Anthony do you know everything about Fred Durst? I haven't listened to the new album yet but it sounded good frm the store snippets.
― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:18 (twenty years ago) link
Yay!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:18 (twenty years ago) link
3eb still sux, tho'.
― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:39 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:51 (twenty years ago) link
I'm almost done Weezer (mostly as I remembered - I still love "Holiday", like "In the Garage", don't mind a couple others, but don't get most of it). I'll get back when I've listened to Blue again.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 23 June 2003 03:50 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 23 June 2003 03:56 (twenty years ago) link
"And I see you fogging up the mirror Vapor round your body glistens in the shower And I want to stay right here and go down on you for an hour"
Thats ok with me.
― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 23 June 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 23 June 2003 21:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:40 (twenty years ago) link
In perusing through antiquated ILM threads (hey, gimme a break, it's 6:20 am and I've been up for a bajillion hours), 3EB is a band I seem to fluctuate between liking, tolerating, actually quite enjoying and abjectly loathing. Sure, Jenkins is a shameless Ass Shogun and that whole business about portraying the Kinks? Oh do verily kid me not. But as I sit here in my office, blasting "Losing A Whole Year" out of my computer l can't help but think they definetely had something. There are several damn respectable tracks on that first record. The second record? Ehhh....not so much, and let's not even mention the third record (actually, can anyone even remember the title?) I compared them to Maroon 5 not too long ago, but I'm pretty sure Maroon 5 have yet to write a botched relationship song as on-the-money as "How's it Gonna Be?" or the afore-mentioned "Losing a Whole Year".
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 09:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link
i *do* miss radio rock bands having shiny hooks instead of whiny sludge. all we've got in that dept today is, well, maroon 5 (who i don't have the energy to feel one way or another about) and the occasional linkin park single. the good charlottes and all of them don't seem to be trying as hard in the post-blink 182 era. actually, i've changed my mind. i don't really care at all.
― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 25 September 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link
{resets bar, low. replaces blood-encrusted handkerchief over wheelchair-bound man's face. brief tableaux. exeunt.}
DUD! There was actually a lively debate about how terrible 3EB were on the pavement list once. Whatever happened to the 3EB/Eddie Vedder rivalry that was playing out on VH1? FWIW, what happened to Pearl Jam?
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 25 September 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― strom (strom), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― strom (strom), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
They are, but they're kinda subsersive in the context of the song (which is essentially an ode to being strung out on crystal meth).
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Tantrum The Cat, September 25th, 2004.
especially when the song fashions itself as either a judgement or a self-aggrandizing "it-could-have-been-me" ode, which makes it UberDud. it's like an Ur text for duds. of course, it's also the gist of the American remake of Traffic.
no low spark for me.
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Clearly it's opposite day.
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I never thought the song was particularly judgemental either way. I haven't seen either version of Traffic so I can't comment on that.
Also:
SEX AND DRUGS ON THE RADIO OMG WTF
It's too bad there's already TV On The Radio (who are awesome), because Sex And Drugs On The Radio is a face-rockingly good band name.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
don't give steven s0d3rb3rgh any "new" ideas!
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Jim Derogatis' interview/dis of Stephen Jenkins is one of the meanest, most self-serving pieces of journalism I've read in recent years.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
(dud....)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Not classic.......but still seems to hit me on a level most rock music fails to reach.
― PB, Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
dont they have a new album coming out?always had a spot for them
― Kevin Keller, Thursday, 13 November 2008 07:03 (fifteen years ago) link
yes and it's called "Ursa Major", speaking of Superdrag
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 13 November 2008 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, the single
― cutty, Saturday, 22 November 2008 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't stand the affected English accent but when "Semi-Charmed" or "How's It Going to Be" come on the radio I'm glad. I'm gonna pull a Nostradamus and predict that late 90s alt-grunge-make-out-rock ballads like the aforementioned "How's It Going to Be" or the Goo Goo Doll's "Iris" will eventually become the "Don't Stop Believin'" are-we-being-ironic-or-not-i-dunno anthems of a future generation.
― Cunga, Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I couldn't never get past my impression of Jenkins as a sleazy perv. 'Semi-Charmed' just confirmed all my suspicions to a catchy beat and as a band they just give me a mental block. my first thought is always "Erg! Yuk!"
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think the aforementioned songs (which I really like) are the right combo of ridiculous+good to become are-we-being-ironic classics.
'I Want It That Way' has already earned a place in that canon though.
― iatee, Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm sure there are some others. That might be a good thread idea.
"How's It Going to Be" probably not, but I easily see a song as well known and over the top as "Iris" as taking a spot up there some day (the epic cheese factor for some 90s songs has yet to fully set in - we're still hearing it with somewhat fresh ears i.e. 1997 wasn't too long ago for many). And you should start the thread, would be fun to think about.
― Cunga, Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:29 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
can you put the past away? well, can you?!!??!?!?!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
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
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
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"
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
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?
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
'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.'
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
thats amazing
― Spottie, Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
jenkins really radiating his hardcore douchebag energy at the start of that episode
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
i imagine third eye blind band meetings are eerily similar to the alec baldwin scene in glengarry glen ross
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
otm lol
― Spottie, Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
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.
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Z4Ijk6d8tcvNTULx9Lkty?si=AkE5lTi1SmqUlfdsx2Jicg
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfZ0KSR7DBY
really excellent
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 30 July 2021 05:11 (two years ago) link
nice
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Friday, 30 July 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
true
― sean gramophone, Friday, 30 July 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_asb6jz8-UM
i am doomed to like every song this band puts out
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 20 August 2021 05:21 (two years ago) link
u n me brad
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Friday, 20 August 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
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
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 September 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
actually, "funeral singers" kinda sounds like a long lost song from out of the vein, it's increasingly my favorite
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 September 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
got a link? whens this out?
― a talented ‘Rebel’ with Balls (Spottie), Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
tomorrow!
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
boom. ok ill giver a listen tomorrow
― a talented ‘Rebel’ with Balls (Spottie), Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
debut is 25 years old today. a perfect album obv
― jammin on the dud (Spottie), Friday, 8 April 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
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?
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 8 April 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
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
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:15 (two months ago) link
first album is a no-skips classic!
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:19 (two months ago) link
LONDON
― brimstead, Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:47 (two months ago) link
Top ten 90s album easy
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:41 (two months ago) link
god wait’ll you hear “thanks a lot”
― ivy., Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:57 (two months ago) link
God of Wine <3 <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:02 (two months ago) link
Those last three songs on loop for life
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:04 (two months ago) link
otm
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:53 (two months ago) link