A bunch of butthurt nerds at Pitchfork and their long maligned history with emo bands is not a surprise feat.
The punkest Billie Joe has been on an non-Green Day album.
This album departs from the crudeness of S.C.I.E.N.C.E and packages straight full-fledged anthems. Incubus' first taste at mainstream exposure provides quality previously only indebted to the Deftones in a sea of cookie-cutter alt-metal one-offs.
Essential tracks: Consequence, The Warmth, When It Comes, Stellar, Make Yourself, Drive, Pardon Me
Great and explosive start for emo. Hugely influential for everything that was yet come, even for Guy Picciotto's disdain.
Joyous math rock-gone-emo. Nowadays I enjoy it so, so much and it makes me forget how the internet's first discover on this album made it one of the most overrated at times-most imitated body of work ever. It is definitely a great album if you're up to some slower tunes about crying your diary out loud.
Emo-gone-pop for the very first time, signaling the future this maligned genre was heading towards. But nonetheless, this was when it was doing great. The Promise Ring marked footprints first in a mold where later everyone came to care and admire after things went south.
Maybe a trap beat would have made this album somewhat listenable even if it was to show the once Gilman punks they're up with the present times.
An album like this does wonders for a band in the middle of going nowhere. And somehow, somewhere relies their glory days, and it's not here.
"Nice try" award for a less-inspired washed-up void imitation of a sound already outdated.
At an all time break-neck speed, MxPx's classic Life in General throws the ball so fast the ears might not see them coming.
Essential tracks: Middlename, New York to Nowhere, Your Problem, My Emergency
One album filled with street knowledge, with lyricism and beats that continously submerges the listener into the time and place. Masterful hardcore hip-hop wordplay. It doesn't get much better than this.
Essential tracks: Survival of the Fittest, Eye for an Eye, Up North Trip, Right Back At You, Shook Ones, Part II
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