Jimmy Eat World (1994 album)

Jimmy Eat World is the debut studio album by American rock band Jimmy Eat World, released in December 1994 through Wooden Blue Records, limited to 2,000 copies. In 1993, musician Jim Adkins joined a band with his childhood friend and drummer, Zach Lind. With guitarist Tom Linton and bassist Mitch Porter in the lineup, the band named themselves Jimmy Eat World. They made their live debut in February 1994, but as their hometown of Mesa, Arizona, lacked a music scene, they started their own with their friends. With a tape demo made in early 1994, Adkins and school friend Joel Leibow started a promoters company, Bring Me the Head Of Productions.

Leibow and Jeremy Yocum then formed Wooden Blue Records, releasing Jimmy Eat World's One, Two, Three, Four EP. The band recorded their self-titled debut album over three days, co-producing it with Steve Naugton, at Phoenix Recording Company. The album, whose artwork features Linton's brothers Jim and Ed, is a pop-punk and skate punk release, drawing comparison to Face to Face, J Church, NOFX, and Superchunk. Linton handled the majority of the lead vocals, while Adkins sang one song, "Usery". Critics said it was not representative of the rest of their catalogue; Linton and Yocum were also dismissive of the album.