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
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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
no motorcycle driveby is a crime
― 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
in the geometry ofprism of my eye will flow
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 08:08 (five years ago) link
you said,“you are of the earth,i am of the sky”i don’t even know what the hell that means
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
it’s so beautifully packaged and contains such outright ugliness? “slow motion,” for one, a shimmer of a piano ballad about a school shooter. there’s so much earnest feeling burning beneath these grand yet self-conscious gestures as empty as panes of glass. i assume jenkins loves irony especially if i’m right and irony is just rerouted earnestness
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 08:18 (five years ago) link
anyway i’m way too high and i’m gonna go to bed now goodnight
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link
I reviewed that album a few centuries ago. I was a fan of the singles that preceded it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 November 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
I also like the album Blue by Third Eye Blind.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 26 November 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
brad excellent high posting
― Spottie, Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
“shipboard cook” is one of their very best songs
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
its so good, kinda follows the motorcycle driveby structure. dopamine is really great overall.
― Celtoes Adidas (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
> with him there is always the illusion of depth that contains actual depth, it’s very frustrating
Baby daddies keep your booMany blessings come to youBaby daddy keep your boo
― john. a resident of evanston. (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
> “wounded” is song by someone who’s kind of an asshole but who also has boundless empathy
OTM. Having only listened to the singles (and only really loving "Never Let You Go" -- see Sterling Clover otm upthread), I've spent a lot of time w/ this album the past few days. Much as I didn't want to like "Wounded" or "Ten Days Late", both are huge and impossible to get out of my head.
If "Wounded" didn't include the line about touching a person who'd (apparently) been beaten, would he still come off as kind of an asshole? Are the perspective shifts in "Ten Days Late" done on purpose or did Jenkins need an editor to be like, "y'know, this doesn't agree with that" and "this line could be misinterpreted". I'll say this, though -- he really knows how to sing *his* lyrics. Not sure he could do as much with anyone else's though.
Also, love the "We were broke and didn't know it" chant in "Deep Inside of You". Reminded me of the street chorus in Red House Painters' "Strawberry Hill".
This album definitely sounds like late-90s money. Side one in particular. Would never have listened to it, so, thanks for getting high and posting about it.
― john. a resident of evanston. (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 14 December 2018 06:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNH9dTsl-WY
AAAAAHHHHHH
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxxblO1VYAARe4-.jpg:large
― marcos smart (Spottie), Friday, 25 January 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
needless to say... i'll be there
i may go to two of these (boston and jones beach)
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
im not sure if 3EB can top the self titled anniversary show for me tho.
― marcos smart (Spottie), Friday, 25 January 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
me neither that was very special
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
i went alone and im glad i did tbh.
― marcos smart (Spottie), Friday, 25 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
hm, actually i'm gonna end up seeing them in nashville with someone who recently dumped me!!!!! as the emo gods intended
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
hah nice.
― marcos smart (Spottie), Friday, 25 January 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
CRAWLUPTHE BEDPOST
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
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"!)
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 26 January 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
i never checked that record out. just listened to good for you. good stuff.
― marcos smart (Spottie), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
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
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
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
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 July 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link
interesting, are they getting better with age somehow?
― big city slam (Spottie), Thursday, 25 July 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
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?
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 July 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
Corgan is their "musical consigliere".
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 25 July 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9krdFaC1WE
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
i love the new album even though there is an ill-advised trap song on it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link