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Third Eye | 
 enlarge | Artist: Redd Kross
Label: Rhino Encore
Category: Music
Buy New: $12.98
New (39) Used (7) from $7.99
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 125114
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 82148
UPC: 081227992620
EAN: 0081227992620
ASIN: B0018DPC6K
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | The Faith Healer | | • | Annie's Gone | | • | I Don't Know How To Be Your Friend | | • | Shonen Knife | | • | Bubblegum Factory | | • | Where I Am Today | | • | Zira (Call Out My Name) | | • | Love Is Not Love | | • | 1976 | | • | Debbie & Kim | | • | Elephant Flares |
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| Customer Reviews:
Must have for "Annie's Gone" alone June 14, 2008
This album turned Redd Kross on their head. While it's not my favorite album of theirs (that would be "Phaseshifter"), the songs tread the line between bubblegum (literally in "Bubblegum Factory") and rock so well it has to be heard to understand. Tragically, history has made Redd Kross one of those bands that your favorite bands all listened to (and ripped off) and not the one we all had a chance to enjoy. Grab this, grab "Phaseshifter", grab "Neurotica", and get with a band that grew up making rock great.
precise sugar-coated power pop August 18, 2007
this album is one of the great unsung symphonys of great lyrics and 70's revision power pop.what ever happend the mcdonald brothers.
Overlooked, but Why?? February 18, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album is one of the great overlooked albums of all time. Every song on it is a power-pop gem; it's worth buying just for "1976" alone (check out that Paul Stanley vocal impersonation!). In a better world, Redd Kross would be topping the charts and Britney Spears would be taking orders at a fast food joint.
A truly lost gem - sticky fun July 18, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having acquired this from one of those deadbeat music clubs in the early nineties that I couldn't stand, currently I should extend my apologies, as I understand this CD is out of print, too bad for you. I haven't given this a spin in a few years, as I remember it being a good listen, but not a great one, well my opinion has changed, just a sheer slice of power-pop heaven. The McDonald boys never replicated this 'major label' release, sure it had little of no airplay and I imagine they were unceromoniusly dumped by their label after this, but who give a F?
11 tracks of great rock & roll - dig the opening excuberance of 'Faith Healer' coincidentaly the much missed 'Big Dipper' have a killer cut of the same name. Followed by serveral toe-tapping, head boppin' tunes of 70's kitsch and they pay homage to Asian hipsters - Shonen Knife, I love when bands namedrop other bands, it always seems to work -check out Tullycraft.
A truly remarkable album from 1990 - see music did exist like this well before the bloated grunge era. Tape a copy if you have to!
Stunningly, Amazingly, Dumbfoundingly...Out Of Print August 27, 2004
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
How can this power pop gem be out of print? In my opinion, it's the best album the McDonald brothers ever made. It's a multi-colored, candy-crunching, cheap-tricking, elephant-flaring, feathered-haired masterpiece.
If you've ever walked around the mall with a comb in your back pocket and a pack of pop-rocks in your hand while waiting in line to get yourself a nice cool Orange Julius, then you will want this album. If you've ever driven to the roller rink in a Trans-Am while listening to the Bay City Rollers you will want this too. And if you've ever woken up early on a Saturday morning so you could catch Schoolhouse Rock or the Funky Phantom while munching on your Count Chocula or Frankenberries then you will definetely want to get this.
My point is that there is nobody...not a single band on the face of the planet...that can resurrect everything you ever missed about the 70s like Redd Kross can. They do it with the utmost craft and the best set of songs you could ever hope for on Third Eye. They never quite captured it all so perfectly again but they came close a couple of times. I would also recommend the previous album, Neurotica, which is kind of like a trial run for Third Eye but not quite as clean and radio ready.
Enjoy!
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