Lost A Whole Year: Yet Another Mediocre Third Eye Blind Site

Welcome to LOST A WHOLE YEAR, the most definitive stop for all your Third Eye Blind fan needs! New and interesting stuff is (not) destined to be added all the time.

[Third Eye Blind - A Collection album cover] July 18, 2006: Third Eye Blind: A Collection, the band's first compilation album, is in stores! Unfortunately, the prospect of a bonus DVD was dropped. Read our comments for more information about this album.

Other News

May 13, 2008: Five years from the release of Out of the Vein, new projects continue to simmer on the back burner. The new studio album tentatively titled The Hideous Strength is now known as Ursa Major, and is apparently due to be accompanied by an album of session "leftovers" titled Ursa Minor. A live CD and (once again) a DVD remain tensely awaited, although I've heard little specific news about them.

Some of the new songs that could possibly appear on the new release include: "About to Break," "Alright Caroline," "Away," "Bonfire" (a.k.a. "Campfire"), "Break Me," "Carnival Barker," "Don't Believe a Word," "In the Skin," "Jesse 2K," "Monotov's Private Opera," "Non Dairy Creamer," "Now I Don't Know," "Persephone," "Red Star" (a.k.a. "So Pretty"), "Second Born," "A Sharpe Knife," "Standing Up for You," "Stevie Ray Vaughan," "Summer Town," "Swimming," and "Why Can't You Be."

In terms of site updates, I have the pleasure of adding a new site to the links page. I've also posted a rant of sorts concerning the band's disposition as well.

November 14, 2007: An update about the televised concert broadcast on HDNet: Officially titled "Third Eye Blind - Ten Years Down," the program is now being scheduled for broadcast on December 2 at 8:30 pm EST. For those of us without access to this channel, a DVD release will presumably be around the corner.

October 25, 2007: "Third Eye Blind at the Fillmore" has been tentatively scheduled for broadcast on HDNet, a limitedly-available cable and satellite channel, on December 9. Meanwhile, work on The Hideous Strength is evidently moving along, although a number of questions...namely, the release date and what label it would be released on...remain up in the air.

April 30, 2007: Some bits of information to have unfolded in the recent past:

[Third Eye Blind - Live at the Fillmore cover]

First: Live at the Fillmore - March 13-14, 2007, a coffee-table book of pictures from the aforementioned concert, is available for purchase from Blurb. Second: Break out the champagne; a new album is on its way! According to a San Francisco Chronicle article, the record is tentatively titled "The Hideous Strength," is "more political," and will arrive "soon."

January 18, 2007: Coming this spring, it will have been ten years since Third Eye Blind's first album was released. According to The Village Church Yard, the band will play a pair of concerts at the Fillmore in San Francisco on March 13 and 14 in honor of the occasion. Filmed footage and a fan event may come out of this, so stay tuned!

June 2, 2006: More information about the upcoming greatest-hits album just in, which sounds very encouraging:

The title will be Third Eye Blind: A Collection. The track listing consists of eighteen or nineteen cuts spanning the band's major radio hits, favorite album cuts, and the added incentive of a scattering of rareties and B-sides. In addition, the CD will be bundled with a DVD containing virtually all of the band's music videos. The package will be released by Rhino, Warner's de facto reissue division.

June 1, 2006: Even more news: VH-1 have published an article containing excerpts from a new interview with Stephan Jenkins. A fourth album is definitely in the works, although the circumstances of when precisely it will be finished and how it will be released still seem to be a question mark. Finally: Though not through new material, Third Eye Blind will return to the record stores this summer through the release of a greatest-hits album. More details will come forth in due course.

May 9, 2006: New news from the band...no, really! First of all, Third Eye Blind now have an official webpage at (gulp) My Space.com: It may be very clunky, but it's a source of up-to-date information. Second of all, "Persephone," an unreleased cut from the Out of the Vein sessions, is available (for now) as a legitimate download from the same site. Enjoy!

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