Ursa Major (studio album)
by Third Eye Blind
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2024 | sonicdiscourse | 2009 To-Do List | 67/78 | - |
| 2009 | Consequence of Sound | The Top 100 Albums Of 2009 | 40/99 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 2 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 3 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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70/100  | 09/02/2025 19:16 | PapaShiz86 | | 79/100 |
45/100 | 07/14/2025 09:28 |  Milhaud | | 69/100 |
65/100 | 09/21/2024 16:36 | BallLightning | | 78/100 |
30/100 | 04/18/2023 05:11 |  zags7000 | | 64/100 |
50/100 | 06/16/2021 20:05 | jon5417 | | 68/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.2/100, a mean average of 59.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 59.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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The first two tracks are satisfyingly energetic. Bonfire and Water Landing are highlights. But ultimately not as interesting or as catchy as their early records.
Ursa Major is pretty good. It's a step down from their first 3 albums but it holds its own as straightforward 90's pop rock.
Not much has changed in the bands style so if you were a fan before of the melodic rap-sing approach than there is plenty to like here.
Bonfire and Sharp Knife are classic 3EB and rank among their best songs.
Water Landing is excellent as well and is a slower epic.
Don't Believe a Word, the attempt at a single, is standard 3EB fare and enjoyable.
Summer Town is probably the only dud. It sounds like a semi charmed life clone without the edge and from an adult contemporary perspective
Quirky lyrics abound from One in Ten's goal to convert a lesbian and Why Cant You Be's comparisons to various appliances.
This was the last record worth tuning into from 3EB. Dopamine to follow is trash.
I enjoyed this record for what it was. Its unbelievable how Steven Jenkins was able to write another great song that was I-V-IV the whole time ("Water Landing"). I think he really stepped into songwriting refinement with "Why can't you be?", a song about asking your significant other to be something that they are not, and learning how to accept. The live version of this one is nice as well. I enjoyed this record just as much as Out of the Vein.
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