Ably assisted by strong airplay and constant touring, the album quickly went gold in the US and earned a platinum certification by August 2002. The traumatic events of 9/11 notwithstanding, Bleed American (or Jimmy Eat World, as it would remain for the next seven years) went on to achieve everything the band and their label hoped for. Significantly more accessible than the cool, yet left field-inclined Clarity, the album offered a host of delights ranging from the spangly melancholia of “Hear You Me” to the charming, Lemonheads-like ‘Your House’ and the smart, electronica-tinged “Get It Faster.” However, the album’s most persuasive cuts were its quartet of powerful, hooky singles, of which the chugging, Pixies-esque “Salt Sweet Sugar” and the irresistible outsider’s anthem, “The Middle,” arguably remain Jimmy Eat World’s signature hits. Bleed American A Praise Chorus The Middle Your House Sweetness Hear You Me If You Dont, Dont Get It Faster. Jimmy Eat World’s new label, DreamWorks, held similar convictions, and even the briefest of listens to Bleed American suggests they were right all along. “People still find something in what we do”
Though they were without label backing at this stage, the creative control fired the band up, and with further guidance from long-term producer Mark Trombino, they believed they were about to deliver their mainstream breakthrough.
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They initially spread the gospel via a series of self-financed singles, before signing with the ever-discerning Capitol Records, for whom they released two critically-acclaimed albums, 1997’s Static Prevails and 1999’s Clarity.īand and label parted ways after the latter album, but Adkins and co continued touring, releasing the stop-gap Singles collection while they worked up a batch of highly promising material for their next studio album. Having first formed in 1993, the Arizona quartet found kindred spirits among US rock’s fertile underground scene. Bleed American – which reverted to its original title when afforded a deluxe reissue in 2008 – was the result of considerable toil, most of which Jimmy Eat World shouldered without any label backing.Īt this stage, the band had already established a commendable track record. “We all felt we had worked way too hard on it to have it sidelined by not having it given the opportunity to be objectively listened to.”Īdkins wasn’t kidding. “It was a pretty fast decision,” frontman Jim Adkins recalled in an interview with California’s Mercury News in 2011. Understandably concerned about the possible repercussions, DreamWorks and Jimmy Eat World collectively agreed to rename the album Jimmy Eat World, while the album’s title track was switched to “Salt Sweet Sugar.” “We worked way too hard to have it sidelined” With the world recoiling in horror after the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, the (actually apolitical) album title, Bleed American, suddenly took on a much darker dimension. However, neither the band nor their proud label could have predicted what would happen next.
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