Thanks for Everything (EP)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Thanks for Everything
| type = EP
| artist = Third Eye Blind
| cover = Thanks For Everything.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2018|08|24}}
| recorded = 2018
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Alternative rock
| length =
| label = Mega Collider
| producer =
| prev_title = We Are Drugs
| prev_year = 2016
| next_title = Screamer
| next_year =2019
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Thanks for Everything
| type = EP
| single1 = Fuck Forever
| single1date = June 30, 2018
| single2 = Joke
| single2date = July 13, 2018
}}
}}
Thanks for Everything is an EP by Third Eye Blind. It consists of seven cover songs and was released on August 24, 2018.
Background
After extensive gaps in album releases by the band between their last studio albums, six years between Out of the Vein (2003) and Ursa Major (2009), followed by another six years until Dopamine (2015), Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins announced the band would be moving away from full-album releases in favor of more frequent, smaller EP releases moving forward.{{cite web|url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/07/10/interview-stephan-jenkins-third-eye-blind-dopamine/29887239/|title=Interview: Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind on 'Dopamine'|publisher=}} Jenkins made good on the promise, just a year later releasing the seven-track EP We Are Drugs.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7834041/third-eye-blind-summer-gods-EP-album-tour-interview|title=Third Eye Blind Details Upcoming 'Summer Gods' Project, With Tracks That 'Sound Like Atlanta Trap Music'|magazine=Billboard |publisher=}} The band's next plans included releasing a 2017 EP called Summer Gods, to coincide with a tour of the same name, and would have explored a variety of new sounds for the band, including trap music. However, the EP was not finished in time to be released during the tour, and was instead changed into simply a live album of performances from the tour.{{cite web|url=https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2017/11/28/third-eye-blind-summer-gods-live-album-listen-stream/|title=Stream Third Eye Blind's New Live Album, Recorded on Their 'Summer Gods' Tour - Rock Cellar Magazine|date=28 November 2017|publisher=}} In June 2018, it was announced that the next EP was instead to be titled Thanks for Everything, and to consist of seven cover versions of various songs of Jenkins' selection.{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/third-eye-blind-cover-bon-iver-chastity-belt-qotsa-on-new-ep/|title=Third Eye Blind Cover Bon Iver, Chastity Belt, QOTSA on New EP - Pitchfork|website=pitchfork.com|date=22 June 2018 }} The change in plans was attributed to, and inspired by, the band's trips to local museums and galleries during the Summer Gods touring, and the proceeds from the EP go towards the Andy Warhol Museum.{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2018/06/third-eye-blind-thanks-for-everything-ep-bon-iver-cover-songs/|title=Third Eye Blind Announce 'Thanks for Everything' Cover Songs EP|date=22 June 2018|publisher=}} Jenkins stated that the act of reinterpreting and recording cover songs of various genres that had influenced the band over the years was done to help find inspiration for the creation of a future studio album.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8472109/third-eye-blind-thanks-for-everything-covers-ep-stream|title=Third Eye Blind Covers Bon Iver, Santigold & More on 'Thanks for Everything' EP: Stream It Now|magazine=Billboard}}
Composition and themes
The EP consists of the band's reinterpretations of seven vastly different musical artists: Happy Diving's "10", Babyshambles's "Fuck Forever", Santigold's "This Isn't Our Parade", Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren", Chastity Belt's "Joke", Queens of the Stone Age's "In the Fade", and Bon Iver's "Blood Bank".{{cite web|url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/06/third-eye-blind-bon-iver-qotsa/|title=Third Eye Blind cover Bon Iver and Queens of the Stone Age on new EP, Thanks For Everything|date=22 June 2018|publisher=}} "Blood Bank" is a song the band had previously been performing at live concerts as early as 2012.{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2003084/third-eye-blind-bon-iver-qotsa-cover/music/|title=Third Eye Blind Cover Bon Iver, Queens Of The Stone Age, Santigold On New EP|date=22 June 2018|publisher=}} Consequence of Sound described their version of "Fuck Forever" as "less consciously sloppy than [Babyshamble's frontman Pete] Doherty's original cut" but still having "an anthemic, cathartic feel that's no doubt born from his views on the US's current political climate."
Release and promotion
The EP was first announced on June 22, 2018, alongside the release of the first single, "Fuck Forever".{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/06/third-eye-blind-will-cover-bon-iver-chastity-belt.html|title=Third Eye Blind to Cover Bon Iver, Chastity Belt, More on New EP Thanks for Everything|publisher=}} It was released on August 24, 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/third-eye-blind-cover-babyshambles-ep-2342547|title=Third Eye Blind have covered Babyshambles' 'Fuck Forever' and plan whole covers EP - NME|website=NME |date=22 June 2018|publisher=}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 = 10
| length1 = 3:42
| note1 = Happy Diving cover
| title2 = Fuck Forever
| length2 = 3:41
| note2 = Babyshambles cover
| title3 = This Isn't Our Parade
| length3 = 3:40
| note3 = Santigold cover
| title4 = Song to the Siren
| length4 = 3:13
| note4 = Tim Buckley cover
| title5 = Joke
| length5 = 3:47
| note5 = Chastity Belt cover
| title6 = In the Fade
| length6 = 3:45
| note6 = Queens of the Stone Age cover
| title7 = Blood Bank
| length7 = 3:43
| note7 = Bon Iver cover
| total length = 26:00
}}
Personnel
Band
- Stephan Jenkins – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
- Kryz Reid – lead guitar
- Alex LeCavalier – bass guitar
- Alex Kopp – keyboards
- Brad Hargreaves – drums