![]() Slow down sometimes and make sure it’s right.Īnd I’m not saying our name is not “right” but when we have to design Merch or artwork I often wish we would have deliberated a bit more. Jimmy Eat World Are You Listening Album US 2017 on RCA label Rock. So moral of the story: even seemingly small and insignificant decisions can be much bigger than you could imagine. My memory was that it was a Valentines Day Party but not sure.Īnd there you have it: Jimmy Eat World was so named more so for necessity than anything else, though there’s a lesson to be learned for bands currently trying to come up with a name for their own outfit. So I’m not sure who threw that name out but it was brought up and we discussed it for less than 5 min, no shit, we decided to call ourselves Jimmy Eat World so we could play this dumb ass party. The standard that weve set for ourselves now gets higher and higher every album we do, frontman Jim Adkins tells Apple Music. With the exception of their debut album where they hadnt quite found themselves yet, all of their albums are essential listening experiences. Me, zach, would go to a lot of those shows and I was there when they called themselves “Jimmy Eat World” and it stuck with me. Never let it be said that successful bands have less at stake once they get two decades deep into their careeror at least never say it to Arizona emo pioneers Jimmy Eat World. ![]() Tom and Rick (who wasn’t in the band quite yet) played in a band together that would change their name for every show. So we took a break from the garage and huddled around our kitchen island and decided to play the show but at that time, we hadn’t yet sorted out a name so we needed to figure that out ASAP. 'AGT' Contestant Mitch Rossell Delivers 'Great Audition' With Heartfelt Song for His Late Dad: WatchĪfter a few jokes at his own expense, Lind walked down memory lane to revisit how the band started playing under the moniker in the first place:Ī little history on how we came up with the band name: We were rehearsing in my garage (Zach here) and Jim told us we got asked to play a party in the storage room of Name Brand Exchange in Mesa on Southern and Val Vista in Feb of 94. Even if you didn’t spend your adolescence lying in the floor listening to this album on repeat on your portable CD player, it’s so grand and momentous that you can listen to it now while your mind invents adolescent scenarios that never even happened.
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