Maybe you know of La Crescenta-Monroe, California’s Eve 6 because their mega hit single “Inside Out” gloriously infected MTV and your babysitter Devin’s bright yellow Nissan Xterra in the late ’90s, or possibly you heard of the power trio when your were breaking stuff in your parent’s basement listening to “Nookie,” but regardless, we’re quite happy you’re here, even if you aren’t. The band made three full-length studio albums before their 2004 hiatus, reformed three years later, and released two more LPs since then, proving that they are so much more than the Pixar film! Also, Eve 6 lived your dreams tenfold by signing to RCA Records before they could legally die for our country, and rumor has it that the label encouraged them to graduate high school by providing their advance in allowance form. Here’s to their might!
5. Hyper Relevisation (2022)
This might come as a surprise to some, but Eve 6 truly doesn’t have a bad album in their five LP catalog. However, there has to be something listed in the bottom stinker spot here. Still, we have one question for the peanut gallery and it goes like this, “What the hell is a ‘relevisation’?” Anyway, we’re more than stoked that a band that formed in 1995 has new material this decade, so beggars can’t be choosers. Also, “Hyper Relevisation” came out approximately ten years after their next to-be-mentioned full-length, so we hope it provides a revelushow throughout the underground, foreground, overground, and foreskin, and a sixth comes out in nine years or less.
Play it again: “Androgyne Friend”
Skip it: About ⅓ of it
4. Speak in Code (2012)
Eve 6’s first and only album on Fearless Records, came out almost a decade after their final of three major label efforts, and, as we alluded to earlier, can aggressively get your toes tapping more than any other LP in their catalog; trust us. Opening with its best song “Curtain,” and going right into the catchy first single “Victoria,” Eve 6 proved that they were still a one-two punch force long after their teenage years, and “Speak in Code” remains the band’s second most slept upon effort. Wake up, ’90s kids, and read on! There are at least eight or nine songs here that will pique your interest! Returning to Don Gilmore of Linkin Park, Lit, Good Charlotte, and Ludwig van Beethoven fame, for production like he did on albums #1 and 2 was a righteous move even though their third LP sounded fantastic as well.
Play it again: “Curtain”
Skip it: About ¼ of it
3. Horrorscope (2000)
While Eve 6’s sophomore full-length sounds huger than any LP in their catalog in the best way, and is more than a solid sequel in any right, wrong, manner, or song, its twelve songs just aren’t as endearing as the ones on their self-titled debut album, so it lands in the bronze medal position. Still, “Here’s to the Night,” the album’s third single (remember those?) is their most montage-worthy tune BY FAR, and populates graduations, weddings, proms, and your great aunt Edna’s 1958 Ford Edsel to this very day, twenty-four years after it came out! The album’s first single “Promise” was also a hit in its own right, and has one of the best and most self-aware dad jokes in the lines to its bridge, “Why you gotta keep the fan on high when it’s cold outside? Just wanna let you know that I’m still a fan, get it?”
Play it again: “On The Roof Again”
Skip it: “Nocturnal”
2. Self-Titled (1998)
Eve 6’s almost perfect debut self-titled full-length studio album came out at the most optimal time for numbered bands like blink-182, SR-71, Matchbox Twenty, and Stone Temple Twenty-One Pilots to succeed, and ended the ’90s in a tight longsleeve shirt style complete with a stylish necklace, all whilst counting to six at the top of its plastic lungs. Peaking at number one on Billboard’s US Heatseekers Albums charts is also nothing to scoff at for any band, and neither is selling one million physical copies of ANYTHING! We dare any act in this day and age to counter said stat in the age of streaming. Basically, the three-piece deserves an enthusiastic clap not just on Saturday nights, but on all seven of ‘em. In closing, who can forget hearing “Open Road Song” during “Can’t Hardly Wait,” which is one of the more underrated comedies from the ’90s. Not us.
Play it again: “Leech”
Skip it: “There’s a Face”
1. It’s All in Your Head (2003)
We’re still shocked that this record isn’t often spoken with the same reverence as its two former releases, by the general public, but that’s sadly how the cookie often crumbles, and we’re still here waiting for more public and private praise over some half-eaten stale chocolate chips. This sentence may sound like a stretch, but we’ll happily die on this two-pronged hill: “Think Twice” is the band’s best single AND this effort is a “no skip” release. Sadly, this album is what got the band dropped from RCA Records and the band called it a day one year later for a well-deserved three-year hiatus. Was closing this album with a song called “Arch Drive Goodbye” a coincidence given the band’s eventual halt? We’ll never really know, but at least we’re dreaming.
Play it again: Your head
Skip it: Your yed