Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World on stealing records, touring, and having Prince cover the band!

Scott sits with lead guitarist and singer of legendary emo-punk pop band Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World, the morning of the group's NYC performance at Central Park Summerstage. They get into a brief history of Jimmy Eat World, from early teenage years listening to hair metal to their early influences like Pixies, Fugazi, and Rocket from the Crypt. They discuss how the band got together, the Capitol Records years, leading up to being dropped and how they secured a new deal with Dreamworks, which led to the iconic record 'Bleed American.' They also dive into the process behind that record, leading up to other subjects like Taylor Swift, AI, and how Prince came to cover "The Middle." They finish out talking about the tour with Manchester Orchestra and a great set of Top 5s, from the greatest Jimmy Eat World songs to the best pop punk songs.
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1:53 - Jimmy's beginnings
3:30 - On early hair metal influences and learning guitar
5:50 - Discovering bands growing up
6:54 - Fugazi's influence
9:01 - Early performances and playing in high school
11:45 - Early days of Jimmy
12:25 - Emo music
13:49 - 'Bleed American'
16:30 - Started a promotion company in AZ since there wasn’t much opportunity in the state to take off as a musician
17:25 - Capitol recognizing them and signing
19:25 - Loss of Capitol deal
21:59 - Bidding war for 'Bleed American'
23:52 - Story of how Jimmy shipped their own promos to Germany for distribution without label support
26:15 - Touring in Europe
27:55 - 'Bleed American' release and 9/11
29:45 -“The Middle” video
30:00 - Taylor Swift performing “The Middle” in ad and Jim performing with her
30:56 - The making and writing of 'Bleed American'
32:43 - Having ideas for songwriting; waking up in the middle of the night
33:17 - Experience writing with outside writers and the band
33:52 - Recent tour with Manchester Orchestra
36:16 - When We Were Young Festival; lots of new acts gave credit to Jimmy as an influence
38:20 - AI
40:46 - Top 5 emo punk songs of all time
42:53 - Top 5 Jim’s favorite Jimmy Eat World songs
45:39 - Upcoming tour excitement
46:53 - Prince covering “The Middle”
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Host @ScottLipps
Edited by @toastycakes
Music by @Robby_hoff

[@franky_spankyy]

Jim the 🐐 no 🧢

[@minicolic4927]

Jim said Polaris... If it's your favorite, sing it on tour next year! 🙏

[@morganchristopher6092]

I saw you preform in 2011 with Taylor Swift! When you came out and sang the middle with her I absolutely lost my shit!!! I’m not kidding that moment will forever be one of the best memories of my life.

[@alexfast666]

Oh man Arizona days! I was at one of those first CFD shows. Still have the 1st JEW 7 inch. Was a DJ at ASU and played it often. Seven story Mountain was another great Tempe band at the time.

[@GTRrocker84]

Jimmy eat world is awesome. Great guitar band and song writing. Futures and Bleed American are masterpieces.

[@ce7406]

integrity blues is so good too

[@ogbee9690]

how did both of yall forget Clarity???

[@ce7406]

@@ogbee9690 it wasnt the songwriting that made clarity so brilliant (altho they are good songs) vs futures or bleed american where its "normal" production around truly genius pop songwriting

[@ce7406]

❤💙

[@burnedoils]

take a bow, jim, ur one of the greats

[@punkmusiclessons]

MAN how i wish i could hear a Jimmy Eat World NOFX cover. please do this Jim!

[@theEumenides]

Polaris is absolutely one of my favorites! I also adored Something Loud as soon as I heard it.

[@goodnightgoodnight8661]

The JEW/ MO show in Columbus, Oh was the best concert I’ve been too.

[@minicolic4927]

I was there too! It was a blast ❤

[@Alexfieldmusicofficial]

I missed it :/

[@isleofthecheetah]

Does Jim actually age? What secret is he hiding?

[@davidricart1395]

Jesus christ...Jim dropping 4 DLJ songs and a JESUS LIZARD SONG????

[@chasemorello60]

👄💁🛎

[@sufferdata666]

jim is cool but wtf is that yung blood poster on the wall lmao