Day three, still doing good. Granted, I still have 21 more to go, but for 2008, posting three days in a row is a huge improvement. If I need to refresh your memory on what category I’m working on today, it’s music! I can imagine everyone groaning at that one. Yes, I know hearing me talk about music is boring. I’m sorry, but it’s something I have to do! I have bills to pay and mouths to feed!
Ah, been a while since I’ve said anything about Jimmy Eat World. Though really, I guess it makes sense. Up until last week, I never owned any of their CDs but Futures, and that I barely ever listened to. Well, I started listeneing to it again a while back, right around the last time I went to Grand Forks. Thought it would be something good to put on the iPod to make my playlist a little more girlfriend-friendly.
Other than that, they were really put out of my mind though. But when I started playing Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour, the tides changed just a little bit. If you weren’t aware, JEW’s biggest single, “The Middle”, is in both games. Back in the day it was real popular-like, and I was one of those hipster kids who shunned stuff that got popular like that, so I wrote it and the band off. Futures worked for me because it was so different and emo-tastic, but other than that I would never say I was a huge JEW fan. But plastically strumming along to the song, I found myself enamored of it, and decided to check out the rest of their work. So I downloaded the Jimmy Eat World discography. Now hold your pitchforks, download haters, there’s more to the story.
I quickly fell for Bleed American (features “The Middle”), and then I gave their newest disc, Chase This Light, a spin. Digitally. The short version is that I loved it right away. It turns out that the title track was actually being piped in through TRU’s satellite radio, and I loved that song but had no idea who it was (despite the fact that Jim Adkins has a very noticable voice).
In the here and now, I’m not as crazy about the album, but I’ve actually gone out and paid cash moneys for it, so that says something about how much I still like it. It’ll never have the profound effect on me that Futures did, but that was a different time, and I was a slightly different person. To be a little more descriptive, Chase This Light is a lot more poppy than Futures, and it doesn’t have even half the depth of the latter album, but it’s still a great listen, and I’m pretty sure that most people with open musical tastes would welcome it into their music collection with open arms, were they to receive it as a certain holiday gift. Yes, that means I recommend it. How often do I review things that I don’t recommend? Pretty much never. Especially not during the most wonderful time of the year.