Third Eye Blind - Self Titled (w/ guest Mike Prince)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2016

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

Brian and Bill welcome music biz insider Mike Prince (he works in licensing music for Disney) to discuss Third Eye Blind's self titled debut (1997, Elektra). Masterminded by singer/lyricist Stephan Jenkins, 3EB took off with massive success filed by their infections pop hooks and catchy melodies. Benefiting from a great chemistry with guitarist and co-songwriter Kevin Cadogan, Jenkins famously ousted Cadogan from the band, leading them into a creative and commercial lull. Strangely, the band has lived on, outliving their 90s rock brethren and remaining a vital influence through till today. Mike talks about purchasing CD singles of the band's early hits before finally discovering the album as an art form while listening to a friend's copy on vacation in Las Vegas. Bill, Brian, and Mike discuss how a younger generation is spreading the word about this album, Kevin Cadogan's role in the band and the business dealings that leads to his dismissal, Arion Salazar's cool bass grooves, Brad Hargreaves' pay day, the non-pop oriented tracks on the album, what the heck harmonics are, the influence of Oasis and MTV's the Real World, where the album dips into a "winter" vibe, how the last 3 songs solidify the band's legacy, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	I'm back
0:02.0	I'm packed and I'm holding, I'm smiling, she smiling She live and she goes
0:22.6	And she lives for me
0:23.6	Says she lives for me
0:24.6	Ovation
0:25.6	Who are motivation
0:26.6	She comes out and she goes down to me
0:29.6	And I'll make you smile
0:30.6	Like a drug for you
0:32.6	Do ever what you want to do
0:33.6	Coming over you
0:34.6	Keep on smile at what we go through
0:36.6	One stop to the rhythm that divides you
0:39.0	and it's me to you like the chorus to the hello and welcome to the great albums podcast i'm bill
0:44.4	and i'm brian what we just listening to you right there brian oh man well we jumped in the time
0:49.1	machine and we turned on my sony boom box uh we went back to 1997 and just turned on like Z-100.
0:58.1	And that was the first song that came on.
1:01.3	Now, that was semi-charmed Life by Third Eye Blind from their self-titled April 8th, 1997 debut album.
1:17.6	Because if you've never listened to the podcast, what we do here every week is talk about albums of music and what makes them great. What we're going to do is try and have a conversation that kind of you would have around being a fan of the music.
1:23.6	Talk about what we love about the music, what makes it cool.
1:26.6	Give a little bit of history on the band and what led to the making of this album.
1:31.4	And then we're going to get to a track-by-track review.
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