Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 45

Get It Faster is a jam too. I just don't appreciate the 45ish seconds of silence.

 

I don't even dislike "The Middle" anymore. I think CTL has changed me.

 

Wow!!!!

 

"Sweetness" is so fun.

 

I think track 6 might just be unlucky for me with this band, haha.

 

Whenever The Middle comes on I roll my eyes, but by the time that glorious guitar solo comes in I have fists in the air.

 

I think "Get it Faster" is the first song from these three albums that I just don't really like at all.

 

boo

 

"Hey Jimmy Eat World, do you wanna hang out on the funnest tour of your lives, playing big shows and fuckin have a great time and we're all best friends, or do you only wanna do half of it and fly over to Europe by yourselves?"

 

Song isn't good

 

Get It Faster is an awesome song

 

I love The Middle. That's all I came here to say after reading up on the past two pages.

 

What's the current status on another album from JEW?

 

Spun Futures on vinyl for the first time in awhile today. Still their best by a lot, thanks.

Also, what a fucking great repress that is. Beautiful packaging and incredible sound. Definitely one of my favorite records I own.

Yeah, Chase and Even if it Kills Me both came out at the same time and featured both bands going for a similarly "poppy" sound. I always couple them in my head. Also, agreed that 6 and 7 are the worst songs on CTL.

How do you not like "Work"? I feel like that song is extremely underrated.

 

The chorus is really underwhelming to me. I feel like it's wanting to go somewhere that it doesn't, and that drives me crazy. I'm not sure if that's something anyone else hears, could just be me.

 

Yeah, don't hear that at all--though I do like the verses more than the chorus.

 

I like the verses, definitely. I think I'd like the song much more if the chorus didn't bug me.

 

I've always just really loved it lyrically. Same with "Futures." But a lot of that is because of the personal connections I have with that album.

 

It's weird, I used to love the album basically front to back and more recently I just can't get excited about the first three songs. But then again, I haven't listened to it in quite a while either -- it's always CTL or Invented, maybe BA, when I want to listen to JEW.

 

See, I don't go to BA that often for the same reason: I just don't get excited about those first five tracks. I really do like those songs, especially "Bleed American" and "The Middle." But on the whole, I think I've just heard them too many times, and they don't have the emotional resonance of the band's music, and I'm tired of them being staples of the JEW setlist because I think way better songs get passed over so they can be in there every time. So that's easily the post-Static JEW album I play the least, as a result.

 

Part of it is probably just that when I first got into JEW and discovered Futures, like four years ago, I just wore out that album, and I don't think that helped it in the long run for me. Some albums hold up better than others under that type of situation, and I think that's one that didn't do as well for me.

 

Work is an incredible song and then it gets topped by Kill for best song on Futures

 

I played that album probably 200 times in the fall of 2004 and it's never gotten even remotely old for me. Probably one of the few that never could.

 

Man, I don't think I could listen to any album that much in a concentrated period of time without it getting old.

 

"Kill" is so incredible. There are days where I love it more than "23" and "Dizzy." Maybe the single most important song in the development of my music tastes.