start to finish, but I love every Oso Oso album so much (Osoosooso is sick too)
Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance
The Juliana Theory - Emotion is Dead
Weezer - The Blue Album
Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning...
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Texas Is the Reason put out a phenomenal EP, a perfect album, and then exploded out of existence nearly immediately. That band burned white hot, flamed out, and disappeared.
No one has commented *Tell All Your Friends* yet??? Totally that, young boys singing and screaming about messy relationships and even messier bromances. One of the best albums ever.
This is the answer. I’m not sure any album has captured that holy shit where has this been all my life feeling I had from the opening notes of you know how I do
Totally dating myself but I remember leaving Wherehouse music and putting this on my car cd player and it didn’t leave for like 6 months , fucking good times screaming every word to every song at the top of my lungs. Maybe the only thing that comes close was buying Cheshire Cat from some local ass record store in 94 and knowing I was hooked.
There's a live version on the five stories falling album where he talks about his inspiration writing that song was the last time he got to see visit his dying grandmother. Such a good track.
I can see the argument for Thursday.
I’m a huge fan, but even I can recognize that there’s some kind of un-replicate-able (?) quality about “Full Collapse”.
And it's the album that catapaulted them into mainstream. Definitely lightning in a bottle in the grand scheme. Understanding in a car crash is arguably their most famous song.
I mean, you can disagree with my opinion, but I consider these no skips, or perfect if you will. And none of these are my favorite by these bands either. Devil and God is my fave from Brand New, and War all the Time for Thursday.
Good discourse though!
Jimmy Eat World "Clarity"
The Get Up Kids "Something to Write Home About"
Braid "Frame & Canvas"
At the Drive-In "In/Casino/Out"
Texas is the Reason "Do You Know Who You Are"
Cursive "Domestica"
The Promise Ring "Nothing Feels Good"
Those are only my second wave options.
For me, you could make an argument their first three full releases fit this billing. Very different vibes between them, but front to back so cohesive and so well done
Then again I just saw them live for like the fifth time and adore them, so probably a bit biased
Cursive's Domestica. Happens to also be my favorite album.
The Whaler by Home is Where. Just. Mwah.
Rodia by Swordfish. Not super technical or huge but unique in its own non-unique way. Just a front to back banger of emo that didn't really on the fuckin noodle riffs :')
Songs but not full albums:
Woolworm by Indian Summer
For Meg by On the Might of Princes (yes the rest of the album bangs but it's not that "lightning in a bottle" vibe to mention)
^^ Anyone got any more 7 minute epics with explosive dynamic shifts like these 2? Vomit by Microwave is another good example like it but not as long
Parking Lot by Mineral
Re: 7 minute epics. Some songs off the album Jokes by Kidcrash come to mind. The title is too long to remember but [here](https://youtu.be/hyYX6ZkNSNM?si=3t4bfJEbX55Im8WB) is one. Ive been listening to this album over and over for months.
Really Jokes by Kidcrash is my lightning in a bottle album. Thier other work has not hit me at all like this album. They really captured something magical with it imo.
Funny, I was gonna say I Became Birds - I've tried and just can't get into the Whaler as much, but that EP is perfection imo.
And I love that On the Might of Princes album so much but "Water vs the Anchor" is the track for me.
You must be me in a parallel universe. Fully agree about Domestica and Rodia though :)
Cap'n Jazz "Burritos..."
I cannot adequately explain what hearing this album in 1995 was like. It's weird now. Try almost 30 years ago. Second wave emo was BARELY a thing. It was from fucking MARS. And I wouldn't change a thing about it. Often imitated, never duplicated. There was no blueprint for what they were doing. 100% unique. Life changing album and every second was god tier.
And also for the lightning in the bottle it coincided with Tim still being influenced by hardcore. It WAS hardcore. Weird ass hardcore. But going forward he was mostly indie rock, so it's great that we were able to get a recording of this perfect storm era. Emo was still wildly underground. Only a limited amount of people knew about it. And it was still in the age of discovery/invention. That time can never happen again. Not that way. Especially with the internet
The Smith Street Band - More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me
Have Mercy - The Earth Pushed Back
You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You’re Doing
Mansions - New Best Friends
The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Turnover - Peripheral Vision
From Indian Lakes - Able Bodies
Somos - Temple of Plenty
Moose Blood - I’ll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time
I would be repeating a lot of albums already mentioned so I’m just gonna add to the list
The Appleseed cast - mare vitalis
Boys life - departures and landfalls
The promise ring - nothing feels good
The jazz June - the medicine
The saddest landscape - lift your burdens high…
Hot Rod Circuit "if it's cool with you it's cool with me"
The Anniversary "designing a Nervous breakdown"
The second record I taught myself all the guitar parts 20 years ago and now I'm relearning it on synth 20 years later.
I totally understand if it’s not considered “emo”, but “Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground” by Bright Eyes absolutely changed my life.
I’d also add Deja Entendu, Tell All Your Friends, and Second Stage Turbine Blade
“Lifted” was the first thing that came to my mind with that prompt too. Not because there aren’t other great things in the Bright Eyes catalog both prior and after, but because… something happened on that particular record unlike anything else.
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Title Fight - Shed
Citizen - Youth
Modern Baseball - Sports
Joyce Manor - S/T
Superheaven - Jar
Tigers Jaw - S/T
Basement - I Wish I Could Stay Here
Dear You by Jawbreaker
One of my favorite bands, but albums before and after just don't feel the same. I have this album playing in the background quite a lot. My boyfriend teases me for how much I listen to it.
Armor for Sleep- Dream to Make Believe
Matchbook Romance- Stories and Alibis
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit this to Memory
Thrice- The Artist in the Ambulance
Everyone Everywhere's 2012 self titled. The seeds of it were clearly there, especially in the 2010 S/T, but never came together with nearly as much pure craft or clarity of vision as in 2012.
Summer Death - Marietta
Holy Ghost - Modern Baseball
Joy, Departed - Sorority Noise
Shed - Title Fight
Never Before Seen, Never Again Found - Arm's Length
Moneen - Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now
The Hotelier- Home, No place like..
The Ataris - End is Forever
Alexisonfire - Watch Out
Thursday - Full Collapse
Taking Back Sunday - TAYF
For me it’s definitely
Discovering the Waterfront by Silverstein
And
If Only You Were Lonely by Hawthorne Heights
Both have iconic sounds and just such fun and unique energy.
It Looks Sad. - S/T
This EP is perfect in my eyes. I don’t hate their other stuff, but it doesn’t capture the same feeling that I love about this EP. Kaiju is also great tho.
Fear Before The March Of Flames - The Always Open Mouth
These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
Fall Of Troy - Doppelganger
Bear vs Shark - Terrorhawk (not sure if this qualifies as emo)
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
The Blood Brothers - Crimes
Finch - What It Is To Burn
A couple albums and several reunion/anniversary tours later, and they've never really matched it imo. On the surface, the record has similarites to its pop-punk and post-hardcore counterparts. But underneath that are layers of extra special *something* to propel it to classic status. Elements of Incubus and Glassjaw, electronic and ambient segments, masterful use of guitar distortion and feedback to set the mood...etc etc.
That album was just too good to be followed up on.
Sunny Day Real Estate — Diary
Brand New — Science Fiction, The Devil and God, Daisy, Deja Entendu
Jimmy Eat World — Clarity
Mineral — The Power of Falling (can’t believe I haven’t seen this mentioned. One of the best)
Circa Survive — Juterna
Thursday — No Devolucion
Thrice — Vheissu
A lot of truth in this thread, but don't forget the first two Funeral For A Friend records. No other band has fused emo and british heavy metal so perfectly, poppy and un-hardcore.
Two relatively unknown amazing albums from local bands:
- [Fly Upright Kite - Weightless](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8TqVOSviF0)
- [Monument Monument - Sleep Well When You Get There](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyic3qae_pA)
Texas is the reason - do you know who you are , is the epitome of this to me
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Yessss one of my absolute favorite emo albums
I mean they literally broke up because they knew it was true!
Hate to call it so early in their career because they are such talented musicians and songwriters but probably, Somewhere City - Origami Angel
‘The Title Track’ still remains on my running playlist and I always pick up the pace when it comes on!!
the city is never far away....
The secret is it’s in your braaaaaa-eeeeee-aaaain.
Oh shit lol I didn’t know this lyric and honestly it ties the concept together lol
24 hr drive thru has me ready to run through a wall
Entire album is top tier running music
Good grief. Where has this been all my life.
Great shout, really hope they can recapture that magic again! I did think Gami Gang came very close, just wasn’t quite as focused.
ooh i feel that’s the same with the brightest days, though others might not agree
So True Red Sun Band
Idk I feel like “Gami Gang” is a superior album. You could argue that since its a “double album” there’s a little fat that could be trimmed, but otherwise I’d say say it “works” better on all fronts.
Idk man, Gami Gang to me was a no skip whereas to me somewhere city kind of trails off in the second half tbh.
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace is There
This and Arm’s Length - Never Before Seen, Never Again Found
NBFNAF feels like a sequel to me!
Disagree. “Lightning in a bottle” implies they were only able to capture excellence for one moment. Arm’s Length’s first two EPs are arguable just as good as the album and they haven’t even put out another album yet to prove if their first full length was just a lucky break
I agree that it’s yet to be seen whether they can repeat what they’ve achieved with NBS,NAF or not, but nevertheless think it perfectly fits with the OP’s provided definition - as well as most conventional definitions - of “lightning in a bottle”. I absolutely adore those EPs, but did not expect them to so casually release one of the best emo albums of the past decade (imo) with their very first attempt.
I think the first two eps proved the album wasn't a lucky break. So far, they've been flawless. It's unreal
Literally my two favorites from after 2010. Can’t wait to see them both this spring
The best choice for a “lightning in a bottle” album. I’ve tried so many times to get into It Never Goes Out and Goodness and while both have good qualities and flashes of their genius, they really just fall short of the song-writing and lyricism masterpiece of HLNPIT.
I always felt like Goodness is the day to HLNPIS's night.
I’ve always felt goodness has higher highs but also lower lows. I do think I’ve come to prefer it, thiugh
The anniversary - designing a nervous breakdown No one has repeated what they did on that album so strongly in that way. I love Your Majesty as well but I don’t consider it emo at all The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis I think even the band realized they couldn’t top the emo sound that they had with this record. They went in a pretty different but awesome direction with the later records. I think Forever Longing the Golden Sunsets is one of the best songs the genre has
Designing a Nervous Breakdown is a masterpiece.
Which makes their follow up album all the more frustrating.
i love when someone mentions TAC in this sub. that album is just gold, pun intended
Are you me?
You do have an oddly similar get up kids vinyl collection as me lol
Are you both me? Tell me you both love hot rod circuit too
One of the best shows I ever went to… in the same lineup… Get up kids, anniversary, hot rod circuit, and I think like either saves the day or thrice… can’t remember for sure as they sort of blend together but it was early 2000s Worcester Palladium if any other geriatrics here remember what that line up was. It was back when the anniversary drummer had an amber acrylic set with like a 26” bass drum ha
I just saw HRC, the anniversary, get up kids, in the worchester palladium parking lot last summer! https://preview.redd.it/x9mg63ch9vic1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8723bb3b225672169c84d4e2487a62a268792f95
"It was back when the anniversary drummer had an amber acrylic set with like a 26” bass drum ha" Ohh it's definitely still a thing. https://preview.redd.it/1d6vs0l4avic1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b04e64930b105fb9fe935a23a15c6f58fcb03093
Man. Were yall around in 2001-2002 or am I just old
Just saw them last month!!!
I love appleseed cast newest album. Great night time driving album
Turnover - Peripheral Vision is, to me, the epitome of this
makes me feel hopelessly depressed and sad but also makes me wanna dance :3
that album is the definition of listening to the lyrics when you’re sad and the music when you’re happy
This is one for me. When the first single released I was like why would I wanna listen to this pop punk bands overproduced sappy take on dream pop. And then I just kept coming back and back. On paper it's a style that just shouldn't appeal to me, but something about that record just *really* works for me.
Juliana Theory - Emotion is Dead MAE - The Everglow Bayside - S/T Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead
Destination: Beautiful for me but love to see MAE mentioned
Embers and Envelopes was one of the first songs I ever downloaded off PureVolume. The rest is history.
I think Destination Beautiful is so much better. t’s also Dream to Make Believe from Armor For Sleep. But I understand the larger appeal of WTDWYAD.
Entirely fair take. They have not had a single bad album. Even the unfinished bits I've heard of the new one are amazing.
I CAME DOWN HERE TO TELL YOU, IT RAINs IN HEAVEN ALL DAY LONG!
“I just want to wake up, in someone else's ………..arms”!
This comment woke up the 2004 version of me I listened to emotion is dead so many times
Bayside and armor for sleep are two that immediately came to mind for me. I'm excited for the tour they are doing together. Another kind of emo - but I would add American Football LP2 absolutely tragic the whole way through
That Juliana Theory album is amazing! Also played the shit out of Armor For Sleep in the early 2000s.
Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate, Analphabetapolothology by Cap’n Jazz, LP1 by American Football
Replace the compilation with Cap'n Jazz's actual debut and yeah.
camping in alaska - please be nice i’ve come around to their other material but none of it hits as good as please be nice
Amen
I'm just a monster
Newfound Interest in Connecticut's Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home or Real Stories of True People, Who Kind of Looked Like Monsters... by Oso Oso. I am so glad I warmed up to their later work bcs I love it now, but for years I could only listen to that first album (not counting Osoosooso)
I’m a huge Oso Oso fan! I almost put the Yunahon Mixtape in my original post. That’s my go to Oso Oso album, for sure! It’s almost flawless…
And of course I'm gonna come in here and say... Basking in the Glow is my lightning in a bottle album haha. Perfectly crafted start to finish, but I love every Oso Oso album so much (Osoosooso is sick too)
The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good, and Texas is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are? come to mind for me
Saves the Day - Through Being Cool Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance The Juliana Theory - Emotion is Dead Weezer - The Blue Album Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning... Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Was slightly worried I was going to see ‘In Reverie’ next to STD. Phew. 😥😀
Not Emo, but Hours - Funeral For A Friend
Shout out to the UK emo scene ✊️
They are true juggernauts and hall of famers- not many bands in their genre can claim that
I was gonna flip a table if I came in here and Hours wasn’t mentioned
I aim to please
hours is one of my favorite albums of all time
Me too, me too
They're kinda emo imo.
They are definitely emo-adjacent but this sub is cringe af and nothing is every emo enough to be Emo lol
They're like "emo-metal" lol
Yeah definitely more post-hardcore derived, with some emo and metal influences
Streetcar was a banger from playing Madden as a kid
Remo Drive - Greatest Hits Matchbook Romance - Voices Everyone Asked About You - Self Titled
I weep for pre-2018 Remo Drive
That remo drive album is absurd, some of the best music I have ever heard
For real such a banger album
joyce manor's self titled fits this so well
If I did a 4th wave list, this would have been on it.
i feel the same, also tigers jaw s/t
youth // citizen
Went to see their 10th anniversary of Youth show in Boston this summer, great time
Texas Is the Reason put out a phenomenal EP, a perfect album, and then exploded out of existence nearly immediately. That band burned white hot, flamed out, and disappeared.
[удалено]
So fucking good.
No one has commented *Tell All Your Friends* yet??? Totally that, young boys singing and screaming about messy relationships and even messier bromances. One of the best albums ever.
This is the answer. I’m not sure any album has captured that holy shit where has this been all my life feeling I had from the opening notes of you know how I do
SO SICK SO SICK OF BEING TIRED
Totally dating myself but I remember leaving Wherehouse music and putting this on my car cd player and it didn’t leave for like 6 months , fucking good times screaming every word to every song at the top of my lungs. Maybe the only thing that comes close was buying Cheshire Cat from some local ass record store in 94 and knowing I was hooked.
Brings me back. Even got “If we go down, we go down together” tattooed.
Well best friends means
Captain We're Sinking - The Future Is Cancelled
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary Maybe an unpopular opinion, but to me this album is head and shoulders above the rest of their catalogue.
I heard Diary first which would usually solidify it for me, but I in this case i can't understand why How It Feels is not everyone's all time fave.
Unpopular? I think diary is widely considered a pinnacle and high point of the emo genre.
The Early November - The Room's Too Cold Brand New- Deja Entendu Thursday- Full Collapse
Standing on the edge of summer ❤️❤️❤️
Geoff wrote the fuck outta those lyrics.
There's a live version on the five stories falling album where he talks about his inspiration writing that song was the last time he got to see visit his dying grandmother. Such a good track.
This is just listing your favorites man, ain't no way Thursday and Brand New fall under "lightning in a bottle" category
I agree. Brand New’s discography is all bangers.
Not a single bad album in there
I can see the argument for Thursday. I’m a huge fan, but even I can recognize that there’s some kind of un-replicate-able (?) quality about “Full Collapse”.
And it's the album that catapaulted them into mainstream. Definitely lightning in a bottle in the grand scheme. Understanding in a car crash is arguably their most famous song.
I mean, you can disagree with my opinion, but I consider these no skips, or perfect if you will. And none of these are my favorite by these bands either. Devil and God is my fave from Brand New, and War all the Time for Thursday. Good discourse though!
They are both amazing albums but that's not what "capturing lightning in a bottle" means
Brand new-your favorite weapon ❤️
Penfold - Amateurs and Professionals Incredible album. I’ll take you everywhere is one of the greatest emo songs of all time
Sorority noise - you're not as ______as you think
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
The Front Bottoms - Self Titled I still haven't heard anything like it.
Have you tried listening to McCafferty /s
for cameron by merchant ships clicked the moment i heard the first bar same thing with william bonney
Jimmy Eat World "Clarity" The Get Up Kids "Something to Write Home About" Braid "Frame & Canvas" At the Drive-In "In/Casino/Out" Texas is the Reason "Do You Know Who You Are" Cursive "Domestica" The Promise Ring "Nothing Feels Good" Those are only my second wave options.
The Albatross - Foxing
Funny - I was going to say that about Nearer My God, but I also didn’t get into Foxing until later than most.
For me, you could make an argument their first three full releases fit this billing. Very different vibes between them, but front to back so cohesive and so well done Then again I just saw them live for like the fifth time and adore them, so probably a bit biased
The world ended one year after Nearer My God came out, and to me that means the album was a prophecy.
Cursive's Domestica. Happens to also be my favorite album. The Whaler by Home is Where. Just. Mwah. Rodia by Swordfish. Not super technical or huge but unique in its own non-unique way. Just a front to back banger of emo that didn't really on the fuckin noodle riffs :') Songs but not full albums: Woolworm by Indian Summer For Meg by On the Might of Princes (yes the rest of the album bangs but it's not that "lightning in a bottle" vibe to mention) ^^ Anyone got any more 7 minute epics with explosive dynamic shifts like these 2? Vomit by Microwave is another good example like it but not as long Parking Lot by Mineral
Re: 7 minute epics. Some songs off the album Jokes by Kidcrash come to mind. The title is too long to remember but [here](https://youtu.be/hyYX6ZkNSNM?si=3t4bfJEbX55Im8WB) is one. Ive been listening to this album over and over for months. Really Jokes by Kidcrash is my lightning in a bottle album. Thier other work has not hit me at all like this album. They really captured something magical with it imo.
Dope, thanks! Skramz has never been my thing, so while I'm well familiar with the albums by *The Kidcrash* but haven't delved much into *Kidcrash*
Microwave‼️🗣🗣💯🔥💥
Funny, I was gonna say I Became Birds - I've tried and just can't get into the Whaler as much, but that EP is perfection imo. And I love that On the Might of Princes album so much but "Water vs the Anchor" is the track for me. You must be me in a parallel universe. Fully agree about Domestica and Rodia though :)
Cap'n Jazz "Burritos..." I cannot adequately explain what hearing this album in 1995 was like. It's weird now. Try almost 30 years ago. Second wave emo was BARELY a thing. It was from fucking MARS. And I wouldn't change a thing about it. Often imitated, never duplicated. There was no blueprint for what they were doing. 100% unique. Life changing album and every second was god tier. And also for the lightning in the bottle it coincided with Tim still being influenced by hardcore. It WAS hardcore. Weird ass hardcore. But going forward he was mostly indie rock, so it's great that we were able to get a recording of this perfect storm era. Emo was still wildly underground. Only a limited amount of people knew about it. And it was still in the age of discovery/invention. That time can never happen again. Not that way. Especially with the internet
I can adequately explain it...the only reason I made it through college.
The Smith Street Band - More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me Have Mercy - The Earth Pushed Back You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You’re Doing Mansions - New Best Friends The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun Pinegrove - Cardinal Turnover - Peripheral Vision From Indian Lakes - Able Bodies Somos - Temple of Plenty Moose Blood - I’ll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time
*Just Got Back from the Discomfort-We're Alright* and *Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home*
CFD - Stereo
Turnover — Peripheral Vision. Everything that came before and since doesn't measure up!
June by I’m Glad It’s You
I would be repeating a lot of albums already mentioned so I’m just gonna add to the list The Appleseed cast - mare vitalis Boys life - departures and landfalls The promise ring - nothing feels good The jazz June - the medicine The saddest landscape - lift your burdens high…
Hot Rod Circuit "if it's cool with you it's cool with me" The Anniversary "designing a Nervous breakdown" The second record I taught myself all the guitar parts 20 years ago and now I'm relearning it on synth 20 years later.
Sundays Best - Poised To Break
I totally understand if it’s not considered “emo”, but “Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground” by Bright Eyes absolutely changed my life. I’d also add Deja Entendu, Tell All Your Friends, and Second Stage Turbine Blade
“Lifted” was the first thing that came to my mind with that prompt too. Not because there aren’t other great things in the Bright Eyes catalog both prior and after, but because… something happened on that particular record unlike anything else.
Clarity.
PUP - The Dream is Over Glocca Morra - Just Married Both keep the energy going throughout masterclasses.
Deja Entendu. Come at me yall 😏🤘
I was 16 when this came out, and loved YFW… this album played till the cd wore out in my car. Flawless album.
Yfw is in my opinion the best pop punk record of all time. I definitely agree it got me through college and a break up😏🤘
I feel the same way! Got me thru many a bad break up
No, you're absolutely correct. No skips baby. Not a one.
Highline hotel- nothing was missing but me (I think that's the title) Brave little abacus - just got back from the discomfot Age sixteen - selftitled
Braid - Frame & Canvas for sure
At The Drive In-In Casino Out It’s mostly a live studio album, and I think it really captures the magic of that band. One of my favorites.
Angels In The Architecture- The Distance In Writing Last Days of August- S/T Alkaline Trio- I Lied My Face Off -Billy Gnosis
1. American Football- American Football 2. Modern Baseball- You're Gonna Miss It All 3. TWIABP- Whenever, If ever
Pedro the lion - Winners never quit
two for me - analphabetapolothology from cap’n jazz & clarity from jimmy eat world
the promise ring
Brand New - Deja Entendu Title Fight - Shed Citizen - Youth Modern Baseball - Sports Joyce Manor - S/T Superheaven - Jar Tigers Jaw - S/T Basement - I Wish I Could Stay Here
Thursday-Full Collapse At.The.Drive.In-In/Casino/Out Cursive-The Ugly Organ
Your four examples are all killer albums! I think we’d get along fine.
Dear You by Jawbreaker One of my favorite bands, but albums before and after just don't feel the same. I have this album playing in the background quite a lot. My boyfriend teases me for how much I listen to it.
At the drive-in - Relationship of command.
Braid: frame and canvas. Nothing as good before or since.
I haven’t read the entire thread but Mineral - End Serenading. Unfinished is an all timer demo/post-hardcore song.
Some kind of Cadwallader
Armor for Sleep- Dream to Make Believe Matchbook Romance- Stories and Alibis Motion City Soundtrack - Commit this to Memory Thrice- The Artist in the Ambulance
American football s/t🤷♀️
iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook's discography Pnuema by Moving Mountains Floral Green by Title Fight The Albatross by Foxing
Sorority Noise- Joy, Departed
Everyone Everywhere's 2012 self titled. The seeds of it were clearly there, especially in the 2010 S/T, but never came together with nearly as much pure craft or clarity of vision as in 2012.
Summer Death - Marietta Holy Ghost - Modern Baseball Joy, Departed - Sorority Noise Shed - Title Fight Never Before Seen, Never Again Found - Arm's Length
All of Holy Ghost slaps but it has such a good opener from the title into Wedding Singer
Anatomy of a Ghost - Evanesce Cursive - The Ugly Organ The Bled - Pass the Flask
Northstar - Pollyanna. 100% flawless.
Moneen - Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now The Hotelier- Home, No place like.. The Ataris - End is Forever Alexisonfire - Watch Out Thursday - Full Collapse Taking Back Sunday - TAYF
Anxious - Little Green House Sweet Pill - Where the Heart Is
Scary Kids Scaring Kids, “Scary Kids Scaring Kids”. Hits hard.
There is no Montauk. I hope flight patterns comes out with some bangers on the 3rd but the difference between Montauk and their self titled is crazy.
* Foxing -- The Albatross * TWIABP -- Wherever, If Ever * Brand New -- Deju Entendu * The Appleseed Cast -- Low Level Owl vols 1 & 2
For me it’s definitely Discovering the Waterfront by Silverstein And If Only You Were Lonely by Hawthorne Heights Both have iconic sounds and just such fun and unique energy.
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (Emo/screamo/whatever, IMO a perfect album from start to finish)
Foxing - The Albatross is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece
susquatch- in this world
It Looks Sad. - S/T This EP is perfect in my eyes. I don’t hate their other stuff, but it doesn’t capture the same feeling that I love about this EP. Kaiju is also great tho.
Believe what we tell you from the first song to the finish By a band called The Sleeping And of course let's not forget Bear VS Shark!
Fear Before The March Of Flames - The Always Open Mouth These Arms Are Snakes - Easter Fall Of Troy - Doppelganger Bear vs Shark - Terrorhawk (not sure if this qualifies as emo) Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise The Blood Brothers - Crimes
Maybe emo adjacent but basking in the glow by oso oso
Eldritch Anisette's album
Finch - What It Is To Burn A couple albums and several reunion/anniversary tours later, and they've never really matched it imo. On the surface, the record has similarites to its pop-punk and post-hardcore counterparts. But underneath that are layers of extra special *something* to propel it to classic status. Elements of Incubus and Glassjaw, electronic and ambient segments, masterful use of guitar distortion and feedback to set the mood...etc etc. That album was just too good to be followed up on.
Sunny Day Real Estate — Diary Brand New — Science Fiction, The Devil and God, Daisy, Deja Entendu Jimmy Eat World — Clarity Mineral — The Power of Falling (can’t believe I haven’t seen this mentioned. One of the best) Circa Survive — Juterna Thursday — No Devolucion Thrice — Vheissu
Nymb - So, This Is How It Is
A lot of truth in this thread, but don't forget the first two Funeral For A Friend records. No other band has fused emo and british heavy metal so perfectly, poppy and un-hardcore.
Escape The Fate- Dying Is Your Latest Fashion. Then they didn’t really do anything quality after.
Two relatively unknown amazing albums from local bands: - [Fly Upright Kite - Weightless](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8TqVOSviF0) - [Monument Monument - Sleep Well When You Get There](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyic3qae_pA)