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[BRANDON BOYD FROM INCUBUS]

kick start my rock n roll heart



WANNA ALWAYS FEEL LIKE PART OF THIS WAS MINE
I WANNA FALL IN LOVE TONIGHT




i heard this song on the radio yesterday and can't get it out of my head
it is like the soundtrack to my weekly road trips to lake martin in 9th grade

:alkalinedrown:

[Slackmo]

C'MON DAVEY, SING ME SOMETHING THAT I KNOW

[st. park]

i listened to this song an embarrassing amount of times when it came out. also, why doesn't tom sing anymore? what's up with taht shit.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

As much as I loved Bleed American at the time, I don't think I fully understood the significance of just how solid it was.

I mean, the title track followed up by this? Which was like, the fourth single from the album? Or was it a single? I don't even know.

Fantastic.

[MadroXXX]

Jimmy Eat World are a quality band I mostly never think of, and I don't think I've ever heard one of their albums start to finish. That said, I totally wish I had a greatest hits compilation or something.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

You need Bleed American aka Jimmy Eat World.

As far as '00s big guitar pop goes, only The Green Album beats it out.

[Slackmo]

I remember reading this on songmeanings.net a few years ago:

Actually, I love the way this song works... "The don't, don't let's start" comes from a really early They Might Be Giants single (Don't Let's Start) while the "Kickstart my rock'n'roll heart" is a paraphrase of "Kickstart my Heart" by Motley Crue, from the Dr Feelgood album.

For me, this song is about the inextricable link to what you feel and what you're listening to when you feel it, and the way we reach out to music for that connection. "I want to always feel like part of this was mine" seems to beautifully illustrate how we internalise our experience of music into something we can own -- like, just about everybody my age (29) has their special Violent Femmes moment, or their special Cure moment -- and probably somewhere secret, the Motley Crue moment... yeah well, I was a kid in love, OK... "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away" seemed incredibly relevant to my life at the time and I can still remember every word of it.

IN SHORT, this is more than a rock'n'roll lovesong, this is a lovesong to rock'n'roll.

[mouthbreather]

Imagine my disappointment when I found out that Jimmy Eat World wasn't the name of a solo artist.

[77 or 88]

my first ever big arena rock concert: Jimmy Eat World Tenacious D Weezer dear god that was a great show. thanks go to the people who bought me tickets. And, at the risk of board heresy, Jimmy Eat World probably had the best performance. But of course the crowd went far more apeshit for Weezer. Either way it was a great way to start going to shows regularly.

[stphone]

weird, just finished listening to this album.

[Duff.]

my first ever big arena rock concert:

Jimmy Eat World
Tenacious D
Weezer

dear god that was a great show. thanks go to the people who bought me tickets. And, at the risk of board heresy, Jimmy Eat World probably had the best performance. But of course the crowd went far more apeshit for Weezer. Either way it was a great way to start going to shows regularly.

Wanted to go to this but I had to hang a bunch of paintings that night and I had no money anyway.

[wakingrufus]

i was tricked into this thread, i thought it was going to be about TMBG

[Slackmo]

i was tricked into this thread, i thought it was going to be about TMBG

That's why there aren't 25 Forgo posts in here already.

[nagode]

loved bleed american when it came out...got sick of it three months later...too sugary sweet...give me static prevails or clarity anyday... that being said i dont think ive listened to jimmy eat world since BA...except when a new album leaks and i hate it... promise ring on the other hand...i listened to 30 degrees the other day...i dont think i could ever get sick of them...

[MattDrufke]

i was tricked into this thread, i thought it was going to be about TMBG

That's why there aren't 25 Forgo posts in here already.

Consider this thread hijacked!

[Slackmo]

THINGS ARE NEVER GONNA BE THE WAY YOU WANT

[BRANDON BOYD FROM INCUBUS]

listened to this song 3-4 times between 3-4 am today

[Dread]

That video reminded me of the time I saw them for free and it semi-crushed my fandom for them, which was hard to swallow since Futures was surprisingly my favorite album of the year just two years before. Something about the band live just doesn't appeal to me.