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Band: Gin Blossoms
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:28 pm
by Angry_Dragon_Archive
CRAP to the extreme. I think most will agree. I got this idea from the Beck post.
Band: Gin Blossoms
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:42 pm
by wes9_Archive
Whoever voted Not Crap, PLEASE explain yourself.
Band: Gin Blossoms
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:42 pm
by tallchris_Archive
Another shitty band that people my age still like because it takes them back to junior high.
Counting Crows were way worse though. Shudder. . .
Band: Gin Blossoms
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:46 pm
by Angry_Dragon_Archive
wes9 wrote:Whoever voted Not Crap, PLEASE explain yourself.
What's funny is that by the time I voted CRAP, someone had already voted NOT CRAP. I think their PR guy is on here looking for new ideas for the band and he quickly voted and then left.
Band: Gin Blossoms
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:52 pm
by brianbiv_Archive
I saw them at the Taste of Lombard last summer. I forgot how many songs were on the radio they played like 8 songs that I knew from my teen years. They were pretty tight and sounded good, but yea they are a little washed up.
Band: Gin Blossoms
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:59 pm
by telepathy_Archive
not as simple as it first appears.
the band, obviously, is crap ... but their original songwriter (the guy who wrote "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You" ... in other words, their only hits), Doug Hopkins, was really a terrific songwriter in the Westerberg/Alex Chilton vein, if a little more 90's-pop-oriented. He was kicked out of the band for his drinking, and killed himself right after they started gaining popularity ... with his songs. It's a goddamn tragedy.
If you listen to ONLY the songs he wrote off their first album, you'll see what I'm talking about.
Band: Gin Blossoms
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:11 pm
by mattw_Archive
I'd probably put them in with other alterna-pap like Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Verve Pipe, Collective Soul, Counting Crows.
Band: Gin Blossoms
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:57 am
by ginandtacoscom_Archive
They were a cut above the other bands like them, which is a bit like saying they were the least rotten piece of meat in a butcher shop.
Band: Gin Blossoms
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:56 pm
by kenoki_Archive
this is what i'm listening to right now: DEER NEER NEER NEER NEER NEER DER DER DER DER DDIDIDING WOW WOW WOW WOW DOOD DOOD DOOOD tomorrow we can travel around this town and let the cops chase us around!
sorry i started typing during a solo. this record is also in one of the guys who i'm dog sitting for's record collection. it's so bad i can't stop smiling at all. BIG UPS TO 1992 deer neer neer bzzzzzzzzzzzz DUN!
and now for some live spin doctors........ ABEEN A WHOLE ALOT EASIER SINCE ADUNG DUNG DUNG ABEEN AWHOLE ALOT HAPPIER SINCE....... littlemiss littlemiss!
Band: Gin Blossoms
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:26 am
by glynnisjohns_Archive
kenoki wrote:this is what i'm listening to right now: DEER NEER NEER NEER NEER NEER DER DER DER DER DDIDIDING WOW WOW WOW WOW DOOD DOOD DOOOD tomorrow we can travel around this town and let the cops chase us around!
sorry i started typing during a solo. this record is also in one of the guys who i'm dog sitting for's record collection. it's so bad i can't stop smiling at all. BIG UPS TO 1992 deer neer neer bzzzzzzzzzzzz DUN!
and now for some live spin doctors........ ABEEN A WHOLE ALOT EASIER SINCE ADUNG DUNG DUNG ABEEN AWHOLE ALOT HAPPIER SINCE....... littlemiss littlemiss!
I find both of these bands infinitely more entertaining when written
by Miss Kenoki.
Listening to these bands makes me want to punch old people.
When i say old what i mean is people my age that bought and still listen to this shit.