Third Eye Blind- Good Production

I still don't think I quite have the ear nor the understanding to pick out good production from mediocre production at this point, but I will make a valiant attempt at it. The band I chose for good production is Third Eye Blind. 3EB released their first, self-titled, album in 1997 and have since released two more; their last full length album was titled Out Of The Vein and was released in 2003. The band's frontman and lyricist Stephan Jenkins produced all three of their albums. The band built their own recording studio in San Francisco before the recording of Out Of The Vein and did all of the recording and producing there that is on the album. I was doing a little bit of research and found that the band wanted to have more of an organic and raw feel to their newest album, which after reading that made a lot of sense in regards to how the cd sounds. So what I want to do is compare two tracks from the album; one having more of a bigger, fuller, and more pure and 'finished' sound, while the other having the more organic and raw sound to it. The first song that demonstrates the sort of full and rich sound is called Misfits. The song, at least to my untrained ear, has a good bit of complexity to it. Starting with the chirping and atmospheric sound of the grasshoppers at the beginning and continuing with backing tracks, and layered guitars throughout and it. Furthermore, it has a lot of width with the different sounds and instruments coming from different channels. The song that I want to compare Misfits to is called Self-Righteous. This track is a duet with Kimya Dawson from the Moldy Peaches and has the more raw feeling to it without all of the chopping, editing, and procesing. Stephan and Kimya's voices don't sound like they've been altered a whole lot like some of the other tracks on the album; they seem rather unrefined and just more natural than what Stephen's voice sounds like in Misfits. If I were to guess about height I would say it's more high than low. I don't think there's much bass in the song but I am also listening to it through headphones right now since the amp blew to my computer speakers recently. Like I said already, I don't really know if I fully understand how to pick out the different dimensions of tracking and mixing. I can repeat what they are but to actually hear them and point them out is another thing. So, I may be way off with what I said but that's the best I could do...Now if only I can upload both songs we'll be in good shape. Actually, I could only get one song to upload so here is Misfits and I hope to get Self-Righteous in my next post.