Funeral Diner

Funeral Diner
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Background information
Origin	Half Moon Bay, California
Genres	Screamo, emo, post-rock
Instruments	Vocals, guitars, drums
Years active	1998-2007
Labels	Numerous record labels
Associated acts	Sterling Says ...Who Calls So Loud Portraits of Past Nexus Six Sheep Squeeze Living War Room Lost Ground Takaru
Past members	Seth Babb Dan Bajda Matt Bajda Dave Mello Ben Steidel Sean O' Shea Rob Beckstrom Andy Radin Phil Benson

Funeral Diner (1998–2007) was a screamo band from Half Moon Bay, California, located near San Francisco, playing self-described "screamy, chaotic, melodic hardcore." During their last few years, the band established a strong cult fanbase through a near constant string of releases and a touring schedule during which they visited the United States, Europe, and Japan.

The band had a large catalog of splits and compilation tracks on various records. They rarely pressed CDs, and kept many of their releases in limited quantities and one-time pressings, jumping from label to label, though their last few major recordings were released by Alone Records. Their most recent full-length, The Underdark, was issued on Alone in 2005.

Members of the band were previously affiliated with other groups such as Nexus Six, Portraits of Past, Living War Room, Lost Ground, Sheep Squeeze, and Takaru. After the breakup, members have gone on to form Stirling Says, ...Who Calls So Loud, Pills and Lemonade.

Though rooted in first wave emo, hardcore emo and early screamo characteristics, the band later included elements of post-rock. Funeral Diner's albums have attracted significant coverage from rock press outlets.

At Break Up

• Seth Babb: vocals
• Dan Bajda: guitar/vocals
• Matthew Bajda: drums
• Dave Mello: guitar
• Ben Steidel: bass

Former

• Sean O' Shea: Bass
• Rob Beckstrom: Bass
• Andy Radin: bass
• Phil Benson: Vocals

Discography

• title (format, number pressed, release date, label)

LPs

• Difference of Potential (LP, 1000, 09/03; CD, 2000, 08/02; Ape Must Not Kill Ape)

1. Syncope
2. Direct Hit
3. Lackluster
4. There is No Today's Today, So There Will Be No Yesterday's Tomorrow
5. I Wish I Could Do The Backstroke
6. Chalk Angels
7. Paper
8. Fire...Deth

• Three Sides Dead (compilation of splits w/ Nexus Six, Staircase, The Shivering) (CD, 540, 09/03, Lilac Sky)

1. Lucky Strike
2. I Wish I Could Do The Backstroke
3. Choirs and Cannons
4. Shifting
5. Direct Hit
6. Easy Chair Method
7. Torn Safety Net
8. Anemic Bulemic
9. Sleeping Boy The Paranoid
10. My Fist Smells Like Graveyard
11. We Don't Belong in Concrete
12. The Nightbuilders
13. Sleeping Boy The Paranoid
14. Journeyman (Portraits of Past Cover)
15. .5
16. Sleeping Boy The Paranoid (original version)
17. Pharmacy Rage

• ...is Dead (Tour Compilation of Splits) (CD-R, 200, 09/03, Sorry)

1. Yeah, You Remember That
2. A True Triumph of Man vs. Machine
3. Welcome To My Book Collection
4. Chameleon (Nexus Six Cover)
5. Wearing Thin
6. City of Webs
7. Shifting
8. This Truly is God's Country
9. Let Me Get A Few Practice Stabs

• The Underdark (LP, 1200, 04/05; CD, 3000, 04/05; Alone)

1. "Decline"
2. "Collapsing"
3. "We Become Buried"
4. "It Is Good That We Never Met"
5. "Two Houses"
6. "What Was Said"
7. "Regardless We Fall"
8. "We All Have Blood On Our Hands"

EPs

• The Wicked (CD, 1000, 08/02, Sorry; CD, 2000, 05/04, Alone; 10", 1000, 05/04, Alone)

1. ...And The Beast Shall Be Made Legion
2. The Wicked
3. End On 6
4. It Burns

• Swept Under (10", 500, ??/05, Lilac Sky; CD, ???, ??/05, Cosmic Note)

1. Bearing My Shield or Borne Upon My Shield
2. Under
3. Never To Be
4. For The Beasts
5. City of Webs (Title Mix)
6. Shifting (Battery Cage "Street Arcade High Score" Remix)
7. This Truly Is God's Country (See Colin Slash Mix)
8. Shifting (Midnight Laserbeam Remix)
9. Shifting (Black Van Remix)

• Bag of Holding (Tour Demo) (3" CD, 75, ??/06, self-released)

1. Addendum
2. I Was The Sword
3. Two More

• Doors Open (CD, 1000, 03/07, self-released, 12" 600 Adagio830)

1. This Wrath
2. Carved From Stone
3. Neither Option
4. Head of Vecna
5. This Optimism

Splits

• w/ Nexus Six (LP, 1000, 01/99, Old Glory)

1. Lucky Strike
2. I Wish I Could Do The Backstroke
3. Choirs and Cannons
4. Shifting

• The Worlds of Forms w/ Staircase (LP, 1000, 08/01, Ape Must Not Kill Ape)

1. My Fist Smells Like Graveyard
2. We Don't Belong in Concrete
3. The Nightbuilders
4. Sleeping Boy The Paranoid
5. Journeyman (Portraits of Past Cover)

• w/ The Shivering (LP, 600, 11/01, Into the Hurricane/Unfun/City Boot)

1. Direct Hit
2. Easy Chair Method
3. Torn Safety Net
4. Anemic Bulemic
5. Sleeping Boy The Paranoid

• A Split Seven Inch w/ Zann (7", 1485 [three pressings], 10/02, Vendetta)

1. Lie in Headlights

• A Sequel of a Story w/ End on End, Under a Dying Sun, Endzweck (CD, 1000, 08/03; LP, 1000, 02/04; Cosmic Note)

1. This Truly is God's Country

• w/ The Saddest Landscape (Rites of Spring cover) (7", 780, 09/03, Firewalk With Me)

1. Deeper Than Inside

• w/ Dead City (tour LP, 130, 09/03; regular LP, 1000, 09/03; So Much To Give)

1. Let Me Get A Few Practice Stabs
2. Wearing Thin
3. City of Webs
4. Chameleon (Nexus Six Cover)

• I Just Want To Feel This Way Forever" w/ Evylock (CD, 500, 06/04, Falling Leaves; 10", 335 green / 340 black, 03/05, Somberlain)

1. A True Triumph of Man vs. Machine

• A Seven Inch Split w/ Raein (7", 460 champagne / 570 black, 06/04, Red Cars Go Faster)

1. Welcome To My Book Collection

• w/ Welcome The Plague Year (7", 07/04 100 white / 200 clear / 700 black / 1000 blue, Electric Human Project)

1. Yeah, You Remember That...

• w/ Ampere (9", 07/07, 800 black / 200 green, Clean Plate/Electric Human Project)

1. I Was The Sword

Compilations

• Inspiration From Forest (CD, ???, 11/03, Falling Leaves)

1. Shifting

• The Emo Apocalypse (LP Compilation React With Protest Records - Germany May 2006 - 1070 copies)

1. Addendum

External links

• Alone Records
• Funeral Diner's Myspace
• Funeral Diner Fan Site
• Funeral Diner lyrics