Third Eye Blind - s/t

and burning man is the wooooorst

"burning man" is the worst track here but it's still great

the riiiiise and fall of my sloppy looove

also "thanks a lot" is the weirdest song on here, and most of that weirdness is in stephen jenkins' delivery, which seems to deliberately elude melody

the guitar tones on "thanks a lot"! they're so bright and laser-y!

this was the first album that i ever loved, i was like 10-12 years old and listened to it night after night, stirred feelings of adolescent longing, the sound of it probably still influences my taste now. i haven't heard it in forever and it feels incredibly odd to listen to it now, the way it so immediately recalls how i felt as a kid in that place and time gives me chills.

/indulgent post

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ok burning man's actually p good outside the chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlU-dtPl9U

FIRST WE CAFFEINATE
THEN INCINERATE

ok good luck on yr exam bro

want to vote for something besides one of the singles but i'd be lying if i said i like "Motorcycle Drive-By" more than "Graduate"

MDR is a great choice tho

I regret not voting for scl

oh man, i almost didn't vote

so it's "the background"

CAUSE I FELT YOU LONG AFTER WE WERE THROUGH

wah wah wah wah wahhhhh

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now let us remember the time that this band changed its lyrics to CAN I MASTURBATE? on a primetime network broadcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70LWmfS4m3U

WTF

been listening to ursa major lately and it's a pretty good album if you ignore like most of the lyrics and "summer town."

also it's unfortunate that they dumped two of their best songs on an EP a year before it came out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKwQmP5tBxg

the intro to losing a whole year is really a great choice of album intro

Weird #1?! I didn't realize there was a mild consensus on the best non a-side.

i voted for losing a whole year.

Weird #1?! I didn't realize there was a mild consensus on the best non a-side.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:15 PM (7 hours ago)

it's definitely the consensus fan favorite

their best song is "Wounded" from Blue. get on it

i first heard the album via my wife and brother-in-law and they both always seemed to favor "Motorcycle Drive-By" as the obvious best deep cut

God Of Wine was robbed.

pretty sure i think all of the zero votes were robbed except maybe "good for you"

Like all of my AIM-esque user names at one point in HS were some variation of God of Wine. I don't think I had drank more than a glass of wine at that point.

Good point BN.

lol bmichael

"god of wine" is a great live closer. this album holds up well against any classic rock record from the era imo

totally

Been listening to it a ton again since this thread started up.

did i hate on "burning man" in this thread? i take it back. it's still kinda weak but

FIRST WE CAFFEINATE
THEN INCINERATE

oh zach beat me to that one

i hope i have the "actually this album is good" conversation about this record for the rest of my life

oh, here's where i say i spent the better part of my life thinking blue was better than this record

i don't think that anymore but blue is still really, really great

― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Sunday, June 10, 2012 1:23 AM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait wtf how did i betray my own convictions so hard here, blue is totally a better album

fun fact: jordan s has not heard this whole album

get it together j0rd

http://www.thirdeyeblindanniversary.com/

Based on this album (still the only one of theirs I've heard), this band writes great bridges