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Rating: It seems really strange to me that no one has written any review yet about the great Jimmy Eat World. Anyway, I'll take it upon myself to start with a review of their masterpiece: Clarity.
Released in 1999, Clarity presents itself as a melodic rock album of great depth, with lyrics definitely on par with the music and a significant emotional impact... is it an emo album? Let's say yes.
The opening Table For Glasses starts slow and melancholic, like much of the rest of the album, giving way in the second track to the boldness of Lucky Denver Mint., an absolutely fantastic track... surely one of the many peaks of this work by the guys from Mesa (Arizona).
The voice of singer Jim Adkins strongly evokes adolescence and the inevitable sentimental sufferings for the lost loves of that time.
Clarity is a rock album with extraordinary melodic openings and perfectly fitting choruses, an album that should not be missing from any respectable record collection... perhaps along with Something To Write Home About by The Get Up Kids, the highest peak of '90s emo-rock.
There's no point in citing the best tracks because I would have to list the entire tracklist, but if I really had to choose, I would opt for the poignant A Sunday, the ethereal For Me This Is Heaven, and the energetic Clarity.
What else can I say? Well, to those who love bands such as The Get Up Kids and The Juliana Theory, I can only recommend rushing to grab this enormous album.
Generational!!!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Table for Glasses (04:21)
Sweep the dirty stairs
the ones I waited on
This is just for me
I felt it watching her
It happens too fast to make sense of it
To make it last
Where do you intend to go with your dirty dress?
Lead my skeptic sight to the table and the light
It happened too fast to make sense of it
To make it last
Lead my skeptic sight
Lead my skeptic sight
Not asking of me anything
saying nothing about what it means
without anybody telling me
how I should feel
Not asking of me anything
saying nothing about what it means
without anybody telling me
how I should feel
Lead my skeptic sight
to the table and the light
02 Lucky Denver Mint (03:49)
This time it's on my own
Minutes from somewhere else
Somewhere I made a wish
With lucky Denver mints
You're not bigger than this, not better
Why can't you learn?
Hurry, go on ahead
Good things won't let you wait
I'll catch up when we get home
At home I'll leave
A dollar under water
Keeps on dreaming for me
03 Your New Aesthetic (02:40)
we're lowering the standard in a process selective
the formula is too thin
but it takes more than one person
so everyone jump on
i'll miss you when you're just like them
imitate and water down
selection breathes on its own
before the crash i'll write it out:
selection breathes on its own
make them open the request line and let selection kill the old
take back the radio
i remember back then thinking
easy comes but doesn't stay, what comes easy never stays
but the politics need means
and business never leaves
you better sing now while you can
imitate and water down
selection breathes on its own
til we crash i'll write it out
selection breathes on its own
make them open the request line and let selection kill the old
take back the radio
sing while we can, while we can
imitate and water down
selection breathes on its own
til we crash i'll write it out
selection breathes on its own
make them open the request line and let selection kill the old
turn off the radio
but it takes more than one person
so everyone jump on
i'll miss you when you're just like them
04 Believe in What You Want (03:08)
Don't bother going through your motions
Nothing that makes sense ever works out
Don't kid yourself, you know they want money
Nothing can be good on its own, its own merit
Spinning and spinning
Do you believe in what you want?
Dancing, in plastic shake-up snow
Do you believe in what you want?
Put your trust in simple acts
Make the flyers get them up all over town
Don't kid yourself, you know it's for money
Please keep in sight what makes you care, you have it always
Your camera flash
On us, meaningless
You cannot waste a single night
What you ignore is priceless to me
05 A Sunday (04:32)
On a Sunday I'll think it through
On the drive back I'll think it through
What you wish for won't come true
Live with that, with that
And on a Sunday she thought it through
Now, as I drive back, there's thirty-six less hours
I have to change the course I send myself
Live with that, with that
The haze clears from your eyes on a Sunday
On a sunday go once around
Cause when the ride's done, the hopes that you have carried
They fall out from your hands back to the ground
Live with that, with that
Learn as the drugs leave
Learn as you lose it, you will
06 Crush (03:11)
Faintest snow keep falling, falling
Hands around your waist
Nameless, standing cold, standing cold
Like a breath, like a breath
Take in restraint like a breath
My lungs are so numb from holding back
Walk close to the fence
Feel it hit your clothes
Turn and smile nice
Smile, say good night, say good night
In a breath, in a breath
Simple discourse breaks you clean...
Simple discourse breaks you clean in half
Regret to try it once
But then you know it's your move
Settle for less again
Again
08 Ten (03:48)
We left behind the busy crowd
So it seems we slow down
Meet me with a way out through the lies
Nowhere, going nowhere in the fake yellow light
Blame no one, blame no one
The feelings change so fast
Safety scares them away
I can't bring myself to say it, it's my own advice I need
Nowhere and then nowhere, living trapped inside the chase
Our weekness is the same
We need poison sometimes
So take another drink with me
09 Just Watch the Fireworks (07:02)
Here
You can be anything
Anything that scares you
I think that scares you
Here
I've been here before
But only by myself
Myself
I promised I'd see it again
I promised I'd see this with you now
What giving up gives you
And where giving up takes you
I've had and I've been
Here, in center frame
Here, there's only air
And just enough space to fit
I said, said, said it out loud
Over and over
I said, said, said it out loud
But what do I know?
I said, said, said it out loud
Over and over
I said, said, said it out loud
Over and over
I said, said, said it out loud
But it does not help
I'll stop now, just so I can hear you
I stay up as late as it takes
10 For Me This Is Heaven (04:05)
The first star I see may not be a star
We can't do a thing but wait
So let's wait for one more
And the time's such clumsy time
In deciding if it's time
I'm careful but not sure how it goes
You can lose yourself in your courage
When the time we have now ends
When the big hand goes round again
Can you still feel the butterflies?
Can you still hear the last goodnight?
And the mother's comfort grows
When I'm alone with my big plans
And this is what she said gets her through it
If I don't let myself be happy now then when?
If not now when?
I close my eyes and believe
Wherever you are, angel
11 Blister (03:29)
Take advantage of these times, you said
You let me down
It hasn't been the first time
As I'm falling in the pit of fire
My mind's made up
I'm never coming back here
And how long would it take me
To walk across the United States, all alone?
The west coast has been traumatized
And I think I'm the only one still alive
Is it just a coincidence
To see you by yourself with no direction?
Now it's time to move on
And don't you know that things aren't getting better?
When the world caves in
What'cha gonna do?
When the world caves in
What'cha gonna do for me?
Don't try and stop me
Because I'm falling fast
Into this pit of fire which surrounds us all
In a blanket of fear that I've been wrapped in for years
Don't try to stop me
You can't stop me
12 Clarity (04:02)
I'll take your words
As if you were talking to me
So say what I know you'll say
Say it through your teeth
Now
In the deep and down
Your heart moves
Now
In the deep and down
I don't know how but I know I want out
Wait for something better
Will I know when it can be us?
Wait for something better
Maybe that doesn't mean us
Wait for something better
I shouldn't, it's not enough
Pull one excuse from another
And with pride
keep every failure in
And with pride
Hold on to your sinking
Pull one excuse from another
This time it means stop
Pull one excuse from another
This time it means us
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