Jimmy Eat World Discography:
Jimmy Eat World (1994) [1]
Static Prevails (1996) [2]
A Table For Glasses (1998) [3]
Golfland (2000) [4]
Homesick For War (2003) [5]
Maintenance (2006) [6]
A Chance to Shake That Hand (2008) [7]
No Replacement (2012) [8]
crusade (2017) [9]
[1] Largely the same as OTL's album.
[2] Despite Loren Israel believing that the band would be a good choice to add to the Capitol label, they were narrowly passed off (Capitol soon learned their error and signed them on). From the experience of rejection, Static Prevails was reworked to have a faster sound than initially planned. This was the first album where Jim Adkins sang vocals along with Tom Linton, and it had the band begin to experiment with new studio tricks and instruments. Despite the song Seventeen being popular, the album was not a major hit (although leaps and bounds ahead of 1994's Jimmy Eat World). However, it is viewed as the real start of Jimmy Eat World.
[3] Described by Jim Adkins as a "side project of quiet songs", A Table For Glasses is the only JEW album where Adkins sings a majority of the songs. It also reflects a brief move away from the punk sounds of the other items in the band's discography. Fans of Adkins' solo career deeply admire the album (largely put together from Adkins' experiences at an art supply store) but is not very popular with the punk crowd.
[4] Named after a park in Mesa, Arizona, Golfland was the first big hit for Jimmy Eat World. Known for the 20-minute long mellow guitar solo-filled Future I-11 and the punk rock song Bleed American, it largely contains more mainstream rock than other albums with more influence from Jim Adkins.
[5] Considered to be the magnum opus of the band, its release coincided with the assassination of President Scranton and swearing in of President Rumsfeld and greater tensions with the Soviet Union. It is considered the definitive post-Rizzobeat album and one of the all-time greats of punk. While Homesick For War has many good songs on it, they all really need to be put together to be really appreciated.
[6] The shortest JEW album other than A Table For Glasses, 2006's Maintenance was unable to be a worthy followup to Homesick For War, with it being criticized for being too broad in genres (with elements of punk, emo, folk punk, and grunge).
[7] A Chance to Shake That Hand combined the less developed punk of Static Prevails with the rock of Golfland and allowed for a stable recovery from Maintenance. It often features on lists of "Underrated 2000s Albums" and was relatively popular (albeit nowhere near as much as Golfland or HFW).
[8] No Replacement was considered a contemporarily mediocre album but has received later acclaim. This is largely based on it being the last album featuring Jim Adkins and being accompanied by the epic Homesick For War 10th Anniversary Tour. With the prosperity of the Scaramucci administration meant that punk bands were less popular, No Replacement was a throwback to grunge (without having the same mistakes as Maintenance). The lasting legacy of the band would be Jim Adkins leaving to focus on his solo career in an understood and accepted split that allowed him to focus more on his folk punk albums.
[9] The first album without Jim Adkins, crusade contains new influences of electronic music, forming the new and growing "cyberpunk" genre of music. The instrumental piece New has been featured frequently in movies, TV, and in commercials for its dramatic flair. It seems that with Adkins splitting off, fans of Jimmy Eat World have two bands that they can both appreciate.