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Certain Songs #498: Gin Blossoms – “Lost Horizons”

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GinBlossomsNewMiserableExperienceOriginal Album: New Miserable Experience
Year: 1992

To me, the success of New Miserable Experience — both commercially and aesthetically — is intertwined with the tragedy of a guy named Doug Hopkins, who wrote the best songs on the record, but was kicked out of the band before it was even released.

In a better world, the handful of songs that Hopkins contributed to the early Gin Blossoms records would have been just the start of a great career, and a quarter-century later, he’d still be putting out the occasional album full of power-pop gems.

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17 Musical Moments to Die For

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Camper Van Beethoven play a house party in Fresno, CA in 1985.It has been four months since I’ve done one of these, a far cry from my original plan of doing one a month, and I can’t promise when the next one will be, or even if there will be a next one.

So, really quickly, the ground rules. These aren’t about artists, or albums, or even songs, but rather, moments: that piece of a song that draws you into it; that piece of a song that you wait to happen again; that piece of a song that is running in your head when you can’t sleep; that piece of a song that you find yourself humming at inopportune times.

That piece of a song that you can’t live without.

This is the ninth in a series: The first one had 25; the second one had 24; the third one had 23; the fourth one had 22; the fifth one had 21; and the sixth had 20; the seventh had 19 and the eighth had 18.

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