third eye blind -- classic or dud

Riff is 1/2 of sweet jane, and chorus is talking heads ("the world was moving and she was right there with it...") and guitar squiggle is stolen from fountains of wayne. And between the chorus is no verse, but the song title, repeated over and over. This is 3EB as "pop" -- the other 3EB is alt-sludge, with white boy rapper vocals which are fey rather than agressive, thus differentiating from bizkit.

"Losing A Whole Year" is really great.

people said crap like that back in the day? TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

Losing a Whole Year and Deep Inside Of You are their best songs.

Sure have! Now they're even more dud than ever. ;-)

How is the new 3EB album? I haven't heard anything off it. Didn't Fred Durst play guitar on a track or two?

Anthony do you know everything about Fred Durst? I haven't listened to the new album yet but it sounded good frm the store snippets.

Yay!

3eb still sux, tho'.

I'm almost done Weezer (mostly as I remembered - I still love "Holiday", like "In the Garage", don't mind a couple others, but don't get most of it). I'll get back when I've listened to Blue again.

"And I see you fogging up the mirror
Vapor round your body glistens in the shower
And I want to stay right here and go down on you for an hour"

Thats ok with me.

In perusing through antiquated ILM threads (hey, gimme a break, it's 6:20 am and I've been up for a bajillion hours), 3EB is a band I seem to fluctuate between liking, tolerating, actually quite enjoying and abjectly loathing. Sure, Jenkins is a shameless Ass Shogun and that whole business about portraying the Kinks? Oh do verily kid me not. But as I sit here in my office, blasting "Losing A Whole Year" out of my computer l can't help but think they definetely had something. There are several damn respectable tracks on that first record. The second record? Ehhh....not so much, and let's not even mention the third record (actually, can anyone even remember the title?) I compared them to Maroon 5 not too long ago, but I'm pretty sure Maroon 5 have yet to write a botched relationship song as on-the-money as "How's it Gonna Be?" or the afore-mentioned "Losing a Whole Year".

i *do* miss radio rock bands having shiny hooks instead of whiny sludge. all we've got in that dept today is, well, maroon 5 (who i don't have the energy to feel one way or another about) and the occasional linkin park single. the good charlottes and all of them don't seem to be trying as hard in the post-blink 182 era. actually, i've changed my mind. i don't really care at all.

{resets bar, low. replaces blood-encrusted handkerchief over wheelchair-bound man's face. brief tableaux. exeunt.}

DUD! There was actually a lively debate about how terrible 3EB were on the pavement list once. Whatever happened to the 3EB/Eddie Vedder rivalry that was playing out on VH1? FWIW, what happened to Pearl Jam?

They are, but they're kinda subsersive in the context of the song (which is essentially an ode to being strung out on crystal meth).

-- Tantrum The Cat, September 25th, 2004.

especially when the song fashions itself as either a judgement or a self-aggrandizing "it-could-have-been-me" ode, which makes it UberDud. it's like an Ur text for duds. of course, it's also the gist of the American remake of Traffic.

no low spark for me.

Clearly it's opposite day.

I never thought the song was particularly judgemental either way. I haven't seen either version of Traffic so I can't comment on that.

Also:

SEX AND DRUGS ON THE RADIO OMG WTF

It's too bad there's already TV On The Radio (who are awesome), because Sex And Drugs On The Radio is a face-rockingly good band name.

don't give steven s0d3rb3rgh any "new" ideas!

Jim Derogatis' interview/dis of Stephen Jenkins is one of the meanest, most self-serving pieces of journalism I've read in recent years.

(dud....)

Not classic.......but still seems to hit me on a level most rock music fails to reach.

dont they have a new album coming out?
always had a spot for them

yes and it's called "Ursa Major", speaking of Superdrag

ha, the single

I can't stand the affected English accent but when "Semi-Charmed" or "How's It Going to Be" come on the radio I'm glad. I'm gonna pull a Nostradamus and predict that late 90s alt-grunge-make-out-rock ballads like the aforementioned "How's It Going to Be" or the Goo Goo Doll's "Iris" will eventually become the "Don't Stop Believin'" are-we-being-ironic-or-not-i-dunno anthems of a future generation.

I couldn't never get past my impression of Jenkins as a sleazy perv. 'Semi-Charmed' just confirmed all my suspicions to a catchy beat and as a band they just give me a mental block. my first thought is always "Erg! Yuk!"

I don't think the aforementioned songs (which I really like) are the right combo of ridiculous+good to become are-we-being-ironic classics.

'I Want It That Way' has already earned a place in that canon though.

I'm sure there are some others. That might be a good thread idea.

"How's It Going to Be" probably not, but I easily see a song as well known and over the top as "Iris" as taking a spot up there some day (the epic cheese factor for some 90s songs has yet to fully set in - we're still hearing it with somewhat fresh ears i.e. 1997 wasn't too long ago for many). And you should start the thread, would be fun to think about.

Yeah, maybe Iris. And 3eb are ridiculous...just not ridiculous in the right way. I'll make the thread.

undeniably classic. first album is completely unfuckwithable, love songs here and there thereafter as well.

this guy's pop culture references are always so uncomfortable and awkward

yet i still think this band is great, didn't like them first time around in the 90s, now their nostalgia factor is pretty ridiculous

yeah those singles have aged well imo, "Graduate" is the shit

New album isn't out yet, is it?

it's not out, but it's good and i don't know why

yeah it's leaked, im really excited to listen to it

i'm just sayin

i'm imagin harmony notes

and they're right

<3

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/17198/blind_jpg_445x1000_upscale_q85.jpg

dud

when did Matt Damon join?

"I just joined a shitty alternapop band. Howdya like THEM apples?"

lol

I've always wanted to start a Third Eye Blind tribute band called Third Nostril Anosmic. maybe now's a good time?

with hit single "Misplacing a Whole 6 Months"?

song should really have been titled "Losing a Whole 3-½ Minutes" out of sympathy for its listeners.

f u

John Vanderslice with wisdom. The trick: it's not so much the song as a key member of the band.

That was a fun read.

yeah that was awesome. exactly how i picture jenkins lol

this is also one of the more insane-o fandoms i've ever semi-engaged with

lol

* cues "Never Let You Go" *

sometimes you're looking for any news of a new record and you see a bunch of fanboards where jenkins' lawyer is referred to by first name

The creative mind at work:

We took a car. The thing that Hwin was keen for me to understand about his life that week was that it wasn’t really his. For the past several days, he’d been doing a “life swap” with Stephan Jenkins, the lead singer of the alternative-rock band Third Eye Blind. Jenkins has a large and lovely house in Pacific Heights, but his charmed life in San Francisco’s old-money district wasn’t helping him write fresh and edgy music. So Hwin would occupy Jenkins’s Pac Heights studio for a while, and Jenkins would inhabit Hwin’s small, dormlike room in the Sub. (“It’s at the intersection of the gentrification on Valencia and the gritty, hard, dug-in city life,” Jenkins said. “People are walking around with knives.”) Hwin asked me whether I wanted to maybe head over there—it was a pretty sweet place, and Jenkins had hella guitars and shit—and I said sure...

“Look at the water!” Johnny Hwin said, squinting at the bay as we crested Pac Heights and drove west, toward the Presidio. It was the kind of day that kicks aside the quilt of summer fog, and every detail of a northern coast of the bay showed clearly in the late-afternoon light. We stopped in front of a white house set back slightly from the street. Hwin paid the Lyft fare on his phone, and we headed down an alley passage to a back patio. It was breezy, and it smelled of jasmine, and the movement of palm leaves overhead stippled everything with small feathers of shade. Hwin led me behind the house, where Stephan Jenkins had set up his music studio. Part of the idea of the life swap was that Jenkins and Hwin would share what they had written in each other’s homes. Jenkins had already drafted a song inspired by the Sub, Hwin told me, titled “Back to Zero.”

“Welcome to the spaceship!” he said as we entered. Hwin calls most rooms spaceships, but the term seemed apt here. Jenkins’s studio had the air of a man cave that had been subjected to a decorator’s polish. Its walls were covered in a dark-brown acoustic fabric, with cheery, stylishly contrasting green curtains. In the middle of the room was a gigantic mixing board, with a computer at its center.

We surveyed Jenkins’s large cache of guitars. “Stephan was just like, ‘Yeah, man—I have the best fucking setup, bro,’ ” Hwin told me, running his fingers up the neck of an electric model. “It’s like, Dude, you do! You do!” He twanged the guitar’s open strings. “Literally, there’s a room dedicated to miking these bad boys.” He twanged again.

They deserve each other, really.

'his charmed life'

<3

http://crystalballr.tumblr.com/post/21411426337/how-i-met-stephan-jenkins

"I put my hand out and said something shy and foolish like “hi, I just wanted to meet you” and he shook my hand. then I said “I didn’t think I’d get to honestly so I don’t have a marker or anything but could you just maybe initial my ticket with this tube of mascara I found on the ground?” to which he replied with “I did not hear a word you just said” and his friends snickered.

My face basically burned up and I said “can you just initial my ticket please” and he’s like “um haha okay I’ve never done this before”
His friends started to make faces and were like “whaaat…” to each other
Then, Stephan just went into this like, rap frenzy and started saying vulgar and crude things like “14 year old wet pussy” and people fingering underage girls."

absolutely unsurprised that stephan jenkins "raps," unprompted, in the middle of any situation

and then there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BG_HwQbES0

what is with this dude? i find him oddly compelling. and how has his band not escaped the County Fair circuit

feel sad that that poor girl had to meet him in person to find out he was a douchebag :/

yeah that is the worst :\

best song on earth

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

Hadn't event listened to that album til today. Pretty good!

the first album is their masterpiece but albums 2 and 3 are underrated too

i pretty much like every song on album 4 at this point too

especially this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKJnk7YOY1g

lol rebuttal by close friends (??) of Stephan to that post the fan posted about meeting him: http://vvitchyandbitchy.tumblr.com/post/21421731888/how-i-met-stephan-jenkins

apparently his misogynist uncomfortable rapping was intended as SATIRE, guys!

Album 4 very good! What have I been doing neglecting their last two albums all these years...

They are playing here w dashboard confessional in a couple months, it's on.

hi Brad

hi alfred

They are playing here w dashboard confessional in a couple months, it's on.

yeah tbh this is my dream show, i need to grab tickets

I heard "Graduate" at CVS four nights ago.

prob a perfect cvs song tbh

considering the line in which I stood for aluminum foil and cigs I deserved "Jumper."

can you get your punk ass out the cvs

ew dashboard tho, do you have to bring your own GHB or is it easy enough to find there

Ha. Dashboard will be fine, hoping they play the full band stuff and not the solo acoustic stuff tho.

a mark a mission etc. is a greaaat record

Brad I invite u to my thread thread of dashboard confessional lyrics and pictures of chris carrabba

finally a thread for me

oh wait and then there's this, which i think is the actual best third eye blind song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd5Xjh3caMs

yeah thats good. Ive been listening to the last two albums and think they are both better then than the second album.

no wait that's wrong though

idk i'm pretty alone in liking blue the most though

i thought that was a big cult favorite though

maybe. not like they're leagues above but just for me at the mo I'm into them more.

alright gonna get familiar w blue again.

i thought that was a big cult favorite though

it might be! if so, really weird cult

i just think "camoflage" and "the red summer sun" are really, really out there in terms of arrangement, sound, and density, in a way they never repeated

hey "Red Star" was good.

it's so good, if they ever put out another record i hope it's 12 of that

no idea how the new record is gonna turn out but this isn't the worst http://www.rdio.com/artist/Third_Eye_Blind/album/Everything_Is_Easy/

pretty good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh05IcixOA4

new album is called dopamine, out june 16

(((((((((((the new one is good)))))))))))))

(((((((((((i said that before i got to the middle sequence of songs which are their best in... forever? maybe since blue?)))))))))))))

got a promo?

yep

new song, "rites of passage" https://twitter.com/ThirdEyeBlind/status/608733059148423168

didn't notice until everyone mentioned it in the replies that this song totally rips off "i'm coming out" which is amaaazing

this is my favorite song from the new one, it sounds like queen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amkPTj6-P7c

also i guess this is really on for spottie but: record's out there

that song is perfect

gonna go in on this record tonight

my best chum and his wife went to the show last week!

i'm seeing them thursday with maura! should be something

were they something?

lol they were strange. i had a great time though

loving this album

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/take-third-eye-blind-as-seriously-as-they-take-themselv-1718308078?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=thursdayPM

read this whole thing and was gonna tell brad to read it itt but then realized he wrote it B-)

ooh "shipboard cook"

read this whole thing and was gonna tell brad to read it itt but then realized he wrote it B-)

wouldn't be the first time

(thank you for reading it!)

great piece brad

aoty really

i keep going back to it for sure.

<3
https://www.yahoo.com/music/rock-band-third-eye-blind-taunts-republicans-at-concert-during-rnc-080721945.html

Dopamine is such a great record btw. top five last year for me now.

wanna see the setlist if it was mostly "obscure songs"!

yeah def. was probably all of our favs

setlist: https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/755643504831959040/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

people are also saying they played "non dairy creamer" but i'm not sure that's not an invention

Great setlist

anyway

YOUNG
GAY
REPUBLICANS

would be amazing if they did play non diary creamer, that would have to be on video somewhere if true

i can't stop watching this

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/755641757858144257

yeah this is a great moment for them

oh here's a weird thing i never mentioned, stephan jenkins added a spoken word section to "back to zero" at some point last year lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8HOjHzgEn0

"back to zero" is a top 10 3eb song imo

ha thats the only version i knew cos thats whats on spotify

i bought the album on itunes when it came out and nearly had a heart attack when i listened to it on spotify earlier this year

pretty sure 10 of the 12 songs off dopamine are top ten 3eb songs (atm, anyway)

also the "get me out of here" video is hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6nrQTU1Gz8

ok i will listen to dopamine

uh "back to zero" gives me hella vibes of that one brand new song

"battalions"

i can hear that a bit yeah

lol that video, Jenkins so gifable from 3:15 on

I do not like this band at all, but I just read about the Republican thing and <3 <3 <3

jump on board!

I have to agree with emil.y, I've never liked their music but I'm delighted they did what they did.

finally get what charlize saw in him

The band is playing at an air show tonight in Oshkosh Wisconsin.

My friend joked they're only going to play songs about boats.

what lou reed should have been?

I evidently referred to Steven Jenkins, fifteen years ago here, as a "shameless Ass Shogun."

new song/ep forthcoming http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/25/third-eye-cop-vs-phone-girl

new song is v embarrassing engagement with current sociopolitical realities i.e. "if there was a time" but also it's pretty good still

new ep is out october 7!!!!

the new song is amazing

https://soundcloud.com/thirdeyeblind/company-of-strangers

nice

yeah dig that

Ever give Dopamine a listen?

argh no but i will try to

https://open.spotify.com/album/5m8uXHRPJB7XMX1FUsRsbj

it's good! especially "weightless"

Didn't love this one like last years full length but def a couple jams

yeah it's uneven. "isn't it pretty" i think is trying to recapture "i want you" and it doesn't really work

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7751391/third-eye-blind-self-titled-debut-album-oral-history

i am enjoying myself so much

Stephan Jenkins: I wrote "Semi-Charmed" before I met Arion or any of the people in that make-up [of the band]. The drum loops on the final record are the ones that I originally recorded. I remember sitting in a room with this other songwriter who worked down the street -- she was a waitress -- and she came up and sat on the bed and we played each other some songs and I realized years later that the songs we played each other had sold 17 million records... it was [4 Non Blondes singer and mega-producer/songwriter] Linda Perry. She sang me a song called "What's Going On" and I sang her this song called "Semi-Charmed Life."

excited to read for surrrre

!!

t/f: everyone in the ilx 1975 cru should love this album

duh

the 1975

looks like you and I even talked about it a bit in there

iirc jordan s has not heard this album in its entirety

he would def love it.

just bought tix for 3EB/Silversun Pickups in July here in phx.

yeah! i'm going to the jones beach show in june for my birthday

t/f: everyone in the ilx 1975 cru should love this album

― k3vin k., Thursday, April 6, 2017 1:59 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and blue imo

history of this thread is prob full of me overstating the greatness of blue

I would understand

oh look who revived this thread

Love that they keep talking about shoegazer guitars - I guess they do have that sound on some tracks, don't they? I should check out this group beyond the first album

if anyone wants to hear a new third eye blind record as recorded by an ancient emo band, i highly recommend the new album by the maine

this is the dumbest oral history of something ever. "we made demos, played the viper room, got signed." wow big whoop.

excuse me kurt, linda perry and stephan jenkins sold 17 million records combined

thats true. ste jenk played my work a few months ago and he was so out of it he could barely speak. linda p talks like a baby. i can just imagine those two hanging out in a shitty apartment in north beach mumbling to each other for hours.

Taco Bell sold over 17 millions doritos locos, do you want to read an oral history of that?

Yes TBH

https://www.fastcompany.com/3008346/taco-bells-doritos-locos-taco-oral-history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxUTu1R5iKY

this is fantastic

niiice

wow apparently from the s/t days! not a surprise at all given how it sounds

A+

all of the bonus tracks are either great or interesting (i had no idea "an ode to maybe" was demoed for the s/t as "kiss goodnight) but their cover of "heroin" is hilarious

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

pox 3eb

red star
sharp knife
the background
faster
camoflage
losing a whole year
narcolepsy
something in you
wounded
water landing

no motorcycle driveby is a crime

lol

that is a fascinating POX

BLUE is kind of the WOWEE ZOWEE to 3EB's CROOKED RAIN. except blue is kind of bad, lol

*deep breaths* BLUE ISNT BAD AT ALL

the show last night was the best i've ever seen them

"wounded" live is crushing

im def going in a couple weeks. how were silversun pickups?

that POX is def interesting! I need to make one now.

silversun pickups were really great too, especially "friendly fires" which doesn't seem like the most live-performance-appropriate song but it was gorgeously done

imo 3eb should make "thanks a lot" a permanent part of their setlists, it RULES live

nice, I've heard mixed things about 3eb live over the years but hearing great things about them playing the s/t. pumped

Went last night. They sounded sooo much better than I thought they would.

God of Wine as the closer was perfect.

yuppp

it was a little tonally strange to go from "motorcycle drive by" to encore break to "never let you go" to "god of wine" but i also appreciate jenkins' dedication to ending literally every third eye blind show with "god of wine"

yeah they shoulda saved never let you go for the last song before starting the self titled

was surprised he was able to hit just about every note. he sounds and looks great. 52 y/o!

people werent really up for silversun which was kind of a bummer. they closed it out strong tho. from the moment they came out these dweebs behind me were yelling "LAZY EYE" between every. single. song... as if they werent gonna play it last.

was surprised he was able to hit just about every note. he sounds and looks great. 52 y/o!

― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1:06 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his voice was so much better on this tour than it had been the previous times i've seen them

third eye blind covering chastity belt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHM-49dlSzU

nice, they still sound really good

hi i would like to celebrate the greatest album of all time third eye blind’s blue

no motorcycle driveby is a crime

― Meliorus, Tuesday, June 13, 2017 8:15 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i didn’t ever address this but “motorcycle drive by” is a song about my first relationship and therefore about every relationship i’ve ever been in therefore it can’t be in my top ten it’s too EMBARRASSING

so, blue:

i always think of it as the most circa-1999 state-of-the-art rock record possible. some of the recordings on the self-titled are demos! nothing on blue could conceivably be a demo unless your demos have 32 guitar tracks and a children’s choir, which maybe they do idk

imo listen to those guitar tones they’re all melting steel

the development of stephan jenkins as a lyricist on this record is probably meaningless to everyone else but extremely crucial to me, there are straight up loosenings into surreal imagery that suddenly snap back into breakup songs (“farther”!!!), “wounded” is song by someone who’s kind of an asshole but who also has boundless empathy, idk what to do with it, sidenote “wounded” is a perfect song and has no chorus

every third eye blind album is horny but is blue the horniest third eye blind album? the second single from blue was called “deep inside of you,” so yes

i sang “deep inside of you” to my first girlfriend once. i don’t even think i knew what the title alluded to, or the way jenkins played with perspective so that it was sort of a single entendre and something... deeper? with him there is always the illusion of depth that contains actual depth, it’s very frustrating, it’s smart dumb or dumb smart, a quality shared by every boy i’ve ever loved. at the time i was really fixated on the line “i burn candles and stare at a ghost.” the song had a haunted quality for me, like it was mourning a relationship as it happened. would it surprise you that i’ve done that a lot

as a kid though you buy a popular rock album and you’re not exactly expecting something like “the red summer sun” to happen

or “camouflage” which is so reverbed out it’s entombed in itself

do do do do do doooo

this band’s wordless choruses

and the way the guitars on this record have a constant psychedelic bleed. i think there’s a sitar on “camouflage” but it’s hard to tell bc every guitar sounds like a distant ripple of itself. oh wait i just literally heard it for the first time in my entire life. it’s in the bridge!

in the geometry of
prism of my eye will flow

you said,
“you are of the earth,
i am of the sky”
i don’t even know what the hell that means

it’s so beautifully packaged and contains such outright ugliness? “slow motion,” for one, a shimmer of a piano ballad about a school shooter. there’s so much earnest feeling burning beneath these grand yet self-conscious gestures as empty as panes of glass. i assume jenkins loves irony especially if i’m right and irony is just rerouted earnestness

anyway i’m way too high and i’m gonna go to bed now goodnight

I reviewed that album a few centuries ago. I was a fan of the singles that preceded it.

I also like the album Blue by Third Eye Blind.

brad excellent high posting

“shipboard cook” is one of their very best songs

its so good, kinda follows the motorcycle driveby structure. dopamine is really great overall.

> with him there is always the illusion of depth that contains actual depth, it’s very frustrating

Baby daddies keep your boo
Many blessings come to you
Baby daddy keep your boo

> “wounded” is song by someone who’s kind of an asshole but who also has boundless empathy

OTM. Having only listened to the singles (and only really loving "Never Let You Go" -- see Sterling Clover otm upthread), I've spent a lot of time w/ this album the past few days. Much as I didn't want to like "Wounded" or "Ten Days Late", both are huge and impossible to get out of my head.

If "Wounded" didn't include the line about touching a person who'd (apparently) been beaten, would he still come off as kind of an asshole? Are the perspective shifts in "Ten Days Late" done on purpose or did Jenkins need an editor to be like, "y'know, this doesn't agree with that" and "this line could be misinterpreted". I'll say this, though -- he really knows how to sing *his* lyrics. Not sure he could do as much with anyone else's though.

Also, love the "We were broke and didn't know it" chant in "Deep Inside of You". Reminded me of the street chorus in Red House Painters' "Strawberry Hill".

This album definitely sounds like late-90s money. Side one in particular. Would never have listened to it, so, thanks for getting high and posting about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNH9dTsl-WY

AAAAAHHHHHH

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxxblO1VYAARe4-.jpg:large

needless to say... i'll be there

i may go to two of these (boston and jones beach)

im not sure if 3EB can top the self titled anniversary show for me tho.

me neither that was very special

i went alone and im glad i did tbh.

hm, actually i'm gonna end up seeing them in nashville with someone who recently dumped me!!!!! as the emo gods intended

hah nice.

CRAWL
UP
THE BEDPOST

the summer gods live record they put out a few years ago has a kind of perverse tracklisting; it was taken from one of the s/t anniversary shows but omits songs from the album sequence that were the real highlights of the show ("graduate," "thanks a lot," "the background"). but it's still doing a really good job of reminding me how wonderful that show was (the coda of "good for you"!)

i never checked that record out. just listened to good for you. good stuff.

i didn't spend any time with the covers ep last year but this is a wonderful version of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WT45aut_m4

new song out with alexis krauss from sleigh bells, new album in october

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk4gCI8kh7k

show i just saw in nashville was the best third eye blind show i’ve ever seen

interesting, are they getting better with age somehow?

kinda feel like the “new” members are finally completely comfortable with the material, approx 10 years after joining the band. taking back sunday have experienced an almost identical upgrade in live performance over the past three years

apparently... billy corgan is on the new record?

Corgan is their "musical consigliere".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9krdFaC1WE

i love the new album even though there is an ill-advised trap song on it

“tropic scorpio” an instant classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bUrlwtbT68

a perfect third eye blind song

yeah that seems like the standout after one listen through.

lol @ 2XTigers

i also really love "got so high" and "turn me on" and despite/because of the goofy-ass lyrics, "ways"

tropic scorpio through light it up is a good run

this is better than expected.

A masterpiece.

I’m not pandering, I’m just aware of my sources.

Music is foundational to my life. Though I am infused with Joy Division and Bon Iver and such, the headwaters of the music that flows through me, all of it, finds its source in Black brilliance.

lol hoo boy

Kinda feel like the midst of a gentle entreaty to a suicidal friend is not the best time to belt out a 'YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYOW'. Like did you forget they're literally tottering on the ledge, Stephan? Maybe pocket your banshee wails until your fragile buddy is safely on the ground again.

can you put the past away? well, can you?!!??!?!?!

Seems like as good a time as ever to share:

holy SHIT I can't believe someone saved this and put it up on youtube!!!!!https://t.co/SExDc9X4YK

— Bernard Snowy (@wasntmebro) August 22, 2020

For those not into blindly clicking links: It's the entire 1997(?) episode of MTV's Road Rules where the cast gets to meet Third Eye Blind and work on a suicide prevention PSA set to "Jumper"

OMG

Does it make me an asshole if I suggest that said suicide prevention PSA functions in part as a gift from the '97 cast of Road Rules to their future selves?

'It's okay, you may have done this twenty three years ago but it's possible to move past it and still find value in your life.'

thats amazing

jenkins really radiating his hardcore douchebag energy at the start of that episode

i imagine third eye blind band meetings are eerily similar to the alec baldwin scene in glengarry glen ross

otm lol

I know nothing about him as a person but based only on his songs he always seemed sorta like a golden retriever recovering from a mild head injury. My illusions, they are shattered.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4Z4Ijk6d8tcvNTULx9Lkty?si=AkE5lTi1SmqUlfdsx2Jicg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfZ0KSR7DBY

really excellent

nice

true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_asb6jz8-UM

i am doomed to like every song this band puts out

u n me brad

new album is great, better than screamer in my estimation. definitely, explicitly their recorded-remotely "pandemic" album, coded into both the lyrics (which reference it directly and obliquely) and the sound (acoustic guitar-dominated, and for the most part the more muted side of 3eb, a la the second half of ursa major, but also occasionally fractured and weird, bc jenkins loves bon iver so much). there's also a suite of three post-punkish songs in the middle of the record ("dust storm," "the dying blood," and "funeral singers") and they're my favorite songs on it, especially the "just like heaven"-biting "dust storm," married to a lyric that really steeps me in my climate change feelings

actually, "funeral singers" kinda sounds like a long lost song from out of the vein, it's increasingly my favorite

got a link? whens this out?

tomorrow!

boom. ok ill giver a listen tomorrow

debut is 25 years old today. a perfect album obv

I watched John/Nick Cassavette’s ‘She’s So Lovely’ this week, & I noticed on the film’s IMDB page ‘Semi-Charmed Life’ is listed in the soundtrack. I did not hear it in the film. Maybe used for a trailer or something?

Today in weird algorithms: The "You might also like..." Spotify playlist recs under Third Eye Blind albums are about what you would expect --'California Rock', '90s Frat Party', etc -- but their recommendations for The Third Eye Blind Collection (3xCD compilation of first the three albums in full) are the "This is..." artist playlists for Big Sean, Pusha T, Jay-Z, A$AP Rocky, and Future

I don't know what the deal is...I wrote these dudes off as corporate himbos when they first emerged and it isn't even really my era (Ii was well embedded in college at the time and not listening to pop/alt radio at all at the time) so there isn't even the taint of nostalgia to explain it away, buuuuut...I'm really feeling the singles from their first album lately? Are...are they actually good? Were they growers rather than showers? 'Losing a Whole Year' is haunting me at the moment. 'Never Let You Go' has done this previously. Help. Help me.

first album is a no-skips classic!

LONDON

Top ten 90s album easy

god wait’ll you hear “thanks a lot”

God of Wine <3 <3

Those last three songs on loop for life

otm

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/g-s1-52173/third-eye-blind-tiny-desk-concert

tiny desk! his voice is more shot than normal bc he was recovering from the flu

also new song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzMJgP-Ps3Y

nice

ngl i teared up during the "jumper" singalong for that tiny desk concert. could almost sense whatever terror this administration intends to do to public radio when he ended with "we're on your side!"