third eye blind -- classic or dud

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