What’s the best emo album of all time? Is it the same as your favorite? And does a revival-era record belong at No. 1 over the genre’s founding classics?
Kiel Hauck and Nadia Alves dig into the Top 200 Emo Albums of All Time list recently published by Emo Kids Anonymous, which drew on ballots from writers, label folks and musicians. They react to The Hotelier’s Home, Like Noplace Is There taking the top spot over Clarity and Something to Write Home About. They celebrate seeing Further Seems Forever’s The Moon Is Down and Mayday Parade’s A Lesson in Romantics ranked higher than expected, and puzzle over how low Paramore landed. They also argue about what counts as emo, from Fall Out Boy and Underoath to Pierce the Veil and Death Cab for Cutie.
Then come the snubs: Saosin, Copeland, The Academy Is…, Balance and Composure, Emery and Sweet Pill. Kiel and Nadia also talk about recency bias, the list’s lack of women, and which album you should listen to this week.
Take a listen!
Also, go check out the list for yourself here: https://www.emokidsanonymous.com/top-200-emo-albums-of-all-time
Looking for our own Top Emo Albums of All Time lists? Take a look below!
Kiel
- Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends
- The Get Up Kids – Something to Write Home About
- Thursday – Full Collapse
- Further Seems Forever – The Moon is Down
- Paramore – Riot!
- Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary
- Saosin – Translating the Name
- Dashboard Confessional – The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
- My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
- Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
Nadia
- Citizen – Youth
- Turnover – Peripheral Vision
- Fall Out Boy – Folie à Deux
- Paramore – Brand New Eyes
- Tigers Jaw – Charmer
- Balance and Composure – The Things We Think We’re Missing
- The Hotelier – Home Like Noplace is There
- Pianos Become the Teeth – Keep You
- mewithoutyou – Brother, Sister
- Search the City – A Fire So Big the Heavens Can See it
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