Bonus Song Thursday - Jimmy Eat World "Half Right"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! And Bill and Brian take a very circuitous route to keep talking about Elliott Smith by discussing Jimmy Eat World's cover of the Heatmiser tune "Half Right." The song was written by Smith and added as a hidden track to the band's last album, 1996 album Mic City Sons, as Smith left to pursue his solo career full time. Brian and Bill talk about how the song is a faithful recreation, the story of the EP that contains it, and how Brian himself covered the song in his first live performance of a complete set. We also read some listener emails about the Grateful Dead, Levon Helm, and the word "timbre."

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0:00.0	I'm I'm I'm
0:21.6	The Hello, I'm Bill.
0:50.4	And I'm Brian.
0:51.4	And this is the great albums podcasts podcast, Bonus Song Thursday.
0:56.1	Bonus.
0:57.3	What were we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:59.1	We were listening to Jimmy Eat World's cover of Heat Miser's song Half Right, written by Elliot Smith.
1:08.4	If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a different album of music
1:12.6	and talk about what makes it great.
1:15.2	This week we were talking about Elliot Smith's X-O.
1:20.1	And so, yeah, Brian just alluded to why it's such a roundabout way of doing this
1:26.7	because, you know, Jimmy World doesn't have much to do with Elliot Smith.
1:30.8	And then you're like, oh, this is a cover of a band called Heat Miser.
1:36.2	But this was the band that Elliot Smith was in.
1:40.3	Oh, by the way, bonus song Thursday is the episode we follow up the album with.
1:44.3	Oh, yeah.
1:44.7	With like another, we're just a single track that's kind of another song by the artist or something tangentially related.
1:51.0	So this is something.
1:51.5	So this is the tangential thing.
1:53.0	Yeah, very, very tangential.
1:54.5	We went Elliot Smith, heat miser, Jimmy World.
1:58.4	But we kind of had before, you know, kind of off air, we talked about it.
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