Jimmy Eat World Album: “Singles”

Truly this album rates 4 and one half stars. Its not as polished as clarity, but then again its a collection of old demos and rare material. I truly love this album, as I do every jimmy eat world album. However I recommend that someone first buy clarity and then maybe later the Album singles. I do highly recommend this album though. Anyway I'm getting really excited for their new album which will come out in march or april 2001. I guarantee Jimmy eat World by then will be a household name with that incredible song called "sweetness".

Truthfully speaking, the worst Jimmy Eat World song is better than 1,000 perfect Creed songs. (that has nothing to do with the review, I just wanted to say that) Anyways, this hew is a compilation of all of Jimmy Eat World's songs they put on...well...compilations. Top tracks for me are Opener (originally from Emo Diaries, Chapter 1...), 77 Satelites (originally from the vinyl version of Static Prevails), Christmas Card and Untitled (both from the JEW/Blueprint split 7" EP), and Digits (which later was on Static Prevails with new verse). This album is raw, good time music, pure and simple. It sums it up when Jim says "Straight outta Phoenix, boys.." on H Model. It's a raw, rocking good album. Simple as that. Go buy it and dance to it in your room in socks.

"Spangle" (a song off this album) my friends has the musical ability that owes each member of the band the aww of an all-around composition for people that have a keen sense of musical talent. Along with almost all the other songs, it has been a change, a punk to an almost perfect representation of alternative rock (but the album formally named "bleed american" is the transformation's new spawn) Note: if "bleed american" is your first album by [J.E.W.], this album is different and may take some getting used to. It takes time going backwards into their discography, ya know? I Recomend HIGHLY^ for the collection!

We all know that Jimmy Eat World is an incredible band. So what else would you expect from them but a bunch of great songs. The songs on this album are very close to the genre of Static Prevails, with Tom Linton doing most of the singing. You can tell how they evolved, they were much more of a punk band years ago than they are now, but even then they were far above average. It's a good holdover until the new album which according to the band, should be out somewhere around Februrary/March 2001, which we know will be great, and those of us who have heard the new songs can testify to that. In the meantime, make sure you pick this up.

First of all, let me clarify that I reserve five stars for absolute classic albums. Four stars is for the really really good ones. Which is what this is. It's a nice eclectic (<--spelling error) sounding collection of b-sides from the Arizona boys. Almost every song is different. They each have their own unique musical sound to them, and it doesn't disappoint. My personal favorite Jimmy song of all time is on here. I find it weird that it's my favorite, but I just get into it like no other JEW song out there: "What I Would Say to You Now." It sounds like it was recorded in a basement on a tape player . . . but the spirit is there. The quality of the song is there. And when the second guitar comes in on the verse . . . my heart never fails to skip a beat. This was the last release by Jimmy Eat World before their dreaded turn to pop-dom. I think it was a nice thing to do for those of us who appreciated them before Carson Daley said their name on T.V.