The one not officially traveling under the Third Eye Blind banner. Salazar and founding guitarist-songwriter Kevin Cadogan - who left the band in roughly 20, respectively, after vicious and prolonged battles with Jenkins over the holy rock-band triumvirate of money, power, and credit - are on the other one. But the punch line is that the album got so huge, and the band’s eventual split was so irreparable, that there are two bands now, and two tours.
#THIRD EYE BLIND LOSING A WHOLE YEAR LYRICS FULL#
The full anniversary treatment is in order, complete with a victory-lap tour. Two decades! You’re (probably) old! But Third Eye Blind holds up. But it’s joined here by the tender anti-suicide PSA "Jumper," and the monster power ballad "How It’s Going to Be," and (personal favorite) the guitar-driven and bumptious and valedictory "Graduate." Add "Losing a Whole Year," and that’s five of the first six tracks: Few late-’90s records in any genre open stronger, or at least huger. But first, count the bangers: "Semi-Charmed Life," a peppy and sordid tale of softcore drug abuse, was their first hit, and remains their biggest hit by orders of magnitude. Third Eye Blind came out on April 8, 1997, and turned a quartet of wide-eyed Bay Area strivers into post-grunge superstars who’d soon find themselves opening shows for both U2 and the Rolling Stones, selling millions of records, and splintering permanently. That’s the song that gets me excited every time I hear it, still. Stephan’s vocals, and the guitars, and it’s got, like, triple-tracked bass on there? I mean, it’s nuts. "I’m so proud of that, and it still gets me hyped up every time I hear it," Salazar says. Yes, Pearl Jam’s debut album was also angry and raw – and brilliant as well.The instant quiet-to-loud supernova the cheesy falsetto the feral and sugary pop-rock roar the sturdy bass line the dude-bro wistfulness of frontman Stephan Jenkins as he wails, "I remember you and me used to spend / The whole goddamn day / In bed." Total banger. Why, why can’t it be, oh can’t it be mine?” I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky, but why “I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life Here’s another lyric infused with that “intense 90’s” feel: “I remember you and me used to spend the whole goddamned day in bed…”
The 90’s was a time of grunge rock and lyrics like this one from “Losing A Whole Year”: The group has undergone band member changes over the years, but still record and tour. “Semi-Charmed Life”, “Jumper”, and “How’s It Going to Be” all reached the Top 10 of the Billboard charts. Third Eye Blind’s debut album was hugely successful, selling more than 6-million copies. I kind of get the feeling like I’m being used You touch everything with a velvet glove and Your voice sounds like money and your face is cute The phone would ring like a joke that’s left unsaid “I remember you and me used to spend the whole goddamned day in bed “…never heard one goddamned thing I ever said!” Given the months of #shelteringathome, this song title sure feels like it was pulled from today’s headlines, even as it tells the story of an angry young man who feels he wasted a year with a girl who: In 1997, their mega-hit debut album included this prescient song for our times today:
The band Third Eye Blind formed in San Francisco in 1993. I love the song, but it sure resonates now, doesn’t it? These “Songs For Sunday” Have A #quarantinelife Hook!Īs the world begins to “re-open” a bit – with still much concern about a virus that stubbornly continues to wreck havoc, I have “Songs For Sunday” that seem written for our times, beginning with a band that wrote a song that seems to sum up 2020 perfectly: “Losing A Whole Year!” Pandemic “Songs For Sunday!” Terrific Music Videos From Third Eye Blind! Police Parody “Don’t Stand So Close To Me!” Home › Art › “Losing A Whole Year!” Pandemic “Songs For Sunday!” Terrific Music Videos From Third Eye Blind! Police Parody “Don’t Stand So Close To Me!”
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