Anger with direction. (Third Eye Bind - Third Eye Blind)

Member Name: Tristan AC

Product:	Third Eye Bind - Third Eye Blind
Date:	06/08/00 (49 review reads)
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Advantages: Great passionate music.

Disadvantages: Not poppy enought to break the UK charts.

Third Eye Blind – Third Eye Blind

The big problem with the British music scene is that bands like Third Eye Blind don’t get a look in. It’s difficult enough being a talented British band and breaking the UK market with all the pop pap dominating the charts but for an American independent rock band it's nigh on impossible. It’s a great pity because Third Eye Blind are nothing short of fantastic. This, their first album, contains so many great tracks it’s difficult to know where to start.

Losing A Whole Year really starts the album off as it’s destined to continue, raw but catchy, passionate but not too reckless. Semi-Charmed Life is the one track the British public may be familiar with and ironically it’s the one track on the album which seems a little out of place. It’s not a positive album in it’s view on relationships but it seems to exorcise those ghosts by the time it gets to the last few songs which mellow out.

Viewers of the first series of Dawson’s Creek may remember How’s It Going To Be from the soundtrack. It’s a farewell and get lost salute to an ex-wife basically and you find it difficult to believe it may not be written from experience.

I just wish everybody could hear this album to appreciate how great Third Eye Blind are.

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