The 50 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time


The following is an aggregate list based off of 55 different "Greatest Emo Albums" lists (updated as of 10/13/25)

  1. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (1994)
  2. American Football - American Football (1999)
  3. Cap’n Jazz - Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports (1995)
  4. Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring (1985)
  5. Weezer - Pinkerton (1996)
  6. The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good (1997)
  7. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity (1999)
  8. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)
  9. Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are? (1996)
  10. The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014)
  11. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)
  12. Jawbreaker - Dear You (1995)
  13. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)
  14. Braid - Frame and Canvas (1998)
  15. Mineral - The Power of Failing (1997)
  16. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (2002)
  17. Brand New - Deja Entendu (2003)
  18. The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About (1999)
  19. Thursday - Full Collapse (2001)
  20. Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
  21. Embrace - Embrace (1987)
  22. Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader (2008)
  23. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)
  24. Saves the Day - Through Being Cool (1999)
  25. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Whenever, If Ever (2013)
  26. Say Anything - …Is a Real Boy (2004)
  27. Origami Angel - Somewhere City (2019)
  28. The Brave Little Abacus - Just Got Back From the Discomfort – We’re Alright (2010)
  29. Cursive - Domestica (2000)
  30. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are (2001)
  31. Paramore - Riot! (2007)
  32. Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - What It Takes to Move Forward (2009)
  33. At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out (1998)
  34. Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)
  35. Glocca Morra - Just Married (2012)
  36. Tigers Jaw - Tigers Jaw (2008)
  37. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On (1998)
  38. Foxing - The Albatross (2013)
  39. Panic! at the Disco - A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (2005)
  40. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most (2001)
  41. Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World (2005)
  42. Dag Nasty - Can I Say (1986)
  43. Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1994)
  44. Mineral - EndSerenading (1998)
  45. Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted (2011)
  46. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime (1994)
  47. Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor (2011)
  48. La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (2008)
  49. Touché Amoré - Stage Four (2016)
  50. Marietta - Summer Death (2013)

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