Final Four: (7) Jimmy Eat World - Futures vs. (27) Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album) Bracket • Page 3

OK Human being better than Bleed American is not a take I was expecting to see today.

 

I was ready to be mad but I'm on board with the first 5-6

 

I'd take OK Human over any Jimmy album.

 

I'm having trouble imagining that Jimmy Eat World made an album as bad as weezer black. Might have just inspired me to listen to Damage today.

 

I like Damage more than a good number of Weezer albums. Haven't heard Black yet so can't comment on that lol.

 

Weezer’s highs are higher, but their lows are lower. JEW is a model of consistency by contrast. Even weaker albums like Damage are mostly fine, just a little dull.

 

I'd agree with that although my favourite individual songs from either band are Jimmy Eat World songs, ha.

 

higher highs and lower lows

 

honestly the last five or six could have just been equal signs lol, they’re all unlistenable

 

nah. it’s more compressed but the bad is still bad and the great is still great. clarity to self titled might as well be pinkerton to raditude

 

this is the worst thing you've ever said.

 

Never listened to s/t. JEW for me starts with Clarity. Kinda like how the National really became “the National” with Alligator.

 

Black, Red, Rad, Hurley, and Pacific Daydream are all way worse than any Jimmy album beyond the self-titled debut, IMO. I like Weezer, but they're pretty much one-in-three for me at this point. Among the bands I continue to care about, I can't think of one with a worse batting average or a higher number of albums I think are bad.

 

Why haven’t you heard their best record?

 

stuff like this rocks

 

It's like little pockets of quality for me. The top three Weezer albums are better than the top three Jimmy albums imo (even though all six are great, and then me being a bigger Weezer fan just takes over. Never listened to Jimmy's S/T or Static Prevails. Weezer definitely has the lower lows, though.

Great
Blue
Pinkerton
Maladroit
Clarity
Bleed American
Futures

Good
Make Believe
White
EWBAITE
Pacific Daydream
OK Human
Black
Green
Damage

Okay
Van Weezer
Chase This Light
Integrity Blues
Surviving

Bad
Invented
Red
Raditude
Hurley

in b4 everyone clowns on this, I'm aware of how insane I am and part of the fun of this is that it will kill Craig :)

 

Pacific Daydream and Black in the "Good" tier and Chase This Light in the "Okay" tier is making my eyes pop out of my head.

 

Check for my edit :)

I do genuinely love Pacific Daydream these days but Black being good may be a stretch lol. Maybe I've just heard Green so much that I reach for it more often because it's such an oddball.

 

Lol, touché my friend.

 

If I post my Weezer Jimmy Eat World ranking I’ll be banned

 

I want to do it but I haven't heard all of their albums lol.

 

Overall, I am a bigger Weezer fan than I am a Jimmy Eat World, and I grew up with Blue. It's one of the first albums I can remember listening to as an 8-year-old kid in elementary school and really being into it and then obviously listening to it over the course of the next 28+ years. It's safe to say that Blue shaped my musical interests at a very young age.

But Futures is a better album.

 

Can't be worse than mine lmao

 

Jimmy Eat World post-Chase This Light is like Marvel. I find the formula to be consistent, but I'm never really going back to them. For better or (usually) worse, Weezer takes bigger swings and I typically never forget what they went for on any given record. Their albums have more of a singular identity imho.

 

Fuck it:

Classic:
Pinkerton
Futures
Blue
Bleed American

Very Good:
White
Green
Chase This Light
Clarity

Good:
EWBAITE
OK Human
Invented
Make Believe
PD
Maladroit
Van Weezer
Integrity Blues

Mixed Bag:
Red
Surviving
Black
Spring
Summer

WYD?:
Raditude

Boring and Bland:
Damage
Hurley

Ain't Listening to:
Jimmy Eat World
Static Prevails (even though I own it)