Sunny Day Real Estate Reunion Mix

June 24, 2009

I can not begin to express how excited I am for the Sunny Day Real Estate reunion tour, the first time all four original bandmembers will play together since 1995.  Their debut album Diary helped shape my entire musical outlook and is still one of my all-time favorite albums.  I was just getting into the band as they were disbanding, I was never able to see them even in their second incarnation without Nate Mendel (who had joined Foo Fighters). Since their breakup the bandmembers haven’t exactly kept quiet, frontman Jeremy Enigk has had a successful solo career, Mendel continued to play bass with Foo Fighters, and three of the members released a project under the title The Fire Theft.  Nothing though has yet compared to the music the band made under the SDRE moniker.  I tried not to get my hopes up when initial talks of their reunion came up earlier this year but I really couldn’t help it and started texting friends to make initial plans to go see the band and discussing possible setlists.

Well, as you may have heard, yesterday the reunion tour was confirmed. I’ll get my chance to see the band that I had previously removed from my “bands to see before I die” and added to my “bands I never saw” list, which is an awesome thing. Jeremy Enigk and co. will be playing in Chicago at The Metro on September 24, which is where I will be among an ocean of presumably diehard fans.  I recognize not everyone is familiar with the band’s brilliance, but their influence is more appparent now than ever.  So to celebrate the news and hopefully bring a few more into the Sunny Day Real Estate fold here’s a mix of seven of my favorite SDRE songs.

MP3 Sunny Day Real Estate – Seven
MP3 Sunny Day Real Estate – Red Elephant
MP3 Sunny Day Real Estate – How It Feels To Be Something On
MP3 Sunny Day Real Estate – Song About An Angel
MP3 Sunny Day Real Estate – Guitar and Video Games
MP3 Sunny Day Real Estate – In Circles
MP3 Sunny Day Real Estate – The Rising Tide

Sub Pop Records will be re-releasing the band’s first two albums, Diary and LP2, on vinyl in September. Go to the band’s website for the full tour dates.

Posted by Taylor in Classics, Mix