attn: scott

Okay, so lately I've been getting into a lot of older emo/screamo bands, and per a friend's request, one of the bands he suggested to me was Amber Inn. He was pretty excited when I mentioned that I worked with you at this website once he told me Amber Inn (doesn't know you, just is a fan). I have to say though, I heard some of the stuff from All The Roads Still Leave Home and I really dug it.

So, that said, since you seem to be the expert in that area around here, can you perhaps recommend me some other stuff I haven't heard? Bands I've gotten into and are looking for more of these styles: Gray Matter, Soul Side, Ignition, Moss Icon, Native Nod, 1.6 Band. That's about it... I had already listened to Rites of Spring and Embrace and of course, Fugazi. I keep hearing Current as a band I should check out but haven't been able to find anything of theirs.

So, maybe you can recommend me some more bands. I've been using fourfa.com as a source but there's so many bands, it's hard to know where to start, so I've just been going with recommendations from friends I know that like this style. Anything you suggest I'll look into... thanks in advance.

Hey, thanks. I'll work on coming up with a good list for you when i have a little bit more time. Definitely check out Current, though. They were one of my favorites from that time period, and we played with them a bunch on a few different tours.

Scott, did you ever come up with a list? Here's some other stuff I've gotten into since I made this post:

Shotmaker
Julia
Hoover
Floodgate
Sleepytime Trio
Indian Summer

and I finally checked out Current, great band.


Again let me know if there's anything else I should check out.

Admiral
Age (Germany)
Amanda Woodward
Anomie
Boilermaker
Breathing Walker
Car vs. Driver
Cerberus Shoal (first two albums)
City of Caterpillar
Clikatat Ikatowi
Closure
The Crownhate Ruin
Dag Nasty (early stuff)
Drive Like Jehu
Eagle Bravo
Ethel Meserve
Ettil Vrye
Fields Lay Fallow
Four Hundred Years
Fuel (the Mike Kirsch one, obviously)
The Great Unraveling
Halo Perfecto
The Hated
Heroin
John Henry West
Kerosene 454
Lifetime
Mohinder
Navio Forge
Ordination of Aaron
Plunger
Policy of Three
Portraits of Past
Rights Reserved
Scout
September
The Shivering
Spirit Assembly
The State Secedes
Still Life
Torches to Rome
Universal Order or Armageddon

^I forgot to mention, I've heard Still Life as well, great band.

Oops. I forgot about this. Felldownawell made a pretty good list. Here is a list of records i recommend, taken directly from my personal list of records.

80s -
AMERICAN STANDARD - “wonderland” LP (Power House) 1989
DAG NASTY - “85-86” 4EP (Selfless / Dutch East India Trading) 1991
EMBRACE - s/t LP (Dischord) 1987
HÜSKER DÜ - “flip your wig” LP (SST) 1985
SOULSIDE - “hot bodi-gram” LP (Dischord) 1989
SWIZ - “hell yes i cheated” LP (Sammich) 1989
3 - “dark days coming” LP (Dischord) 1989

90s -
ADMIRAL - s/t EP (Soulforce) 1990
BISYBACKSON - “what’s all this about high fidelity?” EP 1995
BLANK - “piotrville” b/w “guillotine lullaby” (Vermin Scum) 1994
BREAD AND CIRCUITS - s/t LP (Ebullition) 1998
BUREAU OF THE GLORIOUS - s/t EP (Eating Blur) 1994
CANDLE - “green grass” b/w “silver” (Wrenched) 1993
CANDYLAND CARCRASH, THE - “baffled…” b/w “the pain will…” (Clay Garden / Fountainhead) 1996?
CAP’N JAZZ - “burritos…” LP (Man with Gun) 1995
CHINO HORDE - “racket” b/w “merit” (File Thirteen / Ahoalton) 1992
CHRISTIE FRONT DRIVE - s/t LP (Freewill) 1994
CURRENT- “is 4” EP (Council) 1995
DOWNCAST - s/t EP (Ebullition) 1991
DRIVE LIKE JEHU - s/t LP (Headhunter / Cargo) 1991
EVERGREEN - s/t LP (Anomaly / Whaleboy) 1994
FORCED DOWN - “rise” EP (Down Side / Vinyl Communications) 1990
FRANKLIN - “building in A and E” LP (Spectra Sonic Sound / File Thirteen) 1998
FUEL - s/t EP (Lookout!) 1990
FUGAZI - “red medicine” LP (Dischord) 1995
GLENDALE - “matchbox martyr” b/w “brown recluse” (Art Monk Construction) 1994
GRAIN - “trials and tribulations” EP (City of Romance) 1995
GREYHOUSE - “revolution by numbers” EP (Withering) 1991
HATED, THE - “what was behind” LP (Vermin Scum) 1992
HEROIN - s/t EP (Gravity) 1992
HOOVER - “the lurid transversal of route 7” LP (Dischord) 1993
JAWBREAKER - “bivouac” LP (Communion / Tupelo) 1992
JOHN HENRY WEST - s/t EP (Gravity) 1993
JULIA - “three year old child (minority)” b/w “song in A” (River’s End) 1993
KARATE - s/t LP (Southern) 1995
LAVA - s/t EP (Gravity) 1992
LUNGFISH - “the unanimous hour” LP (Dischord) 1999
MONORCHID - “distortion” b/w “babies” (Simple Machines) 1996
MONSULA - “structure” LP (Lookout!) 1991
MOSS ICON - “it disappears” LP (Vermin Scum / Ebullition) 1994
NATION OF ULYSSES, THE - “13-point program to destroy america” LP (Dischord) 1991
NAVIO FORGE - “as we quietly burn a hole into…” EP (Shadow Catcher) 1993
PHLEG CAMP - “bully my pushy” 2EP (Allied) 1991
POLICY OF 3 - “american woodworking” EP (Old Glory) 1995
POT VALIANT - “transaudio” LP (Iteration / Dutch East India Trading) 1994
PROZAC MEMORY - “chisel tone” b/w “mapmaker” (Faye) 1994
REACH OUT - s/t EP (The Great American Steak Religion) 1994
REASON TO BELIEVE - “when reason sleeps demons dance” LP (Nemesis) 1990
RITES OF SPRING - s/t LP (Dischord) 1985
SAWHORSE - s/t EP (Ebullition) 1992
SHUDDER TO THINK - “pony express record” LP (Sammich) 1994
SPARKMARKER - “scallen” EP (Heart First) 1993
TURNKEY - “king mark” b/w “two” (Titanic) 1993
UNIVERSAL ORDER OF ARMAGEDDON - s/t EP (Vermin Scum) 1993
VAGRANTS - “gone” EP (Lookout!) 1990
VERBAL ASSAULT - “trial” LP (Giant / Dutch East India Trading) 1987
VINE - s/t EP (Sidekick) 1993
YAH MOS, THE - “off your parents” EP (Recess) 1994
FUEL / ANGRY SON - split EP (Skene!) 1991
SPIRIT ASSEMBLY / CAR VS. DRIVER - split EP (Yuletide) 1995

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So my list is a little bit more expansive in terms of style. Felldownawell's list is more accurate in terms of the specific scene you are asking about. The 80s stuff was the stuff that was a direct influence on those of us doing that sort of thing at that time.

I listed my favorite release from each of the bands.

Let me know what you think.

awesome list. i forgot about Vine. One Last Wish too. Owltian Mia. I've never heard of American Standard. i suppose i'll have to check them out.

Four Hundred Years and Navio Forge are both awesome bands. Still have so much more to check out. I've been playing the Navio Forge EP a lot the last couple of days.


have either of you heard End Of A Year? New(ish) Revelation band from Albany, NY. Got their name from the Embrace song and sound basically like Embrace/Rites of Spring part 2. Great band.

I haven't heard them, but i read a couple reviews that compared them to Amber Inn. They must be good.

have not heard End of a Year, but with those comparisons I will check them out.

[www.myspace.com] http://www.myspace.com/endofayear

Scott, have you seen this yet?

[bloggedquartered.blogspot.com] http://bloggedquartered.blogspot.com/2009/10/american-standard-1987-1989.html

Yes.

Haven't had a chance to listed to it yet, though. That is my favorite blog going right now.