January 28th, 2009 1:09pm
Sunny Day Real Estate, Lawrence, Kansas 10/10/98
Sunny Day Real Estate – “The Blankets Were The Stairs”
Live in Lawrence, Kansas 10/10/98
I don’t ever listen to music on random, but I randomly listened to this song just now because I typed “real emo” to call up Real Emotional Trash in my iTunes and it played through, and then this popped up because, you know, ‘Real’ and ‘emo.’ Goddamn, but I love this song. “Innnnnnferiorrrrrrgghgh!” I really appreciate how Jeremy Enigk used to sing everything as if he was having a full-on skull-exploding sanity-shattering nervous breakdown, and not just like a guy pretending to have a nervous breakdown. High stakes music!
1/29/09 12:05 am
len says:I also love intensity of the “rah-de-ay-hee-ai” at the end of Rodeo Jones. You might not always understand what he’s going on about, but you get the feeling that Jeremy has believed every word he’s ever sung. Thanks for sharing.