third eye blind -- classic or dud

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