Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 97

Fuck I missed the party

Bleed American is the one I've listened to the most as of late

 

Futures is one of the best songs on this album. Just Tonight and Work are great songs as well. I'd take Night Drive over Nothingwrong, but those two are my bottom two from the album and might be the only songs I don't love.

 

I've found Night Drive and Drugs or Me to be the most underrated songs on the album, maybe Pain as well

 

Pain is anything but underrated haha. Do you know how much airtime that song received?

 

It's underrated around here, rarely see anyone listing it among their favorites

 

because it's PAINful.

 

I mean not really but there's just better songs on the album.

 

lol no

 

This has been a productive exchange.

 

I mean, it is hard to put Pain in my favorites category when it's on the same album as Kill, 23, and Polaris.

 

Sure, those are my top three songs on the album too, but Pain is fifth and also a very good song IMO

 

5th? That puts it in the middle of the album. When I think of "favorite" it has to be a limited and unique thing. Pain is a great song, but it's just not top level for the album. It's probably why it's not brought up much as a favorite.

 

#tbt to the time "Pain" was used in the Smallville prison riot scene.

 

It really irks me when a song is obviously shoehorned into a scene because someone on the staff likes it.
Especially if it is a song I myself enjoy.

 

I think "songs being shoehorned into scenes because staff members like them" is 90% of all soundtracks. Also "someone on the staff" would be the music supervisor.

What a weird complaint. God forbid bands you like get exposure.

 

Do you not understand what the word shoehorned means? Just because I like the song, doesn't mean it's a good fit.

No Jimmy Eat World song is a good fit for people punching eachother violently.

 

Bleed American?

 

well, shit

exception proves the rule, airite guys?

 

Why? Someone thought it was a good fit and the band got paid for it. It got aired on a show for millions of people to hear. Placements on shows like that helped tons of people discover tons of bands. It literally does not matter whether or not you think it's a good fit.

Also, what @ncarrab said.

Also, yes, I know what "shoehorned" means, but thank you for your condescending question.

 

Are you always this petulant when people don't agree with you?

I don't think it's a good fit and it irks me.

 

Na Na Na was on Hellcats for a football game. It was cool.

Death Cab on The OC was cooler.

Joshua Radin on Scrubs was the coolest.

 

You ask me if I know what the word "shoehorned" means and I'm the one being petulant? Okay dude, sure.

 

maybe you should go and re-read your passive aggressive first reply to me, and then you will understand why this conversation went the way it did.

 

They're always cool. Even if the fit isn't quite right, I love seeing my favorite artists get featured on shows like this. Butch Walker songs were on both The OC and One Tree Hill. That was awesome to see. The Smallville scene with "Pain" is cheesy and overblown, but helped give the band extra attention at a time when this kind of music was pretty roundly shit on by critics. Shows like that were arguably the best way to discover bands from this scene 10-12 years ago.

 

Annnnnnnyway, so I listened to Bleed American for the first time in a very long time yesterday. I like every song on there including The Authority Song but the weirdest thing to me about that song remains its placement on the album. I mean I get why they put it there as the penultimate track to break up some of the slower tracks at the end but I feel like it disrupts the flow for me.