Third Eye Blind Band • Page 81

Is this their best song in a while? It might be

 

Eric Valentine is BACK

 

Yikes, that was a bit rough, but he did mention being sick.

 

I should've known by the cover art that this was produced by EV. I feel like such a fool! Wonder if they just did a single or if maybe an ep/album is on the way.

 

Well based on what he’s said seeing them the last 2 years, the new album is done except for lyrics. Hopefully he got them knocked out and the album is finally coming.

 

poor guy's been trying to finish lyrics for 25 years

 

I'm pretty hit or miss with the modern TEB slow songs, but I dig this one

 

It’s short and kinda non-distinct but it does have some self-titled/Blue-coded melodies going on. Sorta digging it.

 

I now remember the funny comment SJ said to us the night we all hung out together. We were with one of the band crew talking about how his dream is to do something with NASA or space related, so we were talking about space and whatnot. Stephen overhears us and says something along the lines of "yeah my record label is called mega collider" which I guess he was trying to relate to the space discussion, but we just kind of all looked at each other and then said "ok" and he walked away. It was really funny because I'm assuming he saw how vibrant our discussion was and he wanted to get in on the convo but it just missed.

 

I haven't liked most of these late-stage Jenkins acoustic numbers ("One In Ten" is #1 on the hate list with a bullet), but this is nice.

But it is a bit jarring for me seeing them on video now in that while I've known the versions of 3EB I've loved are long since dead and buried, seeing the current version really just feels like a decent cover band with Stephen Jenkins fronting it. Just feels really alien for me watching this group play Jumper (which Jenkins should have gone with a song at a lower register given his vocal issues, as that was a very rough listen).

 

Listened to Ursa Major yesterday for the first time in years. It’s still pretty great. Excited to revisit Dopamine soon because I’ve always loved that one too.

 

Opening with Slow Motion on that Tiny Desk is a wild move lol

 

"Like A Lullaby" is really good, just wanted to pop in to remind

 

Dude. For three dollars we can watch Eric Valentine produce a 3eb song. What a time to be alive.

 

Is there a new album coming soon or is it the usual "Stephan needs to finish the lyrics" BS ?

 

He’s had to finish lyrics for this album for several years now I believe. He for sure mentions an album being almost done but needing lyrics in an interview he did in 2023.

 

Stephan has openly admitted to delaying the completion of every record since Out Of The Vein because he can't bring himself to finish the lyrics. The dude is just a perfectionist, I guess!

Hard agree. Late(r) period Third Eye Blind is actually pretty awesome. Ursa Major is great all the way through, as is Dopamine ("Something In You" has become one of my all time fave 3EB songs), the We Are Drugs EP is FANTASTIC (as is their bizarre covers EP Thanks For Everything), at least half of Screamer fuggin rocks and I really see the only true weak link to be Our Bande Apart (I just thought it was kind of boring, a word I would NEVER use to describe 3EB's music before).

"Like A Lullaby" is shockingly good. I can't wait for Stephan to finish these damn lyrics so we can get a whole record of this caliber.