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Best Sellers From The ’90s: Third Eye Blind’s First Album

Michael Verity

Best Sellers From The 90's
1/18/2012
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Based on the producing skills of frontman Stephan Jenkins (along with an impressive opening gig with Oasis), Elektra Records won the bidding war for Third Eye Blind back in the late ’90s. Their perseverance paid off with a multi-platinum album.

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Sylvia Rhodes, the CEO of Elektra at the time, had been actively demonstrating her support of Third Eye Blind for some time when she finally signed the band to a contract for their debut album. A production agreement with Jenkins, allowing him to oversee not only his own album but the works of others, also helped win over the band.

For their debut recording, the band cut 14 songs, most of which had been worked on for years and had been on a 14-track demo engineered by Eric Valentine. Jenkins enlisted Valentine to engineer their major label take on the tunes, a set highlighted by MTV fave, “Semi-Charmed Life.”

The chemistry continued to work: Third Eye Blind’s debut record yielded Elektra sales of over 6 million copies.