third eye blind -- classic or dud

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

debut is 25 years old today. a perfect album obv

I watched John/Nick Cassavette’s ‘She’s So Lovely’ this week, & I noticed on the film’s IMDB page ‘Semi-Charmed Life’ is listed in the soundtrack. I did not hear it in the film. Maybe used for a trailer or something?

Today in weird algorithms: The "You might also like..." Spotify playlist recs under Third Eye Blind albums are about what you would expect --'California Rock', '90s Frat Party', etc -- but their recommendations for The Third Eye Blind Collection (3xCD compilation of first the three albums in full) are the "This is..." artist playlists for Big Sean, Pusha T, Jay-Z, A$AP Rocky, and Future

I don't know what the deal is...I wrote these dudes off as corporate himbos when they first emerged and it isn't even really my era (Ii was well embedded in college at the time and not listening to pop/alt radio at all at the time) so there isn't even the taint of nostalgia to explain it away, buuuuut...I'm really feeling the singles from their first album lately? Are...are they actually good? Were they growers rather than showers? 'Losing a Whole Year' is haunting me at the moment. 'Never Let You Go' has done this previously. Help. Help me.

first album is a no-skips classic!

LONDON

Top ten 90s album easy

god wait’ll you hear “thanks a lot”

God of Wine <3 <3

Those last three songs on loop for life

otm