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Free Music Review: One of the best rock albums of the 90's
Hit: 5 Stars
This album captivates you from beginning to end and takes you on a wonderful ride filled with such powerful emotions. Semi-Charmed Life, Graduate, London, Losing a Whole Year and Burning Man, are fun songs, where you can't help but sing along out loud driving around with your windows down. Narcolepsy, Good for You, and Thanks a Lot have hard beats and powerful lyrics to go with them. And then there are a number of tracks that just blow you away because they are so deep and beautifully written. The Background, possibly my favorite song of all time, speaks of losing your greatest love and having to live on, in numbness as nothing more than a shadow, where everything you do is still for her and only her. The short instrumental part at the very end of the song is very interesting, as if it almost sounds like there is a ray of light and a glimmer of hope; there is something very positive about it. God of Wine is equally haunting as we hear of a tale of rampant alcoholism that tears apart 2 young lives. And Motorcycle Drive By is just as moving, but is really a very positive song, about strength, realizing your self-worth, and moving on from a very painful relationship. File How's it Going to Be under deep and heart-felt tracks as well. Of course, all of these tracks are open to your own interpretation; this is just a taste of mine. As you can tell, i love the really deep tracks, but don't get me wrong, every single song on this album is equally awesome and charges you up, with joy, anger, fear, sadness, or excitement. Stephen Jenkins delivers each song with so much energy and all of his heart. And the music is amazing also - definitely one to pick up the guitar tab for. In short, this is perhaps my favorite album of all time, and Third Eye Blind isn't even my favorite group. A keeper for a lifetime!Free Music Review: Simply Stunning
Hit: 5 Stars
I must admit i am a skeptical listener to music, and being a musician myself i believe my thoughts are credible. I was Amazed, simply blown away when i first listen tot the CD. From begining to end it is a not stop master piece. All the credit must be given to the band members. Spephen jenkins is amazing song writer busting out genius lyrics and melodies. Combine that with the blistering riffs of guitarist Kevin Cadogan, the bass Aaron Salazar, and the amazing beats and fills of drummer Brad. This record is a non-stop roler coaster ride. I have talked to many people including the members of my band i can understand how some rock fans may have gotten a bad taste in their mouths about the record from the radio songs Semmi-Charmed Life, and Jumper (which themmselves i believe are good songs but no where near their best) But i earge these people to buy the album and listen to all of it. There is much variety to be had in this album and its an amazing relief from todays pop-culture. No two songs are quite alike from Semi-Chrmed life and Jumper to London and Graduate to Backround and God Of Wine. Fast to slow, soft to hard you never know what is coming next. All you know is that the next song will be good.
Five years, FIve years i have been listening to this albumb and it is still just like the first amazing time I put it in my CD player. Over those years my tastes have changed, and so has my knowledge of music quality but this Albumb has remained on the top of my list. One of the best albums i have ever heard.
You have to get it if you dont already have it.
Thanks for Reading,
Matt
Free Music Review: I love my friends but
Hit: 5 Stars
...a few of them had just better stop making fun of me for liking Third Eye Blind (and/or Roxette), or I'm just going to have to get me some new friends.
The neighborhood of "alternative" rock inhabited by Third Eye Blind is admittedly crowded: Stroke 9, Eve 6, Matchbox 20, and Blink 182 all live somewhere nearby, and 3eb should probably change their name to "Eye Blind 3" so that the fire department can find them more easily in the event of an emergency. Like the rest of those bands, they're shamelessly commercial, and the world would probably be a better (or at least more interesting) place if some of the airplay that went to the five top-20 hits on this album had gone to less heralded, less numbered neighbors like Pete Yorn, Jawbreaker, or the Matthew Good Band. That being said, 3eb truly are good at what they do, and it's never been more evident than on this remarkably consistent debut. Stephen Jenkins has an uncanny melodic sense, and the drummer in me has great respect for the alternating efforts of Brad Hargreaves and Michael Urbano.
I'd add this one to my list of desert-island discs any day of the week. Go beyond the overplayed singles and check out, say, "Narcolepsy" and the rather astonishing "Motorcycle Drive By." I'd like to think you won't be disappointed.
(And as for being a "total ripoff of Dinosaur Jr.," as a fellow reviewer recently suggested: you're completely missing the point. Both Dinosaur Jr. and 3eb are ripping their predecessors off left and right, but the possibility that Dinosaur Jr. is #68 and 3eb is #69 in the ripoff chain pales in comparison to the fact that Jenkins and Cadogan sing like healthy human males and J Mascis sings like his most recent ex is trying to strangle him.)
Free Music Review: Impossible to hate
Hit: 5 Stars
It would be so easy for someone to knock off Third Eye Blind as a simple late-90's pop group with a few hits to their name--"Jumper", "How's it Gonna Be", "Semi-Charmed Life"--but that's simply not true. True, the album is incredibly catchy; half of the songs are pure saccharin, but it's so much more then that. Back in the day, Third Eye Blind was something, not exactly new, but different, something more challenging then Chumbawumba, Aqua, and Jimmy Ray (speaking of whom, what ever happened to Jimmy Ray? Anyone remember him? Beuller? Beuller? But you remember Third Eye Blind--that's what I'm talking about).Simply put, Third Eye Blind makes good music, a mix of pop guitar licks and surprising lyrics. Take for example the inescapable hit "Semi Charmed Life", a rapid-fire song with a boppy bridge of "do do do, do do do do" and insightful lines like "The four right chords could make me cry/When I'm with you I feel like I could die and that would be all right": a shining example of 90's pop. Other strong songs include "Graduate", "Narcelepsy", "Burning Man", and the emotional trio of songs that round the album off, "In the Background", "Motorcycle Drive By" and "God of Wine". These final three songs are great songs of pain and loss, and a perfect end to a superb album.
Is Third Eye Blind a group for the ages? Perhaps not; they're hardly the most original group out there; on the other hand, many great albums by great artists have one or two songs that don't quite stand up, but every song on this album is, I feel, a keeper.
"Will these songs live on long after we do?" I don't see why not.
Free Music Review: 'Semi-Charmed' Most Misunderstood Song on the Album
Hit: 5 Stars
First off, the whole CD is great.
Reading quite deep into the reviews (due to a state of bored procrastination) I noticed that a lot of people tend to dismiss "Semi-Charmed Life" as a run-of-the-mill frivilous pop single. Because of its fast pace, upbeat tone, and generally fluffy sound, people seem to listen to the song with the expectation that it can't possibly be about anything important. This is compounded by the relative speed and magnitude of cadence in the singers voice compared to other songs on the album, which obscures a lot of the lyrics to most listeners who don't look up them up.
I imagine that people who purchase or already own this album might appreciate "Semi-Charmed Life" substantially more if they understand what the song is about. It is about the disasterous effects of crystal meth addicton on a young, bored couple. In my interpretation, the female that the singer is talking to dies of an overdose at the end of the song, "She's got her jaws just locked now in smile", and he doesn't care. The refrain of "I'm not listening when you say / Good-bye", therefore, while it initally refers to the female walking out on him at the height of his addiction, shifts meaning by the end of the song, becoming a glib failure to attach any meaning or understanding to the death of his girlfriend (or wife or whatever)--a failure that results from the fake sheen that meth puts on the singer's world.
This explains the song happy, poppy tone. Just as meth can put a seemingly happy sheen on a terrible reality, this song covers its own disturbing reality in a happy, shiny sound.