YMMV / Sunny Day Real Estate

• Awesome Music: Diary.
• Broken Base: Comes up when discussing which incarnation of the band fans prefer. On one side, there's the group that venerate Diary and LP2 due to their intensity, masterful use of the quiet-loud dynamic, and influence on the emo subgenre. On the other end, there are the fans that prefer How It Feels To Be Something On and The Rising Tide on the grounds that the instrumentation is more varied, complex, and lushly orchestrated than the first two albums.
• Older Than They Think: Most people tend to label American Football as the band who codified the Midwest emo genre, even though Diary beat them by five years.
• Signature Song: "Seven"
• Tear Jerker: "Song About An Angel", "48", "Grendel", "Every Shining Time You Arrive", "Guitar And Video Games", and "One" among many others.
  • Pretty much all ofThe Rising Tide is this, really, though some it is more Tears of Joy than anything else.