Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues (October 21, 2016) Album • Page 226

i said its blasphemous!

 

I did just listen to Everything In Transit for the first time this week, so...

 

you did this just to hurt me, this is how villain origins start

 

jim has said how he thought the middle was like a joke when they wrote it because it was so easy and they hardly put any work into it but thats the beauty of it, its just a simple pop song

 

The title track singlehandedly elevates Invented to a standing on my list that it probably doesn't earn otherwise.

 

heart is hard to find is my favorite JEW song by a pretty wide margin so thats what does it for me

 

Invented just brings back great memories for me. I got that album, Dark Is The Way, and Ludo's Prepare the Preparations on a Friday night and then took them to my buddy's place and we listened to them for hours and hours.

 

i got invented and illuminaudio around the same time and had them both in my car for like three years

 

Has the best Jimmy f-word too

 

i cant believe invented will be 8 this year

 

Clarity is still a fantastic album, even if I don't listen to it as much as I used to. I'd take Futures and Integrity Blues over it, as I've built strong connections to those albums as wholes. Clarity would probably be right behind them though. Either it or Chase This Light. It's really just too difficult to rank this band's discography beyond my top 2 because it's really just whatever album I'm listening to more at the time. I have an easier time listing them in tiers.

Tier 1:
Futures
Integrity Blues

Tier 2:
Clarity
Bleed American
Chase This Light

Tier 3:
Invented
Damage

 

For Me This Is Heaven
A Praise Chorus
Kill
Dizzy
Invented

Those would be my top 5, though not necessarily in that order. Not sure where I’d go after that.

 

Are you going to live your life wondering
Standing in the back, looking around?
Are you going to waste your time thinking
How you've grown up or how you missed out?
Things are never going to be the way you want
Where's it going to get you acting serious?
Things are never going to be quite what you want
Even at 25, you got to start sometime

 

Tier 1: Clarity, Futures
Tier 2: BA, CTL, Invented, Damage, IB
Tier 3: SP

That wasn’t really useful at all.

 

Oh my goodness, I also had Dark Is the Way at the same time! I had a 40 minute commute to college at the time that those albums came out, and I would get to the second-to-last songs on both albums as I pulled into the parking lot. And for Invented, it was great because the road that led into the campus was Houston Street...So that album and song are, like, permanently attached to that time in my life, and Dark Is the Way too.

 

A Praise Chorus has some of my favorite Jimmy lyrics of all time...This song is really important to me, especially as I get older, because, like...life obviously didn't go the way that I thought/hoped it would when I was 18, but you know...there's still hope for it to get better and there's still no limit to the things that I can accomplish, even if I didn't necessarily do them in the same order/at the same age that everyone else did.

 

Those albums both have a similar motif, imo. Like, big really well-produced muscular rock records. Super shiny sounding and very polished. Know what I mean? haha

 

Tier 1: BA, Futures, CTL, Invented, IB
Tier 2: Damage
Tier 3: SP, Clarity

 

We may be more similar than we originally thought haha. Move Invented down and that's my list.

 

I'll have a go at my current top 10, but it changes a fair bit:

1. Polaris
2. Be Sensible
3. Cautioners
4. Seasonal
5. Disintegration
6. Always Be
7. 23
8. Anderson Mesa
9. Just Watch the Fireworks
10. Sure and Certain

Honourable mentions:

Pol Roger
Please Say No
How'd You Have Me
Nothingwrong

Edit: I just keep adding to the honourable mentions. I think that might be cheating.

 

fuck appreciation should really be in my top ten somewhere

can my top ten have 20 songs this band is special???

 

OH DAMN I forgot Appreciation too

 

invented is underrated, especially by me

 

Is it as underrated as 808s though?

 

in no order my favorite jimmy records are

clarity
bleed american
futures
disintegration
chase this light
invented
damage
integrity blues

and if u have a problem with that well then i am truly sorry!!!!