gin blossoms singles poll

dusted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0OurHnqWp0

you're right, def hear the replacements in that

found out about you--they really were a different band before/after that dude left

found out about you--they really were a different band before/after that dude left

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.

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i can go for that

woah the Dusted versions posted upthread are awesome! dunno how I missed them for so long

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...

no love for "Follow You Down" is surprising

these Dusted versions - holy Replacements, frealz. Gotta get a copy of this.

frealz, this is one of the most overlooked rock albums of the last 20 years

no love for "Follow You Down" is surprising

surprising but deserved

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

I love love love the Best Kissers In The World song "Bleeder" & thought their whole first album was good to very good.

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

Best Kissers In The World

I haven't heard them, but that name has got to go

there should really be an early-90s band names poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO466hDc0b8

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), Monday, October 4, 2010 9:15 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well also they broke up

― 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

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6101GbcaQWL._SS500_.jpg

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!

u got sonned

7 years for Tom Scholz was like, 1 for everybody else.....

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.

Closest comparison I can think of is the Fine Young Cannibals best of, but that came out over a decade after the first album

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."

(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.)

I actually like the idea of the Gin Blossoms as the American Stone Roses, except one that doesn't suck...

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.

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.

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.

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, October 7, 2010 2:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ah ok, gotcha

Alison Road is so gorgeous

Love "Lost Horizons" and "Found Out About You"

Haven't thought about this band in ages. "Not Only Numb" is tres pretty.

"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.

Follow You Down -> Not Only Numb -> As Long As It Matters is a great run