Since I have not been posting any new photographs, and because I was inspired by a recent text conversation with my friend Jason, I am going to post something a little different on here. I enjoy making lists, so — without explaining when, how and why I got into emo music and how much I still love it — here’s my 10 Favorite Emo Albums.
Rules: full albums only, no EPs; albums enjoyable now, not just when I was a teenager; genre ambiguity is okay; post-1994, because early post-punk is too good; also avoiding the likes of Weezer or Elliott Smith; and lastly, no one too obscure. Now the list in alphabetical order:
Boy Sets Fire – The Day the Sun Went Out (1997)
Braid – Frame and Canvas (1998)
Cap’n Jazz – Analphabetapolothology (1998)
Get Up Kids – Four Minute Mile (1997)
Elliott – False Cathedrals (2000)
Grade – Under the Radar (1999)
Hot Water Music – Forever and Counting (1997)
Small Brown Bike – Dead Reckoning (2001)
Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary (1994)
Texas is the Reason – Do You Know Who You Are? (1996)
