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Free Music Notes for Blue
Free Music Review: Great album, all around
Hit: 5 Stars
This sophmore album from the late 90's California pop group is an excellent step up. It isn't as raw as thier origional album, and has even more of lead vocalist Stephan Jenkins' firey, catchy phrases. Thier music has matured, not using the standard drums, guitar, bass, voice. They have experimented with several types of new sounds and styles, especially in the drum department. The drummer, in every song, has a totally new and catchy beat, with so many licks its hard to even envision him doing them in your mind! The singer in this album uses his voice in many ways, and creates a wide variety of effects in some songs.
Many people misinterperate the third track "Ten Days Late" as depressing lyricaly, about an unwanted pregnancy. Listening deeper, however, you hear a posotive message..."Time has come for you to choose, baby daddy keep your boo", speaking about keeping life alive as it were.
The unedited version of Slow Motion can be very disqueting to some, it was an attempt by the artists to describe the sad state the world is in today. Thriving and worshiping sex, drugs, and violence. It was edited by the label, being released shortly after the school massacres occured.
If you did, or did not like the origional, this cd is beautiful, in a word. It is a nice follow up with a lot of lyrical and musical potential on the radio. It is also an excellent stand-alone album, with a lot of class.
Space permitting I would say more, but in a wrap, blue is an excellent, and pleasently diverse follow up album by Third Eye Blind, and as 90% of the reviews I have read say, well worth the investment.
Free Music Review: Outstanding, especially if you like deep music...
Hit: 5 Stars
"Blue" is the first sophomore recording that I can honestly say equals the artistry of its predecessor. The unique 3EB "bite and feel" remains, but evolves just enough to sound perfectly fresh. This disk has literally been in my changer non-stop since I bought it three months ago, and much like their first album, I find my attention drifts between tracks as if I have a new favorite song from the album each week. Suddenly this weekend, on what must have been my 30th listen to the album, "Ten Days Late" stuck in my head so strongly that I literally felt mesmerized by the song's intensity. Can guitars themselves rhyme with each other, even without human accompanyment?
This is remarkably complex music - straightforward enough to appeal to the masses, who probably will only listen to four or five tracks with regularity, but with uncanny whiffs of lyrical nuance and subtle musical layers that show themselves for profoundness-craving types only after repeated plays in the dead of night, or in the middle of a glassy-eyed morning commute.
Contrary to previous reviews, I think this disk does have some of the same emotional rise and fall of the debut album. There are the emotional highs of "Never Let You Go" and the unbelievably catchy hooks of "An Ode to Maybe" perfectly contrasted with the marching darkness of "Wounded" and the hair raised edge of Jenkins' artificially synethesized voice in "Darkness".
This is the most sophisticated, talent-radiating music I've bought since Radiohead's "Pablo Honey". I can't give it higher praise. Awesome job, guys!
Free Music Review: Sophomore like no other
Hit: 5 Stars
Third Eye Blind's sophomore release is very different from their previous release, but is just as perfect. In lyrical content, music, and as a whole, "Blue" is great, which means every song is worth listening to over and over and over...Quite possibly their best song, "Wounded" has become one of my favorite songs; from start to finish, it's an incredible song. Very much the same in perfection are "Deep Inside of You," "1000 Julys," "Farther," and "Darkness." Even "The Red Summer Sun," as off the wall as it might seem at first listen, catches on like the other 12 tracks and won't let your listening enjoyment leave.
The only thing that disappoints me is that their record label, Elektra (owned by Time Warner), wouldn't let them release this album with the lyrics to "Slow Motion." Yes, there are lyrics to that song (which you can find as an mp3 on the internet), which talk of teen violence, drugs, sex, and other dirty, dirty, naughty, wrong, evil, bad things that 3EB likes to point out on CD and in concert. Which leads me to ask, how come rappers can shoot off about shootings, crime, rapings, sex, drugs, money, and other hot topics because "that's where they come from," but 3EB can't make a critical commentary? That causes me to lose some respect for Time Warner as a conglomerate.
Also, I hope that Kevin Cadogan's "departure" from the band does not hurt future Third Eye Blind releases, since their first two have been without flaw.
Free Music Review: My 2nd favorite album
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my 2nd favorite, being pushed out of the #1 slot by 3EB's debut. Let me start out by saying that these guys are amazing. You must buy both albums. You MUST. For your own health.OK, with that out of the way, I get to review the album with the pretty album artwork :^) (it's actually my computer wallpaper). I was surprised at how different this was than the self-titled album. It's really polished and professional sounding, and a lot more dark. It truly lives up to the title, believe it or not. It sounds blue. And, if I had the chance, I would give it 4.5 stars, but that's not possible, so...
My favorite songs were, in my usual reverse order, "10 Days Late", "An Ode to Maybe", "1000 Julys", "The Red Summer Sun", and "Wounded". Now comes my usual rave on my favorite song on the album: "Wounded" rocks. It starts out slow, then speeds up, then slows down a little from there, and works up to an excellent climax. You can just feel the power in the 2nd chorus, especially in "Back down the bully to the back of the bus, 'cuz it's time for them to be scared of us". A must hear. And "The Red Summer Sun" definitely takes some getting used to, but you'll appreciate the slightly 70's-like ambience it produces over time.
This is another "all purpose album". It's great to listen to while hanging out with friends, chilling by yourself, going to sleep (honestly, it'll just cradle you to sleep. I listen to it every night), surfing the web or just rocking out. Enjoy!
Free Music Review: A Great CD.
Hit: 5 Stars
From someone who considers Third Eye Blind his favorite CD and loves every single song in the first album, I guess this review may be a bit biased. However, I bought "Blue" nervous and worried. I was sure that "Blue" was going to be a terrible CD, unable to live up to the first one. Thankfully, I listened to it and found it to be just as good (though not necessarily better) as the first one... It's different, yes. Mainly because the music tends to be, as many have said before me, more experimental, like on "Camouflage" where Stephen breaks out into a great scream of "secret words never to be printed". That man has an amazing voice and it is documented through the songs on this album. "Never Let You Go", "Anything" "Wounded" and "10 Days Late" are great songs with the same unique style of lyrics of the first album (Stephen's "oh oh" in "10 Days Late" hooked me to that song) and the same catchiness of "Semi-Charmed Life". Not to say that only those songs are good. "Slow Motion" is one of the prettiest songs I've heard lately (slightly reminiscent of "Mellon Collie" from Smashing Pumpkins) and, in response to a previous reviewer, is not advocating "wife-beating", at least not that I can understand.... The lyrics are: "Slow motion, see me let go/ we tend to die young" and etc. Other great songs are "Darwin", "Red Summer Sky", and "An Ode To Maybe".