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Gin Blossoms - Dusted Audio CD

A fair review of the Gin Blossoms "Dusted" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Gin Blossoms reviews here, or go back to the Gin Blossoms tabs.

Gin Blossoms Band: Gin Blossoms
Title: Dusted
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Release Date: 2002-09-17
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Lost Horizons 2: Cajun Song 3: Found Out About You 4: Girls Can't Wait 5: Something Wrong 6: Idiot Summer 7: Angels Tonight 8: Keli Richards 9: Hey Jealousy 10: I Can Sleep 11: Slave Dealers Daughter 12: Fireworks

Gin Blossoms Dusted CD
Like all Gin Blossoms cd's this one totally ROCKS!!. The music is awesome, if you have not heard this one yet you need to get it now.


Keli Richards come on!!!
I really had some pre-conceived notions about what "Dusted" would sound like. After getting reacquainted with "New Miserable Experience" over the past couple months, it piqued my interest about "Dusted" and I finally bought a copy. I thought it would show the band as a "work in progress", somewhat unpolished, a band finding it's way. Man was I wrong. Great rock songs, keeping it simple, much more immediate and live sounding than "New Miserable Experience". The line-up of songs here might actually be better than "New Miserable Experience". (Hard to see pop-rock being done any better than on the tracks "Girls Can't Wait" and "Angels Tonight". Both are superb). Two things that really stand out between the two discs are the vocals and guitar parts. The vocals have a much rawer sound on "Dusted", and the guitar work on "Dusted" is much more "front and center". If this was Doug playing these bits, he was a guitar god! (The song "Keli Richards" kicks!!!)

Speaking of Doug Hopkins, I never had any background on him, never thought about it back when NME was released. But for whatever reason I've become somewhat infatuated. I've read "Jesus of suburbia: A holiday tale, of sorts," a couple of times now. (The story was written by Brian Smith for the Detroit Metro Times in December 2007). I've also am constantly listening to the "Chimeras" songs on the Doug Hopkins "MySpace" page. (The songs are "Cathedral City" and "Ponyboy and Johnny", I don't know if the album "Songs of Innocence" by the Chimeras was ever released, but somebody should be working on that. The two forementioned songs are phenomenal). And I usually find myself on the "Lost Horizons" tribute page to Doug Hopkins. How could the life of a guy who wrote such great songs have turned out so tragic? It would be great that if, over time, people gradually catch on to how great Doug's music was. I finally have. .


Popularizing The Word "Fools"...Again


Dusted offers some raw and unfinished versions of "Lost Horizons", "Hey, Jealousy" and the smash "Found Out About You". The word "fools" turns up in many of The Gin Blossoms' songs, namely "Until I Hear It From You", Until I Fall Away", and "I Can't Figure You Out". Other greats include "Girls Can't Wait" and "Kelly Richards".

A must have for the true Gin Blossoms fan!.


proto-Blossoms
Before they were pinning infectious, wondrously sung (Robin Wilson truly had one of the most distinctive vibratos of the 90s) pop gems, they were a blue-collar garage band vaguely resembling a slightly poppier installment of The Replacments, or perhaps a rough-and-tumble Byrds. The Gin Blossoms are often unfairly lumped in with the faceless crowd of 90s post-grunge bands, but this release, in particular, proves that there was something a bit more intriguing at work within these Arizonans' minds. Several later Blossoms classics ("Hey Jealousy," "Lost Horizons," "Found Out About You," etc. ) are found here in there earliest, most primitive forms--if you listen to the versions here and then listen to their reworkings on "New Miserable Experience" you will be astonished at how slow the later versions sound. Philip Rhodes drums at a frentic pace, while Doug Hopkins (rest in peace) and Jesse Valenzuela pour on jiterry, jangly guitar lines beneath Robin Wilson's rough drinking voice (he sounds like an entirely different singer on this record). On a parting note, I must say that the fourth track, "Girls Can't Wait," is one of the absolute finest Gin Blossoms records, an astonishing, heartfelt tune that will leave immediate impressions.


Gin Blossoms Raw and Rough
Not in this case. Sometimes raw and rough just means poor production or lousy musicianship. This early Gin Blossom disc is certainly less polished then New Miserable Experience (which contains 4 "Dusted" tracks) but it is raw and rough in a good way. To me, this cd has a much more country feel to it. Alt/Country that is. The guitars remind me alot of early Old 97's. One track, "I can't sleep" sounds like it could have belonged on the Long Ryders first record. I think if the band had gone in this direction rather than the sound of "Congradulations, I'm Sorry" then they would have been right in the Alt/Country discussion. If you like the Gin Blossoms and you are a fan of Alt/Country then pick it up. You will not be disappointed.


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