I know this is a late comment but Closer is one of the best most underrated Jimmy Ear World songs-- literally perfect placement for the guitar solo and the lyrics will demolish you
I had never heard Open Bar Reception until today, why was it left off of Chase This Light? Very reminiscent sound of Clarity/Bleed American I think
Kimmel performance didn't sound great. Whoever said it was lacking in reverb was dead on I think. Sounded like a very unmixed demo. Drums had no ambience to them and Jim's voice souned very "close". Straight into the board, completely dry. Good to capture a bit of the room ambience in a live recording I think.
The last few songs on this are close to matching the last few songs on Clarity for me; in terms of flow, etc
It's easily worthy of making the cut on that album I think, but they relegated it to a Japanese bonus track and a b-side on one of the Big Casino 7" singles. DAFUQ
Just hit play on this again and damn, the intro to "You With Me" does such a great job of priming the listener for this record.
Here's Jim on the Andy Greenwald Podcast Ep. 91: ‘The Andy Greenwald Podcast’ With Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World
Got through most of this on my bike ride into work this morning. It was a good listen and interview, but not as emotionally charged as Andy's intro made it seem like it was going to be.
Yeah, I mean obviously radio isn't anywhere near the "taste-maker" it used to be, but I still would rather have rock radio stations that actually promote new and diverse artists instead of... what we have now.
^^ agreed but then again the radio stations that play Cage the Elephant clones all day are really no better
I'll stick my neck out here and say Sure & Certain is one of their best songs and probably one of the best songs in this sound I've heard in a damn while. Perfectly poppy and just really well written.
I think we did this before (or maybe it was in the band thread) but now that we have another title track, instead of ranking them, let's put them into a playlist (and no, @minty901, "World Is Static" doesn't count ) For me, it'd probably be – 1. Integrity Blues 2. Chase This Light 3. Clarity 4. Bleed American 5. Futures 6. Damage 7. Invented I'm sure about the opening two and last two songs. I'm not entirely sold on that middle part, but I think it works.