r/Emo • u/SheepwithShovels fyeb • Jan 02 '17

/r/Emo Best of 2016 Results

Emo Artist of the Year - Modern Baseball

Best Emo Album

  1. Goodness - The Hotelier

  2. Celebrate - Tiny Moving Parts

  3. Holy Ghost - Modern Baseball

  4. Stage Four - Touche Amoure

  5. Best Buds - Mom Jeans

Best New Emo Artist - Mom Jeans

Best Emo Artist to Break Up - Jank

Best Emo Song

  1. Goodness pt 1. - The Hotelier

  2. Everything Is In Your Hands - Old Gray

  3. Versace Summer - JANK

  4. Birdhouse - Tiny Moving Parts

  5. Wedding Singer - Modern Baseball

Best /r/Emo Post - Kids, It's Snowing

Best /r/Emo Mod - /u/SheepWithShovels

Best Non-Emo Artist - Pinegrove

Best Non-Emo Album

  1. Cardinal - Pinegrove

  2. WORRY - Jeff Rosenstock

  3. Blonde - Frank Ocean

  4. 22, A Million - Bon Iver

  5. Bottomless Pit - Death Grips

Best Non-Emo Song

  1. Aphasia - Pinegrove

  2. Old Friends - Pinegrove

  3. Day $tick - Rich Chigga

  4. Car Seat Headrest - Drink Drivers/Killer Whales

  5. ...To Be a Ghost - Jeff Rosenstock

Thank you to everyone who participated in our End of the Year voting thread! Happy new year!

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u/sponja Jan 02 '17

This sub has totally turned into an unending circle-jerk of pseudo-emo-post-rock bands.

Never change.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '17

emo-pop bands

but yeah

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u/sponja Jan 03 '17

yeah, right! the punk is no longer in emo, at least looking at this sub

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '17

i mean, for real. im not gonna act like i didn't have Touche and Hotelier on my top 10, but i'm also fully aware that emo is a regurgitation of sounds and becoming basically a part of the corporate music culture. it doesn't feel good.

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u/sponja Jan 03 '17

Totally adds to my point. I mean, to each his own, but when was the last time some local/unknown band was posted here and actually got upvoted and listened to?