Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues (October 21, 2016) Album • Page 90

Why take out the spots where the band is best (closing and opening tracks???)

 

Futures is a very hopeful and comforting record for me too.

You have to be willing to not love your list. Haha

 

Literally in the process of putting this list together My Sundown hit me hard for the first time ever. I've always found that song to be a downer ending to an exceptional pop record, but when the harmonies came in this time near the end it finally clicked with me. The text painting of the faint "I wanna be so much more than this" underneath the repeated "but no one cares" hits home for me. It's the lack of empathy and human connection. It's the striving for someone who will allow you to become better than you are, the same teetering between hopelessness and optimism that I find in "The World You Love," and especially on the new record. That tightrope is ever-present on their records.

 

THis is cool. I'm having so much fun deep diving right now

 

"My Sundown" is an all-time great. Definitely feels like a counterpart to Integrity Blues in that it's all about trying to be better for yourself and not for anyone/everyone else.

 

I feel like it's hard to fit openers and closers into playlists unless they're opening or closing them, respectively (and cause a bunch of my friends wanna get into JEW and I made this playlist to show them and I hate spoiling openers or closers before a listen to the full album)

Also, there is no word in this language for the feeling I get when the full band kicks in on Invented. Maybe the best part of any JEW song

 

I said pretty much the same thing either here or on Twitter a while back. It feels like the whole album is building to that moment. Just an immaculately constructed record.

 

TONIGHT TONIGHT

 

There's a party on the rooftop top of the world!

 

I'm interested what is going to come of this. Looks like some sort of orchestral version is going to be recorded or played live in some capacity.

 

Or, those are the strings from the record when they recorded it and they're just saying the album the title track shares a name of is coming soon.

 

I like my theory better.

 

Haha, they actually posted an extended picture of the sheet music a while ago explaining that it was from when they were tracking strings in April

 

Absolutely. Such a climactic, cathartic moment. Album is so good. This is the best band

 

there are days like today i think Bleed American is my favorite JEW album

 

anyone here that like their first album , the one where tom signs almost all the songs

 

No

 

I think it's alright, there are some decent moments on it.

 

It's terrible

 

this one is prety good for an early 94 song

 

Bleed American doesn't quite get enough love. Mainstream appeal aside, it's got some of their strongest tracks period and hardly a weak spot.

 

About to walk into the venue wahoooo

 

have ya'll seen this one

 

I did.... mostly cause i was there...

 

as tom always looked this depress and serious while playing music live?