Best Emo-Core/Post-Hardcore Album Of The Past 10 Years

[smelltheglove]

here's another one for ya. choose wisely.

[oddwithoutend]

Deloused

[Oddpac87]

Fantastic list. If I picked all the albums there that I love, I would have picked like 15 of them, so, for the sake of just choosing one, I went TREOS. Thats my favorite of them. Easily in my top 5 all time.

[Bobcat46308]

Senses Fail - Still Searching

and Other: From Autumn to Ashes - Too Bad You're Beautiful

[Yagami]

At The Drive In's Relationship of Command, instead of The Mars Volta, if that's what you were aiming for.

[phil19]

so hard again.
went with illusion of safety.
though im a big fan of what it is to burn, the used s/t, tell all your friends, there must be someway to stop them and second stage turbine blade

[VIVALAMATT]

Tie between Glassjaw and Cursive for me. Went with Glassjaw.

Taking Back Sunday and Thrice would come after.

[fadedmemories]

Went with Finch and The Used. Followed closely by Thursday.

Why the fuck is Senses Fail and MCR in there?

I love TAYF to death, but that album does not belong here.

Where's Thrice's The Artist In The Ambulance and Vheissu?

[tonyC4L]

Too many choices!

[smelltheglove]

At The Drive In's Relationship of Command, instead of The Mars Volta, if that's what you were aiming for.

yea good call...not sure how I forgot about that one, certainly more essential than some of the albums i put in the poll. my bad.

[smelltheglove]

Went with Finch and The Used. Followed closely by Thursday.

Why the fuck is Senses Fail and MCR in there?

I love TAYF to death, but that album does not belong here.

Where's Thrice's The Artist In The Ambulance and Vheissu?

senses fail & MCR are in there cuz the kids love 'em. i'm sure they'll get some votes, although i personally would not pick either album. i was just going for a nice variety.

TAYF is considered pretty essential emocore if you ask me, i think it belongs here. again, i'm giong for a lot of vareity in the emocore/post-hardcore sub-genre of music

I only included one album from each band. i consider "illusion of safety" Thrice's most essential work. that was their breakthrough album, and it came out before a lot of other bands that started playing that style of music. you wouldn't remember this because you were 10 years old when it came out. but it had a far greater impact on the "scene" at the time in 2002 than "artist" did in 2003 and certainly more than when "vheissu" came out in 2005; that albuma ctually polarized a lot of Thrice fans that enjoyed their faster more metal influenced work.

[superichie]

So disappointed by the fact that I am the only one that voted for The Moon is Down.

[ThaRealNC]

Make it two.

[Alex Djaferis]

illusion of safety (favorite album ever for me)

great call on the Vaux album, SO unappareciated.

[The Summer Ends]

The Moon is Down is one of my top 5 albums ever. Chris Carrabba is a GOD!

Definitely voted for that one.

[smelltheglove]

glad I got "moon is down" in there for you guys. it is certainly a landmark album that had a huge influence on the genre but is often sadly overlooked compared to, say, Taking Back Sunday.

[fadedmemories]

senses fail & MCR are in there cuz the kids love 'em. i'm sure they'll get some votes, although i personally would not pick either album. i was just going for a nice variety.

TAYF is considered pretty essential emocore if you ask me, i think it belongs here. again, i'm giong for a lot of vareity in the emocore/post-hardcore sub-genre of music

I only included one album from each band. i consider "illusion of safety" Thrice's most essential work. that was their breakthrough album, and it came out before a lot of other bands that started playing that style of music. you wouldn't remember this because you were 10 years old when it came out. but it had a far greater impact on the "scene" at the time in 2002 than "artist" did in 2003 and certainly more than when "vheissu" came out in 2005; that albuma ctually polarized a lot of Thrice fans that enjoyed their faster more metal influenced work.
Still Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and Let It Enfold You are just terrible.

I consider TAYF pop punk, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks so there's a thread in general about pop punk essentials or something, you'd be surprised to find so many people considering it as pop punk

The fact that I was 10 when TIOS came out in 2002 doesn't mean a thing. Artist was more influential and Vheissu, despite polarizing a lot of old Thrice fans, is the perfect balance between their older and newer work.

[x1onexwo1fx]

I was thinking it would be a tough decision until I saw Coheed all the way down there.

[TangledUp]

FINCH.

But I also voted for SOTY because I love that album.

[dumhed01]

Pollyanna.

[Burn That Shit]

This poll is wrong on so many levels. Someone doesn't know the definition of post-hardcore or emo.

[princesschad]

Came down to Thrice/Cursive/Coheed for me.

Went with Cursive.

[lonelysuperstar]

Vheissu is way better than the Illusion of Safety, and that's saying a lot because I love the Illusion of Safety.

I also think How To Start A Fire is way better than The Moon is Down.

[yourbiggestflan]

Vheissu is way better than the Illusion of Safety, and that's saying a lot because I love the Illusion of Safety.

I also think How To Start A Fire is way better than The Moon is Down.

I agree with you on both counts sir, although i heard vheissu and how to start a fire first from both bands, so this might be why...

I chose OTHER and it's not because i'm trying to be elitist or that i think i'm better than any one of you. But, i just really want to say how much impact Underoath's "They're Only Chasing Safety" had on me. It might not fit into this specific genre, so maybe that's why noobdy said it., but in my mind they made the first amazing screamo record. Yeah, sure screamo had been out before and bands like the used and such had their try at it. But in 2004, the Genre was finally perfected with TOCS...my personal opinion.

And bytheway, i love DTGL and LITSOS, and asking me to choose which is my favorite is pure blasphemy =]

[fadedmemories]

This poll is wrong on so many levels. Someone doesn't know the definition of post-hardcore or emo.
This

[AussieBoy]

story of the year!

[Neo Cassady]

lol @ "emo-core". But, of those choices, Thursday.

[fadedmemories]

story of the year!
HAHA nice joke

[smelltheglove]

Still Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and Let It Enfold You are just terrible.

I consider TAYF pop punk, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks so there's a thread in general about pop punk essentials or something, you'd be surprised to find so many people considering it as pop punk

The fact that I was 10 when TIOS came out in 2002 doesn't mean a thing. Artist was more influential and Vheissu, despite polarizing a lot of old Thrice fans, is the perfect balance between their older and newer work.

Ok Mr. 17 year old "my opinion is more valid than yours" guy. Artist was NOT more influential than Illusion. YOU WEREN'T THERE DUDE. How long have you been around the scene? 3 years? 4? 2005-ish? How can you even remember or know which Thrice album had a larger impact?

Arist gave them their "radio hit" (all that's left) and exposed them to a larger fan base being that it was their first record for Island, but stylistically, they broke no new ground on that album that they hadn't already covered a year and a half earlier on Illusion. Illusion is the album that landed them a major label deal, it is the album that got them on Warped Tour.

and yes, your age matters because you werent there for this. I doubt you were 10 years old going to Thrice shows and hanging around the scene. I was. "illusion" had a huge impact. where do you think all these emo-core bands came from like Silverstein and FATA and shit? Thrice blew the doors of the genre with "illusion".

Yes, "let it enfold you" sucks. that's why I included "still searching" in this poll instead.

I don't care if you think TAYF is pop-punk. Surely the album has many elements of pop-punk, it is very Saves the Day "through being cool" influenced.

But the duel-vocalists/screaming back-ups is very much emo-core and their song dynamics and structures are much more akin to bands like Further Seems Forever and THursday than they are standard verse-chorus-verse 4-chord pop punk bands like mxpx and blink182. There's nothing "punk" about TBS. their chord progressions are not rooted in the Ramones or Descendents or Screeching Weasel or Green Day or even NFG, which are the measuring stick-bands for pop-punk.

[smelltheglove]

This poll is wrong on so many levels. Someone doesn't know the definition of post-hardcore or emo.

please define them for me then oh wise one and please explain to me "all the different levels" that this poll is wrong on.

[smelltheglove]

I agree with you on both counts sir, although i heard vheissu and how to start a fire first from both bands, so this might be why...

I chose OTHER and it's not because i'm trying to be elitist or that i think i'm better than any one of you. But, i just really want to say how much impact Underoath's "They're Only Chasing Safety" had on me. It might not fit into this specific genre, so maybe that's why noobdy said it., but in my mind they made the first amazing screamo record. Yeah, sure screamo had been out before and bands like the used and such had their try at it. But in 2004, the Genre was finally perfected with TOCS...my personal opinion.

And bytheway, i love DTGL and LITSOS, and asking me to choose which is my favorite is pure blasphemy =]

all good man. i would have included Underoath in this poll, i simply forgot about them cuz i'm not much of a fan, but i'd say they'd fit into this poll. That's why i included "other". word.

[batmannj]

Lots of good choices, but I went with TBS and Thursday

[fadedmemories]

Ok Mr. 17 year old "my opinion is more valid than yours" guy. Artist was NOT more influential than Illusion. YOU WEREN'T THERE DUDE. How long have you been around the scene? 3 years? 4? 2005-ish? How can you even remember or know which Thrice album had a larger impact?

Arist gave them their "radio hit" (all that's left) and exposed them to a larger fan base being that it was their first record for Island, but stylistically, they broke no new ground on that album that they hadn't already covered a year and a half earlier on Illusion. Illusion is the album that landed them a major label deal, it is the album that got them on Warped Tour.

and yes, your age matters because you werent there for this. I doubt you were 10 years old going to Thrice shows and hanging around the scene. I was. "illusion" had a huge impact. where do you think all these emo-core bands came from like Silverstein and FATA and shit? Thrice blew the doors of the genre with "illusion".

Yes, "let it enfold you" sucks. that's why I included "still searching" in this poll instead.

I don't care if you think TAYF is pop-punk. Surely the album has many elements of pop-punk, it is very Saves the Day "through being cool" influenced.

But the duel-vocalists/screaming back-ups is very much emo-core and their song dynamics and structures are much more akin to bands like Further Seems Forever and THursday than they are standard verse-chorus-verse 4-chord pop punk bands like mxpx and blink182. There's nothing "punk" about TBS. their chord progressions are not rooted in the Ramones or Descendents or Screeching Weasel or Green Day or even NFG, which are the measuring stick-bands for pop-punk.
Because I've been listening to this stuff since I was 12. Just because I wasn't there doesn't make me any less of a fan.

Just because I wasn't hanging out at shows in the "scene" when I was 10, doesn't mean that I'm blind to the fact that bands like Silverstein and FATA and basically every other band who sounds like them are more influenced by Artist.

I can never forgive SF for LIEY. Still Searching was LIEY part 2. Horrible.

It's not just me dude. There's just nothing "core" about that album. And I've never said anything about TAYF being punk, where the hell did you get that from?

[smelltheglove]

Because I've been listening to this stuff since I was 12. Just because I wasn't there doesn't make me any less of a fan.

Just because I wasn't hanging out at shows in the "scene" when I was 10, doesn't mean that I'm blind to the fact that bands like Silverstein and FATA and basically every other band who sounds like them are more influenced by Artist.

I can never forgive SF for LIEY. Still Searching was LIEY part 2. Horrible.

It's not just me dude. There's just nothing "core" about that album. And I've never said anything about TAYF being punk, where the hell did you get that from?

i mean if you want to call them pop-punk go ahead. it's just a fucking poll dude, make your own if youre gonna be a little opinionated bitch about it. its just for fun dude, you don't need to get all up in arms over the classification of TBS.

I see you in all these polls preaching your opinion as gospel. DUDE RANCH is BETTER THAN ENEMA! TBS IS POP PUNK! ARTIST IN THE AMBLANCE IS MORE INFLUENTIAL THAN ILLUSION!

get over yourself dude. your opinion is far from fact. quit being so stereotypically teenage.

[fadedmemories]

i mean if you want to call them pop-punk go ahead. it's just a fucking poll dude, make your own if youre gonna be a little opinionated bitch about it. its just for fun dude, you don't need to get all up in arms over the classification of TBS.

I see you in all these polls preaching your opinion as gospel. DUDE RANCH is BETTER THAN ENEMA! TBS IS POP PUNK! ARTIST IN THE AMBLANCE IS MORE INFLUENTIAL THAN ILLUSION!

get over yourself dude. your opinion is far from fact. quit being so stereotypically teenage.
Whatever.

You do know you could click my name and just put me on "ignore"?

I recommend staying out of the internet.

[circatbs]

Shit dude, you make awesome polls. Very hard to choose just one.

I picked TAYF, one of my favorite albums of all time right there.

[fueledbyvictory]

Tell All Your Friends. I love that album.

[speakhandsforme]

As far as impact on the 7th grade version of myself, The Used's S/T dominates alll. But, as far as musical quality, I have to take Between the Heart and the Synapse.

[MickShamrock]

Glassjaw.

[Toothache]

whoever lists coheed and the mars volta under emo-core or post-hardcore or anything-core is a fucking retard. the word is progressive, my friends.

[speakhandsforme]

I understand now that this poll is for the more ground-breaking, influential albums, not the most currently popular. I wish that there was a poll that Coheed's Good Apollo I could fit into....musically, lyrically, and creatively, it throttles the rest of their work.

[lonelysuperstar]

I agree with you on both counts sir, although i heard vheissu and how to start a fire first from both bands, so this might be why...

I chose OTHER and it's not because i'm trying to be elitist or that i think i'm better than any one of you. But, i just really want to say how much impact Underoath's "They're Only Chasing Safety" had on me. It might not fit into this specific genre, so maybe that's why noobdy said it., but in my mind they made the first amazing screamo record. Yeah, sure screamo had been out before and bands like the used and such had their try at it. But in 2004, the Genre was finally perfected with TOCS...my personal opinion.

And bytheway, i love DTGL and LITSOS, and asking me to choose which is my favorite is pure blasphemy =]

I share your opinion of Underoath too. Congratuwelldone

[smelltheglove]

whoever lists coheed and the mars volta under emo-core or post-hardcore or anything-core is a fucking retard. the word is progressive, my friends.

I may be a retard, but at least I can take a piss without a hall pass. and i may be a retard, but at least i have a college degree while you don't even have a highschool diploma. and i may be a retard, but at least i don't live with my parents.

[SeanEBoy2686]

receiving end of sirens

and I hate the term "Emo-core"... so dumb... just like the word "emo" in general

[AussieBoy]

HAHA nice joke

13% of the votes champ! no joke!

[liveloud4life]

Freakin love The Used S/T. In Love and Death = ok. Lies for the Liars = shit.

[yourprivateeye]

thrice then cursive then treos.

[boomerangslang]

Too many choices. Went with Northstar.

[fadedmemories]

13% of the votes champ! no joke!
Just because it's getting a fair amount of votes doesn't exactly mean it's any good. That record was one of the blandest and had one of the worst vocals I've ever heard.

[xsinkshipsx]

well I don't know a lot of the specifics of the genre names but I wouldnt say a lot of those are in fact emo-core and post-hardcore....specially a GORGEOUS album like further seems forever the moon is down. I went with other and I would say something like chasing victory's I call this abandonment or underoath's chasing safety...

[speakhandsforme]

At least BTHATS is tied for third.

[deadwrong188]

wow i thought full collapse would have definately been winning, as it should be.

[Melcher!]

how can you put tell all your friends on here and leave out your favorite weapon? get your last ten years right.

[smelltheglove]

wow i thought full collapse would have definately been winning, as it should be.

agreed

[smelltheglove]

how can you put tell all your friends on here and leave out your favorite weapon? get your last ten years right.

go check out my other poll "best pop-punk album of the past 10 years" and you will find "your favorite weapon" included in the options for that poll. dick.

[deadwrong188]

but i love let it enfold you :/

[Machu505]

lol at TMV being "emo-core".

Went with them though.

[shit stroll]

wow.

[EndSerenading]

lol at this list. a good 75% of those bands in the poll don't fit either genre listed imo. But maybe im just picky with genre titles /shrug

[kearn1tm]

Whoa.

[xapplexpiex]

This was a tough one. I chose TBS, My Chem, and Northstar. Most of the others are also really good though.

[xapplexpiex]

but i love let it enfold you :/
Exactly. I don't know why he put Still Searching on here instead.

[mike'smannequin]

cursive, tbs, thursday

[only the clouds]

If you ask me, Hot Water Music's Caution is better than most of the stuff on that list

[Scrandon]

Rise Against- The sufferer & the Witness

From that list though i'd say Tell all your Friends.

[AbolitionOfMan]

I voted for The Illusion of Safety because it is my all-time fav and was what got me started in the genre back in 2002.

So disappointed by the fact that I am the only one that voted for The Moon is Down.
Some tough competition but I agree with what some others had said about it really being a trendsetter.

I understand now that this poll is for the more ground-breaking, influential albums, not the most currently popular. I wish that there was a poll that Coheed's Good Apollo I could fit into....musically, lyrically, and creatively, it throttles the rest of their work.
Good Apollo made me yearn for the days of Second Stage and In Keeping...
but i love let it enfold you :/
Yeah, why all the hate for Let It Enfold You? I heard it before From Depths of Dreams, which is great too, but when I think Senses Fail I think of LIEY, it is a Top 10 album of the decade for me probably.

[haloswitch]

Stutterfly - And We Are Bled Of Color

[abandonship]

IOS out of those