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Third Eye Blind's third album, Out of the Vein, was released on May 13th, 2003. Despite a strong debut at #12 on the Billboard 200 and many quotations from the band remarking on their happiness with the album, Out of the Vein has been a commercial disappointment with only 500,000 copies sold. The lack of professional music videos for the album's two singles "Blinded" and "Crystal Baller" has been lamented by fans.
By the time the band released 2003's Out of the Vein, Elektra Records was in the midst of being absorbed into Atlantic Records, and Jenkins contends the group was not a priority. "I worked really hard on Out of the Vein," he said, "Elektra was imploding as we were making it, so we didn't make a video and didn't do a marketing campaign, but as far as critics go, it was my best-reviewed album."
"If you take the first three albums, they were of a piece," he continued. "They were lyrically about making a good shield, putting up a really good front and all the triumph and damage that incurred."
[edit] Track listing
- "Faster" – 3:32
- "Blinded" – 4:22
- "Forget Myself" – 4:13
- "Danger" – 3:12
- "Crystal Baller" – 4:15
- "My Hit and Run" – 4:22
- "Misfits" – 4:19
- "Can't Get Away" – 3:46
- "Wake for Young Souls" – 4:37
- "Palm Reader" – 4:54
- "Self Righteous" – 6:18
- "Company" – 3:54
- "Good Man" / "Another Life" (hidden track) – 9:24
- "My Time in Exile" (Japanese release only) - 3:17
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[edit] Miscellanea
- "Blinded", "Forget Myself", and "Cant Get Away" were supposedly written about lead singer Stephan Jenkins' relationship with actress Charlize Theron.
- The song "Self Righteous" features a duet between Jenkins and Kimya Dawson of The Moldy Peaches.
- The album was originally going to be called Crystal Baller, after the track of the same name.
