Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 446

yes

 

oh no

 

Futures/Chase This Light 1-2

 

It was a mistake.

 

Chase This Light never did anything for me as a whole. There were a few songs I liked a lot, but honestly, I can't even remember the last time I listened to it full.

 

Dizzy alone makes Chase This Light 3 or 4

 

I truly adore Chase this Light.
That tour was also great

 

Saw them touring Chase This Light with Paramore opening for THEM. Just to give a sense of how long ago this was haha.

One of my favorite shows ever.

 

Let’s be thankful that this band has so many great albums in their discography so ranking isn’t obvious or the same for all people.

 

I wonder how the band feels about everyone loving Clarity forever. It was such a commercial flop it led them to be dropped from their label - it didn’t chart. No one bought it or cared. And then for the next two decades, they got to hear how beloved it is by the same people who say their new stuff (that actually DOES sell well) sucks. That’s gotta be a weird feeling. And a bittersweet one. Like, cool - you made an emo classic. And of course they probably loved the album because they made it. But also it didn’t actually benefit your career in any tangible way, and that classic record no one bought is the thing your fans compare all your other stuff to as a way of disregarding that work.

This happened in a lot of way with Pinkerton and I’m sure others - JEW isn’t unique here. But still. I’d be curious to hear the unfiltered, unedited opinions of the band about all this.

 

To be fair I was 10 and didn’t have any money to buy it

 

I feel like "bad sales" in the 90s still probably sold more albums than any post-Chase This Light

 

According to the RIAA site, Bleed American went Platinum, Futures went Gold, and Pain went Gold as a single.

 

it probably sold more than CTL too

 

being a disaster in the 90s on a major can translate to more than a major label success today, and certainly more than an “indie” success

 

All of that was after they were dropped because of Clarity being a flop. And the band has said those albums we’re made specifically different than they made Clarity, on purpose. Which is the point - ‘doing things not like Clarity’ gave them a decades long career, while the fans tell them Clarity is their classic.

There are a ton of articles floating around about this. But I can’t ever find any real forthcoming information from the band - they seem to hem and haw and want to talk about something else. I think that pre-show for the Clarity show could be really fun if they decide to open up a little bit.

And of course none of this has anything to do with whether or not the music is good or how we should feel about it. But I’m always fascinated by how bands (and artists of any kind) feel about their own stuff, and why.

 

It also could be that there are some specific stories about label stuff or something they don’t want to tell because they’re too nice to talk badly about people who aren’t Third Eye Blind. Because they also seems to be the case. About them being nice and also Third Eye Blind.

 

I love em all, but the Clarity-CTL run is absurd for any band’s standards.

 

As a light-med JEW fan who was never huge into them, but liked a few songs in high school (they were just a little too pop-rocky for me when I discovered them), I'm curious on how my ranking compares to die-hards as I've done many discog dives over the past 6 or so years.

1) Futures
2) CTL
3) IB
4) BA
5) Invented
6) Clarity
7) Surviving
8) Damage

 

welp, let the floodgates open then:

1. Clarity
2. Futures
3. Chase This Light
4. Bleed American
5. Invented
6. Integrity Blues
7. Surviving
8. Static Prevails
9. Damage
10. Self-Titled

 

So I guess mine is pretty close to this...except the two I didn't rank, and the swap for Clarity. Which, correct me if I'm wrong, has to have SOME nostalgia influence...

 

1. Clarity
2. Futures
3. Chase This Light
4. Bleed American
5. Integrity Blues
6. Invented
7. Surviving
8. Static Prevails
9. Damage
10. Self-Titled

 

No I genuinely think Clarity is better

 

people always say stuff like that lol and it’s dumb. as if bleed american wouldn’t be the more plainly nostalgia listen

 

clarity came out when I was one. its still their second best