Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 63

It's 5am and I should go to bed but this thread keeps me going.

 

Hotelier
Thursday
Mineral
Weakerthans
Carissas Wierd
Jimmy eat world
Christie front drive
Pianos
Starting line
National

 

I'm only sure on the top 6

 

1. My Chemical Romance
2. Fightstar
3. Nate Ruess Projects
4. The Smiths
5. Copeland
6. Kamelot
7. Death Cab for Cutie
8. Imogen Heap
9. Motion City Soundtrack
10. Joshua Radin

Pretty sure I did this a few weeks ago on here but I can't resist a good list opportunity.

 

Yeah I was convinced I'd be asleep around 10, yet here I am. Second wind.

Anyway, Violent Waves is really good. Birth Of The Economic Hit Man, Brother Song, Bird Sounds, Blood From A Stone... Plus, we were truly blessed to have The Lottery featuring Geoff Rickly. You just can't go wrong putting AG and GR together like that.

 

Violent Waves was the first time I had serious trouble listening to Anthony Green's voice. At times he just sounds so grating to me on that album.

 

Good thing my sister made coffee before bed

I'm pretty sure my first exposure to circa was the lottery only bc I was obsessed with Thursday (think the way I am now w the hotelier) when that song came out and id never listened before. I didn't like it

 

I cannot possibly rank these.

Yellowcard
All Time Low
Green Day
Bon Iver
The 1975
The Dangerous Summer
Less Than Jake
Jimmy Eat World
Taylor Swift
The Gaslight Anthem

 

I should've had the 1975, gaslight, and Tds on mine. Damn

 

We're more similar than we thought!

 

Gentlemen, start your engines

Motion City Soundtrack
Thursday
Every Time I Die
Jimmy Eat World
Circa Survive
The National
Brand New
Deftones
The Weakerthans
Fall Out Boy

 

We are literally the same I was just thinking this too. I wanted MovMou in there also

 

I have a tough time putting bands with smaller discographies in my top 10 because, against bands in my top 5 with 5-8 albums, it's tough to be fair, but those last five on my list are bands I seriously can't get enough of and have earned a special place in my heart

It was tough to cut Deftones and The National :(

 

It's come full circle!

 

Doing that made me realize how shockingly few discographies I love front to back. Like, I looked through my iTunes to do that, and there were so many bands that have a couple albums I love and a couple I'm totally indifferent about. Actually, Gaslight fits that description too. So as you can tell, "favorite artists" isn't necessarily a term that does a good job of describing my music listening interests.

 

Mine was "Act Appalled" which is easily my favourite song of theirs not on OLG. Someone told me it was Saosin back in like 2006 haha.

 

The reason I didn't end up including gaslight was because I don't like handwritten at all. But I like the rest of their stuff so much they deserve some sort of mention IMO

 

I can't really justify it because as much as I love bands like The 1975 or The Hotelier the bands in my top 10 have higher highs for me and have all put out like 4+ albums I love.

 

I have this exact problem as well, it's tough to stack a 2-3 album discog against a 7-8 album discog

 

Full discographies mean a lot to me when it comes to putting together a list of my favorite bands. I love four of JEW's seven, and some days five because I'm in this weird back and forth with Invented haha. I'm a little more forgiving of poor/mediocre early albums though, especially if that band goes through a significant change in sound like with Thrice for example.

 

I don't care for anything prior to American Slang, honestly, but their last three albums are so good that I felt I had to include them. Some of the bands that caught my eye in iTunes because they have at least one album I absolutely love, but I still couldn't include them, are:

Transit
La Dispute
Boys Like Girls
Cartel
Deafheaven
Death Cab for Cutie
The Hotelier
Kacey Musgraves
Manchester Orchestra
mewithoutYou
Motion City Soundtrack
The National
Noah Gundersen
Nightmare of You
Saosin
The Summer Set

Like, none of these are "favorite artists" for me, though. God damn, I was so conflicted. I'm a strange music listener.

 

Get Out is a fucking jam. I remember being so hyped when this song came out.

 

I feel like I will eventually get to this point. I've just been stuck in this state of content with the music I listen to and I need to break away from it. Large discographies intimidate me too, which makes it tough for me to spend an adequate amount of time with a band's discography. But I know eventually I'll get there because, like I said, I also have a tough time putting a band with only 2-3 albums against one with 6-7

 

this is a better list than your top 10, haha.

 

This is precisely why I had to include The 1975 and Bon Iver, because I love 100% of their discography and that doesn't happen for me really ever except with bands that have put out a small amount of material