While poppy lead single “Big Casino” struck a chord with the group’s longtime fans, Chase This Light ultimately didn’t deliver the kinds of numbers the album truly deserved. 2007’s Chase This Light found Jimmy Eat World choosing to self-produce the sessions along with Butch Vig overseeing the entire album. The Gil Norton-produced effort didn’t match its predecessor’s platinum success, but it still went on to pass Gold certification.
The melodic rockers followed up Bleed American with 2004’s far darker Futures album. The songs “The Middle” and “Sweetness” were all over modern rock radio and the mainstream success that had previously eluded them finally came to fruition. The folks at DreamWorks won out and released the band’s landmark 2001 album, Bleed American. After picking up day jobs and self-funding their next studio album, all of a sudden, the band was in the middle of a record label bidding war. Like Wilco once did, the Arizona combo released a couple of commercial disappointments, before being dropped by their major label backers (Capitol). Jimmy Eat World are rock-n-roll survivors.
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