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It's almost as if they read my mind (or my blog): Earlier this week, Jimmy Eat World announced their "Clarity X 10" tour, a 10-night trek across these great United States of ours where each night they'll play their 1999 opus Clarity from start to finish. And who was tapped to open the final three shows? Why, No Knife, of course! The very same No Knife who I saw and heard for the first time in 1999 when they opened for Braid's last show; the very same No Knife who I missed due to being sick the only other time they came anywhere near me while I was in college; the same No Knife who broke up shortly after the tour I missed.
So, yeah. I'm a little bit on the stoked side.
I have no idea if this will spawn into a full-blown reunion for them, which is why I'm not going to fuck around: Tempe, Arizona? I'm coming for you in March. I mean, what better place to see one of my all-time favorite bands play one of my all-time favorite albums from start to finish with another of my all-time favorite bands reuniting to open the show, all in the first band's hometown? It's all sorts of perfect, if you ask me, and I will be refreshing the shit out of my browser come Thursday morning in hopes to get pre-sale tickets. (Yes, it's true, even high falutin' music editors such as myself buy their concert tickets once in a while.)
Oh, yeah, I'm also definitely gonna hit up that Chicago show on Feb. 28, too -- it's at the Metro, which is the same venue I first saw Jimmy Eat World at over seven years ago, with Reuben's Accomplice opening. And guess who's opening the Chicago show for this tour, too? Reuben's fucking Accomplice! (Jim Adkins, stop reading my diary already, this is getting creepy!)
I'm really, really hoping Jimmy Eat World pull out all the stops for this thing. Performing everything from Clarity will require more than just four dudes and a few guitars. So Jim, if you are reading this, please take note:
1. Please sing all the words to "Your New Aesthetic." Every time I've seen you play this song live, you always end up dropping out segments of it, and it's wholly frustrating.
2. Please bring along a string section so you can properly capture the majesty of "For Me This Is Heaven." When those violins build before the last chorus (y'know, the "an Angel for me" part), it's goosebump city.
3. Please, please, please play all 16:11 minutes of "Goodbye Sky Harbor." The "rock-out" version you've been doing for the better part of a decade is fine normally, but for these shows, it would be incredible to see you and the guys properly attempt the vocal loops and electronics.
4. For your shows with No Knife, please come out and sing your part on their song, "Charming," as I've always wanted to see that -- and the below video from 2001 doesn't nearly do the part justice:
And hell, while I'm posting No Knife videos, check the following out so you can see how awesome this band was and get pumped for their return to music (please please please, return to music). This is the video for "The Red Bedroom," off 2002's Riot For Romance!:
This is "Flechette," off the same album (ignore the first 30 seconds):
There's not a lot of live footage of No Knife on YouTube (the curse of primarily being a band prior to 2005), but here's a killer clip from 2001 of the band performing "Mission Control" off 1999's absolutely brilliant Fire In The City Of The Automatons:
Okay, so I'll be the first to admit this blog is hella unorganized. So allow me to sum it up: Clarity rules, No Knife rules, this tour is gonna rule, and I'll see you in Tempe.
So, yeah. I'm a little bit on the stoked side.
I have no idea if this will spawn into a full-blown reunion for them, which is why I'm not going to fuck around: Tempe, Arizona? I'm coming for you in March. I mean, what better place to see one of my all-time favorite bands play one of my all-time favorite albums from start to finish with another of my all-time favorite bands reuniting to open the show, all in the first band's hometown? It's all sorts of perfect, if you ask me, and I will be refreshing the shit out of my browser come Thursday morning in hopes to get pre-sale tickets. (Yes, it's true, even high falutin' music editors such as myself buy their concert tickets once in a while.)
Oh, yeah, I'm also definitely gonna hit up that Chicago show on Feb. 28, too -- it's at the Metro, which is the same venue I first saw Jimmy Eat World at over seven years ago, with Reuben's Accomplice opening. And guess who's opening the Chicago show for this tour, too? Reuben's fucking Accomplice! (Jim Adkins, stop reading my diary already, this is getting creepy!)
I'm really, really hoping Jimmy Eat World pull out all the stops for this thing. Performing everything from Clarity will require more than just four dudes and a few guitars. So Jim, if you are reading this, please take note:
1. Please sing all the words to "Your New Aesthetic." Every time I've seen you play this song live, you always end up dropping out segments of it, and it's wholly frustrating.
2. Please bring along a string section so you can properly capture the majesty of "For Me This Is Heaven." When those violins build before the last chorus (y'know, the "an Angel for me" part), it's goosebump city.
3. Please, please, please play all 16:11 minutes of "Goodbye Sky Harbor." The "rock-out" version you've been doing for the better part of a decade is fine normally, but for these shows, it would be incredible to see you and the guys properly attempt the vocal loops and electronics.
4. For your shows with No Knife, please come out and sing your part on their song, "Charming," as I've always wanted to see that -- and the below video from 2001 doesn't nearly do the part justice:
And hell, while I'm posting No Knife videos, check the following out so you can see how awesome this band was and get pumped for their return to music (please please please, return to music). This is the video for "The Red Bedroom," off 2002's Riot For Romance!:
This is "Flechette," off the same album (ignore the first 30 seconds):
There's not a lot of live footage of No Knife on YouTube (the curse of primarily being a band prior to 2005), but here's a killer clip from 2001 of the band performing "Mission Control" off 1999's absolutely brilliant Fire In The City Of The Automatons:
Okay, so I'll be the first to admit this blog is hella unorganized. So allow me to sum it up: Clarity rules, No Knife rules, this tour is gonna rule, and I'll see you in Tempe.
posted by Scott Heisel at
11:23 PM
5 Comments:
this is going to be great, now i get to see No Knife!!
WHERE THE FUCK WAS NO KNIFE WHEN I WAS 12!!!!!!
Sorry, but Scott that band is amazing. I gatta go find a record of them now.
see you in chicago.
shall be glorious-
mebly
I got to see Jimmy Eat World on the Clarity tour. The songs they did from it: "Lucky Denver Mint," "Your New Aesthetic," "Just Watch the Fireworks," "For Me This is Heaven," "Blister," and a shortened version of "Goodbye Sky Harbor." So, seeing "A Sunday," "Believe In What You Want," and "Table for Glasses" live will be great.
And I'm stoked No Knife is playing again. Fire is still incredible to this day.
At first when you said No Knife would open for the final three shows, I assumed they were somewhere near the east coast where you would be attending. Then you said it was in Tempe. Now I'm all giggly and my heart is beating so fast I could faint. I've driven further distances for less awesome bands.
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