The Middle

"The Middle" is a single from Jimmy Eat World. It is the second single and third track from Jimmy Eat World's album Bleed American. It was a top 5 Billboard Hot 100 hit in 2002. The song was a breakthrough hit for Jimmy Eat World (who had self-financed the recording of the Bleed American album after having been dropped by Capitol Records in 1999).

Single by Jimmy Eat World
from the album Bleed American
Released 2001
Format CD
Genre Pop punk
Length 2:46
Label Dreamworks R6538

Bleed American (song)

Bleed American is the first track on Jimmy Eat World's album Bleed American (retitled Jimmy Eat World), this song was renamed "Salt Sweat Sugar" (the new title coming from the refrain in the chorus) after the events of 9/11 for fear that it might be misinterpreted.

"Bleed American"

Single by Jimmy Eat World
from the album Bleed American
Released 2001
Format CD
Genre Emo
Length 3:01
Label Dreamworks R6538

TracklistCDN promo

"Bleed American" (Album Version)
"Your Home" (Mis-titled Demo Rock Version)

Blister (song)

Blister is the eleventh track on Jimmy Eat World's album Clarity. The version on this single has minor differences to the album version. It's is one of the few pre-Bleed American songs the band still plays regularly.

"Blister"

Single by Jimmy Eat World
from the album Clarity
Released 1999
Format CD
Genre Emo
Alternative rock
Length 3:32
Label Capitol Records
Producer Mark Trombino and Jimmy Eat World

Tracklist
Promo CD
Blister (remix)
Goodbye Sky Harbor (live

Lucky Denver Mint

Lucky Denver Mint is the second track on Jimmy Eat World's album Clarity. It is also featured on the Jimmy Eat World EP, as well as on the Never Been Kissed soundtrack (as an alternate version).

"Lucky Denver Mint"

Single by Jimmy Eat World
from the album Clarity
Released 1999
Format CD
Genre Alternative rock
Length 3:49
Label Capitol Records
TracklistGER CD

Lucky Denver Mint
A Sunday
Your New Aesthetic

Chase This Light

Chase This Light is Jimmy Eat World's sixth studio album, and was released on October 16, 2007. The album was produced by Butch Vig, whose previous works include Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, and Against Me!.

On September 7, 2007, un-mastered demos of the album were leaked onto the Internet, while the full album was leaked on September 29, 2007.

The album debuted at number five on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 62,000 copies in its first week.[1] As of November 7, 2007, the album has sold 94,000 copies in the US

Studio album by Jimmy Eat World
Released October 16, 2007
Recorded 2006–2007
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 40:18
Label Interscope
Producer Butch Vig, Jimmy Eat World, Chris Testa, John Fields

Track listing"Big Casino" – 3:40
"Let It Happen" – 3:28
"Always Be" – 3:04
"Carry You" – 4:22
"Electable (Give It Up)" – 2:56
"Gotta Be Somebody's Blues" – 4:46
"Feeling Lucky" – 2:32
"Here It Goes" – 3:26
"Chase This Light" – 3:29
"Firefight" – 3:53
"Dizzy" – 4:56

Stay on My Side Tonight

Stay on My Side Tonight is a five-track EP released by Jimmy Eat World through downloads on September 13, 2005 and physically released on October 4, 2005. It consists of 3 unreleased songs originally recorded as demos, a cover of the Heatmiser song "Half Right", and a remix of the Futures track "Drugs or Me".

The title of the album is taken from a line in the song Disintegration, the EP's opening track

EP by Jimmy Eat World
Released October 4, 2005
Recorded 2005
Genre Alternative rock
Length 27:16
Label Interscope

Track listing
All songs written by Jimmy Eat World, except where noted.

"Disintegration" – 7:44
"Over" – 3:46
"Closer" – 5:50
"Half Right" (Elliott Smith, Neil Gust) – 4:42
"Drugs or Me" (Styrofoam remix) – 5:14

Futures (album)

Futures is the fifth studio album by Jimmy Eat World. It was released on October 19, 2004. Darker in tone than Bleed American, Futures was led by the successful single "Pain" followed by "Work" and the less successful "Futures" which did not receive as much airplay.

The album has sold 607,000 in the United States making it Gold Status there.

Studio album by Jimmy Eat World
Released October 19, 2004
Recorded 2004
Genre Alternative rock
Length 49:33
Label Interscope
Producer Gil Norton

Track listing
All songs written by Jimmy Eat World

"Futures" – 3:58
"Just Tonight..." – 3:26
"Work" – 3:23
"Kill" – 3:48
"The World You Love" – 5:01
"Pain" – 3:01
"Drugs Or Me" – 6:25
"Polaris" – 4:51
"Nothingwrong" – 3:09
"Night Drive" – 5:03
"23" – 7:23

Singles"Pain", released in September 2004
"Work", released in January 2005
"Futures", released in May 2005

Firestarter Extended play

Firestarter is a 2004 EP by the band Jimmy Eat World

EP by Jimmy Eat World
Released August 3, 2004
Recorded 2004
Genre Alternative rock

Track Listing

Firestarter (previously unreleased)
(Splash) Turn Twist (import bonus track from Bleed American/Jimmy Eat World)
Hear You Me (from Bleed American/Jimmy Eat World)
My Sundown (from Bleed American/Jimmy Eat World)

Good to Go Extended play

Good To Go is a seven-track EP released by Jimmy Eat World in 2002. It was released exclusively via the band's Japanese label.

EP by Jimmy Eat World
Released February 22, 2002
Genre Alternative rock
Pop punk
Label Universal Records

Track listing
The Middle (Acoustic)
Game Of Pricks (Guided By Voices cover) (BBC Evening Session)
The Most Beautiful Things
Cautioners (Early Version)
Spangle (Wedding Present cover)
A Praise Chorus (Live)
Softer (Live)

Bleed American

Bleed American is the fourth album by Jimmy Eat World. It was released on July 24, 2001, and became self-titled following the September 11, 2001 attacks. The album was produced by Mark Trombino, who previously produced blink-182's first major label album Dude Ranch. The album artwork is taken from William Eggleston's photograph "Memphis."


Having been well-versed in the ways of indie bands and having wide support from the indie community, Jimmy Eat World saw getting dropped from their label as an opportunity. The band compiled most of their independently-released singles onto a single CD, titled simply Singles, which they released on indie label Big Wheel Recreation. The band's burgeoning fanbase snapped up the release, earning the band enough to fund the recording of their next album. The band then had complete freedom to make the album they wanted without having to take input from outside influences.

Working for a third time with Trombino, the band recorded the album Bleed American. Joining forces with Gersh's new management company, GAS Entertainment, the band scouted for a new label, eventually signing with DreamWorks. The completed album was released in July 2001 with the title track as the lead single. (Following the events of September 11, 2001, the band decided to re-issue the album as Jimmy Eat World out of concern that the title Bleed American might be misinterpreted.)

With the release of Bleed American and the subsequent success of second single "The Middle", the band found itself at the center of newfound attention to "emo". For most of the 90s, "emo" had been an underground movement that almost completely evaded major label and mainstream control. Nearly every late-90s emo band that signed to a major label broke up before releasing an album. But where Clarity was seen as the quintessential emo album, Bleed American was a step away from that sound, standing closer to mainstream rock. While songs like the title track were certainly emo-influenced, songs like "A Praise Chorus", "The Middle", and "The Authority Song" clearly were not. However, since the mainstream media had nowhere else to attach the "emo" label, Jimmy Eat World continued to be referred to as an "emo" band, meaning that the term "emo" began to describe something completely different and more mainstream than what existed in the 90s. Major labels pounced, and began signing bands and releasing music that subscribed to this "new" version of emo.

Studio album by Jimmy Eat World
Released July 24, 2001
Recorded 2000–2001
Genre Emo, alternative rock, pop punk
Length 46:36
Label Dreamworks
Producer Mark Trombino, Jimmy Eat World

Track listing
All songs written by Jimmy Eat World, except portions of "A Praise Chorus".

"Bleed American" (renamed "Salt Sweat Sugar" following the September 11, 2001 attacks) – 3:02
"A Praise Chorus" – 4:03
"The Middle" – 2:46
"Your House" – 4:46
"Sweetness" – 3:40
"Hear You Me" – 4:45
"If You Don't, Don't" – 4:33
"Get It Faster" – 4:22
"Cautioners" – 5:21
"The Authority Song" – 3:38
"My Sundown" – 5:40
"(Splash) Turn Twist" – 4:09

In media
"Bleed American" was featured in the movie National Lampoon's Van Wilder.
"The Middle" was featured in the movies Orange County, Life or Something Like It and Zoom, as well as many TV shows and film trailers (including The New Guy previews).
"Hear You Me" was featured in the movies Out Cold, The Butterfly Effect, A Cinderella Story, National Lampoon's Van Wilder and One Tree Hill.
"Get It Faster" was featured in the straight-to-video movie Riding in Vans with Boys (as well as the song "Goodbye Sky Harbor").
"The Authority Song" was featured in the movies National Lampoon's Van Wilder and The Hot Chick.
"My Sundown" was featured in The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest, the TV movie Global Frequency and Umbrellas.
"(Splash) Turn Twist" is featured on the soundtrack to the film Wedding Crashers

Clarity (album)

Clarity is the third album by Jimmy Eat World. As with their previous release, Static Prevails, this album was produced by both Mark Trombino and Jimmy Eat World themselves. It, along with Static Prevails, was re-released in 2007 in remastered form with bonus tracks.

Studio album by Jimmy Eat World
Released February 23, 1999
Genre Emo, alternative rock
Length 64:08
Label Capitol Records
Producer Mark Trombino/Jimmy Eat World

Track listing
All songs written by Jimmy Eat World

"Table for Glasses" – 4:20
"Lucky Denver Mint" – 3:49
"Your New Aesthetic" – 2:40
"Believe in What You Want" – 3:08
"A Sunday" – 4:31
"Crush" – 3:11
"12.23.95" – 3:42
"Ten" – 3:48
"Just Watch the Fireworks" – 7:02
"For Me This Is Heaven" – 4:04
"Blister" – 3:29
"Clarity" – 4:02
"Goodbye Sky Harbor" – 16:11
"Christmas Card" (Japanese/re-release bonus track) - 2:48
"Sweetness" (studio demo) (re-release bonus track) - 3:39

In Media
"Lucky Denver Mint" is featured on the soundtrack of Never Been Kissed.
The Something Corporate song Konstantine references "For Me This Is Heaven" with the lyric, "It's to Jimmy Eat World and those nights in my car, where the first star you see may not be a star, I'm not your star."
The song, Goodbye Sky Harbor is written based on the John Irving novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Jimmy Eat World (EP)

Jimmy Eat World is a is a five-track Extended play (EP) released by Jimmy Eat World on December 14, 1998. The CD contains three unreleased songs that the band recorded themselves and two songs from "Clarity".

EP by Jimmy Eat World
Released December 14, 1998
Genre Emo, alternative rock
Label Fueled by Ramen
Producer Mark Trombino/Jimmy Eat World

Track listing
"Lucky Denver Mint"
"For Me This Is Heaven"
"Your New Aesthetic (Demo)"
"Softer"
"Roller Queen"

Static Prevails

Static Prevails is the second album by Jimmy Eat World. It was released on July 23, 1996. It, along with Clarity, was re-released in 2007 in remastered form with bonus tracks.

Studio album by Jimmy Eat World
Released July 23, 1996
Genre Alternative rock, emo
Length 51:33
Label Capitol Records
Producer Mark Trombino/Wes Kidd/Jimmy Eat World

Track listing
All songs written by Jimmy Eat World

"Thinking, That's All" – 2.52
"Rockstar" – 3.48
"Claire" – 3.40
"Call It In The Air" – 3.01
"Seventeen" – 3.34
"Episode IV" – 4.29
"Digits" – 7.29
"Caveman" – 4.35
"World Is Static" – 3.57
"In The Same Room" – 4.57
"Robot Factory" – 3.59
"Anderson Mesa" – 5.14
"77 Satellites" (vinyl/re-release bonus track)
"What Would I Say To You Now" (re-release bonus track)

One, Two, Three, Four

One, Two, Three, Four is an Extended play (EP) by Jimmy Eat World, released in 1994.

EP by Jimmy Eat World
Released 1994
Genre Punk rock
Label Wooden Blue Records

Jimmy Eat World (1994 album)

Jimmy Eat World was the first full-length release by the band Jimmy Eat World. It was released in 1994 on Wooden Blue Records. Tom Linton sings lead on most of the songs on this album. The one song on this album that is sung by current primary vocalist Jim Adkins is "Usery". Jimmy Eat World is currently out of print.

Studio album by Jimmy Eat World
Released 1994
Genre Punk rock, emo
Length 37:37
Label Wooden Blue Records

Track listing
"Chachi" – 2:57
"Patches" – 3:34
"Amphibious" – 1:42
"Splat Out of Luck" – 2:19
"House Arrest" – 2:26
"Usery" – 3:18
"Wednesday" – 2:10
"Crooked" – 4:07
"Reason 346" – 4:24
"Scientific" – 7:01
"Cars" – 3:39

begining

Formation and origin of name
Main article: Jimmy Eat World (1994 album)
Jimmy Eat World was formed in Mesa, Arizona in 1993. Singer/guitarist Jim Adkins and drummer Zach Lind, who had been friends since kindergarten, joined forces with guitarist Tom Linton and bass player Mitch Porter to try their hand at music. In its early years, the band emulated the style of their punk-rock influences, eventually recording and releasing three singles and a full-length on local label Wooden Blue Records.

The name Jimmy Eat World did not refer to lead singer Jim Adkins. Tom Linton's younger siblings, Ed and Jimmy, fought constantly when they were younger. Jimmy, who was stronger and heavier, would usually win. In one instance, Ed, as revenge, drew a picture with crayons of Jimmy shoving the entire world into his gaping mouth with the caption, "Jimmy eat world.The picture, and by extension the band name, may have been inspired by an episode of the cartoon show Tiny Toon Adventures, where the main characters put on a student film festival. Dizzy Devil's film, "Dizzy Eat World", was a 5 second piece drawn crudely in crayon where Dizzy's gaping jaw engulfed the Earth.