Futures/Stay On My Side Chase This Light Integrity Blues Invented Bleed American Clarity Damage Static Prevails
Just ran through the whole discog today at work. Everything from Bleed on is super close but gun to my head my ranking would be: Futures Integrity Blues Invented Chase This Light Bleed American Damage Clarity Static Prevails I love Clarity but I've found I need to be in a certain mood to listen.
I never really got into Chase This Light aside from a couple particular songs. I haven’t listened to that album in at least 5 years. Ha
If you throw the b-sides from that era in, Chase This Light is probably my personal favorite album by them. It is certainly the one I have listened to the most over the years, although Integrity Blues has given it a serious run for its money in the relatively short time that its been out. I tried doing a straight ranking and failed. This was the best I could come up with: Futures / Chase This Light / Integrity Blues Bleed American / Invented / Damage Clarity Static Prevails
You putting Clarity so far down on your list makes me question your judgement, haha just teasing. But yeah, CTL never clicked with me. Probably because I didn’t feel like it met or exceeded the greatness of Futures. My personal list: Clarity Futures Bleed American the rest
I just don't hold their earlier albums in the same reverence that most JEW fans do, but I will say that they are insanely consistent quality wise and don't have anything even close to resembling a bad album. I almost put Clarity on the same level as BA, Invented & Damage but I honestly don't return to it nearly as much as I do the other ones. With them though I could easily have just done my ranking as an 8-way tie. They are that good.
I've always like JEW and BA was an album most of my friends were obsessed with back in the day, but nothing REALLY clicked with me until Futures was released. That was a the game changer for me when it came to getting really into this band.
Oh we’re doing this now?! Futures Bleed American Integrity Blues Clarity Chase This Light Invented Damage Static Prevails
1. Bleed American 2. Integrity Blues 3. Futures 4. Chase This Light 5. Invented 6. Clarity 7. Damage 8. Static Prevails
1. Clarity 2. Futures 3. Static Prevails 4. Integrity Blues 5. Bleed American 6. Invented 7. Chase This Light 8. Damage 9. Jimmy Eat World
I hope a terrible band opens for them so I can continue my old lady standing hating tradition of skipping the opener and sliding right in before the main act.
“The rest” are interchangeable for me. I couldn’t rank them. I haven’t spent as much time with them as the top 3, Haha. The band doesn’t have a bad album though.
I hope we hear something soon. I am frantically checking this and the blink 182 thread for album news.......
Have they disowned the self-titled album then? Could have sworn Jim referred to IB as their 9th album when announced...