Jimmy Eat World - Classic or Dud?

this album is so dope i can't stand it. it's the closet they've gotten to bleed american since bleed american imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU-TZiVVaTE

haha what a weird video, love it

it made my day

perfectly illustrates the melodramatic essence of the song while also being completely ridiculous. mad max tyrant contemplating personal failures

yea it works!

this album is really slick, the songs are there. kinda wish the mix had room to breathe a little but ive felt that way since chase the light.

whole album is very listenable though. back half of the closing track is very ji\m/\m/y eat world.

i wasn't ready for goth metal jimmy eat world feat. davey havok on backing vocals

oh wow thats awesome now i hear him on there. that song has so much energy. second listen through the album now and I like every song.

i'm doing the thiiiiings that i'm told
every day
every day
every day

this is so good, glad i decided to check it out after seeing a headline about davey havok guesting on a song (which is still sick, but the whole album is great)

their best in a long while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p-X6zczdPA
sweet sweet harmonies

the gong lol

if y'all like livestreams they're doing three over the next few months, each covering a different album in their discog. first was tonight, playing surviving, and it fucking whipped ass, and even though it's over you apparently can buy tickets afterward to watch it on demand https://www.jimmyeatworldlive.com/

"congratulations" was like.... even better than i thought it would be

also next few weeks* not months

"congratulations" is one of my favorite running songs of the last few years

ive been enjoying jims youtube series 'pass-through frequencies' where he interviews (mostly) other emo gods. also interviewed flynt flossy.

i may buy tickets to those live streams. thx for the heads up.

i really like pass-through frequencies too!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgVMugghoc

really good discussion of recording surviving, including a story about justin meldal-johnsen driving down hollywood blvd. blasting ratt's out of the cellar and throwing the devil horns

today's the futures show! my least favorite of their major albums but it's gonna rip live

oh now im interested in your JEW album rankings. futures would be up there for me

clarity
integrity blues
surviving
bleed american
invented
futures
chase this light
static prevails
damage

futures is just... slightly too dirge-y? it's still great but i kinda lose the thread right after "pain"

never heard the s/t, nothing anyone's said about it makes it seem worth hearing lol

Integrity Blues and Futures are both "tremendous highs, regrettable lows" for me, boringly I think Bleed American is my favorite now

wait what are the lows on futures!?

i dont really care for just tonight but thats about it

"drugs or me" and "night drive" do not completely work for me and never have. i still listen to them all the time lol

i'm expecting the live set to change my mind about this tbh

"polaris" is potentially the goat jimmy eat world song tho

"drugs or me" is nails on chalkboard awful to me lol

wow ok. i do kinda wish they rocked it out like on the demo tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frD86e-S3_k

only record i havent spent time with is Invented.

my high ranking of invented is very personal, if i dial back at all i can see it's a flawed record, but it's also the record that soundtracked my move to new york ten years ago

it has an odd status in the discog i think, it is clearly a throwback to clarity in many ways (trombino on production, tom sings lead on a song toward the end), but the songwriting isn't a throwback at all, adkins was exploring writing from different perspectives and his stuff from around this period and damage has kind of a stately singer-songwriter vibe to it

not really feeling the first couple of tracks..

adkins was exploring writing from different perspectives

I feel like this is almost actively discouraged of late so I do like this idea, though that album hasn't really clicked for me yet

not really feeling the first couple of tracks..

― a nice controlled drift (Spottie), Friday, January 29, 2021 1:23 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh man, the opener is the best!!!! but also the album doesn't really find footing until "movielike"

"my best theory" feels like a lead single from a different album, it is very out of place

lol, again, it's got a lot of problems, i love it so anyway

I feel like this is almost actively discouraged of late so I do like this idea, though that album hasn't really clicked for me yet

― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, January 29, 2021 1:23 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he was getting really into cindy sherman photography around the time and the byproduct of that is a lot of the album is from a woman's perspective

"coffee and cigarettes" for instance. and he does it without calling attention to the device at all, which is how it should be

oh man, the opener is the best!!!!

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, January 29, 2021 1:26 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

little too much mumford and sons stompity stomping for me

oh lol i can see that. it does predate when that style became inescapable but unfortunately does not quite predate patient zero, "home"

invented is also the reason i know about courtney marie andrews, she did the backing vocals on the record and toured with them and is a really amazing songwriter in her own right

love that i dont know if youre talking about the edward sharp home or the phillip phillips home lol

i was talking about the edward sharpe home but also lol

liking movielike, coffee and cigs and evidence from the front half of this. stop is good too. a lot more soaring electric guitar leads than im used to maybe.

littlething is sounding great.

i just got to "littlething" myself and remembered how often i've cried to this record, "lol"

yah instant rewind on that one. perfect song there.

the title track!

i may have slept on this album