Love Jeremy Enigk and Fall and Jeremy Enigk’s Voice and Piano and I Really Like Jeremy Enigk
posted by on September 26 at 13:30 PM
Jeremy Enigk, in all forms, makes the most sense in autumn—when it cold, when it’s foggy, when the streets are quieter because everyone starts staying inside.
My iPod told me so this morning, when it pouring Jeremy Enigk songs into my head after I set it on random. I can’t be your iPod, but I can give you this mini Jeremy Enigk playlist that features a few favorites of mine via video and legal MP3s.
1. Sunny Day Real Estate “In Circles” (from Diary)
*The intro guitar kills me. This link is to the video where Nate Mendell looks to be about 15-years-old.
2. Jeremy Enigk “Been Here Before” (From World Waits)
*This song gets off to a slow start, but as soon as that organ kicks in around the two-minute mark, it’s not the chill in the air that’ll be giving you goosebumps.
3. The Fire Theft “Heaven” (From the self-titled album)
*This song made me cry once. True story. I won’t go into why, but it was many years ago and I’m hella over it and now I just love the song for being a beautiful song.
4. Jeremy Enigk “Set it on Fire” (from the United States of Leiland Soundtrack)
*Stupid movie, but Enigk did the music and Set it On Fire is fantastic. You can watch a not that great but good live performance of the song on YouTube. If you’ve never heard it before, give it a listen. It’s a really great song.
5. Jeremy Enigk “Canons” (from Missing Link)
*This is the alternate version on the recently-released Missing Link. The original is from World Waits. I like it the original, but this’ll do.
6. Sunny Day Real Estate “Shade and the Black Hat” (from Return of the Frog Queen)
*My all-time favorite Sunny Day/Fire Theft/Jeremy Enigk song. This video is of him performing the song in DC in 1997.
megan! you're making me get all nostalgic. MAYBE even weepy. and that's embarrassing because i am in the university library.
i agree though. listening to enigk is like drinking cocoa. while wearing layers.
yes. mmmm.. just listened to both solo records.. perfect.
back when we had him at chop suey he played THREE SDRE solo. it made my year and sort of in a way validated my entire career.
God, that's good, thanks. I never really was interested in SDRE or Fire Theft but that piano-and-backing band in 97 was terrific. Saw them at the King Cat on 6th and Blanchard in the 5 minutes it was a venue. Just terrific, unforgettable.
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