The Man I Fell in Love With - Dis Yourself

1997

the man i fell in love with is a 90s emo drowsy / shoegazy perfect band that i love so much. i want to be in a band that sounds exactly like this.


1. brantastic
2. bad dreams
3. the sniper
4. sinful glare
5. we were when we were
6. the fleet of the armada
7 never ever even


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shark bait - still growing

hey, this thing.

it's been a while since i've found something to be excited about. here's a band of young dudes i don't know from my home town. it's twinkly and screamy.. (appropriately) overly emotional.. angry. but mostly sad. that's about all i ask for anymore.


i still believe south central louisiana puts out the best musicians/music. kinda wish these dudes were playing this kinda thing in 2003 so i could go see them at main street.


1. masks
2. inside your head
3. growing pains
4. water wings
5. still growing


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Current - Discography

1992-1994 | various self-releases

early emo from ottowa. i can't take credit for discovering this band, or even listening to them when i was at the ripe age of six years old. some old dude from baton rouge who happened to marry my best friend was showing off his records last christmas and broke out their full length, coliseum (released in 1993 on council records). i listened and loved. this discography moves backwards in time, beginning with the band's final 7" and ending with their earliest releases (total 180 on the vocals, right? i really just prefer the later stuff)

here's a video. (probably should figure out embedding on blogspot...)

tracklist:

1 basis

2 repetition

3 countinued rantings

4 overbearing

5 leech

6 bastille

7 frayed ends

8 monument

9 key

10 representation

11 dial

12 pave

13 bag of threads

14 two and a dime

15 ruin

16 outside is better

17 coliseum

18 she can't write

19 hark

20 member

21 could i

22 silvered lead

23 come down

24 left at the right

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bulletproof tiger - starving hearts ep

June 2010 | Self Released

new screamo band from miami. i have a piece of this guy's totaled car in my car.

tracklist:

1 conversations in prague

2 starving hearts

3 cut. burned. broken. whole

4 subtle like train wreck

5 windmills

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I, Robot - Et Cetera

2002 | Immigrant Sun

you're thinking the only reason i like this band is because they're named after an Asimov novel, which is partially true. if they sucked i would probably still have it. but it doesn't suck, in fact, it's awesome. i like the end of "call me killer" because it does the twinkly... but i always used "the mullets vs. the mustaches" on mixtapes. i guess these dudes are in a post rock band now called homesick for space that sounds like moving mountains. they should have at least kept the vocals...

Tracklist:

01 the answer

02 call me 'killer'

03 James Earl Jones

04 what if

05 the mullets vs. the mustaches

06 frida ridder

07 exodus

08 save me

09 I Who Cares Not Loses in the End

10 2017

11 now i owe you a favor (live)

12 et cetera (live)

13 I Can not Swim (live)

14 the answer (live)

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Commander Venus - The Uneventful Vacation

1997 | Wind Up Records (not saddle creek, whoa!)

This is an early conor oberst band, commander venus. I love his young shaky voice much more than anyone should. I still love his voice more than I should.

Tracklist:

1. Jean's TV

2. Refused By Light

3. We'll Always Have Paris

4. The Uneventful Vacation (Part 1)

5. Lock 'n' Chase

6. Life As Expected

7. The Way Things Had to Be

8. Dress to Please

9. The Walk-Around Problem

10. My Collapsing Frame

11. The Raining Holiday (Part 2)

12. The Role of the Hero in Antiquity

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Elliott - False Cathedrals

August 2000 | Revelation Records

A pretty straight forward emo rock band with great sound and catchy songs. Elliott was around from 1995 – 2003, this was their best work. I want to say Superstitions in Travel is my favorite song because it features epic singability. But of course, Drive on to Me has a pop-charm that none of the tracks on this album can compare to. Overall: a nostalgic, amiable record not to be forgotten.

Tracklist:

1 Voices

2 Calm Americans

3 Blessed by Your Own Ghost

4 Drive on Me

5 Calvary Song

6 Lipstick Stigmata

7 Dying Midwestern

8 Shallow Like Your Breath

9 Superstitions in Travel

10 Carving Oswego

11 Lie Close

12 Speed of Film

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December's Tragic Drive - Marigold and Patchwork

1997 | Self Released?

This band is currently known as The Appleseed Cast (my favorite band), but I decided to showcase this record to pay some respect to their roots. Many of these songs went on to the Appleseed Cast’s End of the Ring Wars LP. It is a very lo-fi album released in 1997 just before they changed their name. Actually, this album features the song Skaater Ik Ignito, which is on their Tale of the Aftermath 7” (I have been searching for this record everywhere!) The song Stars comes in slow and sad, featuring a beautiful horns section.

Tracklist

1 Antihero

2 Marigold and Patchwork

3 Stars

4 Dreamland

5 Skaater Ik Ignito

6 Untitled 1/2

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Cross My Heart - Temporary Contemporary

2000 | Deep Elm Records

Another early 2000s emo band, Cross my Heart plays a similar brand of emo to Benton Falls with a stronger vocalist and less intricate, but still jangly riffs. This was a band I always looked forward to on those Deep Elm Records Compilations, the Emo Diaries. Actually I totally forgot about them until yesterday when I was going through old empty cd jewel cases.. I wish I had lost the cases and not the discs. But I suppose those discs are scratched to shit now anyway. I'm sure you'll hear more bands from those comp's from me eventually..

Tracklist

1 The Great Depression

2 Tonight We'll Light Ourselves on Fire

3 Paris

4 London Bridge

5 With Bells On

6 Infinity Doesn't Live Here Anymore

7 Self-loathing Bastard

8 Angels & Gargoyles

9 How Slowly We Forget

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Benton Falls - Fighting Starlight

August 2001 | Deep Elm Records

This is a good album for my first post.

Benton Falls, from Santa Rosa, CA played a beautiful popular midwestern-sounding emo in the early 2000s. This is my favorite album of theirs, though the edgier Guilt Beats Hate is a close second. I went through alot with this album growing up, and I hope I never forget about it. Guess that's why it's here...

The song Back to Nothing begins with, "i follow you around / like i follow the sea / but i see you're not / interested in me..." which i think rounds out the entire album pretty well-- struggling with the idea of isolation or abandonment. But there's something hopeful left behind in all the whining.

Tracklist

1 All These Things

2 Swimming With You

3 Fighting Starlight

4 Sad Like Winter Leaves

5 Always Behind A Smile

6 June Port Bridge

7 No Hero

8 Coastal

9 Back To Nothing

10 Eudora

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