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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<\/span>, 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.<\/p>\nOther than that, they were really put out of my mind though. But when I started playing Rock Band 2<\/em> and Guitar Hero: World Tour<\/em>, 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<\/span>\u00a0worked 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.<\/p>\n I quickly fell for Bleed American<\/span> (features “The Middle”), and then I gave their newest disc, Chase This Light<\/span>, 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).<\/p>\n 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<\/span> did, but that was a different time, and I was a slightly different person. To be a little more descriptive, Chase This Light<\/span> is a lot more poppy than Futures<\/span>, 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\u00a0during the most wonderful time of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading I’m doing fine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}