Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 11

Yeah I actually like it quite a bit more than the acoustic version. And I usually prefer their acoustic renditions.

 

I wonder if we'll get an album this year. if a Jimmy album comes out in the winter I will die

 

Then 2016 would be perfect

 

I love my Bleed American LP but I really wish there was just a little bit of silence between My Sundown and Splash Turn Twist. I'm in the feelings zone and I nearly have a heart attack when that riff starts lol

 

Completely agree. I appreciate the idea of bonus tracks, but honestly if I'm listening to an LP, I want it to end when it ends. The only time I dig b-sides is when I have my iPod on shuffle or something.

 

They've been posting studio pictures on Instagram. Plus, they can't break their "new album every three years" streak.

 

I wonder if selling an LP of a record along with a separate vinyl for B-Sides for deluxe albums would be effective? It would cost more, and probably only be worth it if you release at least two bonus songs, but I mean, it would be a good way to make the record still end normally while still having the novelty of being able to listen to bonus tracks.

 

If bands are going to put bonus tracks on there, I'd definitely prefer they do what Andrew McMahon did with that Everything in Transit reissue last year.

 

What did he do?

 

One LP is the original record, the second LP is an entire album's worth of b-sides and live tracks.

 

That sounds perfect to me. Or even like on Ingrid Michaelson's Lights Out, all the bonus tracks are on side D, so I just don't have to go there.

 

I mean, I don't really mind "Shame" coming after "23" or something like that. But sometimes the sequencing between the closing track and the first bonus track doesn't work out as well.

 

Pretty much.

 

This is what I don't like about the reissue. The OG press has Shame inserted in between Polaris & Nothingwrong. I realized a lot of musicians have been putting their bonus tracks/deluxe tracks scattered about the tracklisting rather than tacked at the end of the record recently and I really enjoy that. If JEW did something like that with b-sides/extra tracks, I'd be cool with it since their album closers are usually such a grand statement.

 

I haaaaaate that. Don't fuck up the real tracklisting. At least with it tacked on the end it feels like a bonus track instead of something inserted into the flow of the original album. I feel the same way about when artists cut songs from their vinyl pressings for space. If you aren't going to present the tracklist as it originally was, don't press the record.

 

For a lot of bands/artists, the deluxe IS the "real" tracklisting. If it's done right, it flows perfectly. An example of this is Halsey's Badlands. She has 5 deluxe tracks inserted into the tracklist as she wanted them to be. The standard release feels like its missing key parts of the album's storyline. Same goes for Troye Sivan's Blue Neighbourhood. Luckily his vinyl release has the deluxe tracklisting.

I agree that removing songs for vinyl releases is a bad move. I haven't experienced that in my collection, though.

 

Releasing deluxe and standard at the same time is one thing; inserting tracks into an album your fans have been listening to for years is another. It's never going to be the "true" version of the album for the people who care about it most. "Shame" is not a Futures song. "Christmas Card" and the demo of "Sweetness" are not Clarity songs. Tack them on the end of the record or leave them off, but don't insert them into the tracklist. Once the album is final, it's final, and everyone has to be okay with that--the artist included.

I've got two or three records where they cut tracks. All of them are in the folk/Americana genre, so maybe it's a thing with those labels or something.

 

Circa Survive just recently repressed Juturna for its 10-year anniversary last year and they put Suspending Disbelief from The Inuit Sessions EP (which was released a month before Juturna) inside the original tracklisting of the album. As it would turn out, the song was originally meant to be on the album but was cut for some reason. At the end of Oh, Hello there is feedback that flows right into Suspending Disbelief and that's where they put Suspending Disbelief on the album.

That is a scenario where I think it is really cool and works out. Otherwise I agree with Craig. I want to hear the tracklisting I've grown accustomed to. I don't mind them being tacked onto the end like b-sides though.

 

Oh nooo haha I wasn't referring to adding in tracks years later. I meant when the album is released initially.

 

I've recently concluded that, "23," is the best closer of all time.

 

@ChrisCantWrite Yeah, but this song tho

 

Haha, that makes more sense.

 

These guys, in addition to having one of the best discographies, also have some of the best b-sides.

I hope we get another 10 track album like Damage.

 

Step One is one I haven't listened to enough, remembered how good it is today

 

Oh it's the absolute worst. I prefer to keep Shame separated entirely. It's a great song, but just not with Futures.