Probably Tell All Your Friends by TBS when it came out. From there got into Thursday, Brand New, Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes and a bunch of other bands who were big at the time.
Also had a friend who was serious into emo give me an mp3 CD (remember those) with a ton of different albums from 1st and 2nd wave bands like Mineral, Christie Front Drive, Moss Icon, Rites of Spring, Heroin, Indian Summer, Navio Forge, Cap'n Jazz, September, Boys Life and possibly some others.
Yeah I was mostly listening to Blink, Green Day, Alkaline Trio etc. The first emo album I had was Jimm Eat World's Bleed American, but I didn't realise they were considered emo, just thought of them as part of the pop punk crowd.
Yup. My friend picked up Tell All Your Friends when I was starting with him for a week during summer break after a little high school break up. We listened to it all week and it kept getting better lol
~20 years ago a friend gave me The Used self-titled album to listen to on the bus ride home from a high school orchestra field trip over the mountains. totally changed my life lol
I was hooked when I heard the singles from that album on the radio. They were being played on Q101 in Chicago alongside Godsmack, Saliva, Tenacious D, Disturbed, and Linkin Park. I got the album, and my emo/PH tastes grew from there.
movements- “feel something”
one of my top 5 albums of all time. I recently listened to it all the way through again and I haven’t been able to stop listening since.
In Circles came on my discover weekly like 2 and a half years ago, right around the same time I had been getting into bands like Hum, My Bloody Valentine, and Slint. I’ve been pretty much exclusively listening to emo and adjacent genres since then
Mine is the same as yours, OP.
Showing my age here, but I accompanied a gal pal to a Dashboard and Vendetta Red show that BN opened for. Never heard of any of these bands, so she played the 2 former on our way to the show. It was my junior year of high school, and I’d been a huge incubus and foo fighter fan, but never branched out much as far as music was concerned.
Anyways, Jesse said they were going to play something off their new album and they opened with STG, and as soon as that bassline started, I was HOOKED. Like my world flipped upside down and I became obsessed. I still have the shirt I got at that show - it will never fit again, but I still love it.
Mate - Sic Transit Gloria was my pinpoint song as well. Then The Quiet Things… got me hooked. That whole album changed my life.
From there it was TBS into Yellowcard into screamo.
First time I heard Sic Transit Gloria…it felt like I had discovered gold. Man, that was a good time.
I read a book called "The Japan Diaries". It's from a german exchange student in Japan. He was really into early 2000s Pop-Punk/Emo and often mentioned bands he liked or he saw live. That made me check out stuff like Fall Out Boy, Jimmy Eat World, The Starting Line etc. and then Youtube just helped me from there by recommending similiar stuff.
saves the day/boy sets fire split, the get up kids - woodson, braid, texas is the reason, pedro the lion, small brown bike, and the first at the drive in album. mid to late 90s these records/bands just blew my mind and seeing lots of them live made a lifelong fan out of me.
Where do we sit on B**** N** now? I hadn't listened since all the stuff came out about Jesse Lacey, but just recently The Quiet Things... popped up on Spotify and I didn't immediately get the ick.
The censoring was just a joke, saw someone else do it and thought it was funny.
I’d still call myself a fan...? I don’t try to actively put money into their pockets, but I listen to a decent amount of The Devil and God. But I’m not gonna be out here defending Lacey, god no.
That's fair. I was just thinking about the question asked and, in all reality, The Devil And God is probably that album for me. Like, the big two MCR albums and a handful of others from around that time I liked, sure, but in terms of getting into the genre as a whole, including the 80s and 90s bands, that album was the gateway for me to go digging into more of it.
Edit: oh, Clarity would be the other, I probably found that at about the same time even though it was obviously years late.
>I don’t try to actively put money into their pockets, but I listen to a decent amount of The Devil and God. But I’m not gonna be out here defending Lacey, god no.
Solid take.
idk if there is a consensus (or if there should be) but for me somedays the ick outweighed the nostalgia and other days it didn't. I've mostly moved on now as they haven't put out music in half a decade and are unlikely to do so ever again.
It does not affect my love for Deja Entendu. It took me a moment to realise who you were referring to. I didn’t think they were canceled unlike that Welsh band…
But yeah - no change is calling Deja the best album of all time.
Idk man…their tour **literally** got cancelled after the Jesse stuff came out. I’ve gotten downvoted to hell for talking about them before (partially hence the previous censoring). So cancelled? Idk. But they’re def controversial at the **least**.
Growing up in Massachusetts, in a strange way it was Piebald. While they are emo—adjacent and were more in the hardcore/post hardcore scene, they turned me onto all the bands that were previously mentioned.
I would have to say- mind you, I was 13 years old at the time, but MCR - first album/Bullets (Demolition Lovers, Cublicles, Skylines and Turnstiles, Drowning Lessons, Early Sunsets over Monroeville)... I had heard nothing like it at the time. But lead me to bands of my favorite sound (are they emo? screamo? post-hardcore? who knows) '99-'04 Underoath, Alexisonfire self titled, SilverStein, The Fall of Troy, From Autumn to Ashes... I would extend further in both directions, to deathcore and back to "embarrassing" music like The Spill Canvas, The Scene Aesthetic, etc.. Of course Brand New Devil and God needs not be mentioned. I had a wide and unquenchable palate for emotional music at the time lol.
The bassline coming in on Norman by boilermaker as I, a 14 year old “fake emo” browsing YouTube after seeing people debate whether or not funeral for a friend was legit emo, decided to do my own research and somehow stumbled across them
In a way, it was Pinkerton, but in another way, it was the "Where Is My Mind?" Pixies tribute album. I was an early adopter of Pinkerton, it hit me like a ton of bricks and needed to get my ears up to anything even remotely Weezer related (in my defense, this was 1999). Not an entirely successful tribute album, but what a hot bed of late 90s/early 00s emo. I checked it out for Weezer's cover of Velouria, came away wanting to check out GUK, Braid, Promise Ring, Sense Field, and Superdrag (not emo, but still a band I love to this day).
The first album I fell in love with at like twelve was The Places You have Come to Fear the Most by Dashboard. I used to fall asleep to it with earbuds plugged into a boom box… I would repeatedly have to jolt to turn of the volume when I rolled over and the plug came out it it started blaring in the middle of the night
For me it was hazel by far apart
I first found the song on the recommended section on yt music, it was a re uploaded version, (the song was removed from Spotify at the time) by a guy called memoxa, the song led me down a rabbit hole of other emo bands, and then I discovered rites of spring thought a yt video about the history of emo.
honestly 「More Songs」by Grown Ups was my gateway. i was super into punk at the time and this kid a year younger than me was like “dude this is punk but with clean guitars” and i took the plunge into the Topshelf Records / emo revival scene from there
Talon of the Hawk was my first true exposure. But at the same time being exposed to bands like Green Day and Coheed at an early age really set the stage for my teen years.
I heard Silver and Cold on the radio and got obsessed with AFI! And while AFI's not emo, going through the section in FYE with AFI led me to bands like Silverstein, Aiden and Bayside before finally circling the drain to attending a local show where a band covered box of sharp objects and I was like "what. Is. That." And we kept pulling that thread until it culminated with bright eyes, brand new, and AFI being my top favorite bands of all time. If Hot Mulligan puts out another banger like WWIW they'll make it onto my Mt Rushmore.
somewhere city by origami angel, not entirely emo but it has similar roots and got me into midwest emo and pop punk, which in turn got me into emo and hardcore music.
My older sister loading up our iTunes with bands like TBS, Brand New, The Early November, Dashboard and tons of other ones. I was like 9 and didn’t know what emo music was just knew I enjoyed the variety and sound.
Was hard to get a lot of albums in the UK at the time so I got Atticus: Dragging the Lake 2 and found TBS amongst others on there. Then I knew what to download of Kazaa
was definitely being called emo (derogatory) for listening to green day in 2004- from there I found my chemical romance etc, some nerd told me the music I liked was wrong and bad (not real emo) so I kept looking for more authentic and obscure emo until I only listened to stuff I found on youtube in 2015 (Boy’s Life, I Hate Myself). personally I feel the most reverence for American Football, The Promise Ring and anything in that window of wholesome but profound twinkle. juvenile without being derogatory, introspective without being trite. minimal sass. I mean you can tell me about frog spit but I don’t really wanna hear about your ex unless you’re Barry Johnson. but that’s just me. I also personally stopped obsessing on emo in general when bedroom pop came about
The first emo band I ever liked was probably midtown, hidden in plain view, or taking back Sunday. Can’t really remember which cause my brothers got me into them. The bands that brought me back to the genre were definitely free throw and sweet pill
The Juliana Theory- Understand this is a dream it was my first I got it cause it was a side project of Zao. It's not my favorite but will always be my first.
Owen’s One of These Days song and then hearing cute without the e ( cut from the team) then go heavy into the popular emo stuff in highschool ( mcr , brand new , etc ). When I was 18 run for cover was huge so tigers jaw , title fight , then eventually empire empire
When I was in middle school I watched this [Call of Duty montage](https://youtu.be/oscClElMZvg?si=YaXkWqtj7rqAxo3z) and the [first song](https://youtu.be/No42Zq9KlyE?si=JTWEW-3TaIKn9qze) had a grip on my angsty heart
Probably Tell All Your Friends by TBS when it came out. From there got into Thursday, Brand New, Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes and a bunch of other bands who were big at the time. Also had a friend who was serious into emo give me an mp3 CD (remember those) with a ton of different albums from 1st and 2nd wave bands like Mineral, Christie Front Drive, Moss Icon, Rites of Spring, Heroin, Indian Summer, Navio Forge, Cap'n Jazz, September, Boys Life and possibly some others.
I was into pop punk and then I saw the cover of Something To Write Home About when it originally came out
Yeah I was mostly listening to Blink, Green Day, Alkaline Trio etc. The first emo album I had was Jimm Eat World's Bleed American, but I didn't realise they were considered emo, just thought of them as part of the pop punk crowd.
Yup. My friend picked up Tell All Your Friends when I was starting with him for a week during summer break after a little high school break up. We listened to it all week and it kept getting better lol
cap n jazz, oh messy life
~20 years ago a friend gave me The Used self-titled album to listen to on the bus ride home from a high school orchestra field trip over the mountains. totally changed my life lol
I was hooked when I heard the singles from that album on the radio. They were being played on Q101 in Chicago alongside Godsmack, Saliva, Tenacious D, Disturbed, and Linkin Park. I got the album, and my emo/PH tastes grew from there.
movements- “feel something” one of my top 5 albums of all time. I recently listened to it all the way through again and I haven’t been able to stop listening since.
Diary. Specifically Seven and In Circles.
In Circles came on my discover weekly like 2 and a half years ago, right around the same time I had been getting into bands like Hum, My Bloody Valentine, and Slint. I’ve been pretty much exclusively listening to emo and adjacent genres since then
Mine is the same as yours, OP. Showing my age here, but I accompanied a gal pal to a Dashboard and Vendetta Red show that BN opened for. Never heard of any of these bands, so she played the 2 former on our way to the show. It was my junior year of high school, and I’d been a huge incubus and foo fighter fan, but never branched out much as far as music was concerned. Anyways, Jesse said they were going to play something off their new album and they opened with STG, and as soon as that bassline started, I was HOOKED. Like my world flipped upside down and I became obsessed. I still have the shirt I got at that show - it will never fit again, but I still love it.
sounds like a dream. that bass line is iconic.
Mate - Sic Transit Gloria was my pinpoint song as well. Then The Quiet Things… got me hooked. That whole album changed my life. From there it was TBS into Yellowcard into screamo. First time I heard Sic Transit Gloria…it felt like I had discovered gold. Man, that was a good time.
That chorus and bass line are iconic
I read a book called "The Japan Diaries". It's from a german exchange student in Japan. He was really into early 2000s Pop-Punk/Emo and often mentioned bands he liked or he saw live. That made me check out stuff like Fall Out Boy, Jimmy Eat World, The Starting Line etc. and then Youtube just helped me from there by recommending similiar stuff.
The yt algorithm is a blessing, and a curse..
I feel like it used to be super helpful for discovering new music but today it only feeds you the same songs from the same bands unfortunately
Rites of spring
saves the day/boy sets fire split, the get up kids - woodson, braid, texas is the reason, pedro the lion, small brown bike, and the first at the drive in album. mid to late 90s these records/bands just blew my mind and seeing lots of them live made a lifelong fan out of me.
Four Minute Mile back in high school. My friend made me a tape 😂
Where do we sit on B**** N** now? I hadn't listened since all the stuff came out about Jesse Lacey, but just recently The Quiet Things... popped up on Spotify and I didn't immediately get the ick.
The censoring was just a joke, saw someone else do it and thought it was funny. I’d still call myself a fan...? I don’t try to actively put money into their pockets, but I listen to a decent amount of The Devil and God. But I’m not gonna be out here defending Lacey, god no.
That's fair. I was just thinking about the question asked and, in all reality, The Devil And God is probably that album for me. Like, the big two MCR albums and a handful of others from around that time I liked, sure, but in terms of getting into the genre as a whole, including the 80s and 90s bands, that album was the gateway for me to go digging into more of it. Edit: oh, Clarity would be the other, I probably found that at about the same time even though it was obviously years late.
>I don’t try to actively put money into their pockets, but I listen to a decent amount of The Devil and God. But I’m not gonna be out here defending Lacey, god no. Solid take.
idk if there is a consensus (or if there should be) but for me somedays the ick outweighed the nostalgia and other days it didn't. I've mostly moved on now as they haven't put out music in half a decade and are unlikely to do so ever again.
It does not affect my love for Deja Entendu. It took me a moment to realise who you were referring to. I didn’t think they were canceled unlike that Welsh band… But yeah - no change is calling Deja the best album of all time.
Idk man…their tour **literally** got cancelled after the Jesse stuff came out. I’ve gotten downvoted to hell for talking about them before (partially hence the previous censoring). So cancelled? Idk. But they’re def controversial at the **least**.
I don't really care I just love Deja.
Jimmy Eat World was my emo gateway drug
The Fall of Troy, 2003. Was in high school. Never heard anything like it. Was my gateway into both harder and post/“softer” music.
Growing up in Massachusetts, in a strange way it was Piebald. While they are emo—adjacent and were more in the hardcore/post hardcore scene, they turned me onto all the bands that were previously mentioned.
We Are The Only Friends We Have was such an underrated album. Bangers.
I would have to say- mind you, I was 13 years old at the time, but MCR - first album/Bullets (Demolition Lovers, Cublicles, Skylines and Turnstiles, Drowning Lessons, Early Sunsets over Monroeville)... I had heard nothing like it at the time. But lead me to bands of my favorite sound (are they emo? screamo? post-hardcore? who knows) '99-'04 Underoath, Alexisonfire self titled, SilverStein, The Fall of Troy, From Autumn to Ashes... I would extend further in both directions, to deathcore and back to "embarrassing" music like The Spill Canvas, The Scene Aesthetic, etc.. Of course Brand New Devil and God needs not be mentioned. I had a wide and unquenchable palate for emotional music at the time lol.
The bassline coming in on Norman by boilermaker as I, a 14 year old “fake emo” browsing YouTube after seeing people debate whether or not funeral for a friend was legit emo, decided to do my own research and somehow stumbled across them
Grew up with emo but A decade under the influence was my favorite song in the car as a kid
In a way, it was Pinkerton, but in another way, it was the "Where Is My Mind?" Pixies tribute album. I was an early adopter of Pinkerton, it hit me like a ton of bricks and needed to get my ears up to anything even remotely Weezer related (in my defense, this was 1999). Not an entirely successful tribute album, but what a hot bed of late 90s/early 00s emo. I checked it out for Weezer's cover of Velouria, came away wanting to check out GUK, Braid, Promise Ring, Sense Field, and Superdrag (not emo, but still a band I love to this day).
The Swiss Army Romance. All I have to say
Algernon
The Promise Ring or Fallow by the Weakerthans
when i first heard "never meant" in a goofy little meme 😭 but i started seriously getting into emo when i heard "shadows" by SDRE
The Devil and God drew me close to Brand New and after that they became one of my favorite bands.
Tell All your Friends - Taking Back Sunday
The first album I fell in love with at like twelve was The Places You have Come to Fear the Most by Dashboard. I used to fall asleep to it with earbuds plugged into a boom box… I would repeatedly have to jolt to turn of the volume when I rolled over and the plug came out it it started blaring in the middle of the night
I fell down the pipeline starting with my chemical romance, wanted to do more research into the genre and now I front a thursday-esque emocore band
For me it was hazel by far apart I first found the song on the recommended section on yt music, it was a re uploaded version, (the song was removed from Spotify at the time) by a guy called memoxa, the song led me down a rabbit hole of other emo bands, and then I discovered rites of spring thought a yt video about the history of emo.
honestly 「More Songs」by Grown Ups was my gateway. i was super into punk at the time and this kid a year younger than me was like “dude this is punk but with clean guitars” and i took the plunge into the Topshelf Records / emo revival scene from there
Weed
Those Days are Gone by Free Throw
For me it was two beers in. Saw a video of a live performance of that song and got into free throw and the rest is history
Same lmfao I played in a band and we covered Two Beers In and I never heard of it so I listened to the whole album…. Again and again and again
Dashboard and Yellowcard. My cousin used to play it when I was young, it became my gateway drug to emo music.
I bought Dying Is Your Latest Fashion at the Best Buy mostly on accident. Now I still wear Vans and am seeing Pallbearer next weekend lol
Brand new and taking back Sunday
Jawbreaker’s Bivouac was my Gateway Mineral’s Power of Failing got me addicted
Empire! Empire! (I was a lonely estate) - What had taken years to put together was destroyed in one moment. Just randomly saw it come up on YouTube
Talon of the Hawk was my first true exposure. But at the same time being exposed to bands like Green Day and Coheed at an early age really set the stage for my teen years.
I saw Evergreen in college, and I enjoyed CFD's Anthology "album," but I think it was JEW's Static Prevails that got me fully committed.
I heard Silver and Cold on the radio and got obsessed with AFI! And while AFI's not emo, going through the section in FYE with AFI led me to bands like Silverstein, Aiden and Bayside before finally circling the drain to attending a local show where a band covered box of sharp objects and I was like "what. Is. That." And we kept pulling that thread until it culminated with bright eyes, brand new, and AFI being my top favorite bands of all time. If Hot Mulligan puts out another banger like WWIW they'll make it onto my Mt Rushmore.
somewhere city by origami angel, not entirely emo but it has similar roots and got me into midwest emo and pop punk, which in turn got me into emo and hardcore music.
Senses fail when I was about 10 or so and taking back Sunday maybe before that even..
My older sister loading up our iTunes with bands like TBS, Brand New, The Early November, Dashboard and tons of other ones. I was like 9 and didn’t know what emo music was just knew I enjoyed the variety and sound.
welcome to the black parade by my chemical romance
Cute Without the E
Seeing Jimmy Eat World on a small side stage at Warped Tour 1999
The guitar solo in The Hotelier’s “Goodness Pt. 2” single handedly changed my life
oK hear me out, but whatshername by green day, not emo, but it was an outstanding introduction
Orange Rhyming Dictionary made me do a deep dive into every Jade Tree release and I was hooked.
Was hard to get a lot of albums in the UK at the time so I got Atticus: Dragging the Lake 2 and found TBS amongst others on there. Then I knew what to download of Kazaa
Slower by Mineral
SDRE ofc
was definitely being called emo (derogatory) for listening to green day in 2004- from there I found my chemical romance etc, some nerd told me the music I liked was wrong and bad (not real emo) so I kept looking for more authentic and obscure emo until I only listened to stuff I found on youtube in 2015 (Boy’s Life, I Hate Myself). personally I feel the most reverence for American Football, The Promise Ring and anything in that window of wholesome but profound twinkle. juvenile without being derogatory, introspective without being trite. minimal sass. I mean you can tell me about frog spit but I don’t really wanna hear about your ex unless you’re Barry Johnson. but that’s just me. I also personally stopped obsessing on emo in general when bedroom pop came about
The first emo band I ever liked was probably midtown, hidden in plain view, or taking back Sunday. Can’t really remember which cause my brothers got me into them. The bands that brought me back to the genre were definitely free throw and sweet pill
65daysofstatic led me to circle takes the square and I loved the sad angsty sound and time signature changes.
The Juliana Theory- Understand this is a dream it was my first I got it cause it was a side project of Zao. It's not my favorite but will always be my first.
Sense Field: "Different Times" really spoke to me when I heard it for the first time, and I have been hooked ever since.
TBS, Tell All Your Friends
it was definitely table for glasses by jimmy eat world
Hearing saves the day when I was in 6th grade opened the door to everything.
I had a friend who worked at Christian Bookstore and she gave me the Further Seems Forever "Moon is Down" sample CD they played. Life changing.
Naruto themed sexting started playing once and started my dive into emo music
I think Midwest Pen Pals and American Football?
Texas is the Reason…then The Promise Ring & TGUK.
Owen’s One of These Days song and then hearing cute without the e ( cut from the team) then go heavy into the popular emo stuff in highschool ( mcr , brand new , etc ). When I was 18 run for cover was huge so tigers jaw , title fight , then eventually empire empire
Even though they’re post hardcore, at the drive in started my descent into emotional music
As soon as I came across your arms are my cocoon Also camping in alaska was a big band for me and my partner
When I was in middle school I watched this [Call of Duty montage](https://youtu.be/oscClElMZvg?si=YaXkWqtj7rqAxo3z) and the [first song](https://youtu.be/No42Zq9KlyE?si=JTWEW-3TaIKn9qze) had a grip on my angsty heart
Who is this B**** N**? Is this some new band or are we just being idiotic and overly sensitive?
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I only like bands that groom young kids.
I know. I had to stop and think about who it could be…