Idolator: jimmy eat world

In "Maybe The Concert Industry Is Just As ...

Dan Gibson — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:15:00 EDT

In "Maybe The Concert Industry Is Just As Screwed As The Recorded-Music Biz" news, the promoter of next week's Phoenix shows by Jimmy Eat World and Death Cab For Cutie is offering last-minute discounts on tickets, despite both acts selling out the same venues on their last tour stops here. Whether said soft sales are the result of sky-high ticket prices and surcharges or ever-increasing prices for everyday goods (especially gas), one might think that it's going to be vastly more difficult to fill mid-sized venues over the coming months. [Stateside Presents]

Jimmy Eat World Nostalgic For Late 2001, Platinum Sales

Anthony Miccio — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:05:00 EDT

Popular albums are sometimes quickly re-issued as "special editions" with a new cover and some bonus crap. Labels sometimes overhaul career catalogs and drop double-disc reissues celebrating the 10th and 20th anniversaries of classic albums. But what do you make of it when Jimmy Eat World takes Bleed American, an album released in 2001, and gives it the "now with a bonus disc featuring demos and b-sides!" treatment? Especially when they just put out a new album, Chase The Light, last October? Guess A&R doesn't hear another single on that one.

This 2-disc deluxe edition of Bleed American not only restores the record's original title-the band re-titled the record Jimmy Eat World following the events of 9/11 and the subsequent deployment of U.S. troops to the Middle East-but also provides further documentation of Jimmy Eat World's powerful and prolific output circa 2001-2002: Obscure fan favorites "No Sensitivity," "Softer" and "(Splash) Turn Twist," the collectors item holiday single "Last Christmas"/"Firestarter," the band's cover of Guided By Voices' "Game of Pricks," and the piece de resistance, the never before heard "Your House 2007." The stunning reimagining of the Bleed American track the band debuted on its 2007 stripped down semi-acoustic tour elicited an unexpectedly intense response from fans at the shows and later on message boards, moving the band to commit the arrangement to tape to honor its fans if nothing else...

The 2-disc Bleed American deluxe collects all this and more for the first time in one place, creating an essential and comprehensive document for any fan of Jimmy Eat World-or any fan of what USA TODAY called "euphoric, uplifting, reassuring rock."

You'd think they could at least wait until we had a new president. Out April 29, the same day as Kiss' Playlist Plus.

Jimmy Eat World Bleed American Deluxe Out April 29 [press release via Skope]

The Gremlins (Jimmy) Eat (World) After Midnight

Jess Harvell — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:15:25 EST

Top 5 things about this video: 1.) Ravenous gremlin saliva. 2.) Mrs. Deagle getting her comeuppance. (Shades of Inland Empire in the close-up!) 3.) Caroling emo gremlin chorus. 4.) Gizmo's self-satisfied smirk when he finds himself unable to drive 55. 5.) The fact that it lead me to this infinitely more awesome/disturbing Gerard Way-meets-Gremlins 2 clip. Have I mentioned how much I love Gremlins? [YouTube; HT: Kate Richardson]

The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament Faces The Music Plumage

jharv — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:00:14 EST

For the second entry in today's Anatomically Incorrect bracket, we have pop emo godfathers Jimmy Eat World and their ~~bald~~ feathered metaphor for the place where babies come from (or out of) facing off (omg lol) against Bow Wow and Omarion's collaborative efforts at facial reconstruction. Decide whether it's two-in-the-face or one in the "bush" after the jump!

Jimmy Eat World Plays Catch-Up With The Pop-Emo Generation

jharv — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:55:52 EDT

ARTIST: Jimmy Eat World
TITLE: Chase This Light
WEB DEBUT: Oct. 1, 2007
RELEASE DATE: Oct. 16, 2007

ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: Even as Idolator's acknowledged pop-emo apologist, I'm keenly aware of the limitations of my current pet pop-rock subgenre, one whose great contribution to rock'n'roll was adding some minor-key boo-hoo and warbly falsetto/warbly screech and Celine-ian fist-to-chest breakdowns to goofy skate-punk. Especially given how badly the genre has worn its recent growing pains.

The grown-up airs (string arrangements, acoustic guitars, a general atmosphere of Dashboard-esque elder statesmen-ism) of Jimmy Eat World's Chase This Light are probably earned after 14 years, but that doesn't make the record anything more than primed to become (at best) interstitial music for spoiled heiresses on MTV or to languish in the back end of a VH1 video countdown between Train and the Fray. When the band stretches its chops past the comfortable, bouncy power-pop of "The Middle" on mid-tempo cuts like the Coldplay-humping "Carry You" and the title track, you get leaden adult-alternative with none of the speedy, ersatz punker oomph that at least keeps mall emo on the side of decent bubblegum rather than sliding (as it so easily does) into the kind of strummy, emotive dreck (with the kind of poker-faced choruses that toast "Here's to life!") that pads out a tender makeout scene between two overgrown children on Scrubs.

On the other hand, the emo-ified cuts, while a buzzing, juvenile reprieve from the sensitive, quarter-life crisis ballads, are indistinguishable from, well, "The Middle." And usually not as catchy. Plus even if it was what these bookish, heartsick dudes were aiming for, they couldn't write a (circa-2005) Gerard Way-caliber pop-thrash tune if they were threatened with being forced to listen to Welcome to the Black Parade for 24 hours straight, and when it comes to emo's softer side, Jimmy Eat World has simply gotten lapped by younger, pop-savvier bands over the last few years. The electronically processed guitar and limply "danceable" beat of "Here It Goes" is neither as gauchely vocoded as Hellogoodbye's emo-dance atrocities, nor as honestly hook-y as your average Fall Out Boy single. And "Electable (Give It Up)" proves why even grownups should keep politics at arm's length if they're usually concerned with romantic traumas no deeper than a nasty Facebook comment.

THE BEST TRACK: "Feeling Lucky" is fast, quick (only 2:35), and decent meat-and-potatoes power-pop/pop-punk of the sort that my tasteless, emo-omnivorous self should have grown out of a decade ago.

Jimmy Eat World Take The Freudian Route In The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Race

jharv — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:00:35 EDT

MEANWHILE, EARLIER TODAY AT THE IDOLATOR OFFICES:

Maura: Oh my god, this Jimmy Eat World cover.
Maura: VAGINA.
Jess: What?
Maura: It should be in your inbox.
Jess: Zounds.
Jess: THE EYE OF SAURON.
Maura: Uh, dude, it's a vag.
Maura: Anyway, is the indie rock poll ready?
Jess: Dude, what do you think everyone thought the Eye of Sauron really was?
Maura: I don't know!
Jess: Anyway yes, I told you about that.
Jess: About the indie post, I mean. Not about J.R.R. Tolkien's penchant for vagina imagery.
Maura: Oh, okay, sorry. I missed it because my eyes went loco after looking at that giant feathered vagina metaphor.

LATER:

Jess: The Jimmy Eat World thing is ready.
Maura: Oh no, my lack of Tolkien knowledge has been outed.
Maura: EVERYONE WILL KNOW HOW I FELL ASLEEP AT THE LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIE.

The Cover-Song Showcase Showdown: Wrapping Up "Last Christmas"

mjohnston — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:23:28 EST

Now that it's the season for "Last Christmas," the 1984 Yuletide lament by Wham!, to blare from public loudspeakers all over the land, we figured the time was right to stage a Cover-Song Showcase Showdown for the song. There are many covers floating around out there, and we've selected four for you to download and vote on today: they come from, in alphabetical order, Crazy Frog, Hilary Duff, Jimmy Eat World, and Sarge.

~~Crazy Frog - Last Christmas~~ [MP3, link expired]
~~Hilary Duff - Last Christmas~~ [MP3, link expired]
~~Jimmy Eat World - Last Christmas~~ [MP3, link expired]
~~Sarge - Last Christmas~~ [MP3, link expired]