My dopey 15-year-old self never quite realized the cheeky rock references abundant in "A Praise Chorus," nor would I have picked up on the Jesus and Mary Chain namedrop in "The Authority Song" in retrospect, the latter makes for a funny parallel to Death Cab for Cutie's "We Looked Like Giants." The huge singles - "The Middle," "Sweetness" - are still respectably catchy pop numbers as well. The 1-2 punch of the perfectly gritty chorus of the opening title track and then Davey von Bohlen (then of the Promise Ring, now of Maritime) guesting in the energetic "A Praise Chorus" hits hard. The album itself is left untouched, and it's surprising how much the thing still plain rocks. Though there are only lyrics for a few of the unreleased bonus tracks as opposed to all, there are a few more photos and EP/single artwork covers shown off to stretch out the liner notes.
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Time has soothed the blind patriotism and Geffen has thankfully restored the original title to the album with this two-disc deluxe edition.Īs with Geffen's classic-looking deluxe edition series, Bleed American comes in a thick, crisp-looking four-panel digipak and bears a second disc full of B-Sides and alternative versions. The Bleed American title was hastily stripped from the artwork by Dreamworks a mere number of weeks after its original release in 2001 thanks to post-9/11 chest-beating, rendering it as self-titled even though the band already released a self-titled full-length in 1994 and EP in 1998. While Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American didn't quite attain the cult favorite status that 1999's Clarity did over time, seven years later it holds up incredibly well despite its singles arguably being overplayed to the point of redundancy.
When an "indie" band more or less writes its breakout record, they tend to run the risk of alienating its previous fanbase however, they usually manage it in a successful manner where it manages to retain much of those previous listeners while gaining a multitude of newcomers.
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