Hello and welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill, and today we're going to be discussing Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary.

Music What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we tie it all together with a track-by-track review in which we discuss the things we think about while listening to the songs and the things we like about them.

My usual co-host, the esteemed Mr. Brian Erickson, will be joining us for the conversation, but due to scheduling things, I'm just doing this intro on my own. In addition to Brian, during the conversation, we're joined by Cassidy Robinson, a fellow podcaster who hosts the Jabber and the Drone podcast, a film podcast.

And Cassidy, he really brought his A-game for this conversation, I think.

He is definitely a hardcore, post-hardcore, emotional, hardcore he knows his stuff and he lent that knowledge to the

podcast for our conversation and so it really kind of helped give us a lot of perspective on this

music and you know what it meant to the culture around, uh, the genre that it existed in.

On the show, we really like to kind of showcase both the history of albums and also, you know,

our personal experiences with it. And Cassidy kind of gave us a little bit of both because I feel

like he's kind of like a,

he's kind of like Brian where his personal experience tends to interact with the actual

history of the band. Like he has thoughts and ideas on not just the songs themselves, but the

meta commentary on it. And I think that makes for a very interesting

and cool conversation. So before we get to that conversation, I just want to lay out a few

names dates and places so that way everybody knows what we're talking about during the conversation.

Sunny Day real estate formed in 1992 when guitarist Dan Horner and bassist Nate Mendel met when they became housemates at the University of Washington.

They started jamming together and playing and looking for a drummer and eventually they decided to invite William Goldsmith, at which point they started playing together as a band named

Empty Set, but they quickly changed the name of that to Chabaca Kaboom. And then after that,

they changed it to one day I stopped breathing. During this time, Dan Horner, the guitarist,

decided to take up the vocals and started singing.

We actually have a bit of a conversation about that.

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