Songoftheday 7/25/21 - I burn, burn like a wicker cabinet, chalk white and oh so frail...

 

 

"Inside Out" - Eve 6

from the album Eve 6 (1998)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #28 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 11

 

Today's song of the day comes from the rock band Eve 6, who originally came together in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the mid 1990's, with lead singer/bass player Max Collins and guitarist Jon Siebels meeting as schoolmates, and taking in drummer Tony Fagenson (the son of bigtime-producer and musician Don Was). Signed to RCA Records, the trio released their self-titled debut album in the spring of 1998. The lead single from the set, "Inside Out", was written by Collins and produced by Don Gilmore. It has Collins obsessed with a girl to the point of laying himself out prostrate for her to do whatever she wants, mentally and physically. The title is in there, but it's the "Want to put my tender heart in a blender" hook that really caught people's (and my own) attention. With crunchy guitars like fellow geek-rockers Weezer, Eve 6 sang for the downtrodden boys who couldn't get the girl easily. A huge hit at rock radio in the summer, it eventually caught on with mainstream stations, and when Billboard magazine changed their rules to allow album tracks to list on the Hot 100, this came in even after its peak...

"Inside Out" became Eve 6's first top-40 pop hit in December of 1998. The song topped Billboard's Alternative Rock chart for four weeks, while getting to #5 on the Mainstream Rock radio list. It even crossed over to the older-skewing Adult Top-40 format, rising to #16 and taking 29 weeks on the chart. Internationally, the single went to #36 in Canada. The Eve 6 album, released in April of that year, climbed to #33 on the Billboard 200 sales tally in America, going on to sell over a million copies. 

The group's follow-up single, "Leech", hit the top ten on both the Alternative (#6) and Mainstream (#10) rock radio charts, but missed the pop Hot 100 altogether ( a surprise to me, it was pretty decent). It did become their sole minor British hit at #79. That was followed by "Open Road Song", which made it to #23 on Billboard's Alternative Rock list. The trio will eventually be back to the series, though.

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Here's the band appearing on Letterman to promote the album...

..next up, from a recent concert gig...

and lastly, an acoustic take from 2012...
 

Up tomorrow: Country singer wants release.