Sunny Day Real Estate Puns

1. Seven (117 pts)
2. In Circles (97 pts)
3. Pillars (72 pts)
4. Guitar and Video Games (71 pts)
5. How It Feels to Be Something On (67 pts)
6. Song About an Angel (58 pts)
7. 8 (42 pts)
8. Theo B (40 pts)
9. 47 (37 pts)
10. Every Shining Time You Arrive (35 pts)

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Here is our spreadsheet charting past artists we've done.

Tentative schedule (MM/DD):

01/18 - Janelle Monae

01/25 - The Flaming Lips (re-do)

02/01 - Blood Orange

02/08 - Denzel Curry

02/15 - Teen Suicide / American Pleasure Club

02/22 - Sweet Trip

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Recently added artists to the poll: Burial, Placebo, Tokyo Police Club, Black Dice, Black Flag, Black Dresses.

Genre labels. I've always sort.of cringed at the idea that Sunny Day Real Estate has been posthumously labeled an emo band, and even worse a Midwest Emo (yuck) band.

For anyone not familiar SDRE we're a rock band out of Seattle in the early to mid 90s. Highly influential and flirted, flirted with the mainstream before breaking up. Theyve put out a couple reunion records and toured a few times since. Mainstream connection, the longtime bassist of the Foo Fighters, Nate Mendel, is a member of SDRE. Sub Pop Records.

I was born in 85. I had a hand me down copy of Diary when I was 10ish, but wouldn't have been old enough to have any broader understanding of their place in the music scene at the time. I just thought they were a rock band. Loud, quiet, loud song structure was familiar at the time and the dude could sing and scream awesomely. In Circles was a jam.

I know that 'emo' had its sort of mainstream heyday in the early 2000s, give or take, and to my eyes it seems like emo fans went back in time to proclaim SDRE to be one of the godfathers of emo. (I know there were earlier acts called emo: Rites of Spring, etc).

To my ears they're just an awesome rock band from Seattle, possibly post-hardcore, if you put a gun to my head and demanded I label them. They've got none of the elements that make that genre so often cringy, at least from the late 90s onward.

So why does it bother me so much that they've gotten the emo label? Why does is bother us, as music fans when one of our favorite artists is lumped into a genre we dislike?

The band seems to feel the same.

"Well, we're a rock band basically," Goldsmith said during an interview just prior to the group's performance at the Sub Pop showcase during last week's CMJ MusicFest in New York. "No disrespect to anyone who wants to call us anything," added guitarist Dan Hoerner, "because there's all kinds of music out there, and everybody puts what they're hearing into a certain pigeon-hole in an effort to deal with it. And while I don't disrespect anyone for using the term emo-core, or rock, or anything, but back in the day, emo-core was just about the worst dis that you could throw on a band." "Now it's funny that people use it as a term of respect for us," Hoerner said, "I think. At least it seems fairly respectful, [as people] don't seem to hate the band when they use it. But I don't know what the f*** it means.",

"We came out of it, but no, we didn’t consider Sunny Day a punk rock band. But we came o

https://www.nme.com/news/music/sunny-day-real-estate-to-reunite-and-tour-in-2022-3147738

What do you all think? I am feeling pretty hopeful, but I would love to hear what everyone else thinks!

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/are-sunny-day-real-estate-teasing-something/

Most likely without Nate (at least some of the photos Will has posted or commented on have been just Him, Jeremy, and Dan together). But I am really stoked for this. Hopefully we get more stuff played from How It Feels To Be Something On.

Continuing to clear my shelves as I'm preparing for a big life change and wanted to see if there's any interest here in these records. Add $5 to the cost of each for shipping; can combine shipping for multiple records. US only.

The Weeknd x Daniel Arsham - House Of Balloons (2021 2LP clear crystal, M/M sealed) - $250

The Weeknd - After Hours (2020 Target exclusive gold with red splatter, M/NM sealed, unplayed but shrink wrap is torn) - $50

Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On (2016 180 gram repress, M/M sealed) - $55

Black Pumas - Black Pumas (2020 2LP deluxe with bonus 7", gold and black/red marble, M/M sealed) - $25

Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Boy Named Charlie Brown (2021 Target exclusive green grass, M/M sealed) - $30

Stone Temple Pilots - Core (2020 180 gram black reissue, NM/NM only listened once) - $60

Jeff Buckley - Grace (Newbury Comics exclusive deep blue, M/M sealed) - $35

Joseph - Trio Sessions: Vol. 2 (2021, Magnolia Record Club Exclusive, M/M sealed) - $25

Hot Water Music - Caution (2002 180 gram black, VG/VG) - $15

DaBaby - Blame It On Baby (2020 deluxe edition, M/M sealed) - $15

Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (2014 180 gram black, VG/VG) - $15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvllGVenlj8&ab_channel=AshRaven

Cause it's mine.

How would you rank the Sunny Day Real Estate Albums from best to worst? How would you rate them on a ten point scale with one being absolutely terrible to ten being a masterpiece?

are they the same song rerecorded? or just coincidence?