Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 67

Big Casino is so so sad to me. sonically sad vs. thematically

 

Always Be and Carry You are such sad songs. Former has the narrator falling into inferiority + dangerous romanticism while the latter is about the ponderings of a break up (esp that second pre chorus, damn). Though, that's just my interpretation of the songs.

 

"I pace around the room to spend the time, waiting while the burning pictures fade. One thing to make your mind and another to say its name"

 

How could you possibly put Damage at least sad? That has to be #1.

 

Blows my mind that people think Damage is their least sad, haha. Have you people even listened to that album?! I'd say that's number one and Chase This Light is number two. No way in hell "Always Be" is a happy song. That thing is fucking heartbreaking. Same with "Carry You."

 

jimmy eat world is very sad

 

This guy knows.

I think Invented is their happiest album.

 

I think I agree

 

I think because not a lot of have listened to Damage much? Or maybe it is just me--haha.

 

I've been listening to jimmy eat world forever and I still don't know the lyrics.
I play them as a soundtrack to whatever I'm doing so my judgement is based on sound alone.

 

Agree with all of this. How you could listen to songs like Damage, Book of Love, and Please Say No and then call that their least sad album is beyond me. Three of the saddest songs in their catalog.

 

I always interpreted it as a healthy and mature break up album in which the narrator/listener shouldn't put fault on the other person or themselves. Break ups happen. Falling out of love is normal.

It might be because it's also the record that I listened to a lot during my first breakup and my ex and I are still really close friends now because the songs allowed me to reflect in a positive outlook. At face value though, I guess Invented could be the least sad. All the records are sad to some degree, but Damage has a lot of joyful emotions for me.

 

Definitely. "Please Say No" itself has to put that album in the top three.

See, the resignation of it all just makes it sadder to me. The "there is nothing I could have done to save this" feeling of those songs is what makes them so wrenching.

 

how'd you have me is the sweetest (eff you) track ever lol

 

Out of context of my personal connections to it though, I do agree that Damage as the least sad is pretty crazy, haha

 

That song is brutal ha

 

i like it

 

Not to mention You Were Good

 

That's really true. I love reading your insight. It's like the Damage review bonus edition.

 

I wonder if the next JEW record will be Sad.

 

It's my favorite on the album. But that chorus is so harsh

 

IWSYB and Appreciation are probably my favorites from the record. The former used to be my favorite song for the songest time.

 

I think its great given the context of the entire album. Some people are frustrated in breakups and that song gets it out.

 

I don't disagree

 

It's weirdly sad and triumphant at the same time. The idea of being a "New Jersey success story" coupled with lines like "don't get up your hopes" and "just let me down easy" are super sad