Third Eye Blind
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Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind is the debut studio album by American rock band Third Eye Blind, released on April 8, 1997. The album spawned five singles, including the top ten chart hits "Semi-Charmed Life", "Jumper", and "How's It Going to Be". -Wikipedia
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Robbie Vogel
Layered guitar tracks, funky tunings, tight and often inventive drum fills, and Jenkins’s signature soaring choruses and vulnerable falsetto… the whole thing is a damn ten.
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Louder Sound
Giving the album a homogenous sound somewhere between Green Day and an angrier Busted. The UK remained largely impervious to the band’s charms, though five hit singles helped it go six-times platinum in the States.
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Punk News
There is a deep longing for those older times once we age much higher than we ever imagined. Back then, these songs might have seemed like the catchy singles of the week, quickly forgotten and ushered away for the next big thing. But later on, when it's a sporadic moment and the music of yesteryear starts to play, we can go back and remember with whatever fondness we can muster...
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Sputnik Music
3/25/10 Third Eye Blind’s debut is simply one of the greatest alternative rock albums in recent memory, with virtually no filler. Its perpetual capability to remain relevant is something to be admired.
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Cultured Vultures
It’s more than semi-charmed. It’s more than just one song – that “doot doot doot” song that got stuck in everyone’s head. It’s more than a pop rock album. For better or worse, it’s a lyrical masterpiece.
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Songfacts
This album is very consistent for the most part, and there is much more to enjoy in this album than you think there is.
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Uproxx
Their hooks, their shiny guitars, and their anthemic accessibility. All three attributes have helped to keep Third Eye Blind going almost two decades after their debut.
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The New Fury
Third Eye Blind is an incredibly catchy album that captures certain spirits and emotions that most other bands couldn’t ever duplicate.
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Michigan Daily
Third Eye Blind is a band scorned by charts and critics, but not fans. In the mainstream, they may be jokingly remembered, but within their own circle of admirers they remain stars — thanks mostly to this one twenty-year-old debut album.
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