![]() ![]() As the lead single off their debut album, the track performed incredibly well on the charts, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and claiming #1 on both the Mainstream Top 40 and Modern Rock Charts (the latter of which it topped for the overall year as well). “Semi-Charmed Life ‘09” is a re-recording of one of the most memorable songs of the ‘90s. You’ll have a great chorus on vocals, along with the spoken outro that was all the rage with fans. The song contains one of many great guitar riffs in Third Eye Blind’s repertoire and should bring back good memories for many of us. ![]() It also spent three weeks atop the Canadian Top Singles chart. In early 2000, the original cut was a top 5 track on the Adult Top 40, Mainstream Top 40, AND Alternative Songs charts at the same time. The band re-recorded multiple hits specifically for music games and we’re bringing some of them to Rock Band 4 this week! Let’s kick it off with “Never Let You Go ‘09”. Third Eye Blind has garnered tons of critical and commercial success over the span of their career. The 2019 album Screamer may find the band soaking up the kids’ edgy synthesizers and indie-rock moves, but deep down, the humor, sass, and smarts therein are quintessential Third Eye Blind.This week, we’re adding even more content from legendary Bay Area rockers Third Eye Blind! It’s this very quality-an ability to laugh in the face of life’s succession of tragedies-that has helped Third Eye Blind retain such a doggedly loyal fanbase well into the 21st century. On 2003’s Out of the Vein, which plays out like a bummer breakup album, Jenkins can’t help but insert the cheeky rocker “Crystal Baller,” on which he sounds both extremely heartbroken and utterly hilarious. Another prime example of the band’s deceptive songcraft arrived in the form of “Never Let You Go,” which anchored Third Eye Blind’s second album, 1999’s Blue: The hit single wears its Cars influences proudly on its sleeve while the singer cleverly blurs the lines between heartfelt love and creepy obsession. ![]() “Semi-Charmed Life” on its face sounds lighthearted a close listen, however, reveals Jenkins addressing issues of addiction and existential insecurity. A good deal of the credit goes to vocalist Stephan Jenkins, a nuanced lyricist who graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in English literature before co-founding the band in 1993. Along with Weezer and The Presidents of the United States of America, the San Francisco outfit signaled a new breed of alt-rock, one eschewing grunge’s bludgeoning heaviness and brooding sincerity for power-pop hooks and lyrics capable of twisting ironic humor and heartfelt sincerity into a pretzel. ![]() When Third Eye Blind dropped “Semi-Charmed Life” in 1997, the earworm chorus and scrappy melody sounded downright fresh. ![]()
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