What inspired the switch from Tom singing lead vocals to Jim taking over? I've always been curious about that, like if there's an actual story on why things went that way, or if it just naturally happened like that because Jim started writing more, or whatever.
Got a copy of Futures on vinyl for the holiday and when I went to spin it yesterday I found out I received two disks with sides C and D. So frustrating, luckily its through amazon and will be easy to sort out, but damn I was so excited to get to spin that. As a treat for myself I went to the record store and picked up Clarity so I could spin that instead. Damn I'm so happy I found this band.
I think I have that variant and it doesn't IIRC. Also the label has things cutoff, but that might just be stylistic/the intended design. Overall shitty presentation (like being a sleeve and not a gatefold like the other JEW records that were repressed with it)
Okay I was just wondering if mine was missing the lyric sheet, that's why I quoted @Kevin360 because I knew he had a copy. But yeah, that's weird that the label or whoever did such a minimal job.
Hey I want to be in this thread. All time favourite band. I've only seen them once, but I've lived literally half my life since. Gutted.
That was a sucky audience but man.. Pass the Baby and 23 were damn fantastic. Zach did a thing with the drums at the beginning of 23 and it made the song somehow even better. Over 20 years in and they still kick ass live.
I sort of get it though. Pitchfork has primarily been covering hip-hop/R&B for over a decade now, and every P4K writer busts a nut over quirky, angular, cryptic indie-grunge, and JEW's straight forward, emotive and sometimes heavy-handed rock anthems don't fit that equation. Doesn't mean they aren't wrong - my love for it has tapered a bit but Futures is still an 8.5 for sure. And they did wise up and give Integrity Blues a 7.3 and a fairly well written review.
Mark Trombino was on the Washed Up Emo podcast today. They talked quite a bit about Clarity and Futures (lots of interesting tidbits on Futures, especially). It's a good listen.
The main tidbit I've gotten so far is that the big reason he left Futures was that there was a desire to make Jen into "The Middle Pt 2"
also my best theory was originally for Chase This Light. Unless he's getting it mixed up with Stop (which was actually released as a CTL b-side)