Eve 6

lol

i honestly had no idea who these guys were before this week

Can’t top Dionne Warwick’s Twitter for end of year unexpected surprise but they’ve already made good in my book for the Third Eye Blind shittalking alone.

Pretty sure I know every word of "Inside Out" despite never hearing a second song by these guys

great X-Files episode though

This might be my favourite album-title-paired-with-album-artwork ever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_in_Your_Head_(Eve_6_album)

amazing

the third eye blind guy had me fake arrested by a real cop in alabama on tour cuz the night before id taken a big jar of candy from the front desk and said im the singer of third eye blind i can do whatever i want and they called his room at 3am telling him 2 give the candy back

— eve 666.5 (@Eve6) December 20, 2020

thank you for making this thread, i really wanted to

i owned the eve 6 s/t in middle school and played it almost every day and i could reel out most of the lyrics on command. i listened to it yesterday for probably the first time in 20 years. it's not embarrassing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1DR7mp8KXE

i suspect marketing shenanigans with eve 6 as well as dionne. i am no fun

afaict max collins has been tweeting like this for months and it was only really picked up on when he tweeted he was a virgin when he wrote "inside out"

i mean it could still be a marketing thing, they put out a live performance of the first album this year, but also this is eve 6 we're talking about

this one is my favorite

we stayed in standard tuning through the early two thousands and therefore fell into obscurity

— eve 666.5 (@Eve6) December 22, 2020

woah this guy is legit good at this

my dad heard about my crazy twitter today and looked it up and called me and said be careful son you live by the sword you die by the sword

— eve 666.5 (@Eve6) December 22, 2020

i always liked the heart in a blender song ftr

does someone want to find and repost here the burrito bit about the eve sixers doing a drive-by at amoeba, for posterity?

i suspect marketing shenanigans with eve 6 as well as dionne. i am no fun

― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, December 22, 2020 11:13 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think the eve 6 one is real but dionne is 100% being social media managed. as are most "good at twitter" public figures. i am happy to be no fun

this:

sense of smell is the last to go and the air is thick with the chemical scent of creatine and turkey jerky emanating from the pores of the guy from third eye blind as he squeezes the life from me

— eve 666.5 (@Eve6) December 22, 2020

im heading toward the light when all of a sudden the guy from jimmy eat world overpowers and wrests the guy from third eye blind from my almost lifeless body

— eve 666.5 (@Eve6) December 22, 2020

at least 3EB have memorable songs

i am the biggest third eye blind fan on this board probably and i'm thrilled this is happening to stephan jenkins

he couldn't deserve it more

not being a fan of either band, I think the Eve 6 guy is the one who comes off looking dopey here (does Jenkins even gaf? has he said anything?)

dionne is 100% being social media managed

Yeah, Dionne's niece Brittani (whose LinkedIn says she is a "Creative Brand Director") is behind it.

in the future any sufficiently advanced celebrity will be indistinguishable from steak-umms

god this year has been fucking terrible

kinda bummed on chance the rapper’s behalf tbh

when I first saw this my first reaction was "hmmm this guy must've given the account to an online-savvy cousin" but then again I have no clue what the Eve 6 guy was like before this, in fact I know nothing about them at all

This went from mildly amusing to cringey real fast

I have no clue what the Eve 6 guy was like before this, in fact I know nothing about them at all

IMO, that’s why this doesn’t even generate the same interest as, say, when the Smash Mouth guy occasionally tweets something that gets traction... Eve 6 is just a band name to me, so seeing them go all Try-Hard Twitter Engagement™ feels particularly shrug-worthy (tho I guess the “standard tuning” tweet is clever).

If this is him and not a calculated marketing move, I’m hoping it’s the result of a gnarly adderall bender.

I always mix these guys up with the dude’s who did that “this is the story of a girl” atrocity

same era as that terrible she’s so hiiiiiiii shit by randy bachman’s kid

that affected form of 90s/early 2000s singer songwriter falsetto pop was enough to make me throw up in my car

Come to think of it it’s kind of surprising that this song appeared on 0 of the Neil Cicierega albums

I'd never heard them.

In 1998-2002 my younger college-aged friends were listening to, I dunno, Magnetic Fields and Air or something.

oh, for the mediocre rock radio days where you could hear Eve 6, Econoline Crush, Oleander, AND Adema on the radio within the same hour

A guy on campus who was not self aware would play with his band in the quad and cover eve 6 and third eye blind in 2007.

In 1998-2002 my younger college-aged friends were listening to, I dunno, Magnetic Fields and Air or something.

oh, for the mediocre rock radio days where you could hear Eve 6, Econoline Crush, Oleander, AND Adema on the radio within the same hour

We had that + CanCon, which was... hit or miss.

this is where i draw the line and insist upon knowing which staffer from the lincoln project or steak-ummm was roped into reviving this band's 'brand'

My best friend liked the heart in a blender song. We are still bff's, perhaps slightly diminished

Oh, it’s that “I would swallow my pride...” song. Total sonic wallpaper.

(YouTube’s page for the song is advertising an Eve 6 show w/Alien Ant Farm on Jan. 1 in Lincoln, NE... guess they’re going for the gold with their promo blitz)

nothing gets people excited for an Eve 6/Alien Ant Farm show more than lowered standards due to being stuck indoors for a year

Hot take: Leech is a better song than Inside Out.

I sang the heart in a blender song at karaoke last year and I’m pretty sure it inspired this eve 6 comeback

'Here's to the Night' is one of the worst songs ever to get heavy video rotation. Friend and I still sing "Are you cooooool with just tonight" to each other in dude's outrageous style for mild laughs

I was gonna say, people who say they only know the heart in a blender song obviously did not graduate high school in 2001, when "Here's to The Night" was being used at a bunch of graduations/proms.

my god, what a piece of shit song

rather have "Here's to the Night" than "(Good Riddance) Time of Your Life"

certainly would have changed the flavor of that one ER episode

It’s startling how good this guy is at Twitter. This is way too unhinged to be brand-managed

our graduation song was Sarah McLachlan's "Angel". a dire song but the competition was 3 other shit songs so it won by not being the worst

"Closing Time" here

the drummer from Semisonic actually released a book about the one-hit wonder experience which was pretty entertaining

was it called Rendezvous, Then I'm Through With You

My senior class song was the dreadful "Wind of Change," later to become the subject of a horrible go-nowhere podcast, so I win. xps

HAHA, damn son

Wow - this “Here’s to the Night” song/video are indeed twin abominations.

Apparently the band covered TLC’s “Waterfalls,” and were so proud that they used the track as a b-side on two different singles?

definitely a weird looking video

https://i.postimg.cc/C57npnqp/image.png

Fuck, I forgot about "Here's To The Night" (which was beaten out for senior song by "Good Riddance").

A girl who liked me complimented me by saying I looked like the singer for Eve 6 (I did not) - ran into her a decade later and she was amazed that I didn't pick up on that as her flirting with me.

new hot take: the eve 6 brand revival is all a stunt to promote this new ringo starr single that apparently came out 4 days ago

xp

I think I can visualize the video - lots of motion stopped camera work where the singer starts moving when everyone is frozen (or vice versa)?

Not really - it’s the dude creepily videotaping a girl at a high school party (interspersed with shots of him singing earnestly to the camera)

No judgment, but if my Wikipedia page revealed that this guy was my uncle, I’d probably go to some lengths to get that line removed.

The album's first single, "Think Twice," is a hard-rocking angst anthem about struggling for the courage to leave an unfaithful lover. "Think twice before you touch my girl," Max Collins sings in the chorus. "Come around/ I'll let you feel the burn."

he had the clap?

i remember "here's to the night" being on trl a lot

the only 'heart in a blender' song i want to do at karaoke (and indeed have) is limp bizkit "nookie"

fml pete buttigieg is probably an eve6 fan

— eve cigs (@Eve6) February 12, 2020

.@elonmusk does your wife think im fit and does she like the heart in a blender song

— eve cigs (@Eve6) December 23, 2020

They've crossed over into Relatable Brand Twitter territory.

mf has a neck kanji tattoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS3r_kYqAlc

fml pete buttigieg is probably an eve6 fan

— eve cigs (@Eve6) February 12, 2020

lol whoops

Doesn’t sound like he would be

buttigieg likes the magnetic fields or air or something

Hmm…

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/04/mayor-pete-radiohead-spoon-albums/

For one, he seems to have flipped his opinion about Hail to the Thief, the Radiohead album he said represented how “we, too, are nationally unwell.” Now, he considers it the band’s best record, saying, “I know it’s not as canonical as OK Computer or even Kid A, but it holds together better than almost any of the others.”

Mayor Pete is lj confirmed.

"or even Kid A"

this also goes without saying - but clowning on pete b. is a very “its an older code, sir” attempt at tapping into twitter tribalism.

“fml i paid $15k for these tweets and the supposed social wizard is @‘ing elon musk; I could have done that myself”

I was a #teen for their peak years and I have no memory of any of their songs tbqh

our graduation song was Sarah McLachlan's "Angel". a dire song but the competition was 3 other shit songs so it won by not being the worst

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 04:31 (twelve hours ago) link

excuse me can we circle back to this, the song about heroin overdose was your graduation song

lmao holy shit

my cousin's graduation song was "bittersweet symphony" which i thought was actually a great choice. my mom enjoyed it so much she became a verve fan

i went to a weird dual-credit high school program at a community college and can't remember what graduation song we decided on but i do remember us walking out to the indiana jones theme

imo you should get to choose your own graduation song, wrestler-style

given my listening habits at the time I'd have probably gone with Big Boi's "Last Call"

I don't think we had one. They play these at the actual ceremony(?)

jose canseco's account is real though, i need to believe that

I just assumed everyone also walked to this lady playing piano

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bad-album-cover-12.jpg

mine was “at the beginning” by donna lewis and richard marx from don bluth’s anastasia and they don’t just play them; in my case at least the entire senior class had to rehearse singing it. not too rigorously tho.

excuse me can we circle back to this, the song about heroin overdose was your graduation song

― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, December 23, 2020 12:29 PM bookmarkflaglink

I don't suspect anybody on the committee knew anything about the song other than its title.

I remember so little of high school and I didn’t even start smoking the weed til I was an adult

lol big same

Same

Add alcohol

It's pretty fragmentary for me too (and yeah, I didn't touch any of that stuff until later)

here's to the nights we can't recall

so he keeps clowning on third eye blind, vertical horizon, jimmy eat world, and other "alt rock" radio staple bands of the late-90s and 00s. it's funny, but also seems bleak, like, if i was the lead singer of the "heart in a blender" song i wouldn't want to hold up that era to ridicule, doing so would present a major threat to my ego, i'd imagine.

i guess he wants to forget himself and embrace the future, which, you know, might be an act of bravery, might be foolhardy, like what's so great about the present anyway

the foo fighters is way better than eve6 but theyre still fucking terrible

— eve cigs (@Eve6) December 23, 2020

like what kind of self clowning bullshit is this? have some pride man

nickelback > the foo fighters

— eve cigs (@Eve6) December 23, 2020

this, however, is a good tweet. he just needs to find the line and stay at the line.

This guy has been tweeting every 5 minutes for how many days now?

well, at least he's not wrong about the foo fighters. they suck.

the foos mostly suck but they have way more jams than any of the bands mentioned itt

One of my neighbors circa 2001 got signed to Creed’s sub-label based on the strength of his band’s Vertical Horizon cover.

It was buttrock inception.

Foos first two albs are classic fuiud

Wasting Light

err wrong tags lol

the foos mostly suck but they have way more jams than any of the bands mentioned itt

― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, December 23, 2020 12:06 PM

yep, this is a total dumpster discussion afaic.

happy to be here, btw.

the papa roach guy whose name i’ll say because its coby dick signed about 300 of our cd’s that were supposed to be gifted to radio people with his name

— christmas eve eve 6 (@Eve6) December 22, 2020

true story, just found a box of these 😂 - ps we love the “heart in a blender” song https://t.co/K8dZ0KRl4r pic.twitter.com/PIaBiA2sgv

— Papa Roach (@paparoach) December 23, 2020

It’s like being stuck at a wedding table with guys reminiscing about their crazy frat pranks

Yeah I hate this but I can’t stop checking in

“After the Third Eye Blind guy told me he fucked my girlfriend he told me I was ‘a wordsmith like Jim Morrison,'” Collins recently tweeted, to which Jenkins responded, “Clearly this never happened as everyone knows you write like Stevie Nicks.”

Ok, shitty 3rd Eye Blind guy getting another opportunity to embarrass himself is pretty good

isn't that a compliment?

first Foo Fighters record is a good time

Otm. I still jam that one. Killer tour too

Was only my 2nd rock show ever

"hey yer kinda like jim morrison" <——them's fightin` words in my book

I liked the first foo fighters album. saw them support the prodigy in 1997 when I was 13, loved it.

don't think eve 6 cracked the uk, have only heard the heart in a blender since moving to Canada iirc

foo fighters were an amazing singles band up to a point imo. first three records are generally good

There Is Nothing Left to Lose is fantastic and I want Paramore to cover it front to back.

wow otm

Saw the Foo Fighters at the end of their debut album tour cycle, with Ween and Jawbreaker opening — quite a mid-90s combo. I’d been lucky enough to see Nirvana so it was an interesting compare/contrast. Also Dave still looked like his Nirvana self, the haircut and facial hair soon followed.

don’t like the foos except I love “big me”

that song/video + Shannon hoon at Woodstock 94 represent some kind of end point of u.s. alternative nation or something

Big Me is a decent Teenage Fanclub impersonation

I was interning @ CMJ when their first single (“This Is a Call”) came in from the label... I remember the editors huddling around and playing it loudly, discussing the lyrics, etc.

i’ve been learning to play “this is a call” on the drums and it is... so fun

first time I heard it was the MIDI version which I still think is better than the actual tune

I guess the “standard tuning” tweet is clever

I didn't get this one. Was there some kind of move towards alternate tunings among popular rock bands in the early 00s? I didn't notice.

drop D i think

that would be late 90s though

that tweet made me think of how the goo goo dolls wrote a lot of songs in alt tunings

Iris is also late 90s

sorry I have post this anytime someone mentions iris

https://img.discogs.com/A24Nxfi36qUaxR0keK32LqKLPlA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-820457-1577137861-3207.jpeg.jpg

that tweet made me think of how the goo goo dolls wrote a lot of songs in alt tunings

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, December 23, 2020 8:37 PM bookmarkflaglink

Name was in a ridiculous tuning!

i think the tweet was a reference to nu metal bands that played 7-string guitars in drop tunings

Days of the New - Touch, Peel, and Stand is the sound I imagine

Nu-metal laughs at your puny Drop D

Or Creed - Higher

Drop D made a lotta burned out JNCO wearers think they could play guitar for a minute

didn't goo goo dolls like using weird tunings in their songs too (not that they persisted much longer than eve 6 in the zeitgeist tbh)

anyway please block this guy's account and stop checking up on it

lol at him needing to openly mock his own band's sole significant hit (which is admittedly deserving of mockery) to get a few likes on twitter. if all goes well perhaps it'll help them secure a slot on a nostalgia tour with fastball and cake

i honestly had no idea who these guys were before this week

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, December 22, 2020 12:57 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Googled "heart in a blender song", expecting it to be like, "Oh yeahhh, this". Nope.

I knew the name but I'm pretty sure I'd never heard this band until now.

I agree dyl. It’s all kind of depressing.

Yes, with everything going on rn, people gawking at Eve 6 shitposts is the depressing thing

Oh, I was thinking of stuff like Strokes/White Stripes/Killers. Nu metal bands used extra strings and drop tunings, yeah.

xps

Googled "heart in a blender song", expecting it to be like, "Oh yeahhh, this". Nope.

I linked the tweet on the sincerity thread (after listening) but this was true for me too.

i'm too lazy to look up the Nickelback thread but this kinda fits here better anyway (in terms of things I hate that keep showing up on my tl)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km3sqKZ7CPE

(the virgin tweet) xp

Eve's Plum > Eve 6

Yeah I don’t recognize the Heart in a Blender song either, but It sounds like something I would have heard if I ducked into a mall CD store after purchasing advanced Phantom Menace tickets.

i had to look up the song. i know it as the "FAITH IN NOTHING" song. That bit goes way harder. wtf this brain stuff

*heart stuff. i can't even remember that line now!

feel like some people know it as the

*heart in a blender song
*the 'beautiful oblivion' song
*the 'rendezvous then I'm through with you' song
*the 'terrible' song

It’s not that terrible. As a kid I liked it because it had the word “rendezvous” and a few other long words.

you must have *loved* Bad Religion

just treated myself to "Noel! Noel!" on A Very Special Christmas 5. There are many "Brrrrrap!"s and a bridge where he sings "I like christmas" a bunch.

I like every single one of those "oh that song" songs from that era -- heart in a blender, you're the one i want to take me home, doot doot doot, doot duh doot doot, all of them

it's no surprise to you you are your own worst enemy

^I actually really like that one

"Chicka Cherry Cola" > all of those

Ew no nooooo

Mash all those songs 2 getha

I loooved this one, used to sing it robustly (tho it’s a slightly later era than those mentioned above):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPnK39ax_AM

lifehouse were def a hangover of this era with added vedderisms

(the lifehouse song i love is "spin," i even like the record it comes from)

I mean this is basically the era of "Songs that would occupy Mix CDs made by Teenaged Me, because I wasn't going to actually bother and purchase the entire album for one good song, and I was desperately trying to get into popular music but had no interest in Boy Bands, Rap, or Nu Metal". And over the span of several CDs, I ended up having FOUR separate Eve 6 songs on them!

This week I learned that Light in the Attic sells colored vinyl reissues of a bunch of albums from this era, including Eve 6

https://lightintheattic.net/releases/7219-horrorscope

For some reason I keep mixing up the heart in a blender song with “desperately wanting” by better than ezra

Lifehouse always had secret "we formed in our church's youth group" vibes to me, but maybe it's because the singer reminded me of a kid from my church.

formative moment for 12 year old me: after months of listening to hanging by a moment on WHFS in that monumental summer of 2001 (nickelback's first hit! sum 41! alien ant farm! staind! FUEL!!!) - realizing just how bad of a singer the guy is after they started splicing in live performances from that year's HFStival

i realized then and there that we weren't entering a new golden age of recorded music. we were so close

god none of those dudes could hit a single note except staind guy. they played those live recordings for months!

Robert Pollard a few years ago: "At one point, I thought music couldn't get any worse than Alien Ant Farm. Now, I'm nostalgic for Alien Ant Farm".

lifehouse was definitely a 'secret youth group' kind of band that quickly revealed itself to be basically adult contemporary BUT "hanging by a moment" is a classic honestly, most of the 'authentic' alt rock bands could never

that song is such a time capsule song

Cancelled, milkshake ducked, etc.

bush > kate bush

— the beastie boys’ hypocritical dad (@Eve6) June 7, 2021