20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Gin Blossoms [Digi

Performer: Gin Blossoms
Artist: Art Neville
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Gin Blossoms: Robin Wilson (vocals, acoustic guitar); Jesse Valenzuela (guitar, mandolin, background vocals); Scott Johnson (guitar, background vocals); Doug Hopkins (guitar); Bill Leen (bass, background vocals); Pillip Rhodes (drums, percussion, background vocals). Additional personnel: Robert Becker (piano); Art Neville (Hammond B-3 organ). Producers: John Hampton, Gin Blossoms. Compilation producer: Mike Ragogna. Recorded at AB Recorders, Vintage Studios, Phoenix, Arizona and Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee between 1993 and 1996. Includes liner notes by Scott Schnider. This is part of "20th Centurey Masters: The Millenium Collection" series. There are ten tracks that overlap between Gin Blossoms' first hits collection, 1999's 14-track Outside Looking In, and 2003's 12-track 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection, which is good news in a way -- it means that both collections contain all the group's big hits, along with nearly all the key songs. In fact, the only single missing from 20th Century Masters is "Day Job," a single that didn't make much impact in 1996, toward the end of the group's career. So, either collection is good for the listener who wants all the group's hits on one disc, though in some ways 20th Century Masters gets the edge, since it is cheaper, lacks the collector-bait rarities that occasionally slowed momentum on Outside Looking In, and offers 12 tracks of this underrated guitar pop band at its best. It's a shining example of how good a budget-line hits collection can be. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Defiantly waving the flag of power pop and jangly guitar rock at the height of the grunge movement, the Gin Blossoms proved to be an unlikely pop success in the mid 1990s. The band's 1992 breakthrough, NEW MISERABLE EXPERIENCE, produced several charting hits, including the jangle-pop classic "Hey Jealousy." Tragedy struck the band when principal songwriter and founder Doug Hopkins committed suicide in 1993. The rest of the band persevered, however, and continued to tour and record into the new millennium.

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