Bleed American

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Bleed American
Studio album from Jimmy Eat World

Publication
(s)

2001

Label (s) Dreamworks Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Alternative rock , emo , pop-punk

running time

46:38

production

Mark Trombino, Jimmy Eat World

chronology
Clarity
(1999) 		Bleed American Last Christmas
(2001)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Bleed American
  DE 20th 09/10/2001 (5 weeks)
  UK 62 02/09/2002 (4 weeks)
  US 54 08/11/2001 (11 weeks)
Singles
The Middle
  UK 26th 02/09/2002 (3 weeks)
  US 5 03/16/2002 (33 weeks)
Sweetness
  UK 38 06/15/2002 (2 weeks)
  US 75 08/03/2002 (14 weeks)

Bleed American is the fourth studio album by the American band Jimmy Eat World . The album was released on July 18, 2001. In addition, a deluxe edition was released in 2008. Like the previous albums, it was produced by Mark Trombino, who had also produced Blink-182's second album , Dude Ranch . The cover was taken from the Memphis photograph by William Eggleston . The songs "The Middle" and "Sweetness" were released as singles .

useful information

After separating from Capitol Records in 1999 and a self-financed European tour , the band saved up the money from record sales and part-time jobs in order to be able to record the next album at their own expense. The musicians took a lot of time for the songwriting and made every artistic decision together. The lyrics of the album are partly autobiographical. The basic idea for the respective pieces mostly came from Jim Adkins, who introduced them to the rest of the band. The songs were completed together with producer Mark Trombino. For the title track during a sold-out show of the band in their hometown was Tempe ( Arizona ), a music video was added.

The finished album was sent to various record labels. In addition, various radio stations received a promo single with three tracks. Therefore, the first songs were already played on the radio before a new record deal could be signed. Because of this airplay , DreamWorks Records signed the band. The label started an extensive marketing campaign. A professional video was shot for the title track and DreamWorks sent out promotion teams to promote the album to the public. An exclusive pre-release single was released via the band's website and sold out within a few days. In addition, a website was set up specifically for the sale of the album, through which an enhanced CD was sold, which u. a. contained a link to exclusive video material on the band page.

The album was later renamed Jimmy Eat World because of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . The album has sold over 1.3 million times in the US alone.

On April 28, 2008, a deluxe edition of the album was released with a bonus CD with multiple B-sides, acoustic versions, live versions, demo versions and previously unreleased tracks. The Deluxe Edition was given the original title Bleed American again .

Track list

  1. Bleed American - 3:02
  2. A Praise Chorus - 4:03
  3. The Middle - 2:46
  4. Your House - 4:46
  5. Sweetness - 3:40
  6. Hear You Me - 4:45
  7. If You Don't, Don't - 4:33
  8. Get It Faster - 4:22
  9. Cautioners - 5:21
  10. The Authority Song - 3:38
  11. My Sundown - 5:40

CD 2 of the Deluxe Edition

  1. Cautioners (demo)
  2. Firestarter
  3. Get It Faster (AOL Version)
  4. Bleed American (Live)
  5. A Praise Chorus (Live)
  6. Softer (Live)
  7. The Middle (Acoustic)
  8. If You Don't, Don't (XFM Version)
  9. Game of Pricks
  10. The Authority Song (Demo)
  11. My Sundown
  12. Sweetness (Live)
  13. Last Christmas
  14. My Sundown (Demo)
  15. Spangle
  16. Hear you me
  17. The Middle (demo)
  18. Your House 2007

Use in other media

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts UK Charts US
  2. ↑ Chad Swiatecki: Jimmy Eat World: Boys Keep Swinging . In: CMJ New Music Monthly . No. 129 , p. 14th f .
  3. ↑ Eric Grubbs: Post: A Look at the Influence of Post-Hardcore-1985-2007 . iUniverse, 2008, ISBN 978-0-595-51835-7 , pp. 321 .