Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues (October 21, 2016) Album • Page 177

WAIT WUT

 

WTF IS HAPPENING LMAO

 

I know a bunch of people made like math rock comparisons but I still wasn't ready to actually hear that on a JEW record hahaha... that was pretty badass.

 

So innocent hahaha.

 

i really like this album but i dont know if im at the point where a lot of yall are with it yet. tracks 3-6 im still trying to fall in love with... ill admit, i think Pass The Baby is really cool, but even then i dont know if its clicked with me like it has a lot of you. like no way id put this above Invented at the moment, which a ton of people here have done already. "It Matters" is lyrically incredible, but i just havnt really connected with it musically yet. Pretty Grids is pretty meh for me right now.

i dont point those out to try and take away from how good the album is. You With Me and Sure and Certain kill me everytime. just so good. and the back half of this album is where it really shines for me. from You Are Free all the way to Pol Roger, i love every moment.

im willing to bet it will just take me time to connect with the first half of the record.

 

i mean, i wouldnt put it above invented either but i love this album to death and think it's damn great. just goes to show how useless rankings are in articulating how much people really love an album. i dont put stock in anyone's ranking, not even my own.

 

yeah i dont care what others peoples rankings are. really i was just trying to illustrate that i feel like certain aspects of this album (tracks 3-6) are taking longer to click with me in contrast with the reactions ive seen on here

 

Does "Integrity Blues" remind anybody else of "Beautiful Is", one of the b-sides from CTL?

 

What did I tell you?!

 

Did anyone else notice that Courtney Marie Andrews did backup vocals on this album? She's in the credits but I can't really make out any female vocals here. I'll have to go back and listen again.

 

Interesting. To be honest the female vocals are often very sublte on their albums, particularly on Futures. Not so subtle on some parts of Bleed American. I liked Courtney's work on Invented and the tour that followed it.

 

Same!

 

so last night during "pol roger" my wife asked who the female background vocals were and i was like "uhhh i'm pretty sure that's just jim singing in the background" but maybe she was onto something...

 

I get so excited every time I get to the middle of Pass the Baby.

I love love love the crunch at the end of that song.

 

No way! I actually thought that when I heard some of the songs. I was almost sure that the high vocal octave in the chorus of "Sure and Certain" was her. Listen to it at the end of the chorus at the word "cold." Has that little quiver/shaky vibrato she does. I also think you can hear her in the ahhh's in the bridge.

The ahhh's in "You With Me" could also include her to be honest. Sounds like there's a ton of layers to it but I could definitely hear a female in there

 

Maybe, but also Jim has a tendancy to be mistaken for a girl quite a lot lol. I remember someone asking the band "what female sings on Higher Devotion?" and they said "uhhh... that's all Jim", and same goes for Authority Song, it's all Jim apparently, though I don't know if I buy that at all.

 

Haha I get the notion of what you're saying, but Rachel Haden does sing on "Authority Song"

 

OK. Two explanations are (1) Zach was joking when he said it's only Jim on Authority song, or (2) I'm misremembering entirely. It was a long time ago that the conversation was had. He definitely said it's all Jim on Higher Devotion though, despite some people thinking there are female vocals.

 

The lead singer of Jellyfish did the string arrangements

 

Just finished my first spin of Integrity Blues. I haven't listened to these guys since Futures. The instrumentation on this album has a very potent melancholy about it. I haven't enjoyed a record by these guys this much on a first listen.

 

Yeah, it's weird because apparently she's credited in the liner notes for all the other songs she sang on, but not "Authority Song." A bunch of websites and reviews point out that she sang on it though, and the Wikipedia article even mentions it having been uncredited. Strange.

 

That's a name I haven't heard in awhile. Nice!

 

There's pretty obviously female vocals happening in Authority Song, also Coffee and Cigarettes

Who still doesn't like Pretty Grids, what's that about

 

I don't think it's that good

Probably in my bottom 10 of Jimmy Eat World songs Post-Static. Though the rest of the record still slays.

 

Feels like a couple different songs mashed together to me