I just got the best Yahoo Music alert ever…a new release by the Gin Blossoms!
The Gin Blossoms were one of the great melodic rock bands of the 90's, and they quietly disbanded after the release of "Congratulations, I'm Sorry" in 1996. It's a bit embarrassing to admit, but the Gin Blossoms played a formative part in the development of my musical taste. They were a modern rock band that my parents could actually tolerate, and their guitar riffs were inescapable and infectious. Wussy or not, the Gin Blossoms were a great band, and I was sad to see them go.
Left without new Gin Blossoms music, I moved onto the "hard stuff" like Oasis and Counting Crows, and my Gin Blossoms CDs gathered dust. I paid some attention to projects that Gin Blossoms members worked on after they split, but nothing I heard sounded quite as good. A few years ago I learned that the Gin Blossoms were playing together again, and I actually saw them light up the San Mateo County Fair one summer.
But that was the last I heard of them, until now. I'm a few tracks into "Major Lodge Victory", their new album, and it sounds great! Welcome back, Gin Blossoms!
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