Even without being a single Hear You Me was pretty successful. (It’s their third most streamed song on Spotify.) It was also prominently featured in A Cinderella Story. And as someone who was a teenage girl at the time, I can tell you that was a big deal, haha.
New Mount Rushmore: Track Numbers by Album. 1. Choices are taken from all releases, standard edition. Collectively rating across all albums. If you want Table for Glasses and Big Casino, you gotta have Surviving too. 2. Tracks 1-9 can be categorized that way. Beyond that, you can feel free to adjust your thinking if you want to consider track 10 onward as only track 10’s (on albums that have 10 or more) or by placement on album. 2A. The two subcategories of that will be penultimate (second to last track) and closer (last track), irrespective of where they fall in a numerical track order. 3. If you pick from an EP, a B-side or expanded edition, that’s its own category and you can only pick a single Rushmore head for that. My list: Track 2 Track 8 Penultimate Closer
This thread inspired me to revisit Chase This Light for the first time in years and holy shit, "Electable" and "Somebody's Blues" back to back is infinitely more rad than I remembered.
Bleed American through Chase This Light is unstoppable. Those album still sound so fresh. They could come out today and still feel new.
Fun story this thread just reminded me of: When I was on tour with the chariot, Josh Scogin told me that the show he regretted missing the most in his life was he was supposed to go to Slacker 66, a venue in Birmingham run by soon to be tooth and nail A&R and Furance Fest founder, Chad Johnson, to see Jimmy Eat World, At The Drive In, and Twothirtyeight. When he told me that I almost threw up. I have to imagine it was 99-2000 because he said Jimmy was touring on Clarity.
I haven’t disagreed with a single ranking of the title tracks. Every single one is a banger and deserving of the top spot.
Title tracks: Futures Invented Chase This Light Clarity Bleed American Damage Surviving Integrity Blues
Jimmy Eat World playing Clarity plus Twothirtyeight opening?! Yeah I'd regret that too. Side note: I've been listening to a lot of '68 recently too
As someone who grew up in Alabama, I’m now also sick that I missed this. (Even though I would’ve been like 10 years old and wasn’t into any of those bands yet.)
Updated because I forgot "Damage": To be clear though, these are all very good songs. Throw in the tracks that provide the titles for their other releases - "World Is Static", "Disintegration", and now "Something Loud" - and that would be a pretty good representative sample of the band for someone just getting into them.
Title track ranking is hard to pin down. I feel like I had clear tiers but the individual ranking can easily shift Futures Clarity Chase This Light Bleed American Surviving Damage Invented Integrity Blues
currently listening to Futures and I just keep going “this is the best Jimmy song” halfway through every track
I'm listening to Chase This Light* at the gym right now, and I genuinely cannot wrap my head around creating a song as good as "Open Bar Reception" and thinking it's not good enough to make the album it made my JEW Mt. Rushmore and I saw it on at least one other person's list too