
Song · Jimmy Eat World
“My Best Theory” by Jimmy Eat World
From the album Invented (2010)
“My Best Theory” by Jimmy Eat World appears on 30 radio countdowns from 29 stations between 2010 and 2011. It was first released in 2010 on the album Invented. Its best result is #9 on the 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #7 alternative song of 2010 and #28 of the '10s.
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"My Best Theory" opened the account for Invented, Jimmy Eat World's seventh album, as its lead single in August 2010, and it comes out swinging: taut, jabbing guitars and a chorus that goes straight for the throat. The band produced it with Mark Trombino, who also mixed it, and frontman Jim Adkins handled the recording himself.
Adkins has said it's about holding on to who you are when the world keeps offering nothing but extremes, and the video, directed by Ron Winter, spins that into masked science fiction. It reached number 2 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart and 9 on Rock Songs, the band's best showing since "Pain" went to number one in 2004, and it landed on the Tony Hawk: Shred soundtrack.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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