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October 24, 2007

New Jimmy Eat World Video - "Big Casino"

The first official video from Butch Vig-produced, proud-as-a-peacock Chase This Light offers a groove-acious, commercial-free version of the Go Big Casino-referencing "Big Casino" set against a sandy, faux-gambling backdrop where Jimmy, that pseudo-NJ success story, can intone about the books he wishes he'd read.

The vibe and sentiment kinda reminds us of Bryan Adams. Except he's Canadian. Guessing that's somewhere in Arizona? NJ beaches aren't that clean.

Chase This Light is out on Interscope.

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Yeah, it's Bryan Adams. Not "Brian."

Posted by: musicquizking at 10/24/07 12:41 PM | Reply
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ah, you fixed it!

Posted by: musicquizking at 10/24/07 12:44 PM | Reply
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weird, musicquizking. yeah, i noticed the misspelling (we learned our lesson with "bryan ferry"), made the change, saw your comment, then ended up in a commenting time warp. think it's all sorted out now, but my head hurts.

Posted by: brandon at 10/24/07 12:58 PM | Reply
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13 year old girls are going to love this shit. It's just horrible. There's a lyric in there about dancing on the ceiling for Christ's sakes. If I was Lionel Richie I'd be on the phone with my lawyer right now.

Posted by: Clete at 10/24/07 1:11 PM | Reply
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You're not bigger than beer, not better. Why can't you beeeeeeeer.

Posted by: Lionel at 10/24/07 1:25 PM | Reply
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Does this band have fans?

Posted by: Stevezie at 10/24/07 1:32 PM | Reply
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@ Stevezie

They used to be great.

Posted by: Dragon at 10/24/07 1:35 PM | Reply
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the video is cool though.

Posted by: brian Talbert at 10/24/07 2:28 PM | Reply
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that is so corny. i'm surprised anyone is still making music videos like this. it was like a blast of the 90s!

Posted by: chris at 10/24/07 3:41 PM | Reply
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I was a little disappointed with this album, because it's so damn happy for the most part. Futures and especially the EP after it were really grimy and dark (Disintegration has a drum circle, for crying out loud) and I was hoping that would carry over. Sadly, no such luck.

This is a pretty great single though.

Posted by: shane at 10/24/07 3:44 PM | Reply
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Not Arizona -- it's the neon graveyard outside of Las Vegas, where all the old casino signs go to rot. It's been in quite a few other music videos.

Posted by: ricky retardo at 10/24/07 4:04 PM | Reply
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hey! there aren't any beaches in arizona !

Posted by: someguy at 10/24/07 5:13 PM | Reply
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hey! there aren't any beaches in arizona !

Posted by: someguy at 10/24/07 5:21 PM | Reply
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when's that singer going to get a hair cut?

Posted by: center parting at 10/24/07 10:25 PM | Reply
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you dopes complain about this not being as good as their past records, what a joke. if anything they've been treading water since bleed american.

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