love it love everything about it he best avett brothers yet and personally I thinks it's the best album in he past few years love every song!

I hope it never gets old. I listen to it everyday when i get ready for work. Of their albums, imo, this is The Avetts at their best.

Before long i'm sure i'll have all of the words memorized. What an album. 5 stars!

This album is great. It's so full of heart, something that can be lack in a lot musicians album, but for you guys it comes right through

I love the blend of styles on this album. The Avett's skill as songwriters really shines on this set of tracks.

The best album - I received two Avett Bros CDs for my birthday but not this one - I'll have to buy it myself - Thanks for letting your fans listen to it via web !!! I've been spreading the word....

in the purest form.

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Now I've grown too aware of my morality to let and forget about dying.

great sound. great art work . listen over and over .

To me, this album embodies the band. Johnny Cash had "Live at Folsom Prison", Elvis had "The Sun Sessions", The Beatles had "Sgt. Pepper's...", Bob Dylan had "Blonde on Blonde", hell, Michael Jackson had "Thriller". Every artist has an album that listeners regard as what the musician(s) set out to do. This album is the Avett Brothers' masterpiece.

Every song is a work of genius, but here are my personal favorites:

- "Paranoia in Bb Major" - The tale of being out of place in your own life is so disturbing and painful that my heart sinks when I first listen. But, in the end the Avett's assure us that someone out there will save us. "If love is a game, girl, then you're gonna win...I'll spend the rest of my life bringing victory in" is my favorite twenty words in music.

- "The Weight Of Lies" - For liars, this song is a bore. For anyone who hates to lie, and has regets, this song is an inspiration. The thought of telling lies to all the people you know, but being honest to the one you love is such a twisted notion that it almost seems dirty to write a song about it. Never were words were spoken so true than when the Avett's cry "Lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you down".

- "The Ballad Of Love And Hate" - This song is so simple and plain that love seems like an afterthought until you hear "her" say "you're mine and that's it, forever". Greed, hate, loneliness, and forgiveness are all meshed into one story about any two people on this Earth. This is a display of songwriting that is unrivaled in today's music.

- "I Would Be Sad" - This song is the proverbial Bloody Mary of a broken heart. Simply put, if she doesn't love you be sad, but not for long. It's a great way to explain and resolve the thought that love is mostly fleeting.

I could go on for days about every song on this album and why it is important in my life, but that'd take a book to write down. In short, this album is the most important album in the Avett's arsenal and emotion has never been sung so sweetly.

agree with all

Can't wait for ACL on Sunday nite (1/31/10) in Minnesota!! This is the album I go to everytime I log in altho' I love the country album as well !! I love Pretty Girl from Chile.

My favorite album by TAB. One minute your rocking your face off and the next it can put you to sleep with their sweet lovely tunes! Great!!!!

This album is probably my favorite by the Avetts. Its either this or Mignonette. But thats a tough decision so i hope nobody criticizes me on the prfered choice.

An all around great release, no bad song, you could place it on the shelf with the beatles and the band

This is a definite must for the Avett Collection. Shame, Die, Ballad of Love and Hate are may favs so far.

I know I've commented on this album before, but I feel like I need to comment on it again.
I discovered the Avett Brothers pretty recently, only this past summer, and this is the album that I was first introduced to. So whenever I listen to a song off this album, I immediatley think of the summertime. Even on the coldest days of December, I can pop in this cd, close my eyes and think of the times when I'm barefoot and laying out in the hot sun. Emotionalism is pretty much the epitome of amazing, I must say.
And it's pretty great when I am hanging out with my best friend, and one word can trigger our Avetty brains to start singing a song. And the songs are usually of this album, because it is so freaking fantastic!

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I haven't eyes for anyone else, I'm thinking of you, and nobody else

I've been listening to your music for a long time - since hearing you at 3rd & Lindsley in Nashville, opening for Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks. But this album grabbed my wife, son, and my daughter as well. As soon as I heard "..boatloads of shame" in the song "Shame" I knew it would grab my kids. When you played live, I even got my other son - a rap and metal fan - to like your music. And "Emotionalism" is what did it. "Mignonette" sucked in two of us, but "Emotionalism" got the other three.

I bought this album, in the summer of 2008, soon after I saw them for the first time. Little did I know that when I bought this album, this would become my summer of 2008 album. Whenever I think about graduation, Bonnaroo music festival, or beginning college, this is the album that I play in my head over and over again. Each song has its own importance to that summer that I will never forget. It was the best summer of my life represented by this album.

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i miss it, i miss it... that feeling of feeling

This was the first album of the Avett Brothers that i listened to and loved every song on it. It didn't take me long (about an hour after i finished this album) to start listening to everything else i could find. Love this album, love the Avett Brothers.

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I want to have friends, that I can trust, that love me for the man I've become, not the man that I was.

I guess the timing of the release of emotionalism and what my life had become coincide. I was fortunate enough to see several live shows during the touring phase of the album and instantly became...well...obsessed with the avetts. I'd listened to and loved them for several years by this time but emotionalism sealed the deal. I realized that no music, nothing written or sung or played, had ever affected me as the avetts were able to with ease. Die, Die, Die and Shame are stand outs. Shame tells the story of how I feel about a lost love that I'll forever consider "the one who got away." How could people i've never even met speak so clearly for me? One of life's great mysteries i guess.

The first time I listened to this ong I did not care for it. I thought it was too slow. After that I found myself passing it by on the CD, but now I can't get enough of it. Don't overlok this song like I did!
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But their good times come with prices
And I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make
At anyone's expese except their own
Would they laugh if they knew who paid?

Second favorite Pretty girl song. such a good up beat song.

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But their good times come with prices
And I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make
At anyone's expese except their own
Would they laugh if they knew who paid?

Good slow song. Totally would have made this my first dance at my wedding if I could have.

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But their good times come with prices
And I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make
At anyone's expese except their own
Would they laugh if they knew who paid?

best pretty girl song. The end when they rock out really makes this song!

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But their good times come with prices
And I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make
At anyone's expese except their own
Would they laugh if they knew who paid?

Good song and easy to play. Such a long song, but a good one none the less. Seth is awesome when he plays this one live. And the guys shouting in the audience shoot have been shot during this performance in Iowa City!

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But their good times come with prices
And I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make
At anyone's expese except their own
Would they laugh if they knew who paid?