Jimmy Eat World Set Lists and Review

Welcome back to The Rock Show, where it’s all about the music.  Jimmy Eat World just played two shows nearby:  the House of Blues Atlantic City and the Crocodile Rock.  I wasn’t at either of them (I saw them on the first leg of the tour back in October), but according to the set lists from the shows, they were really great.  Here they are:

@The House of Blues, Feb 11

1. Bleed American
2. My Best Theory
3. Coffee & Cigarettes
4. Your New Aesthetic
5. Let It Happen
6. Polaris
7. Futures
8. Big Casino
9. Dizzy
10. Action Needs an Audience
11. Pain
12. 23
13. Evidence
14. Hear You Me
15. For Me This is Heaven
16. Work
17. Blister
18. Goodbye Sky Harbor

Encore

1. Invented
2. The Middle
3. Sweetness

@The Crocodile Rock, Feb 12

1. A Praise Chorus
2. My Best Theory
3. Coffee & Cigarettes
4. Lucky Denver Mint
5. Let It Happen
6. Polaris
7. Futures
8. Big Casino
9. Dizzy
10. Action Needs an Audience
11. Pain
12. 23
13. Thinking, That’s All
14. Evidence
15. For Me This is Heaven
16. Hear You Me
17. Work
18. Blister
19. Goodbye Sky Harbor

Encore

1. Invented
2. The Middle
3. Sweetness

For comparison, here’s the set they played back in October at the Electric Factory:

1. Bleed American
2. Your New Aesthetic
3. A Praise Chorus
4. My Best Theory
5. Let It Happen
6. For Me This is Heaven
7. Futures
8. Big Casino
9. Action Needs an Audience
10. Dizzy
11. Coffee & Cigarettes
12. Movielike
13. Hear You Me
14. Evidence
15. Work
16. Blister
17. Goodbye Sky Harbor

Encore

1. 23
2. Pain
3. The Middle
4. Sweetness

They seem to be playing most of the same stuff, although I’m very jealous that they started playing “Polaris,” a song I would have absolutely loved to hear at the show I went to.  Not to mention, at the Crocodile Rock they played “Thinking, That’s All,” which has got to be one of the deepest vault tunes they have.  It looks like they started the tour playing it safe by doing most of the hits and very few surprises (maybe just “Dizzy” and “Goodbye Sky Harbor”), but as the tour went on it seems they’re dropping some hits in favor of vault stuff like “Polaris,” “Lucky Denver Mint,” and “Thinking, That’s All.”  Either way, they’re definitely putting on a great show assuming they’re still playing like they did back in October.

Here’s a review from the Crocodile Rock show: http://blogs.mcall.com/lehighvalleymusic/2011/02/review-emotions-still-define-jimmy-eat-worlds-music-.html#tp.

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