Having first formed in 1993, the Arizona quartet found kindred spirits among US rock’s fertile underground scene. Bleed American – which reverted to its original title when afforded a deluxe reissue in 2008 – was the result of considerable toil, most of which Jimmy Eat World shouldered without any label backing.Īt this stage, the band had already established a commendable track record. “We all felt we had worked way too hard on it to have it sidelined by not having it given the opportunity to be objectively listened to.”Īdkins wasn’t kidding. “It was a pretty fast decision,” frontman Jim Adkins recalled in an interview with California’s Mercury News in 2011. “We worked way too hard to have it sidelined”
Understandably concerned about the possible repercussions, DreamWorks and Jimmy Eat World collectively agreed to rename the album Jimmy Eat World, while the album’s title track was switched to “Salt Sweet Sugar.” With the world recoiling in horror after the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, the (actually apolitical) album title, Bleed American, suddenly took on a much darker dimension. However, neither the band nor their proud label could have predicted what would happen next.
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