third eye blind -- classic or dud

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