Strange places one has heard Sunny Day Real Estate being played? I was traversing the lonely city streets of the city I live in, and happened to pass by a crumbling apartment complex in the "bad side of town." This isn't a very SDRE-type community, and strolling these particular streets you might find a thousand alcoholics, but no SDRE fans within miles. Though to my surprise, and apparent delight, from somewhere by the pool I could hear "Every Shining Time You Arrive" being played. I tried to find its source, but it came from one of the second or third story windows. I was content to wallow in the mystery rather than climb terraces and peek inside windows for kids bopping their heads to the music, like in Charlie Brown cartoons. It was pretty nice to hear that song carried on the wind. It doesn't happen like that every day, you know. Also, if anyone remembers Seaweed (another Washington band), MTV used samples from their song 'Shut Up!' as fade in/out music as well, in 1992 or 1993. I always found that odd. And further into obscurity, MTV's "The State" used a sample from the Nation of Ulysses song 'The Hickey Underworld' in the theme song. The Nation of Ulysses had Fugazi Drummer Brendan Canty's younger brother James on drums. Now James plays guitar in The Make-Up, with two other N.O.U. members. "Respect is due to the Nation of Ulysses." "I took the keys from Maudlin Street." Alan. Post-script. I don't quite care if any of you plan to berate me for speaking about subjects other than Sunny Day Real Estate on this list.
