third eye blind -- classic or dud

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.