Composer Reacts to Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles (REACTION & ANALYSIS)

[@elk3407]

Fun fact, the bassist from Sunny Day Real Estate is actually a part of Foo Fighters. The Drummer was also a part of Foo Fighters for a while, but ultimately left. I always find it interesting how many people from more well-known bands contributed to early emo. Like Guy Picciotto for example. Literally one of the most important people in the early formation of Emo and you'd never even guess since his best known work is his stuff from Fugazi. It will be interesting to see how far you get into emo, since not only is there the stuff before what you know but also a whole lot after with 4th and 5th wave. Although you've already reacted to a little bit of 5th wave with Weatherday.

[@g.prince6265]

Sdre is not an emo band they're a rock band,have you heard them???

[@elk3407]

@g.prince6265 SDRE is like one of THE quintessential emo bands of the 90's. What would YOU say is a better example of the emo genre?

[@g.prince6265]

@@elk3407 emo means nothing,just because Jeremy writes songs about a chick doesn't make them emo,it's a made up word they're a fkn rock,slash alternative band.and Jeremy has never written a shitty song.ever!!

[@elk3407]

@g.prince6265 It seems you have a fundamental misunderstanding about emo. It's a shortening of EMOtive hardcore because emocore was too long apparently, and started in the 80's Washington DC hardcore punk scene. SDRE was part of the 2nd wave in the 90's. What most people think of when you say emo is a mixture of 3rd wave emopop bands like early Paramore and early Fall Out Boy, and a bunch of completely unrelated bands that got lumped in for no apparent reason like Panic At The Disco. Emo is, in fact, so much more than the cultural perception of it.

[@g.prince6265]

I know they're considered emo cuz Jeremy sings about his girlfriend but to me it's just good fkn music.that make sense?

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

First, welcome back Emo Bryan! Smiley day in the abyss of human misery to you! To the music, I know of SDRE but I don't think I've ever heard them. I do know they were one of the early bands in the 90s Emo scene. I was never huge into emo myself... just never got around to checking it out. I did enjoy this track. It very much sounds like the 90s, which means lots of nostalgia for me. It has that 90s trend of bass driven verses into huge distorted choruses, and I can definitely hear the affinities with grunge, except this is more... well, emotive. Enjoyable, but not enough to make me want to run out and hear more. BTW, a huge influence on the whole "soft verses, distorted chorus" was Pixies. When Cobain wrote Teen Spirit he said he was trying to write a Pixies song. Their Surfer Rosa and Doolittle were both massive influences on 90s music even though they never attained the popularity of the big four from Seattle or the more commercial bands that came after.

[@CriticalReactions]

I think I need to dive into The Pixies one of these days. I only know of the name because Papa Roach covered Gouge Away on their lovehatetragedy album. They're name pops up often regarding the 90s though and now you're telling me they were an influence on a modern composition trope that I quite enjoy.

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

@@CriticalReactions Pixies are a pretty easy band to check out as they weren't around long and all their albums were pretty short. Most would also say that only their first three (Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, and Bossa Nova) are really worth your time, though I do dig their fourth (Trompe le Monde) too, which was their last before they broke up for over 20 years.

[@maxmiller1950]

Unfortunately the edited version cuts down on some lyricless sections and kind of breaks the smooth flow of the song. Great choice nonetheless and by far greatest Midwest Emo band of all time. I think you’ll have a blast checking out American Football if you react to them this week!

[@justsomejusstsome8994]

Brave little abacus>

[@jcfarnham4634]

Yeah couldn't agree more. This is a great place to start this weeks theme.

[@hapahapahappy]

Love this band, this whole album is fantastic

[@ggluckmanful]

This song/band is contemporary with Nirvana, and shares a ton of their lineage of guitar driven alternative rock. Foo Fighters is a younger sibling from the same tradition of midwestern rockers like Sugar and the Replacements. Grunge sung by dudes who sing like girls, is how I pigeon-holed it at the time. When it crossed back into Indie-rock 10 years later, in the early 2000s, is when I came back to the grownups those former-teen rockers had become in the meanwhile.

[@indoom666]

This is emo

[@ggluckmanful]

@@indoom666 That seems like post-hoc categorization to me. Not saying you're wrong, but don't think that was my experience at the time.

[@ethanowens4818]

This is a great song and a great band from the early 90s. You've got the grunge... influence? I suppose?... nailed right on the head, as these guys are from Seattle and while not grunge themselves were sorta a part of that rock scene, especially seeing as, after these guys broke up, the drummer and bassist joined Dave Grohl in the Foo Fighters! These guys are much more influential for the Midwest Emo movement actually, and their album Diary, is considered a precursor, or maybe just a good establishment, of the genre, though the math rock influence hadn't quite weaseled its way into the sound yet. Hopefully we've got something by American Football coming up this week just so that you can kind of see the progression from this to the genre-defining (I think so anyways) LP1 by American Football, though that one might just need a full album reaction 😄.

[@justsomejusstsome8994]

Phenomenal song. That bass line is just so addictive

[@warnerww83]

Lol elder emo snob moment: My chemical romance is when I knew the genre was officially dead. Was shocked to see this pop up. Check out the Get Up Kids next!!!!!

[@ilovesanrio]

The GUK rocks!

[@thesmogo]

Great album, but how it feels to be something on is SDRE’s masterpiece

[@haroldushawkinsi5804]

Yeah they way they got just a bit proggy and even more atmospheric (plus Jeremy's voice evolved A LOT) really makes that record work

[@thesmogo]

Might request it tbh, how do requests work?

[@g.prince6265]

Almost on your side,but.sunny day is sooooo much better than the rock radio fighters.

[@g.prince6265]

I agree but the rising tide is really the plateau,hell my favorite song is the days were golden,but they went in on rising tide,what say you?no hate here just happy to be talking to an sdre fan, they're Soo badass,I'm sorry actually "Friday"is their best song.well ...I like it Alot.🤘

[@g.prince6265]

Dave grohl couldn't tune William's, drums.any drummer can hear that,I play guitar and can plAy anything grohl plays.

[@LIAMJR97]

If you want to hear even earlier roots of emo listen to the band Moss Icon and the song "lyburnum wits end liberation fly" where it really starts to come into it's own as a genre from post hardcore. This was back in the 80's

[@Alifesalife]

Check out orchard by Indian summer

[@regressionbegins]

if you want the underground emo of 93/94 check out Still Life - Slow Children at Play 8". interesting contrast with SDRE in the similarities and differences

[@Alifesalife]

Classic tune by a legendary band

[@g.prince6265]

Dave can't mess with william,he made drum beats I've never heard before,he could play ANYTHING DAVE PLAYED I MEAN WERE TALKING ABOUT WILLIAM GOLDSMITH NOT SOME SLOUCH,LISTEN TO THE DRUMS!!!!!

[@voxextremos22]

I’m sorry but Dave is a better technical drummer than William by a lot.

[@g.prince6265]

@@voxextremos22 dude I love everything Dave grohl has done,with Nirvana of course and with queens,but dude ,the first two sunny day albums blow his shit away,grohl just had a better producer.sdre didn't have Steve albini

[@g.prince6265]

DAve grohl is a dale crover rip off and please don't say he's better than dale.cuz that's just fkn crazy.

[@whatdothlife4660]

I think you'd really appreciate some of what Reggie and the Full Effect has to offer.

[@bibbyboxx2219]

Great reaction!!!

[@SantaCliff]

Appleseed Cast - Fishing the Sky is one I like.

[@locustkllr]

This video is shorter than the album version, and im not sure why. It's not a long song.

[@nanakixd7436]

mate you really should check out Marietta or Tiny Moving Parts. any song, let others decide.

[@lustalgia...]

THURSDAY-

[@articircle]

emo bryan's back! 🥳 just hope regular bryan's doing a-ok in exile

[@CriticalReactions]

I'm sure he's doing just fine 😅

[@ambassadortourettes753]

Can't say this week's theme is for me 🤔 However this band is absolutely legendary in my opinion 👌

[@iggypopdrop3509]

Glad this one made it through. One of my tolerable emo bands. 😁 Some of the comments probably explain why. It feels more 90’s than many other emo bands.

[@cheekycupcake5616]

Kewl😎🫠🙄(luuuv the nails🥰)🤗🌿

[@mothwinter]

Me and who?

[@atomicwest995]

"I really am hoping this isn’t that emo-pop garbage that came out after the good stuff" … well, then why did you dress yourself up all HotTopic with mascara like you’re expecting to hear exactly that? Ya lookin’ silly my man!

[@CriticalReactions]

That's an in-joke with the community. You probably recognized the total change in demeanor once the song started up and especially once I got into the analysis. That's the 'cynical emo' character I play at the beginning of some videos and this happened to be one :)