True, but unnecessary...
Please cool it.

And I wish pretentious people would get over themselves.

So...you're agreeing with him that I am idiot...and then asking him to cool it?

My...hypocrisy runs deep in this thread.

So, Mr. Rule Man...let me get this straight - no tongue-in-cheek comments allowed, huh?

There is great need for a sarcasm font.

It must suck to not laugh at the absurd.

Can we get this back on topic now please.

We won't ask a third time.

scrolled back to the last page, and I can't even see where someone asked once...but maybe you can see something I can't.

My bad - I'm an idiot.

So, I apologize.

Now, back to the top 10.

J. Mascis is good, but I would say that there are emotive hardcore musicians who are equally skilled-or more than competent. The style of playing is pretty different, and I think there just don't tend to be guitar solos in emo. Also, a lot of it fits under the "punk" banner anyway.

1. Waiting Room- Fugazi
2. Holly Hox Forget Me Nots- Saves The Day
3. Cute Without The E- Taking Back Sunday
4. Happiness Is All The Rage- The Promise Ring
5. Seven- Sunny Day Real Estate
I'm Done. I just don't care enough. Sorry. :shycouch:

1. Indian Summer - Angry Son
2. The Pine - Windmills
3. Ordination Of Aaron - You Too Can Be Motion Picture Star
3. Still Life - Fool
4. Belle Epoque - Une Simple Etoile
5. Amanda Woodward - Sans-vie.com
6. Orchid - Black Hills
7. Evergreen - Shoulders
8. The Hated - Someone
9. Jeromes Dream - Its More Like A Message To You
10. Jawbreaker - Do You Still Hate Me?

ahah just noticed how its unoriginal

This is a cool list because there are a lot of bands that I am familiar with, and respect, but none of which are my favorites. I probably should listen to more Orchid, Hated, and Still Life. I've heard Evergreen mentioned, but I only know the Louisville punk band--who are way cool themselves. The only Still Life song I really know is an acoustic jam from a comp on Tree records, so I know next to nothing (except that I think my friend said they palm-muted a lot).

I was huge into Indian Summer for a couple weeks and since then I've only liked them. There was a cool piece somebody wrote about "Aren't You, Angel" and compared it to "Angry Son" that I read just the other day, as well as something about "Waiting Room" (for the above poster). Maybe I'll look for a link.

You should!

Checkout The Thespian by Alesana. The song and music video are epic!!!

I once told a girl that those bands are not emo, she should that "They are emoish"
Emoish!
does such a thing exist or can even exist?

No particular order

Snowing- Important Things (Specter Magic)
American Football- Never Meant
Algernon Cadwallader- Some Kind Of Cadwallader
Cap'n Jazz- Little League
Slingshot Dakota- Until The Day I Die
Circle Takes The Square- Non Objective Point Of Karma
Pedro The Lion- The Poison
Castevet- Plays One On TV
The Promise Ring- A Picture Postcard
Owls- Anyone Can Have A Good Time

I like the coexistence of screamo and Midwest emo here. I definitely feel like this forum is going south, but it looks like there are still some "real emo" holdouts here.

Here's a two-months-late followup to a previous post: Two cool "articles" about "Aren't You Angel" and "Waiting Room"
Online Notebook

Just North of Something Important

I just listened to Native Nod's album for the first time in two years. Such brilliant music. 'Tangled' is one of my favourite emo/screamo tracks, but all 9 tracks are masterpieces of tense and nervy hardcore music. Gonna break out some more old favourites in the next few days, starting with some Moss Icon and Indian Summer tomorrow.

:thumb:

Wouldn't say these are all time emo favs but depending on what mood I'm in these are some emo songs I really like. That's a big factor for me. Entry level stuff inc in no order.

"To Satisfy"- Mohinder
"Bivouac" or "Shirt"- Jawbreaker
"Long Out"- Christie Front Drive
"A Crater to Cough in"- Circle Takes the Square
"Savory"- Jawbox
"7 Stop Hold Restart" Bear vs. Shark
"Visible Distance" Universal Order of Armageddon
"Gravity"- Moss Icon
"Shiner"- Rodan (doubt they count if you wanna be technical about it but w.e)
"Blue Boy"- Texas is the Reason

Houdini Logic - Circle Takes the Square
Untitled 2 - I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism in Your Yearbook
Conversation With Dr. Seussicide - I Hate Myself
Sugar Pill - Indian Summer
A Small World - I Would Set Myself on Fire for You
Punk Rock in the Wrong Hands - Pg.99
In Circles - Sunny Day Real Estate
The Day's Refrain - Texas Is the Reason
Crowquill - Circle Takes the Square
We Bleed the Commonweath - Orchid

Not emo

Jimmy Eat World - Claire
The Get Up Kids - Fall Semester
dbs - Aspirations
Grade - When Something Goes To Your Head
Saves The Day - Rocks Tonic Juice Magic
Jawbreaker - Fireman
Elliott - Shallow Like Your Breath
Braid - The New Nathan Detroits
The Anniversary - D In Detroit
Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven

Meh, people have differing opinions on what emo is these days. This is what I considered emo during my high school days. Rebut if you must. :-)

I love me some Braid and SDRE.

They were amazing bands for sure. Nice name by the way. I saw Cursive live for the first time a few months ago with Alkaline Trio, and they were amazing. The Ugly Organ is also a solid album.

You are so lucky haha. I wanna see them live before I die.

You should get your chance. I don't see them breaking up any time soon.

Mama, I'm Swollen was a pretty solid album too.

These are all primarily Screamo, not denouncing the songs all great.

But yeah.. just sayin' ;D

At the moment..

The Pine - Junkyard
Superstar - Marshall Tucker
Reno Kid - Love Starved Heart
Reno Kid - Snowflake Kisses at Smalltown Bus Stops
Still Life - Someone Stole My Bike
Madeleine - Christmas Morning
Pop Unknown - Writing it Down For You
Penfold - May I Have This Dance?
Silver Scooter - Pumpkin Eyes
Cyan - Shooting Stars.

Ah I'm likin this list. Touché

Kite Flying Society - Art of Conversation (original recording)
The Roman Invasion Suite - Exit 84
Boilermaker - Slingshot (Eucalyptus)
Eldritch Anisette - Dissection of Silence
Milkwede - Concept of Zero
Letters to the Lord Himself - Bombdrop
The Pine - Boarded Room
Swingset in June - What We Could Be
The Candyland Carcrash - The Pain Will Double if You Leave Me Now
Baby Harp Seal - Sweet Soma.

I miss when people gave a **** about this thread.

764-HERO - Calendar Pages
Dead Red Sea - Even if There's a Chance in Hell
Christie Front Drive - After the Parade
Days in December - Main.in.Vine
Honeysuckle Serontina - Stoopid
Current - Bastille
Cross My Heart - No Give Backs
My Favorite Citizen - Make Like a Tree
The Blacktop Cadence - Cold Night in Virginia
Endive - Under Lies.

That Eucalyptus comp is killer. I put Current on my old list.

Good call, very nice comp. I reckon Slingshot by Boilermaker gives Bastille a run for its money. The Julia and Shroomunion songs are great as well. You know your comp's good when Indian Summer have the 5th-best song on it.

Gila Bend - Keep Your Head Up
Eurich - Distant
Ethel Meserve - Calba's Last
Luck of Aleia - Happy Birthday
The Candyland Carcrash - Baffled on the Seventh Floor
Maya Shore - Restless Time
Hour of the Star - Rootbeer and Running Shoes
I Hate Myself - Caught in a Flood..
Kite Flying Society - Winter Solstice
Pennikurvers - Daredevil.

I'll keep you some company in this thread, my 10 ten favourites at the moment:

Saddest Landscape - Imperfect But Ours
Pianos Become The Teeth - Filial
Agesixteen - Dear Judas
Suis La Lune - Utter Silence is Fragile
Raein - Tigersuit
June Paik - Aleska
iwouldsetmyselfonfireforyou - Twelve
Aussitot Mort - Percute
Loma Prieta - Last City
Saddest Landscape - Declaring War On Nostalgia

^That is a very fine list right there, especially a fan of the iwouldsetmyselfonfireforyou, The Saddest Landscape and Suis La Lune tracks.

Nice list, Age Sixteen's Empty Nest does it for me every time. Great band.

If anyone's looking for some new **** to listen to, I still have no idea what bands were well-known in the 90s or now, but a few releases that are probably more on the obscure side that I would recommend -

The Stella Brass - Figure Eights & Heart Shapes 7''
Gila Bend - Gila Bend 7''
The Candyland Carcrash - The Candyland Carcrash 7''
Swingset in June - Demo tape
Watership Down - Watership Down 7''
Baby Harp Seal - Baby Harp Seal 7'' (the 1994 one)

That's a good, short mix. You can get all those (and about 800 other albums) at www.mediafire.com/emoisdead. That's not my account but it is something everyone that likes this kind of music needs to know about. The sister account screamoisdead is killer too.

Now it's on seven...

Go Radio's "Goodnight Moon"
Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle"
I Am Ghost's "Our Friend Lazarus Sleeps"
Taking Back Sunday's "What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost"
Cap'n Jazz's "Olerud"
Scary Kids Scaring Kid's "Watch Me Bleed"
Panic! At The Disco's "Time to Dance"

Haha. I am getting such a kick out of this! I was actually the singer of Eldritch Anisette. And for years I only had a 7 inch that I would break out and every now and then to relive the memories.

Tonight I was sitting around with my BFF and decided to google "Eldritch Anisette." Never really thought to do it before. Why would I? This stuff if from 1997 or somesuch!

But andrew, I'm glad we made your top ten. When we existed we never really made it anywhere past Delaware, so it's nice to know we reached more fans via the internet.

<3

1 per artist:

American Football - Never Meant
hopesfall - A Man Exits
Brand New - Millstone
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - How To Make Love Stay
Further Seems Forever - Monachetti
This Town Needs Guns - Lemur
Beloved - Failure on My Lips
Sucioperro - The Drop
Sunny Day Real Estate- Song About An Angel
Moving Mountains - 8105

There's stuff that crosses into post-hardcore/math rock/post-rock and even indie-pop there. Not really investigated Fugazi etc yet though.

^
Fantastic list.
"Never Meant" is an awesome Indie/Emo song.

Oh, I'd say it's the pinnacle. :) One of those songs that completely changed how I listened to music for a while.

Top 10 emo songs
ive got 5 that come to mind. as it is 5:10am lol.

1. Senses Fail - Calling all Cars
2. lovehatehero - she puts the ho in homewrecker
3. Hawthorne Heights - Pens and Needles
4. (oldschool emo) I hate myself - To A Husband at War
5. Alexisonfire - 44. caliber love letter

Those are my favorites anyways. I am in the mood for a good bashing so don't be afraid to trash them I will back them up