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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:46 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
(dud....)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:07 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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
Yeah, maybe Iris. And 3eb are ridiculous...just not ridiculous in the right way. I'll make the thread.
― iatee, Saturday, 28 March 2009 05:36 (fifteen years ago) link
undeniably classic. first album is completely unfuckwithable, love songs here and there thereafter as well.
― knive k (k3vin k.), Saturday, 28 March 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
this guy's pop culture references are always so uncomfortable and awkward
yet i still think this band is great, didn't like them first time around in the 90s, now their nostalgia factor is pretty ridiculous
― cutty, Thursday, 13 August 2009 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah those singles have aged well imo, "Graduate" is the shit
― nutsih the clown (some dude), Thursday, 13 August 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
New album isn't out yet, is it?
― we make rub' dongs from 4" to 6" (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 August 2009 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not out, but it's good and i don't know why
― cutty, Sunday, 16 August 2009 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's leaked, im really excited to listen to it
― pr que (k3vin k.), Sunday, 16 August 2009 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just sayin
i'm imagin harmony notes
and they're right
<3
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 18 October 2010 08:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/17198/blind_jpg_445x1000_upscale_q85.jpg
― hated old moniker, too tired to think of a clever new one (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
dud
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
when did Matt Damon join?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
"I just joined a shitty alternapop band. Howdya like THEM apples?"
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
I've always wanted to start a Third Eye Blind tribute band called Third Nostril Anosmic. maybe now's a good time?
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
with hit single "Misplacing a Whole 6 Months"?
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
song should really have been titled "Losing a Whole 3-½ Minutes" out of sympathy for its listeners.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
f u
― positive rapper (k3vin k.), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
John Vanderslice with wisdom. The trick: it's not so much the song as a key member of the band.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:17 (ten 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 (ten months 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 (one month ago) link
first album is a no-skips classic!
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:19 (one month ago) link
LONDON
― brimstead, Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:47 (one month ago) link
Top ten 90s album easy
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:41 (one month ago) link
god wait’ll you hear “thanks a lot”
― ivy., Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:57 (one month ago) link
God of Wine <3 <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:02 (one month ago) link
Those last three songs on loop for life
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:04 (one month ago) link
otm
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:53 (one month ago) link