Mid to late 90's emo saved my life

[ddohnggo]

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[poly800rock]

ok, i can now say i've never been there. i think you brought this up ddohnggo, but yeah, i browsed skylab commerce a lot in college

[xcoldricex]

not so much emo but... just revived frame and canvas

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haha shimokitazawa show!

[xcoldricex]

i used to love the girls that worked at bryn mawr. they'd suggest some random garbage and i'd be like totally, i'll give you 100$ right now.

haha i went to repo when i went to look at swarthmore and would visit every so often while i was there haha. it's gone? :\

just downloaded it, thanks

hook a kid up.

i was lucky enough to snag the 12" and 7" on freewheel a ways back from the dude who ran that label. i think promise ring from early shit -> nothing feels good is/was awesome. everything after was garbage.

yep nothing feels good was the start of the downfall. was davey's other side projects any good?

[ddohnggo]

that strawberry song or whatever on frames and canvas is garbage. the rest is decent.

[xcoldricex]

that strawberry song or whatever on frames and canvas is garbage. the rest is decent.

agreed. i was never a big braid fan, but it was on my hard drive for some reason

[ddohnggo]

i have a feeling that most of davey's post promise ring projects aren't very good.

[shoreman1782]

Davey tried a totally different (and not better) vocal style for Maritime. It's all the same mid-tempo, bland rock, and it doesn't even have the melodies that late-era Promise Ring had. I checked out a few shows, and they were pretty mediocre live, too. Shame his widest exposure was singing backup on a Jimmy Eat World song.

Braid's reunion tour awhile back was a solid show. I think Hey Mercedes is playing a show for threadless??

Not really emo, but did anyone dig Elizabeth Elmore's bands? Sarge, The Reputation...

[ddohnggo]

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit. i remember seeing sarge a long long long time ago. it was a show with compound red and roadside monument. sarge was pretty decent.

[xcoldricex]

she was cute right? i have a few of sarge's albums in my closet

[shoreman1782]

Cute as in "the only girl in a room full of zitty dudes" cute.

Sarge was pretty good, a little pop-punk-ish. The Reputation is/was almost AAA rock. She also sang on the last Hold Steady disc.

[xcoldricex]

hahaha. oh those were the days.

didn't she do a split with bob nanna? i never heard it

[snickersnicker]

ok, i can now say i've never been there. i think you brought this up ddohnggo, but yeah, i browsed skylab commerce a lot in college

I was also on Skylab in I think eighth and ninth grade (sorry if that dates you or whatever). Got some siiick scores for way cheap, and wrote my first zine as a result of some people I met through it.

[poly800rock]

shoreman has the zine i did with some friends back in like 7 or 8th grade.

[Larry Bird]

hahaha. oh those were the days.

didn't she do a split with bob nanna? i never heard it

yea, get on that shit...robert nanna/elizabeth elmore split ep...one of my favorite 7"...two great songs, i think its when they were dating....think it was on troubleman unlimimited.

edit: just got a treadwell 6" off ebay for $2.00.....

[Larry Bird]

shoreman has the zine i did with some friends back in like 7 or 8th grade.

yo, if you got a scanner shoreman, lets see some pages...haha...did you keep a copy for yourself polyrock?

wish i kept copies of the zines i made...a couple friends i know gots some copies though, i can allways rescan..last one i ever made was like summer 04, but it wasnt about music....it was all about drugs, stories of staying in mental hospitals, traveling, jail and all the rest was graffiti.

[snickersnicker]

Mine were pretty much the opposite of yours: straight edge, veganism, conservative libertarian political thought, and essays on Earth Crisis being the best band ever.

Not really, though.

[poly800rock]

yo, if you got a scanner shoreman, lets see some pages...haha...did you keep a copy for yourself polyrock?

wish i kept copies of the zines i made...a couple friends i know gots some copies though, i can allways rescan..last one i ever made was like summer 04, but it wasnt about music....it was all about drugs, stories of staying in mental hospitals, traveling, jail and all the rest was graffiti.

i wish i still had them, they were thrown out a few years back.

[Larry Bird]

i wish i still had them, they were thrown out a few years back.

word...back in 2000 or 2001 i dropped off some zines at the wooden shoe in philly...it was called "in your veins"....only cool shit about it were the pics of orchid and le shok.

hope none of you up there have it, shit was schmecked up.

[littleomar]

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great song. rivals cap n jazz stuff

[bencap]

not so much mid90's as late 90's and early 2000's...but yage is seriously fuckin' good. the "human head too strong for itself" 10inch still gets spun all the time, the guitarwork is super interesting, this band really took advantage of having two guitarists!

[Guest itsmeJT]

yeah dudes, believe it.

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[denimdestroyedmylife]

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[ruach]

great song. rivals cap n jazz stuff

Damn I love Owls.

One of my favourite things to be found on YouTube..

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[ddohnggo]

I Ruv Antioch Arrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Darkeside]

Is there much new stuff of merit coming out like this?

I'm incredibly out of the loop here

[thrash]

My favourite 90s emo records are thus: September 10", Bells on Trike 10", Mineral - The Power of Failing, Indian Summer 7", Patterns Make Sunrise 7" (great but not so well known band from Seattle) and the State Route 522 discography.

[joey_formal]

can't believe i didnt notice this thread for so long, this shit played too big a part of high school for me, playing, listening, booking etc etc..

[bencap]

bump to ask if anyone went to see portraits of past reunion shows in the bay this last weekend? They killed it, hard. hahah, I swear I got some e flashbacks watching that, was way intense. I think they're playing in NY soon also.

[stfuken]

Who else from VLV posts here? I know at least a handful of people do.

I joined VLV when I was fourteen and within a couple months put out a zine with interviews of all the VLV hype bands of the time (Die, Emperor! Die! and the One AM Radio and so on). Way better than the bands hyped there now. VLV circa 2002/3 - 2005 was definitely the most useful music resource I've ever found.

vlv poster: dikembe

i don't post often but it's on my dailies. went over there from CMHWAK.. back in the good days... sigh

also, bencap I really really wanted to go but it was one my good friends' birthday and the crowd i hang out with isnt really into the stuff. did you go to the gilman show w/ LaQ and PB? I really wanted a LaQ tour 7" =(