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Jimmy Eat World
Clarity


5.0
classic

Review

by ver_ya_chick USER (1 Reviews)
January 14th, 2005 | 24 replies


Release Date: 1999 | Tracklist


Jim Adkins - Guitar, Vocals
Rick Burch - Bass
Zach Lind - Drums
Tom Linton - Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Andrew Steel - Artwork


Table For Glasses: A slow, beautiful introduction song. However, not all may like it because of its slow tempo. 8/10

Lucky Denver Mint: Featured in the movie "Never Been Kissed," and was the bands first single to recieve any recognition. A great song, with some nice drumming. 8/10

Your New Aesthetic: Probably the punkiest sounding song on the album. Harder and much darker then anything else on it. Singing some **** about taking back the radio. Still, a superb song. 8.5/10

Believe in What You Want: Amazing chorus, guitars sound almost too good. "Dancing, in plastic sheet of snow, do you believe in what you want?"
Definatly one of the best on the album, and one of the best they have ever produced. 9.5/10

A Sunday: Took me a while to get into this song, but it enventually grew on me. Quite soft and mellow. Not for everyone, but works for me. Almost a snowy sort of feel to it. 7.5/10

Crush: Awesome song. Starts off strong and never lets up. The most energetic on the album. Makes you want to get up and do something. A superbly crisp feel to it. 9/10

12.23.95: This song is very unique. Jimmy Eat World seem to have a fetish for doing AWESOME christmas songs. I liked this song right from when i first heard it. A sleepy, drowsy sort of feel to it. Very catchy none the less. I think it's one of the best on the album. 9/10

Ten: Didn't really like this song at first, but after more listens it grew on me. The verses are great. I like the drumming. Another soft sounding song. 7/10

Just Watch the Fireworks: This is the best song on the cd, but it's nearly impossible to choose since all of them are so good. Very emotional, quite long as well, around 7 mins, but is totally enjoyable all the way through. Lovely violin playing. 10/10

For Me This Is Heaven: Matching Just Watch The Fireworks was a daunting task, but somehow, they did it. Second best song on the album. the piano playing fits in perfectly with the guitar playing and drumming. "Can you still feel the butterflies?" Awesome lyrics as well. 10/10

Blister: Has a sing-a-long type feel to it. Much harder then the previous too, and a nice wakeup from the serene brilliance of the two before. 8/10

Clarity: The title song. Jumps on the bandwaggon of amazing Jimmy Eat World songs. The same type of feel as Crush. 8.5/10

Goodbye Sky Harbor: The start of the song sounded very, very promising. Unfortunatly, 10 minutes of drums gets pretty boring. This is the obvious choose for gayest hunk of **** of the album. Cut out that 10 minutes of drums and you could have another amazing song. 3/10


OVERALL: 10/10 - Easy desicion. Best cd in my collection. An amazing emo album. Incredible. :thumb:


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ver_ya_chick
March 22nd 2004


6 Comments


Bleed American < Clarity

hybridofsound
March 22nd 2004


131 Comments


[QUOTE=ver_ya_chickYour New Aesthetic: Probably the punkiest sounding song on the album. Harder and much darker then anything else on it. Singing some **** about taking back the radio. Still, a superb song. 8.5/10
[/QUOTE]

Your New Aesthetic is to do with Capitol records. The band had a band relationship with the label and it talks about how the label signed corparate whores.

ver_ya_chick
March 23rd 2004


6 Comments


noone cares

hybridofsound
March 23rd 2004


131 Comments


Um are you talking to yourself?

Anyway good album, a bit of a brief review.

RollerQueen
March 23rd 2004


209 Comments


I love JEW and when I bought this cd, it stayed in my cd player for over a month. That just doesn't happen with other albums. Maybe it's not 5/5 material, but it's definitely up there. It happened too fast to make sense of it, to make it last.

ImHardlyThisCool
July 5th 2004


1 Comments


Clarity is one of my all-time favourite JEW albums along with Static Prevails. "A Sunday" is an awesome song. I love playing along with it on the guitar. :thumb:

xfragiletimex
July 5th 2004


4 Comments


JEW's best work is deffinitly Bleed American but Clarity is actually not far behind. Great album.

atarisrock55
July 5th 2004


6 Comments


I like goodbye sky harbor, i think it deserves a lot more than a 3 but good review otherwise.

RollerQueen
July 5th 2004


209 Comments


[QUOTE=xfragiletimex]JEW's best work is deffinitly Bleed American but Clarity is actually not far behind. Great album.[/QUOTE]

Lyrically, Clarity is better than the majority of Bleed American. Musically, the latter is more diverse than the former. Being the word nerd I am, I like Clarity more. It's too bad they left "What I Would Say to You Now" off of both Clarity AND Static Prevails, though... Oh, and this cd still rocks.

captain chris
May 27th 2005


73 Comments


This is my fav JEW album it has more feeling behind it than bleed america, and futures, i agree with most of what the review sed except what ver ya chick, sed about sky harbour, i love this 16 minute song with the vocals as an instrumental (i no that makes no sence but i cudnt think of anything else to put) i thought it was just so well put together.

smooches xxx

Damrod
Moderator
May 29th 2005


1093 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Good album, bit IMO not 5 stars.



It's excellent, but not extraordinary. 4/5 from me.

pixiesfanyo
June 1st 2005


1223 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Ridiculously good.



Probably one of the top 3 pop-punk albums.

XenonDrive
July 11th 2005


10 Comments


Goodbye Sky Harbor.. gay? Firstly, how a song would be homosexual, you got me. Secondly, that whole time everything is slowly being built up. If you listen, different vocal tracks are being added, more effects, etc., and they all lead to the climax. There are very few songs that end a CD perfectly, but this happens to be one of them.

BringHomeTheBacon
July 15th 2005


248 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Best so called "emo" album. Anyway, since I don't want to start another emo argument, I wasn't sure I should buy this album because I hadn't heard much from it and I heard it was different from BA and Futures. I definitely made the right decision to buy it thanks to this review. Not a big fan of Believe in What You Want or 12.23.95 (Is it just me or does it sound like a techno song).

Geezer1287
August 23rd 2005


18 Comments


Clarity is my fave album of all time. 5/5 Perfect chill out album.

(>dragon~guitarist<)
November 13th 2005


243 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

For Me This Is Heaven is quite the moving song, especially the break where the 2 guitars play a riff and the other mirrors the riff back and forth between each other answering each like a conversation, which Im guessing they made it that way. Like a relationship, it won't work if one does not answer another and the piano afterward resembles the two in perfect harmony.... whoa ok that was a little deep for one part of a song.

...someone®
April 6th 2006


3 Comments


Great album. One of my all time favourites...

Two-Headed Boy
August 27th 2006


4527 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Goodbye Sky Harbor is the best song here.



You're just dumb.This Message Edited On 09.30.06

BringHomeTheBacon
August 28th 2006


248 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This is one of my favorite albums ever now, every song is great. I can't believe my comment from over a year ago when I said I didn't like "12.23.95".

Shadowed Reflection
February 20th 2009


275 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This review was painful to read, too short and not detailed enough. And Goodbye Sky Harbor is amazingly hypnotic. These guys are unfortunately lumped in with a lot of other bands in the same scene, but they're actually very good musicians.



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