Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 212

Current Scores:

Lucky Denver Mint- 4
12.23.95- 1

Blister- 2
Your New Aesthetic- 3

For Me This Is Heaven- 2
Just Watch The Fireworks- 3

Believe In What You Want- 2
Crush- 3

 

Lucky Denver Mint
Blister
For Me This Is Heaven
Believe In What You Want

 

Lucky Denver Mint
Blister
For Me This Is Heaven
Crush

If you knock Heaven out this round I’m sending everyone who votes against it on a one way trip to meet King Kai.

 

I'll just take the opportunity to train with him and radically surpass you like your little brother did.

 

12.23.95-I feel like this will get crushed. But I really like it despite being such a simple song.

Blister -this beat Clarity? You’re crazy people. But I guess I like it more than YNA, but both are great.

For Me This Is Heaven -utterly brutal. But FMTIH is FMTIH.

Crush- this may have been the first JEW song I learned and played on guitar.

 

Lucky Denver Mint
Blister
Just Watch The Fireworks
Believe In What You Want

 

Lucky Denver Mint
Blister
For Me This is Heaven
Crush

 

Lucky Denver Mint

Blister (That was too hard)

Just Watch The Fireworks (That was WAY too hard)

Believe In What You Want

 

Lucky Denver Mint
Your New Aesthetic
For Me This Is Heaven
Believe In What You Want

 

Lucky Denver Mint
Blister
Just Watch The Fireworks...... that was a tough choice
Believe In What You Want

 

Current Scores:

Lucky Denver Mint- 11
12.23.95- 2

Blister- 9
Your New Aesthetic- 4

For Me This Is Heaven- 7
Just Watch The Fireworks- 6

Believe In What You Want- 7
Crush- 6

 

12.23.95
Your New Aesthetic
Just Watch The Fireworks
Crush

 

Lucky Denver Mint
Your New Aesthetic
Just Watch the Fireworks
Crush

 

Lucky Denver Mint- Pretty easy choice. I voted against Lucky Denver Mint in the last round, but only because GSH is a top 5 song on the album for me personally, but LDM isn’t far behind. To me, more than any other song on Clarity, this song foreshadows the sound they would go on to refine throughout their career. As much as I love Clarity and feel it is their best, I’m still very aware that they hadn’t fully come into the sound we define them by quite yet.
Blister- This one was tough... I really love both of these songs, and they’re very close in terms of where they land in my favorites. I absolutely love that dissonant guitar riff in YNA, especially the first time it comes in... it feels so cathartic and well-earned in the track sequencing after Table and LDM. It also has an excellent bridge, possibly one of my favorites on the record. That said, I think Blister just barely edges it out for me. It’s probably the song I have the most fun singing along to on the record and I love the overlapping vocals in the bridge and really like the guitar work on the track. I prefer Jim’s voice to Tom’s, for sure, but I think Tom is great in this song and it’s a well-deserved, well-placed moment on the record.
Just Watch The Fireworks- This is a no-contest vote for me. Just Watch The Fireworks has been my favorite Jimmy Eat World song for a very long time now, and it never gets old. So much I could say about it really, it feels like a journey, not just due to its length (which I feel is completely justified and seems to fly by), but also just due to the movements it goes through and the way it effortlessly cycles between moods. I have such a strong emotional connection to this song; the lyrics, the performance, instrumentation, production... everything about it is a perfect storm and so powerful. A small detail, but one of my absolute favorite things about the song is the guitar tones... for the most part, they’re relatively clean throughout the song, and even at their loudest they’re still not very distorted. It’s impressive to me because I feel like it goes against what most bands would do when trying to accomplish “dynamics” like the ones in this song. Idk. It’s never been something I’ve quite been able to articulate in the way I’d like, but I hope I made some sort of sense there lol. By no means is For Me This Is Heaven a bad song, but I never developed as strong of a connection with it as others did and certainly not as strong as the one I have for Just Watch The Fireworks.
Believe In What You Want- Another choice that came pretty easily. I like Crush, but it’s never been one of my favorites, but Believe is probably in my top 5 on the record. I’ve always loved the melodies throughout, and I like how the song shifts from the bouncy, staccato feel of the verses to the more legato feel of the choruses and bridge; a nice “tension and release” of sorts. Also, something about the line “dancing in plastic shake-up snow, do you believe in what you want?” has always really struck me and it’s a favorite JEW line for me; I think I just really love the imagery there for whatever reason.

 

Lucky Denver Mint
Your New Aesthetic
For Me This Is Heaven
Believe In What You Want

 

Current Scores:

Lucky Denver Mint- 14
12.23.95- 3

Blister- 10
Your New Aesthetic- 7

For Me This Is Heaven- 8
Just Watch The Fireworks- 9

Believe In What You Want- 9
Crush- 8

 

Listening to Clarity now with headphones and I still like the production. *shrug* Do not understand how these drums could sound like they’re recorded in a “tin can” whatsoever, but hey, to each their own. I definitely lean on the side of rawer production styles in terms of preference than most folks probably do, so I’m probably biased.

 

Lucky blister heaven crush

 

Lucky Denver Mint
Blister
Just Watch The Fireworks
Believe In What You Want

 

12.23.95
Your New Aesthetic
For Me This Is Heaven
Crush

I can’t believe Goodbye is out in the first round. I’m questioning everything in life right now.

 

Cmon Fireworks.

 

Current Scores:

Lucky Denver Mint- 16
12.23.95- 4

Blister- 12
Your New Aesthetic- 8

For Me This Is Heaven- 10
Just Watch The Fireworks- 10

Believe In What You Want- 10
Crush- 10

 

Lucky Denver Mint
Your New Aesthetic
Just Watch the Fireworks
Crush

 

For real

 

LDM
Blister
Fireworks
Believe