Both studio albums featured sounds completely different than the previous two releases, partially due to personal (and personnel) changes. Over the next few years, Third Eye Blind released its third studio album, Out of the Vein (2003), a couple EPs, a ‘Best Of’ Collection in 2006 and a fourth studio album, Ursa Major (2009). Similar to the self-titled record, Blue reached platinum status and had highly recognizable tracks like “Never Let You Go.” It featured darker and more satirical vocals with a variety of different musical styles that changed from track to track. “It’ll provoke some kind of emotional condition that I’ll try to capture the scope of in a song.”įast forward to 1999, when Third Eye Blind released its second album, Blue. “I think the underlying thing for me with songwriting is that there’s some way in which I’m provoked by the culture, I’m moved in some way, and then I’ll have an emotional response to an idea,” Jenkins says. While “Semi-Charmed Life” focused on raunchy drug and sex imagery, cuts such as “Motorcycle Drive By” and “The Background” painted a sad but realistic image of living on after losing someone you care about. Singer and guitarist Jenkins wrote lyrics that switched from hysterically lewd to heart-wrenchingly serious without any warning, to the disdain of radio stations and the pleasure of college-aged listeners. Recognized for singles such as “Jumper,” “How’s It Gonna Be” and the infamous “Semi-Charmed Life,” Third Eye Blind solidified the group’s place in ’90s music history. 25 on the Billboard 200 chart, where it stayed for 104 weeks. Known by fans simply as “the self-titled,” Third Eye Blind reached No. Yet some would argue Third Eye Blind is anything but underground. The band formed in 1996, and its first album was released the following year by Elektra Records. “We exist in a completely different world, and we are our own underground entity.” At our shows, that’s not what everyone comes to see,” Jenkins says. “That’s kind of the basic exposure to us.
Although “Semi-Charmed Life” brought Third Eye Blind into the public eye, it also brings Jenkins back in time when all he wants to do is move forward. Over the next few years, the song became one of the most recognizable tunes in the world.īut the ’90s were a long time ago, and Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins is not a nostalgic person. 8, 1997, an alternative rock band called Third Eye Blind released the track “ Semi-Charmed Life” and expected nothing to come of it. All artists want to make their music memorable and meaningful.
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