What It Takes to Move Forward

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What It Takes to Move Forward
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ReleasedSeptember 29, 2009 (2009-09-29)
Genre Emo, indie rock
Length55:39
Label Count Your Lucky Stars Records
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) chronology
What It Takes to Move Forward
(2009)
You Will Eventually Be Forgotten
(2014)

What It Takes to Move Forward is the debut LP by Fenton, Michigan emo band, Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), released in 2009 on Count Your Lucky Stars Records. [1]

Vulture.com listed "Keep What You Have Built Up Here" as number 87 of the 100 greatest emo songs. [2]

Track listing

  1. "How to Make Love Stay" – 4:24
  2. "Keep What You Have Built Up Here" – 5:09
  3. "What Safe Means" – 4:01
  4. "It Happened Because You Left" – 8:09
  5. "Rally the Troops! Poke Holes In Their Defenses! Line Our Coffers with Their Coffins!" – 4:23
  6. "It's a Plague, and You're Invited" – 4:11
  7. "Everything Is Connected and Everything Matters (A Temporary Solution to a Permanent Problem)" – 4:01
  8. "The Next Step to Regaining Control" – 6:08
  9. "With Your Greatest Fears Realized, You Will Not Be Comforted" – 3:07
  10. "I Am a Snail, and You Are a Pace I Cannot Match" – 5:14
  11. "An Idea Is a Greater Monument Than a Cathedral" – 6:52

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References

  1. "What It Takes to Move Forward by Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)".
  2. Ian Cohen; David Anthony; Nina Corcoran; Emma Garland; Brad Nelson (February 13, 2020). "The 100 Greatest Emo Songs of All Time". Vulture.com. Vox Media . Retrieved February 15, 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)