Stay on My Side Tonight (Dig) [EP]

Jimmy Eat World | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 4, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: EP
• Label: Interscope Records
• ASIN: B000B8GTOC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,545 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They've been holding back for too long..., October 4, 2005

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Fabian Wilfred (Malaysia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stay on My Side Tonight (Dig) (Audio CD)

Jimmy Eat World blasts the very skin off the toast on this EP, more energy than futures I dare say, heading towards an enormity of what I would call "post Emo fast pop punk culture". Hope comes from inside and Jimmy Eat World has never in my right mind sold out to the money making conglomerates of the music world, they remain steadfast as they were when clarity hit the racks. I love this EP; automatically the years best for me, sadly it's an EP not an Album.


Disintegration
Starts out slow paced and builds into this killer drumming resonating through the speakers as Jim Adkins spills his souls through words. No regrets here as the chorus hits, about the taste of a relationship through painful eyes as everything but the blood remains.

Over
A lyrical rhyme to every question you've ever had in a relationship, I just can't understand how they write about relationships and make it sound like its about everything you do in life. Love the whole works. You'll never be over this...

Closer
has an excellent killer power punk guitar solo towards the end...that leaves you deafening...lyrics have gotten more on the somber mood...but instrumentally a genius mix, Jim Adkins makes no fatal move here. This is Jimmy Eat World on fine print.

Half Right
An EMO powerhouse that rips right through your skin, starts off sounding like a Death Cab for Cutie tune, lyrically explicit mind you, awesome song.

Drugs or Me - Styrofoam Mix
Interesting, as a mix can get on any experimental level, a very different outlook of the band.


P/s: An instructional dose of Jimmy Eat World, worth every penny spent.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars its better after a breakup, November 15, 2005

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moonlit panic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stay on My Side Tonight (Dig) (Audio CD)

i'm a huge fan of j.e.w., i'v followed them since the beginning, and i think they get better and better. i bought this ep immediately after its release, which happened to be a few days into a rough breakup. each song connected very well with the heartbreaking situation, and is very open to relate to other's as well. musically, i think it is profound. it is a much more tranquil j.e.w. record, but each note seems to carry its own dark emotion. i am moved with every listen.

i think the highlight of the ep is the song "closer". it begins with a mellow riff and a wonderfully catchy chorus, and then explodes in the middle with a swelling, emotional, power-pop-punk instrumental, and then ends on the same note as the beginning. it is truly beautiful. i recommend this ep very highly for any fans of "clarity" and "futures", and any newcomers to jimmy eat world

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Good as Futures, January 7, 2006

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Collegiate Music Fan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stay on My Side Tonight (Dig) (Audio CD)

This EP is quite impressive. Disintegration is a long, lush, spacious song and is just as good, if not better than anything on their "Futures" LP. The "Drugs or Me" remix is startling, in that it is like nothing JEW has ever done before, but worth listening to again and again. This is an excellent purchase for any Jimmy fan.