Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues (October 21, 2016) Album • Page 217

Can't believe it's been like a year since I first heard this. Feels like maybe six months.

 

Yup. My AOTY for 2016

 

Falling back in love with this as the weather starts to turn.

 

Complete opposite for me, this album is so comforting I feel it's been with me for years

 

Its JEW season, folks. September-February

 

I listened to this four times in a row the other day

 

It’s never not JEW season.

 

Yep, the weather's in the 60's here all this week so that means this album will go on repeat again.

JEW is the quintessential fall band.

 

Listening right now. The basslines on this album make me feel warm on the inside.

 

I still almost a year later can't get over the title track. They have almost a Sigur Ros moment in that song. God this record is so good

 

I still come back to songs on this album all the time. One of their best.

 

I spun it this afternoon. Still one of my favorites of theirs. They have such a strong catalog. One of the only "newer" bands that I feel has passed the "five albums test" that Steven Hyden talked about on his podcast this week.

 

First side of this is one of the strongest stretches of songs in this band's discography, which is saying something.

 

I would argue the second half might even be stronger and that's saying something because the first half is special

 

I like the first track stretch to the final track.

It’s good.

 

Big disagree from me, since I really don't care for tracks 7 and 8, and 2-5 are all pretty close to top 10 JEW songs

 

You don't care for "The End Is Beautiful"?! I can't even comprehend that

 

The verses are good actually but I realllllly don't like the chorus, sadly.

Final 3 are god tier and another level.

 

this is my second favorite jimmy eat world record after clarity now. when i listen to it i feel like it's carrying me

 

Top 3

 

I gotta revisit this. I was thibking about listening to it earlier. Not sure why I passed up. Probably for The National haha. But this album has firmly been my second favorite from this band since it came out. Really came at a critical point in my life and felt like such a warm embrace. Means a lot to me.

 

listened to this for the first time in a while this evening and it absolute crushed me after the year I've had

And I know when you feel trapped
You're gonna do what you have to
You see the problem was us
Tried to bend love to the picture we had in our heads

Just outright crying

 

"Pol Roger" has become a top 3 JEW closer for me, behind "Dizzy" and "23". Amazing song.

 

It's way up there, and definitely one of their most fitting closers

 

Me too, which says a lot because I love Mixtape, My Sundown and Goodbye Sky Harbor.