Sunny Day Real Estate formed in 1992 and while this band was from Seattle WA, they really weren't the typical band most people would think of coming from there. Sunny Day Real Estate's original line up for their debut album was: Jeremy Enigk: guitar & main vocals, Dan Hoerner: guitar & some vocals, Nate Mendel: bass and William Goldsmith: drums. In 1994 Sunny Day Real Estate released their debut album "Diary" on Sub Pop records. To this date it is the second highest selling album on the label only to Nirvana's debut (bleach). It's funny how people would never consider this band almost as popular as Nirvana though they really should be. Diary is typically identified by its indie rock and emo-core sound. Sunny Day Real Estate had begun a national tour at this time, but the tour was not going well and when the band had returned to Seattle, Jeremy then announced his new found interest in God/religion. At this time apparently Jeremy had wanted to write most of the songs and this didn't go over well with other members who had helped contribute lyrics to the first album.
Tensions among the band and their first tour caused the band to break up, but their second LP (often called the pink album due to the fact that the cover was well all pink) was released anyway in 1995. It was a collection of songs that followed up Diary nicely. It consisted of older songs that weren't previously released on a album and some newer songs written by Jeremy. After the break up the band went in many different ways. Nate Mendal and William Goldsmith had joined the Foo Fighters while Jeremy Enigk went and released a solo album with a full orchestra entitled: Return of the Frog Queen. Dan Hoerner just well, kept to himself in Washington.
Even though Sunny Day Real Estate had ceased as a band they continued to sell albums and word of mouth spread until the band re-united in 1998 after recording one song for a Sub Pop rarities collection in 1997. At this time though Nate Mendal had decided to stay with the Foo Fighters. The band released their album in 1998 called How it Feels to be Something On and was critically and publically aclaimed. Unfortunately the band wasn't happy with their contract and wanted out with Sub Pop. It asked for two new releases from the band so the Live album & video were released and they left the label. While a good example of their live shows, I personally don't think they sounded as good as they could possibly have under the circumstances.
The band signed with Time Bomb Recordings (a subsidiary of Arista). The new album a Rising Tide was recorded as a three piece with Jeremy playing bass, while Dan Hoerner played guitar and William Goldsmith played drums (the band had recruited a new member to play bass for How it Feels to be Something on, but relations with the bassist went bad). It was released in 2000. It provided a more gentler rock influence and another nation wide tour was witnessed. Unfortunately more bad luck fell on the band as Arista had dropped Time Bomb Recordings from the label and tensions between Jeremy and Dan reached the breaking point.
In 2001/2002 the band had disbanded again and it seemed like for good this time. Dan Hoerner went off to write a book I believe (and to try start another band). While the rest of the members were thinking about starting a new band. And in late 2003 all of us who were waiting for a new album from front man Jeremy Enigk finally were blessed with the first (and hopefully not the last) Fire Theft album. This album also saw a return of Nate Mendal, Sunny Day Real Estate's original bassist.
This is basically where the Sunny Day Real Estate bio ends. Sunny Day Real Estate is in my opinon the definition of emo (as lame as that sounds, yes). That label is thrown around so much these days that it has completely lost meaning. I remember back in 1999/2000 when I called Sunny Day Real Estate emo, no one seemed to know what it meant. Anyways enough personal stuff. Sunny Day Real Estate is just one of those bands a person gets into and is thankful for finding out about them.
Bio written by: LordCyrus |
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