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No, the debate is not whether Clarity or Bleed American is the better album. That\u2019s a real Sophie\u2019s choice that I go back and forth on routinely, and usually settle on whichever album I\u2019ve most recently listened to as the victor. Clarity has heart, but Bleed American has riffs. Clarity is epic, but Bleed American rocks. Clarity has a 16-minute closer, but Football in the Groin has a football in the groin. Ah yes, I have deflected with Simpsons references yet again. Back to the music thing. The Jimmy Eat World debate I really want to have is around \u201CThe Middle,\u201D which is by far their most popular song (400 million Spotify plays!). So, naturally, this leads me to have the audacity to ask... Is it any good?

Wait, hang on, stop throwing banana peels and used coffee filters at me. Let me explain. Jimmy Eat World are one of the most consistently solid album writers, and Bleed American is a top-to-bottom powerhouse, no question. Perhaps one of the best rock records of this century. No, in fact, definitely one of them. It starts like a punch in the gut and ends like a lullaby tucking you into bed, and there is so much priceless gold in between. The back and forth between Adkins and Linton on \u201CGet It Faster\u201D is a top-five Guitar Moment in their catalog (and is even better live). The verse on \u201CA Praise Chorus\u201D where Jim sneaks in references to his love of Madness, Motley Crue, and The Promise Ring is such a clever little piece of songwriting that it makes me want to shit. The acoustic songs like \u201CYour House\u201D and \u201CHear You Me\u201D somehow fit in seamlessly among the rock ragers and look, if you\u2019ve heard the album even a single time, you don\u2019t need me telling you how perfectly it all fits together.

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But then, seven minutes in, I get to \u201CThe Middle\u201D and it\u2019s one of the few times, not just on the album but in their entire discography, where I am routinely moved to hit the skip button. As soon as I hear those muted opening chords, I instinctively move on. At this point, nearly 20 years after the album\u2019s release, I genuinely can\u2019t tell anymore whether my aversion to the song stems from its complete oversaturation in pop culture or whether I don\u2019t like it as a piece of recorded music. Sonically, it is not the worst song I\u2019ve ever heard. Given the choice between listening to \u201CThe Middle\u201D or literally any Top 40 radio schlock, I\u2019m gonna choose \u201CThe Middle\u201D ten times out of ten. In fact, just to be sure, I turned on the radio just now and the first song that came on was celebrated domestic abuser Chris Brown singing about how great it would be to \u201Cdick you down.\u201D (His poetry, not mine!)

I guess to answer that question I\u2019ve got to go as far back in my mind as I can to try to remember hearing \u201CThe Middle\u201D before it was a Top 5 radio hit and\u2026 I just can\u2019t! As far back as I can recall, it has been a massively popular song. I genuinely don\u2019t remember listening to it unencumbered by its pop culture baggage.

I do, however, distinctly remember the year Bleed American came out. At the time, I was working at the place where kids go to have their dreams fulfilled and adults go to have their days ruined, Toys R Us. If you\u2019ve ever worked in retail, you know that each season or so, the twisted fucks who run the corporate office determine the playlist of songs that will be played over the loudspeakers in all the stores all day every day. Back when I worked there, these songs were on a CD, which couldn\u2019t have amounted to much longer than 45 minutes. So, you work an eight-hour shift and you\u2019re bound to hear each song, uh\u2026[slept through rudimentary math classes to become a failed music writer]...like, at least a dozen times. Even in the break room when you\u2019re trying to just sit there and eat your vending machine lunch (one can of Coke + a bag of Funyuns) and avoid small talk with your coworker Sheila, the song plays. Over and over and over, it plays. As such, I\u2019ve built up a collection of songs in my mind that I truly, deeply, with every fiber of my soul, detest. Anyway, at some point, \u201CThe Middle\u201D got added to that playlist. Or perhaps it was on the soundtrack to a movie whose commercial played on an endless loop on one of the TVs around the store. I don\u2019t remember. Toy stores have endless ways of subliminally boring things into young customers\u2019 brains. Either way, there was a period of time where I heard it at work over and over again. And over again. And over again. I\u2019d go home at night and as I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep I\u2019d hear Jim Adkins\u2019 voice say \u201Ceverything eVErYThing will be all right all right all right all right all right all right all right all right all right all right all right!\u201D

I guess if I had to pinpoint what irritates me about the song, that\u2019d be it. It got lifted from its slot in an otherwise perfect rock record and repurposed as another vacuous pop song someone like Taylor or Maroon 5 would sing in a Pepsi commercial. It\u2019s got that saccharine chorus, the uber posi messaging that assures the listener that everything will be OK. I realize that at the time, the song was perfectly timed to soothe an anxious nation in a post-9/11 world, but looking back on it now, ick. It\u2019s all very thematically similar to \u201CShake It Off,\u201D actually. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily a hard outlier in the band\u2019s catalog, but it\u2019s certainly one of their more mawkish songs, and is made even more so in comparison to the heartbreak that follows on the subsequent track, on which Adkins pleads: \u201CIf you love me at all, don\u2019t call.\u201D Regardless, the song helped contribute to the popifcation of Jimmy Eat World.

Now, normally, a band transcending the indie world thanks to the runaway success of a hit single is sure to turn their diehard fans off. (That\u2019s sort of the premise of my entire book\u2014SELLOUT by Dan Ozzi, in stores 10.26.21, for more info visit sellout.biz.) So, you\u2019d think that, being the contrarian prick I am, I might begrudge the song for stealing the emo scene\u2019s precious hidden gem and handing them over to the unappreciative masses. But, ironically enough, I am so grateful to \u201CThe Middle\u201D for making Jimmy Eat World stars. Without it, who knows if the band could have been able to endure for much longer. Making cult masterpiece albums like Clarity is nice and all, but being a band\u2019s band doesn\u2019t pay the bills. Cred doesn\u2019t cover mortgage payments. \u201CThe Middle\u201D took Jimmy Eat World from their status as a band of Southwestern twenty-somethings who couldn\u2019t even sell 10,000 records and turned them into them a household name. Undoubtedly, \u201CThe Middle\u201D is the reason we got another six well-produced albums out of Arizona\u2019s Finest. So, how can I fault \u201CThe Middle\u201D for that?

In my heart, I know all this about \u201CThe Middle.\u201D I know that I should thank it for the last 20 years of Jimmy Eat World and everything it did for them. But even listening to the song with this appreciation in mind, as I am doing right now, I still can\u2019t shake all its cultural associations enough to like hearing it. I often wonder: If \u201CThe Middle\u201D had not become so huge, would I still press the skip button on it? Perhaps one day, years from now, I will be driving and it will come up on my car\u2019s speakers and I will finally have enough distance between the song and the late nights in which it soundtracked me getting demeaned by middle managers to enjoy it. Maybe, someday in the future, I\u2019ll get there, but not yet. It just takes some time.

The song also includes some religious aspects to it - ''May angles lead you in, hear you me my friend'' and ''A song for a heart so big, god would not let it live'' are lines that show the faith the band has, and the believe that their friend might be in heaven now. The exact Death Mentality is therefore hard to be found in this song, since these lines show some aspects of 'Tamed Death'. The resurrection of their friend with god, where he will find his rest and be lead by angles into heaven.

The drums were recorded at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles, which proved costly to the group.[7][11] The band took a brief break to tour with Jebediah for two-and-a-half weeks, including a performance at CMJ's New Music Marathon festival, before returning to Los Angeles.[3] To save money, sessions moved to Harddrive in North Hollywood, where they did overdubs over the course of a month and a half from November 2000.[11][16] Partway through, at the suggestion of Trombino, the band uploaded demo versions of songs on the music platform Napster for fans to hear.[17][18] By this point, artists and repertoire (A&R) people from various labels visited the band, often unannounced. As a result of this, they had to lock the doors to keep people out.[19] The album was mixed at South Ecstasy Recording Studio, also in Los Angeles, in January 2001.[9][20] As Lind was writing a check to cover the cost of mixing, he was worried they were close to bankruptcy, and hoped it would not bounce.[7]

Adkins said "Bleed American" is about how trivial things in a person's life can overtake more important things.[22] The grunge-esque track has been compared to the work of Helmet, At the Drive-In and Braid.[32][33][34] Journalist Alex Rice felt that its loud-quiet structure and lyrics about the disillusionment of youth recalled "Thinking, That's All", the opening track from Static Prevails.[35] When writing "A Praise Chorus", the band were stuck on the bridge section; they sent it to Davey von Bohlen (of the Promise Ring) who wrote a bridge referencing various songs,[22] including "Crimson and Clover" by Tommy James and the Shondells, "Our House" by Madness, "Kickstart My Heart" by Mtley Cre and "Don't Let's Start" by They Might Be Giants.[21][22] Throughout "A Praise Chorus", which deals with nostalgia, Adkins employs a vocal stutter.[21][23] The new wave-esque "The Middle" includes a guitar solo that, according to Adkins, was a homage to Doug Gillard of Guided by Voices and their song "I Am a Tree".[28][22][30] Its lyrics speak about "fitting in" and self-acceptance; Adkins wrote the song in response to an email from a fan who felt they were "not punk enough".[21][36] Lind said his drums on the song were an attempt to emulate the ones heard in "You Wreck Me" by Tom Petty.[37] e24fc04721