Taking Sides: Gin Blossoms vs. Toad The Wet Sprocket

Maybe some CC is different. Maybe "Mr. Jones" is something different.

But "Round Here," "Omaha," "Cannonball," "Raining in Baltimore," elicit a particularly 90s anxiety, one that I also hear in "Sex and Candy," "Found Out About You," "Let Her Cry," "Iris," and "Alison Road."

There's a wobble in the vocal that I hear as a fuzzy wired fear - someone who's just barely holding his shit together.

I mostly hated this music at the time, but in retrospect I feel it was appropriate, because that's exactly how I felt.

Dulcinea is a pretty good album, really won me over to Toad The Wet Sprocket after disliking their first couple hits.

smoking on stage = pretty louche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNGWozPjihk

"Something's Always Wrong" at CVS this morning. Good song!