Is Thursday's "Full Collapse" one of the top ten albums ever made?

[T'Chenka]

No.

I AM 32 and the greatest emo album ever is "Fallen" by Evanescence, which does not crack top 10 all-time.

[T'Chenka]

Half of the top ten albums ever made were made by the Beatles. The other half were made by Led Zeppelin.

One fifth were made by the Beatles. One fifth by Pink Floyd. One fifth by Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony. One fifth by Lucio Dalla. One of the remaining two are Selling England By The Pound and you're free to fill in the last slot.

These are both wrong IMO, but they're a million times more accurate than Full Collapse being on the top 10 list.

[T'Chenka]

No.

I AM 32 and the greatest emo album ever is "Fallen" by Evanescence, which does not crack top 10 all-time.

That's not even remotely emo. Its basically nu-metal. It has zero influence connected to the Revolution Summer scene of DC 1985.

WIKIPEDIA
Emo /ˈiːmoʊ/ is a rock music genre characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics.

The phrase "emo music" means what society says it means, regardless of what the original meaning was. If you were to specify "post-hardcore emo", "emocore" or "screamo", you wouldn't be opening yourself up to these open interpretations.

[T'Chenka]

No.

I AM 32 and the greatest emo album ever is "Fallen" by Evanescence, which does not crack top 10 all-time.

That's not even remotely emo. Its basically nu-metal. It has zero influence connected to the Revolution Summer scene of DC 1985.

WIKIPEDIA
Emo /ˈiːmoʊ/ is a rock music genre characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics.

The phrase "emo music" means what society says it means, regardless of what the original meaning was. If you were to specify "post-hardcore emo", "emocore" or "screamo", you wouldn't be opening yourself up to these open interpretations.

But that's an absurd definition. What about pre-1985 rock music with an emphasis on emotional expression?

As far as I can tell, "emo music" didn't exist before the 1980s (or maybe late 1970s?). According to society, that is.

[T'Chenka]

Is The Cure's post-1985 work emo but not the stuff before?

Source: Wikipedia

The band's debut album was Three Imaginary Boys (1979) and this, along with several early singles, placed the band in the post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the United Kingdom. Beginning with their second album, Seventeen Seconds (1980), the band adopted a new, increasingly dark and tormented style, which, together with Smith's stage look, had a strong influence on the emerging genre of gothic rock as well as the subculture that eventually formed around the genre.

Looks like in 1980 they were some kind of post-punk emo. Obvously they were not post-hardcore emo or emocore, and definitely not screamo.