Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues (October 21, 2016) Album • Page 218

They should teach a seminar on writing closing tracks.

 

I don't have much to add to the conversation (JEW is on my musical Mount Rushmore, this record is one of their best, etc). Except this:

I'm the pastor of a church. Last year, we were doing a clothing giveaway. So if you can imagine, there are all sorts of folks milling around racks of cloths in a church sanctuary turned makeshift goodwill, and there's music on. 'Integrity Blues' is playing because it's awesome and I love JEW and that's that. 'Pass the Baby' comes on.

And that's when a middle aged lady and her elderly mother come up to me and ask me what music is being played. I tell them, at which point they tell me, 'I would have thought a church would be listening to Christian music, not this demonic trash.' They then angrily stormed out.

Since then, I can't hear 'Pass the Baby' without thinking, 'oh hey, it's Jimmy Eat World being demonic.' And it makes me happy every single time.

 

I love the album but I unfortunately don't love the way it closes. "Through" is an excellent poppy track but it should be earlier in the track list - it feels plunked in between slower songs. The title track isn't bad at all, I just don't seem as moved by it as some. "Pol Roger" starts off as such a solid slow-burner reminiscent of "Disintegration", and then boom pops in this standard emotive Jimmy Eat World chorus that just does not fit with the rest of the song to my ears. The key change, the na-na-na's, the repeating it nine times over as the song closes... they've done this before but better.

But hey I just like to stir shit up. "Sure and Certain" is probably my top track from last year.

 

I mean, the entire point of "Pol Roger" is that it mixes uplift with these moments of feeling lonely or melancholy. If it didn't have the big chorus, it would not be a fitting thematic conclusion to the album.

 

It's true, and I generally like their big choruses, that one just feels out of place to me

 

You aren't alone. I like Pol Roger, but I do not care for the chorus.

 

Pol Roger had to grow on me but once it did it's in my top 2 or 3 JEW closers and it's the perfect ending to this record.

 

I was going to rank their closers, but it seemed like a disservice to have to list any of them in the bottom half of any ranking

 

Pol roger has an excellent chorus although I do agree they get a bit excessive with the repetition

 

Yeah for me the chorus is what really gives the song the punch that it needs. It may not be unfamiliar territory for them but they do it very very well.

 

Can I just say I'm so glad there is so much active JEW talk right now? It's Jimmy Eat World season and I'm loving every second

 

I feel like the album that strangely gets underrated is Bleed American. Every damn song on that album is top notch JEW with the possible exception of The Authority Song.

 

Ftfy

 

Yeah except Bleed American and Get It Faster are both rad as balls

 

Get It Faster is low key the best song on that album

 

It certainly feels strange to say you like JEW and not 'Bleed American.' That song is a JEW staple, and is one of the best pop-punk songs ever written.

 

All the activity here inspired me to put on Integrity Blues today. It's weird, I forgot how much I surprisingly don't care for the track #3-6 stretch. Everything else is sooooo good though

 

Pol Roger is a perfect song

 

My Sundown doe that's some shit

 

“You Are Free” —> “The End is Beautiful” —> “Through” is such a pivotal moment in this record for me. One of my favorite JEW stretches ever.

 

Just ran some miles to the ultimate fall album: "Futures". When that opening riff comes crashing in, I can take over the world.

 

Bleed American is the best anti bush rock song

 

It's entirely possible 'You Are Free' is my favorite JEW song ever. Which may very well make it my favorite song ever.

 

you are free is the most jimmy sounding song. like if you were to distill their sound into just one single song it's that one