Newer Miserable Experience
One summer when I was in high school, before I had a driver's license, I had tickets to see Cracker at Jones Beach. Actually it was Gin Blossoms, Spin Doctors, and Cracker headlining. My friend Marji bailed at the last minute and my mom forced my sister to take me (which is funny if you know my sister -- she stopped listening to new music when Rick Astley stopped putting out cassingles.) Curiously, Olympic jumper turned Sting protégé Vinx was the night's MC. Throughout the night, he seemed particularly underwhelmed by the Wantagh crowd's enthusiasm.
Recently I've learned that all these musicians are still active and courting Gen-Xers via MySpace! They have new albums even. (I was so sure Gin Blossoms called it quits for good, and Chris Barron's vocal cords were paralyzed in a freak gardening accident.)
Cracker - "sidi Ifni".
Cracker - "I Need Better Friends"
(Yes, they have "Low" too.)
Fun fact about the Spin Doctors: they released the worst sophomore album in the history of sophomore albums. No? Who did?
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Gin Blossoms are awesome. New Miserable Experience evokes the early 90's for me, and I always get all nostalgic when I listen to it, even though I was only 7 or 8 when it came out. I've always been dubious of them ever since Doug Hopkins commited suicide, but I will definitely check them out on tour. "Found Out About You" has to be one of the best breakup songs ever recorded.
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Based on early reports and an abysmal first single, the second Killers album has blown the Spin Doctors' sophomore effort out of the water (in terms of sheer suckitude).
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startlingly, my salon site pass the other day was brought to me by the gin blossoms. who knew they were still around, much less interested in giving me free access to liberal commentary?
allison road is unbelievably awesome.
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David Lowery also produced the new Lucero record...
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I saw the Gin Blossoms do a free show in a mall parking log just last week. This particular mall puts on a lot of free shows in their parking lot, but the Gin Blossoms may had the the biggest crowd I've ever seen out there. They should be proud of the unbelievable traffic jam they caused.
The show itself was better than I expected. They sounded great and they do a very nice job of working the crowd. About half the audience looked like they were too young to remember the Gin Blossoms from the first time around.
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i must really that old 'coz i lurved these bands in the '90s and still can sing along to most of their tunes! i think gin blossoms didn't get the credit they deserved (they were good!), and as for the spin doctors, i didn't even know they put out a sophomore album.
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There are no words for how happy 13 year old Kristina is to have Gin Blossoms as her MySpace friend. It's all very very.
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"Teen Angst" is one of the greatest songs of the 90's.
"What the world needs now, is a new Frank Sinatra... So why can't I get you in bed..."
Sweet sweet WDRE.
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if anyone needs free cracker tickets in minneapolis let me know.
hirte12@yahoo.com
please put cracker in caps as subject.
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I saw the Gin Blossoms shortly after they reunited last year at my school. I think the vocalist was drunk. He kept singing into girls' cell phones. I had to hold his hand up to support him while he stood on the barricade during "Follow You Down." Pushing him over was tempting. I do still love me some "Found Out About You" though. I hate to plug myself but I recorded a weird creepy cover of it: http://www.myspace.com/silentribbon
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I encourage everyone to share weird, creepy Gin Blossoms covers.
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I hear Deep Blue Something is still out on the road as well? Maybe they can all organize a 'Party of Five' tour?
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It goes like this, Bam:
"What the world needs now, is a new Frank Sinatra... so I can get you in bed."
Your lyric makes no sense.
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Ha, I went to that exact same concert at Jones Beach. I think I was a senior in high school. We tailgated in the parking lot. That is pretty much my entire memory of the event.
My high school BF was an enormous Spin Doctors fan. They used to be really big in the NYC neo-hippie scene and played at Wetlands a lot in the early 90s. The same group of friends were huge Phish fans around the same time period (92-94).
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Diddy, Brooke Hogan, and now these guys? You are seriously starting to lose me.
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Toad the Wet Sprocket is also touring along with Big Head Todd and the Monsters. 90s-tastic.
(re: the Gin Blossoms, I was always partial to "Hey Jealousy")
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Hah the Gin Blossoms played some lame frat party last semester at my school. It was like them and youngbloodz.
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I like that new Gin Blossoms album. Fondly evokes that time in high school when I got caught trying to boost the "Found out about you" cassingle.
"You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast" was an ok song, wasn't it?
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Deep Blue Something! Now that made me laugh. Still to this day it's the only concert I've walked out of. I had to wait far too long to hear Breakfast at Tiffany's, which, reflecting back so many years later, was not at all worth waiting for.
GB's New Miserable Experience is an excellent album (Hey Jealousy!). Ah, nostalgia. So young then. Too bad the follow-up was mediocrity at its best ... speaking of worst sophomore albums. I haven't listened to it since it was released. I'm anxious to hear the new one though.
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Not only do I LOVE the gin blossoms for their contributions to the 90s and Party of Five episodes, but because I saw an SNL rerun of when they performed, and I realized for the first time that the singer was HOT! "Hey Jealousy" is a classic.
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Great to see the Gin Blossoms back in play. They are streaming the entire new record at http://www.thegins.com.
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Hahaha...my first concert was the super-combo of Cracker, Gin Blossoms and The Spin Doctors! Ah the memories...
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I think Zingalamaduni edges out the second Spin Doctors album as worst follow-up.
Speaking of, it turns out that Arrested Development is still around, too. According to the faith-based encyclopedia, they've put out two albums in the last couple of years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_%28hip_hop_group%29
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"Found Out About You" is a damn good song with a really outstanding beginning.
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