Sunny Day Real Estate is the second studio album by emo

Emo (music)

Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace...

 band Sunny Day Real Estate

Sunny Day Real Estate

Sunny Day Real Estate is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington. In the 1990s, the group expanded upon the grunge style that was popular in the local scene to make a more melodic sound. While not the first band to be classified as emo, they were instrumental in establishing the genre. In...

. The band's label, Sub Pop

Sub Pop

Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...

, distributed the album under the title LP2.

The album was remastered and reissued in 2009, with bonus tracks and newly written liner notes. The bonus tracks are "Spade and Parade" (originally a b-side of the song "Friday") and "Bucket of Chicken" (released as a b-side to the song "How It Feels to be Something On").

Overview

The album is entirely covered in pink

Pink

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, with the band's name across the cover in small type, and doesn't include any liner notes. Due to its simple pink cover, the album is often referred to as The Pink Album. This album was released in November 1995, several months after the band's first break-up.

"8" and "Friday" were re-recorded for the album. Both songs had been recorded and released previously on 7-inch singles. The final track, "Rodeo Jones", was recorded during the sessions for the previous album, Diary, and was previously released as a b-side on the "In Circles" promo single. In addition, "8" is featured on the Batman Forever soundtrack

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.

Track listing

1. "Friday" – 2:29
2. "Theo B" – 3:05
3. "Red Elephant" – 3:19
4. "5/4" – 3:33
5. "Waffle" – 4:25
6. "8" – 5:28
7. "Iscarabaid" – 4:47
8. "J'Nuh" – 4:52
9. "Rodeo Jones" – 5:09
10. "Spade and Parade" – 4:27 (reissue bonus track)
11. "Bucket of Chicken" – 5:29 (reissue bonus track)

Demos

The band recorded demos for all the songs on the album except for "Rodeo Jones", which had already been demoed and recorded at the Diary

Diary

A diary is a record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. A personal diary may include a person's experiences, and/or thoughts or feelings, including comment on current events outside the writer's direct experience. Someone...

sessions. "The Crow" was later re-recorded as "Bucket Of Chicken" and released as a b-side to the song "How It Feels To Be Something On" in 1998. Only one tape from those sessions has surfaced. The demos for "J'nuh" and "Iscarabaid" are instrumental, while "Theo B" is cut at the start. The tracklist is as follows:

1. "Theo B"
2. "5/4"
3. "Red Elephant"
4. "Friday"
5. "Waffle"
6. "8"
7. "J'nuh"
8. "Iscarabaid"
9. "The Crow"

Personnel

• Jeremy Enigk
  Jeremy Enigk
  Jeremy Enigk is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for being the front man of the Seattle band Sunny Day Real Estate.-Biography:...
  
   – guitar, vocals
• William Goldsmith
  William Goldsmith
  William Goldsmith is an American drummer best known for being the drummer of the popular Seattle Alternative band Sunny Day Real Estate and for his tenure as the drummer of the alternative rock band Foo Fighters...
  
   – drums
• Dan Hoerner
  Dan Hoerner
  Dan Hoerner is the guitarist and former lead vocalist for the band Sunny Day Real Estate. However, the band was not yet named Sunny Day Real Estate at the time he was lead vocalist....
  
   – guitar, vocals
• Nate Mendel
  Nate Mendel
  Nathan Gregor "Nate" Mendel is an American bassist for the bands Foo Fighters, The Jealous Sound, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Fire Theft.-Biography:...
  
   – bass
• Brad Wood
  Brad Wood
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   – producer

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1995	Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	25