yeah! i'm going to the jones beach show in june for my birthday
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 April 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link
t/f: everyone in the ilx 1975 cru should love this album
― k3vin k., Thursday, April 6, 2017 1:59 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and blue imo
history of this thread is prob full of me overstating the greatness of blue
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 April 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
I would understand
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 6 April 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
oh look who revived this thread
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 April 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
Love that they keep talking about shoegazer guitars - I guess they do have that sound on some tracks, don't they? I should check out this group beyond the first album
― Vinnie, Friday, 7 April 2017 01:21 (seven years ago) link
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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 7 April 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
this is the dumbest oral history of something ever. "we made demos, played the viper room, got signed." wow big whoop.
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 7 April 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
excuse me kurt, linda perry and stephan jenkins sold 17 million records combined
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 7 April 2017 19:47 (seven years ago) link
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.
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 7 April 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Taco Bell sold over 17 millions doritos locos, do you want to read an oral history of that?
― sarahell, Friday, 7 April 2017 19:50 (seven years ago) link
Yes TBH
― Tim F, Saturday, 8 April 2017 08:21 (seven years ago) link
https://www.fastcompany.com/3008346/taco-bells-doritos-locos-taco-oral-history
― just sayin, Saturday, 8 April 2017 09:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxUTu1R5iKY
this is fantastic
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 12 May 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
niiice
― k3vin k., Friday, 12 May 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
wow apparently from the s/t days! not a surprise at all given how it sounds
― k3vin k., Friday, 12 May 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
A+
― Spottie, Friday, 12 May 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 9 June 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
pox 3eb
red starsharp knifethe backgroundfastercamoflagelosing a whole yearnarcolepsysomething in youwoundedwater landing
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link
no motorcycle driveby is a crime
― Meliorus, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
lol
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
that is a fascinating POX
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 14 June 2017 03:31 (seven years ago) link
BLUE is kind of the WOWEE ZOWEE to 3EB's CROOKED RAIN. except blue is kind of bad, lol
― k3vin k., Friday, 16 June 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
*deep breaths* BLUE ISNT BAD AT ALL
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 16 June 2017 23:11 (seven years ago) link
the show last night was the best i've ever seen them
"wounded" live is crushing
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 June 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
im def going in a couple weeks. how were silversun pickups?
― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
that POX is def interesting! I need to make one now.
― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
nice, I've heard mixed things about 3eb live over the years but hearing great things about them playing the s/t. pumped
― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 19:18 (seven years ago) link
Went last night. They sounded sooo much better than I thought they would.
― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
God of Wine as the closer was perfect.
― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
yuppp
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
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"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link
yeah they shoulda saved never let you go for the last song before starting the self titled
― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
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, 19 July 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
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.
― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
third eye blind covering chastity belt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHM-49dlSzU
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 13 July 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
nice, they still sound really good
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Friday, 13 July 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
hi i would like to celebrate the greatest album of all time third eye blind’s blue
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 07:37 (five years ago) link
― 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
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 07:40 (five years ago) link
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
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 07:43 (five years ago) link
imo listen to those guitar tones they’re all melting steel
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
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
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 07:49 (five years ago) link
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
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 07:52 (five years ago) link
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
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 07:58 (five years ago) link
as a kid though you buy a popular rock album and you’re not exactly expecting something like “the red summer sun” to happen
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 08:00 (five years ago) link
or “camouflage” which is so reverbed out it’s entombed in itself
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
do do do do do doooo
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 08:02 (five years ago) link
this band’s wordless choruses
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 08:03 (five years ago) link
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!
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 08:06 (five years ago) link