Jimmy Eat World!

[BrodieMan11]

Finally the new jimmy eat world is being released! Are any of you guys like me and are waiting to hit stores and buying the record or did you rip it?

Im a purest, theres nothing like buying a record youve been waiting for and listening to it on the way home.

 

[Zoomerang96]

Finally the new jimmy eat world is being released! Are any of you guys like me and are waiting to hit stores and buying the record or did you rip it?

Im a purest, theres nothing like buying a record youve been waiting for and listening to it on the way home.

hahahahahaha. spam.

 

[JessicaAnn]

What I want to ask Jimmy is what does the world taste like.

 

[Zoomerang96]

What I want to ask Jimmy is what does the world taste like.

i'm more interested in jimmy journal.

 

[JessicaAnn]

Who isn't?

 

[ShipOfFools]

I'm just starting to get into this band. I just bought Chase This Light (which I love), Futures, and Static Prevails. I'm not sure what to think of SP (it's growing on me), but I love Futures and Chase This Light.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

Futures is one of my favorite albums of all time. Chase This Light is finally growing on me, and I like their self-titled album. Back from that, though, their albums are a bit touch and go for me. I had wanted to go see them live, but their show here is sold out. Then again, they are from here, so that's to be expected.

Glad to see another Jimmy Eat World fan on here. This thread looks like it had a dubious beginning, but JEW are defintiely a worthwhile band.

 

[lazarus]

Haven't really got into the last two albums, but Clarity is an absolute masterpiece, and closer to the level of U2 than Coldplay could ever hope to come.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I just remember they had that one album that produced a handful of hit singles. It had to have been about 5 years ago now. "The Middle" is a pretty perfect pop-rock song, I always really liked that one and the music video for it, too. I remember liking the other singles off of that album but I have no clue what they were called.

 

[lazarus]

The album you're talking about is Bleed American (which was changed to just "Jimmy Eat World" after the 9/11 attacks, but may have been changed back), and it does have a lot of great stuff on it.

What's weird is that the album before that, Clarity, is way more sophisticated in its writing and in the instrumentation. They really do capture a U2-like atmosphere and/or power on a handful of songs, and the conviction with which everything is done made me draw comparisons when I first heard them.

Worth checking out.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Yup, I just Wikipedia'd these dudes and Bleed American is the album I was thinking of. But I was off when I said that it was 5 years ago because, as you said, the album was released in '01. I also YouTubed the other singles off that album and they were the title track, Sweetness, and A Praise Chorus. Good stuff. A nice little blast from the past. Here's the music video for The Middle that I mentioned. It's sweet, the band is playing in the middle of a house party where everyone is in their underwear. Two lonely souls meet at the party and decide not to conform, to leave their clothes on, and they exit the party arm in arm.

YouTube - The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

 

[Aardvark747]

Bleed American is a great album. I love The Middle, Hear You Me and Your House. The whole album's got some nice tunes on it

 

[HeartlandGirl]

Sweetness is easily my favorite track off Bleed American (which I called self-titled earlier--I've got a 'newer' copy). Another damn near perfect pop song. Get It Faster rocks too.

 

[youtooellen]

I love Jimmy Eat World, but I don't really dig their new stuff. I love Futures, Bleed American, and Clarity, but the Chase This Light album didn't captivate me.

I love their song 'For Me This Is Heaven'..

 

[HeartlandGirl]

I was really disappointed by Chase This Light for over a year. But after hearing some of those songs on the radio, one by one they have slowly grown on me. There are still some lyrics that make me cringe (let the fat man drop, she's the sweetest honey pot ) but I'm still listening to it and getting into it slowly. Futures took me a long time too. I thought it was too depressing for a long time, and I had to be in the right place in my life to finally hear it and enjoy it.

 

[u2popmofo]

Clarity is an absolute masterpiece

I've had this for years and years, and I've never gotten into much other than Lucky Denver Mint and On a Sunday. I'll have to give it a spin sometime soon, as it's been ages since I've heard it.

It's funny how quickly Jimmy Eat World went from underground band to enormous. I actually learned about them from Magnet Magazine of all places (which at the time was one of the most snobbish of elitist indie mags). Since the band is from Phoenix, they used to play shows here in small places in Utah back in the day. An ex-girlfriend of mine used to always laugh/brag about them having stayed in her family's basement after a show during the Static Prevails period, and she had absolutely no idea who they were. A couple years later, everyone knew.

Chase This Light has been a slow one to grow on me as well, but I randomly heard a few songs from it a week or two ago, and really enjoyed them.

Actually, 3 Jimmy Eat World songs are going to be available to download for Rock Band this week (tomorrow I think, not sure). Futures, Lucky Denver Mint, and Sweetness.

 

[ShipOfFools]

I've finally listened to Clarity, and I think it's my favorite one I've heard so far (I haven't heard Bleed American yet.) It's a pop/rock masterpiece.

 

[u2popmofo]

Futures and Bleed American are my favorites.

 

[lazarus]

I've had this for years and years, and I've never gotten into much other than Lucky Denver Mint and On a Sunday. I'll have to give it a spin sometime soon, as it's been ages since I've heard it.

Yeah, try it out again. The last song, Goodbye Sky Harbor (inspired by John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany) is 15+ minutes of aural bliss. It's fucking celestial.

 

[the tourist]

Probably my two favourite songs by them are off of Futures. Nothingwrong and Night Drive.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

Probably my two favourite songs by them are off of Futures. Nothingwrong and Night Drive.

Polaris is my song on that album. Some days, that's my song in life.

And I put Nothingwrong on my Space Moon mix.

 

[u2popmofo]

-On April 7, Jimmy Eat World will release the digital-only album Clarity Live. It's a recording of them playing their 1999 album Clarity back-to-front, along with two encores, in Arizona last month at the end of their Clarity x 10 tour celebrating the album's 10th anniversary.

 

[lazarus]

I already found the Los Angeles show online.

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

Any fans out there??

 

[LemonMelon]

Great band. Lyrics are hit or miss for me, but I find their hooks indelible. I'm sort of new to their music, only having heard Clarity and Bleed American in full, but I can already safely consider them one of the very best emo (they really shouldn't be as good as they are) power pop bands I've yet come across.

New album in two weeks, bitches.

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

Great band. Lyrics are hit or miss for me, but I find their hooks indelible. I'm sort of new to their music, only having heard Clarity and Bleed American in full, but I can already safely consider them one of the very best emo (they really shouldn't be as good as they are) power pop bands I've yet come across.

New album in two weeks, bitches.

Cool. I own like 5 of their albums. I have been a fan for quite a while.

 

[u2popmofo]

New album in two weeks, bitches.

Thanks for the reminder, it has now been preordered.

 

[LemonMelon]

The title track of Invented is amazing. I found the rest pretty pleasant, but lacking the charm of Clarity and the pulse of Bleed American. It's pretty good, I suppose. Definitely more of the same, but not as tuneful as, say, Teenage Fanclub's incredibly self-derivative new album.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

The new record, Damage, is streaming on SoundCloud:

Damage


And here's the video for I Will Steal You Back, which they filmed while touring some of the smaller cities in Arizona last month.

Jimmy Eat World - I Will Steal You Back


My initial impressions:

Spoiler

It took a few listens for the single, I Will Steal You Back, to grow on me, but I woke up singing it in my head this morning and realized that I quite like it.

I didn't much care for the first four songs on the record, but the stretch from I Will Steal You Back to No, Never sounds great. The last few songs will probably be growers for me. Overall, I'm feeling more like I did with Chase This Light right about now--not a record I cared much for at first, but now I'm pretty good with it. I loved Invented from the very first spin, but I'll probably need more time with Damage.

 

[u2popmofo]

I actually liked Chase This Light a decent amount when it came out, had 3 or 4 songs I was a big fan of. I don't remember what 4 those were, aside from Big Casino, now though. For whatever reason, I never could get into Invented. I wasn't a big fan of I Will Steal You Back much at first either, but it's grown on me as well. Spotify also has Damage available to listen to, which I haven't cared for much.