''What's Mine Is Yours'' is the first installment in ''

The Emo Diaries ''The Emo Diaries'' is a series of twelve compilation albums released by Deep Elm Records between 1997 and 2011. The series had an open submissions policy and featured mostly acts that were unsigned at the time of the albums' releases. Deep Elm foun ...

'' series of

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s, released September 16, 1997 by

Deep Elm Records Deep Elm Records is an independent record label releasing albums by bands such as Lights & Motion, The Appleseed Cast, Brandtson, The White Octave, and Planes Mistaken for Stars. It also released the compilation series ''The Emo Diaries''. Histo ...

. The series title was originally going to be ''The Indie Rock Diaries'', but this was ruled out when

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and Samiam, who were both signed to major record labels, were selected for the album. ''The Emo Diaries'' was chosen because ''The Emotional Diaries'' was too long to fit on the album cover. As with future installments, the label had an open submissions policy for bands to submit material for the compilation, and as a result the music does not all fit within the

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style.Greenwald, pp. 118-119. As with the rest of the series, ''What's Mine Is Yours'' features mostly unsigned bands contributing songs that were previously unreleased.

Track listing

References

External links

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