Jimmy Eat World - Surviving (October 18, 2019) Album • Page 56

I could be completely wrong here, but I’m pretty sure Pain was, and still is, a bigger hit than Work.

 

I was just about to put that edit in there when I saw your reply. You could argue that case definitely. Anecdotally speaking, Work had a much bigger impact on TV and radio in the UK in my experience at the time. Pain might have had more success not because it was a better single, but because it was in more videogames? Or perhaps Pain charted higher initially but work had a longer shelf-life in the musical zeitgeist. Could be a UK vs US thing. I never saw Pain on Kerrang or MTV2 or Scuzz but I saw Work on there all the time.

 

For me, Pain was definitely anecdotally bigger than Work

 

Regardless of that detail, having the more "rocky" single come first and the more "poppy" single come second, and the second arguably doing better, is not unheard of for this band. So I could see the argument for Criminal Energy being first and All the Way (Stay) being second.

 

I haven't heard Criminal Energy yet, but I'm excited to

 

As much as I hate to admit it, they will almost certainly not have a hit like The Middle or Pain in this musical climate so they are probably less concerned with how the singles are arranged.

 

Have you heard the live recording from Kimmel, or are you deliberately avoiding it? If not:

 

pain charted higher

 

however they play "the middle" and "work" at my work (lol) all the time

 

While I agree they wont have a hit like that, I still imagine the label will want to make the decisions that give them the best shot at making money. *shrug*

I do think rock is coming back a little bit, at least in the UK, with the likes of Liam Gallagher and Sam Fender. But if it doesn't, maybe 555 could have a shot one day. But that's probably wishful thinking. I'm happy them just being our somewhat niche band who had their moment once.

 

Deliberately avoiding it haha

 

Oh shit! More kimmel stuff!

Edit: fuck, already taken down

 

Those performances of Sweetness and For Me This is Heaven are still up at least :)

 

Thanks!

 

Now I just need to see Criminal Energy from Kimmel and I’ve seen them all.

 

The video still works for me

 

a real one on reddit saved all the Kimmel performances, for anyone still looking for "Criminal Energy":

Dropbox - Live on Jimmy Kimmel 10.10.19 mp4s - Simplify your life

 

Yep, same rad dude who put it on YouTube too.

 

Jealous! But luckily, the post below yours has a different link. Hope this one works!

 

For Me This Is Heaven is one of their all-time greatest songs

 

Pain defined Tony Hawk’s Underground 2

 

They need to focus on getting more placements if they want another “big” song. It’s not going to come from radio.

 

JEW is on the Idiot podcast. Not sure if that was mentioned here already.

 

what is that podcast? There are so many podcasts!

 

ID10T, it's the podcast Chris Hardwick started after Nerdist.