Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 530

best band. 10/10.

 

Love this!

 

Haven't felt this way about a single since Sure and Certain. Great stuff.

 

Still undefeated. Can't wait for the album.

 

Jimmy Eat World - We're Gonna Hang It Up (August 19)

 

THAT BRIDGE

Gonna be SCREAMING “all night” at a show this fall, feeling alive for the first time in a while.

Holy shit guys, they don’t miss.

 

They can do no wrong. What a jam!

 

Fun song!

 

From their website.

 

this is gonna be their best album isnt it

 

Jim 'He Just Gets It' Adkins, everyone

 

Insanely good.

 

Jim "I'm not a self help book I'm just a fucked up adult" Adkins. I feel like he hit on some of those themes on Surviving also. One of my favorite lines "And we realize we're in a future memory" from "Delivery".

 

they've already made Clarity but I understand the sentiment, they're on such a tear.

 

In terms of JEW power rankings, I go:

01) FUTURES - Most well-rounded with the heaviest rockers and most intense ballads
02) BLEED AMERICAN - Controversial but I think I dig the tightness and contrast of power-pop and sentimental acoustic numbers
03) CLARITY - I find the love of this album a tad over-rated. Definitely great but sometimes a bit TOO melodic/majestic for me
04) INTEGRITY BLUES - Late period comeback and might even be in top #3 if not for the bland "Get Right"
05) DAMAGE - I never hear much chatter about this one but, song-for-song is really solid with a few all-timers on it
06) SURVIVING - A nice companion to BA with their tightest and heaviest songs
07) INVENTED - One of the rare records where the back-half is better than the first half, especially the last two tracks
08) CHASE THIS LIGHT - Excellent lead-off single and a few other bangers (Dizzy, Electable) but feels a bit too streamlined
09) STATIC PREVAILS - I've spent the least amount of time with this and discovering it after Clarity, it felt a bit too rough but if you dig 90's mid-western style emo, I can see why people like it

Never listened to their 94 self-titled and really have no interest. Also the Stay On My Side Tonight EP rules for the title track alone.

 

Chase This Light at EIGHT?????

 

Jim's lyrics always in the pocket of "too real/relatable, simple and pure".

"Something Loud"

I walked around for days
In a familiar place
This time I finally let myself own every small feeling
There was the one who got away
There was a first for everything
Never a second guess if I was right where I should be
Do you know what I mean?

All night
Do you still feel part of something loud?
All night
Are you such a different person now?
A dream that never was
An idea you think you come from
All night
When you can't look at the day

I had it figured out
The way it really is
In growing up we've added just too much complexity
Friends at the show in '95
Miss every one of them
But there's a moment that you die or you move on to live
Every one of us did

All night
Do you still feel part of something loud?
All night
Are you such a different person now?
A dream that never was
An idea you think you come from
All night
When you can't look at the day

I had what I had
And god damn
I would change
Not a single thing
So smile, wave
Then let go

All night
Do you still feel part of something loud?
All night
Are you such a different person now?
A dream that never was
An idea you think you come from
All night
When you can't look at the day

 

Speaks more to the consistency of their catalog than that record being bad BUT there are some clunkers on that album and I felt, at the time, it was TOO conscious of an effort to try to repeat the Bleed American success.

 

New track is predictable great. Best. Band.

 

New song is so good. This is the kinda Jimmy I love.

 

your best post

 

Soooo good

 

i agree.
the band should quit.

...making us wait for such good shit.

 

Anyone else just been listening to them all day?

 

Played this like seven times on my run this morning. Song of the summer, y'all.