No one's mentioned the guitarist/songwriter's suicide yet. Songs live or die on their own merits, but that does lurk in the background for me when I think about how "Found Out About You" sounds sort of spooky.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
It's worse when you hear "Lost Horizons" because it seems to predict Doug Hopkins' suicide. I really think the world lost an amazing songwriter-- one who was way more edgy and talented than the band's reputation would suggest.
The last horizons I can seeAre filled with bars and factoriesAnd in them all we fight to stay awakeI drink enough of anythingTo make this world look new againDrunk, drunk, drunk in the gardens and the gravesShe had nothing left to saySo she said sShe loved meI stood there grateful for the lie...The last horizons I can seeAre now resigned to memoriesI never thought I'd still be here today
I drink enough of anythingTo make this world look new againDrunk, drunk, drunk in the gardens and the graves
She had nothing left to saySo she said sShe loved meI stood there grateful for the lie
...
The last horizons I can seeAre now resigned to memoriesI never thought I'd still be here today
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
19th century Romantic poetry!
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Weren't most of their biggest hits all on the same album? If so, I should get it someday; I remember thinking most of them were likeable at the time, if never quite great. Good chance they'd sound even better to me now. Anyway, "Found Out About You" is the one that immediately came to mind when I saw the thread title, so I'm going with that.
― xhuxk, Monday, October 4, 2010 8:28 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark
it's kind of commonplace now, but for a while Gin Blossoms were kind of infamous for being maybe the first of those '90s bands whose label put out a "best of" comp after they only had 2 albums, and 7 of the 12 songs from New Miserable Experience are on that best-of.
― algernod shiplies (some dude), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
well also they broke up
― iatee, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
allison road
― hypnosis is the reason some Jewish people backed him → (will), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
had a pretty real bonding experience w/ hey jealousy rather recently so it's got my vote
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GinBlossoms_NoChocolateCakeCvr_72.jpg
what a horrible horrible cover
― iatee, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
er http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/GinBlossoms_NoChocolateCakeCvr_72.jpg
― iatee, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"Found Out About You" is a really great single; I like most of the other songs here too, but "Found Out About You" is in another league, worthy of the Byrds' debut.
― Euler, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Good god that is a horrible album cover. I just checked out their new single "Miss Disarray" on YouTube and unfortunately, it's the mid-tempo adult contemporary Gin Blossoms of Empire Records, not the rocking Gin Blossoms of Dusted and New Miserable Experience.
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
that album cover and title doesn't even have the excuse of being from the 90s
their previous 00s album cover is okay!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/GinBlossomsMajorLodgecover.jpg
― iatee, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
okay not the fontt
― iatee, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
God I want chocolate cake suddenly.
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to dusten versions on youtube v interesting
― iatee, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
dusted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0OurHnqWp0
― iatee, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
you're right, def hear the replacements in that
― iatee, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
found out about you--they really were a different band before/after that dude left
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Same guys, I think-- but they kicked out Doug Hopkins after recording New Miserable Experience (although by many accounts he was uselessly drunk during the sessions). I think the production work on NME made their music sound uncomfortably like maudlin sentimentality instead of the shambolic self-destruction of Dusted, which unfortunately didn't work in the music's favor.
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i can go for that
― committee for the removal of eccentric, evil mods (C.R.E.E.M.) (San Te), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
woah the Dusted versions posted upthread are awesome! dunno how I missed them for so long
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Thursday, 7 October 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Do any of you GB fans rate The Best Kissers In The World? They came from the same scene, but with a bit more punch and less of that Toad/REM thing going on...
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 October 2010 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
no love for "Follow You Down" is surprising
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 7 October 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
these Dusted versions - holy Replacements, frealz. Gotta get a copy of this.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 7 October 2010 04:56 (thirteen years ago) link
frealz, this is one of the most overlooked rock albums of the last 20 years
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Thursday, 7 October 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
surprising but deserved
― billstevejim, Thursday, 7 October 2010 05:37 (thirteen years ago) link
haha okay if we're going to namecheck Mats, Toad and REM I'm going to post the link: Taking Sides: Gin Blossoms vs. Toad The Wet Sprocket
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 October 2010 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I love love love the Best Kissers In The World song "Bleeder" & thought their whole first album was good to very good.
― Euler, Thursday, 7 October 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Wish I had voted in time to throw my support behind Allison Road. I love that song even though my friend Allison used to play it all the time and be a total dick about it
― abbygarnett, Thursday, 7 October 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Best Kissers In The World
I haven't heard them, but that name has got to go
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Thursday, 7 October 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
there should really be an early-90s band names poll
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 October 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO466hDc0b8
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 October 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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― iatee, Monday, October 4, 2010 9:18 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, but my point was an '70s or '80s band that broke up after 2 hit albums wouldn't get a best-of comp a few years later
would've voted for "Follow You Down" if i'd remembered to vote
― some dude, Thursday, 7 October 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6101GbcaQWL._SS500_.jpg
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 October 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ah yes, the cover of a Greatest Hits album culling songs from Boston's first 4 albums that was released 20 years after their debut really knocks down my point! good job!
― some dude, Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
u got sonned
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
7 years for Tom Scholz was like, 1 for everybody else.....
― committee for the removal of eccentric, evil mods (C.R.E.E.M.) (San Te), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not even arguing! just another example of a "greatest hits" that's just the debut album minus a couple of great tracks and plus a bunch of filler to make it look like it's not just the debut album minus a couple of tracks. is all.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Closest comparison I can think of is the Fine Young Cannibals best of, but that came out over a decade after the first album
― da croupier, Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
there's also the sort of hilarious way silvertone kept repackaging their exact same stone roses catalog (one album plus singles and b-sides), including as "the very best of the stone roses."
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
(oh i take it back, the very best has tracks from second coming. i was thinking of the complete stone roses, which didn't. still.)
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually like the idea of the Gin Blossoms as the American Stone Roses, except one that doesn't suck...
― the production is what saviours her (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the repackaging of the stone roses catalog had something to do with contractual limitations. They switched record companies (Silvertone to Geffen) between the first and second albums, which is also part of the reason there was such a huge time gap between the two.
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yep. and while they failed to release a second album, silvertone just kept finding ever more ludicrous way to keep releasing the stuff they had.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I was checking on something and realized that I would have seen these guys in 1993 at KROQ's first Weenie Roast show -- but I have no memory of their set at all. Everyone else, yes, but not them.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 October 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, October 7, 2010 2:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ah ok, gotcha
― some dude, Thursday, 7 October 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Alison Road is so gorgeous
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 15 November 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
Love "Lost Horizons" and "Found Out About You"
― bunny slopes, Monday, 16 November 2015 00:29 (eight years ago) link
Haven't thought about this band in ages. "Not Only Numb" is tres pretty.
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 November 2015 05:46 (eight years ago) link
"Not Only Numb" is tres pretty.
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Sunday, November 15, 2015 10:46 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah this wouldve got my vote.
― Spottie, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Follow You Down -> Not Only Numb -> As Long As It Matters is a great run
― Spottie, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link