Track Listing

1. Big Casino
2. Let It Happen
3. Always Be
4. Carry You
5. Electable (Give It Up)
6. Gotta Be Somebody's Blues
7. Feeling Lucky
8. Here It Goes
9. Chase This Light
10. Firefight
11. Dizzy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2846 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-16
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
The rough edges have been shaved away, but there is something admirable about the way Jimmy Eat World recovers from 2004's dreary Futures album with a follow-up that displays all the confidence and vitality of its seminal early work. Executive-produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins), Chase This Light is packed with huge pop moments, galloping off with the exhilarating "Big Casino" and swiftly following it with the towering "Carry You," songs seemingly custom made for action-packed pick-up truck commercials. Clarity, the Arizona band's 1999 breakthrough, remains in a completely different class, but at least you get the sense that it's making the effort this time around, despite following what is clearly a more mainstream glow. --Aidin Vaziri

Album Description
Jimmy Eat World, one of rock's most lasting and loved icons, return with Chase This Light. The first album since 2004's Futures finds the band partnered with legendary producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins) overseeing as executive producer. Largely recorded in the band's own studio in Arizona, Chase This Light has a powerful optimism and, like 2001's beloved platinum break-through Jimmy Eat World (aka Bleed American), each song finds a way to compel the listener to keep coming back again and again to discover a new favorite.

Jimmy Eat World have the unique ability to be a bands-band as well as fans-band, marrying credibility with a tuneful accessibly that makes them a permanent fixture of the modern music scene. Jimmy Eat World never stop striving to make the best music of their career, Chase This Light proves this.

Album Description
UK pressing of the American Alterna-Rock band's 2007 album features two bonus tracks: 'Be Sensible' and 'Distraction'. The first album since 2004's Futures finds the band partnered with legendary producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins) overseeing as executive producer. Largely recorded in the band's own studio in Arizona, Chase This Light has a powerful optimism and, like 2001's beloved platinum break-through Jimmy Eat World (AKA Bleed American), each song finds a way to compel the listener to keep coming back again and again to discover a new favorite. Jimmy Eat World have the unique ability to be a band's-band as well as fan's-band, marrying credibility with a tuneful accessibly that makes them a permanent fixture of the modern music scene. Jimmy Eat World never stop striving to make the best music of their career, Chase This Light proves this. Polydor.

Customer Reviews

J.E.W. continues to deliver!
If you are a fan of previous Jimmy Eat World cds, you will love this one too. I was so happy that they were consistant with another excellent album! Ever since their Clarity album, they have continued to deliver. And that's why they are my favorite band! :-D My favorite track on this CD is Here It Goes. The only song that isn't awesome on this CD is track #7, I forget the name of the song. I highly recommend this cd!!

Jimmy Eat World Still Rocks
Love them, love all their music, never disappointed with a single song on the CD!

Chase This Band
Let me just start by saying that I think Jimmy Eat World can do no wrong and Jim Adkins is one of the sexiest men on earth because he is "real". What you see is what you get and what you get is a brilliant songwriter, singer, performer that gives so much of himself to you that if you ever met this guy, you'd already know so much about him that you'd just go up and slap him on the back and say "Hey, Jim, nice to see you." Jim is one of us and we know it. One more statement: their previous CD, Futures, was absolutely and unquestionably one of the most brilliant CD's of all time.

Okay, now I got that off my proverbial chest, let me say something about their newest CD, Chase This Light. Realistically, anything that comes after "Futures" has a hard act to follow. Chase This Light seems like the CD that should have come BEFORE Futures. Don't get me wrong, this is NOT a bad CD by any means, like I said, Jimmy Eat World can do wrong. There is brilliance here like any other of their musical efforts: Big Casino, Electable, Chase This Light. No one mixes brilliant melodies and lyrics the way Jimmy Eat World does. Jim Adkins' vocals are always passionate, sincere, and sexy. Whereas Futures was a darker, more personal journey for the band, Chase This Light is much more hopeful and brighter. As a whole, this CD is lively, dance-worthy, and worthy of multiple listenings. I just hope that the perfection they touched upon with Futures won't dull the glow of their subsequent CD's. It's hard not to compare anything they do now with Futures. But I believe in Jim and the band and know that there are only good things to come from Jimmy Eat World. In summary, buy this CD, let it rock your socks off, and enjoy it to its fullest. Chase This Light wherever it goes.