This past Saturday in Atlanta, I had the pleasure of attending the latest stop in Sunny Day Real Estate’s reunion tour. Sunny Day is one of those bands that I always wish I had the chance to see, so when the reunion was announced, attending this show was a no brainer. The history of the Seattle band is a fairly well known one if you have been around the emo/indie circle for the past 15 years. If you don’t know their story, then I can assure you, Sunny Day Real Estate is the most influential band you’ve never heard of. My excitement for the show was already enormous, but the anticipation continued to grow especially when I caught their performance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon just a few days prior and came away impressed at how good they looked. The show didn’t let me down a bit, and I came away even more excited for the future of the group.
With the recent Sunny Day Real Estate news, I figured it’s about time I posted my second part to my “Emo Style” Round of Sound I posted way back when. All the same holds true that I said back in that post concerning these songs. There is still A LOT I have left off this playlist, and this isn’t meant as a definitive guide to what is “emo”, it’s just songs that at one time or another have been considered emo…like it or not.
A few notes about these tracks: Some of these are just extensions of songs I posted on Part 1 meaning that a few of these bands have a counterpart from that list in that they may be side projects or a whole new band all together spawned from previous projects (ie. Further Seems Forever -> Dashboard Confessional, The Get Up Kids -> The New Amsterdams, Mineral -> The Gloria Record). Also, some of these bands are still going strong (Cursive, Dashboard, New Amsterdams) and some of these bands are no longer but have spawned notable new acts (ie. American Football -> Owen, Promise Ring -> Maritime). Anyway, I felt like all that was worth mentioning.
In a bit of the coolest news I’ve heard in a long time, the rumors of a Sunny Day Real Estate reunion were finally confirmed today with the announcement of a tour featuring all the original band members coming this fall! I made mention of a possible SDRE reunion a few weeks ago in my little blurb about Jeremy Enigk’s new album, but this is pretty much the best Enigk/SDRE post I could ever hope to make. It sounds like they’ll be mainly playing songs from Diary and LP2 which each will also be re-issued by Sub Pop Records on September 15th to celebrate the reunion. Whether you call them emo, indie, or whatever, (they’re emo by the way, like it or not) there’s no denying that Diary was one of the most influential and defining albums of the 90’s and is easily one of my favorite albums of all time. Click here for the news article complete with tour dates. You can go ahead and count me in for that October 3rd Atlanta show.
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A Round of Sound 