^ a few random songs out of the playlist I have going.
Cool, haven't the slightest idea about any of them.
Edit to say: why am I getting a Sunny Day Real Estate vibe from the bottom pic? Lol, could be entirely offbase, but like I said, I have no idea about any of these three. Once I have another beer and get sick of my current two song-playlist of Fitz And The Tantrums' "Out of My League" and Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" I'll venture into the realm of the unfamiliar
Last edited by Matt Marcinkiewicz; 11-01-2013 at 05:00 AM.
20 years ago today, just 9 days after being awarded a gold record for his hit Hey Jealousy, Doug Hopkins, founder of the Gin Blossoms, put a .38 caliber pistol in his mouth and ended his life at the age of 32. It was his 7th attempt at suicide which culminated 10 years of alcoholism and depression.
I wish I could post better versions of the songs he wrote and played on with his distinctive sounding Les Paul, but the later polished versions aren't available online. So here are a couple unpolished versions of nearly forgotten songs off of an obscure album by an underrated band before they were even signed by a major label.
Uninterestingly, I got into a fist-fight long ago with the quarterback at Carnegie Mellon University because of an argument over whether this guy :
was gay (his favorite band, and he was being mean at gay people so I had sufficient justification*). I feel like I am an anachronism now. Fighting the good fight with words** just doesn't have nearly the same satisfactory crunch to it. I'm afraid that I'm:
Song brings tears to my eyes.
*I miss days where sufficient justification was sufficient justification.