Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 182

i just got tickets to see this band in feb and could not be more stoked

 

What inspired the switch from Tom singing lead vocals to Jim taking over? I've always been curious about that, like if there's an actual story on why things went that way, or if it just naturally happened like that because Jim started writing more, or whatever.

 

Jim just started writing more afaik

 

Way to be, Jim

 

I've wondered too.

 

I'll try to remember to check later today. If I don't get back to you, remind me!

 

Got a copy of Futures on vinyl for the holiday and when I went to spin it yesterday I found out I received two disks with sides C and D. So frustrating, luckily its through amazon and will be easy to sort out, but damn I was so excited to get to spin that. As a treat for myself I went to the record store and picked up Clarity so I could spin that instead. Damn I'm so happy I found this band.

 

I think I have that variant and it doesn't IIRC. Also the label has things cutoff, but that might just be stylistic/the intended design. Overall shitty presentation (like being a sleeve and not a gatefold like the other JEW records that were repressed with it)

 

Conan performance tonight! 10pm CT

 

Okay I was just wondering if mine was missing the lyric sheet, that's why I quoted @Kevin360 because I knew he had a copy. But yeah, that's weird that the label or whoever did such a minimal job.

 

Hey I want to be in this thread. All time favourite band. I've only seen them once, but I've lived literally half my life since. Gutted.

 

Bonus web performance of the title track. Pretty cool!

 

ProShot concert tonight bois!

 

Hopefully it'll be available after the fact, could use some live JEW this weekend!

 

What a pitiful audience at that iHeart Radio show.

 

That was a sucky audience but man.. Pass the Baby and 23 were damn fantastic. Zach did a thing with the drums at the beginning of 23 and it made the song somehow even better. Over 20 years in and they still kick ass live.

 

Imagine being the man who gave Futures a 3 for Pitchfork...

 

I sort of get it though. Pitchfork has primarily been covering hip-hop/R&B for over a decade now, and every P4K writer busts a nut over quirky, angular, cryptic indie-grunge, and JEW's straight forward, emotive and sometimes heavy-handed rock anthems don't fit that equation.

Doesn't mean they aren't wrong - my love for it has tapered a bit but Futures is still an 8.5 for sure.

And they did wise up and give Integrity Blues a 7.3 and a fairly well written review.

 

That Futures review is one of the worst things I've ever read in any context.

 

It appears that "Get Right" is formally hitting US alternative radio waves on February 28th. Sweet!

 

Mark Trombino was on the Washed Up Emo podcast today. They talked quite a bit about Clarity and Futures (lots of interesting tidbits on Futures, especially). It's a good listen.

 

The main tidbit I've gotten so far is that the big reason he left Futures was that there was a desire to make Jen into "The Middle Pt 2"

 

yeah! i thought that was super interesting

 

also my best theory was originally for Chase This Light.

Unless he's getting it mixed up with Stop (which was actually released as a CTL b-side)