Listened to Integrity Blues three times today and ready to say it's a top 5 record of the decade for me.
I’ll let you know if someone in my party bails but I think it’ll be last minute. You check the Facebook event page? Sometimes people sell tickets there last minute. If you’re in the pit let’s say what’s up!
Siiiiick! I’m thinking I’ll wear a +44 sweater. Pretty sure I’ll stand out that way. Prepare to be overwhelmed by awkward!
been listening to nothing but bleed american this week. a praise chorus, your house, and if you dont dont could be my top 3 favorite songs by this band on any given day
I swear when I heard them first play a praise chorus live it was like an epiphany to get my life together and stop letting it pass me by. I mean I'm still letting it pass me by lol but I'm making plans to change that!
they posted on instagram that tonight is the final show of the integrity blues tour. gotta get ready to record to stay on that three year cycle!
Welp, 35 minutes until the Hotelier go on and I'm just standing around. What songs on Integrity Blues have aged best for you?
You With Me is realllllll gud And so is Through I can't wait for Pass the Baby to make me melt tonight
My favorite albums are pretty easily Futures and Chase This Light, but Bleed American and Integrity Blues often fight for the title of third.
I’d say my top four. Clarity had already been released before I discovered this band. Heard a few Bleed American Demos before the album came out and have been listening since.
you know which album is the ultimate autumn seasonal sound though invented. invented season is easily September and October but the truth is futures, invented, integrity blues, and bleed American are all fall albums for me. futures more winter though. chase this light is spring damage is summer I don’t really associate clarity with any season. so it floats. just like the rest, I listen to them all all year round but in my mind that’s how I divide them by season, which I like doing with my music listening for some reason
it’s a really special album. came out right when my senior year of high school started. there’s a very “coming of age” feel to that record that’s a result of Jim’s attempt at narrative writing, in the shoes of characters rather than himself. A lot of those songs mean more to me than anything. Heart is Hard to find is my answer for favorite jimmy eat world song 9 out of 10 times for a reason. But then you’ve also got the title track, stop, little thing, cut, mixtape, and of course the Wilco cover and the superchunk cover not to mention the demo and acoustic versions on the deluxe edition. I mean, it’s not perfect and a couple songs tend to be disliked by a lot of people but I like every song here and think all besides one or two are legitimately great. My Best Theory is far from their best lead single but it’s a rock solid pop rock track. Evidence gets too much shit as does Movielike. Coffee and Cigarettes is amazing. Action needs an audience is good but the one id say I only like
that’s my other answer to favorite JEW song when I don’t say heart is hard to find. I saw them play dizzy in 2010 and ascended