Album of the Week
My pick of the week — a tradition I share with my team at work.
Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind
This is the first album I remember seeing in my house growing up, which is surprising given my dad's questionable taste in music in the '90s. "Semi-Charmed Life," "Jumper," and "How's It Going to Be" are the obvious entry points, but the whole thing front to back is pretty much perfect. What really shaped my idea of what a successful album looks like are those last two tracks — this record knows how to stick the landing. If you've never gone past the singles, this is the week to fix that.
Genre: Alternative Rock · Post-Grunge
Year: 1997
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Apr 6, 2026 For Posterity — Dryjacket
I first discovered Dryjacket when they opened for Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties in Providence, RI — and I was hooked from the first song. Their blend of math-emo guitar work and polished pop sensibilities hit me immediately in a live setting, and For Posterity bottles that energy perfectly. The playful, clever lyrics paired with laid-back vocals give the whole record a cool effortlessness that keeps it in constant rotation. 33 minutes, 11 tracks — put it on, don't skip a thing.
Top 100 Albums
A work in progress — updated as I think harder about it.
- August and Everything After — Counting Crows
- Clarity — Jimmy Eat World
- Hotel California — Eagles
- Pinkerton — Weezer
- The Black Parade — My Chemical Romance
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- Supernatural — Santana
- Licensed to Ill — Beastie Boys
- Diary — Sunny Day Real Estate
- Through Being Cool — Saves the Day
- Dark Side of the Moon — Pink Floyd
- Transatlanticism — Death Cab for Cutie
- Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV — Coheed and Cambria
- Songs from the Big Chair — Tears for Fears
- Pure Heroine — Lorde
- Third Eye Blind — Third Eye Blind
- Translating the Name — Saosin
- Nearer My God — Foxing
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- Harvest — Neil Young
- Canyon Trilogy — R. Carlos Nakai
- Wolfmother — Wolfmother
- Blue Album — Weezer
- The Wall — Pink Floyd
- American Football — American Football
- Speaking in Tongues — Talking Heads
- There's Nothing Wrong With Love — Built to Spill
- Home, Like NoPlace Is There — The Hotelier
- Epiphany — T-Pain
- Eloquent Disease — Naked April
- Octavarium — Dream Theater
- The Cars — The Cars
- The Dream Is Over — PUP
- Melodrama — Lorde
- Carnavas — Silversun Pickups
- Silent Alarm — Bloc Party
- American Beauty — Grateful Dead
- Waking the Fallen — Avenged Sevenfold
- Mean Everything to Nothing — Manchester Orchestra
- 2001 — Dr. Dre
- Astro Lounge — Smash Mouth
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Top 100 Songs
Another work in progress.
- Seven Years — Saosin
- Speak With The Dead — Foxing
- Something in the Way She Moves — James Taylor
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- Wasted Time — Eagles
- Bridge Over Troubled Water — Simon & Garfunkel
- Box of Rain — Grateful Dead
- Black — Pearl Jam
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- Shake Me Down — Cage the Elephant
- Tales — Wolfmother
- Bell Bottom Blues — Derek and the Dominoes
- Ribs — Lorde
- Midnight Rider — Allman Brothers Band
- Flux — Bloc Party
- Sometime Around Midnight — The Airborne Toxic Event
- Time — Pink Floyd
- Stay (I Missed You) — Lisa Loeb
- Can't Take My Eyes Off of You — Frankie Valli
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