Gin Blossoms - 29

[@torigrrrl18]

This song is beyond amazing. I listened to at 15 being 14 years away from 29 and now at 41 it still has the same effect

[@waltking9141]

Love the Gin blossoms my favorite band out of the 90s brings back good memories I'm 47 now sometimes I still after a hard day get on KZbin and blast the Gin blossoms!!!!!!!

[@andrewlamprecht5717]

Walt is 49 now. I wonder if he still gets on youtube to blast the Gin Blossoms after a hard day.

[@frederickglasser5617]

Darnn. I still can't keep from crying listening to this song. Can it really be 29 years since 1993?

[@jaybofa617]

Ditto, dude

[@tattoofthesun]

My best friend just turned 29 and posted this song.... that descending note in the chorus means so much

[@MrWolfSnack]

I've got 4 months left on my age of 29. Its depressing :(

[@augustmoon5596]

I bought this cd when it came out...this became my favorite. I was so lucky to be a teen in the 90s..14 in 93 My best friends and I saw the Spin Doctors, Gin Blossoms and Cracker together. The next weekend..Candlebox. Back when a show was a little over $20 bucks and you met a ton of people in line to buy tickets when they went onsale. Even the festivals like Roar, Big Day Out, Warped, Rock Fest, Further, Lilith Fair..was only $35 bucks and you saw and met so many bands. Our parents just let us go..😆 my first show was Blind Melon and the Meat puppets at 13..

[@harrykim10]

This is the best song ever. Always a classic. One of the few songs I never get tired listening to :)

[@justinrogers9480]

Kim Cabanban This whole album was one of the best during my college years. Almost every song on this cd was great. Favorite songs on here though are , found out about you, 29, cheating, number 4, number 5, number 6, 9, 10, 11. Pretty much all of them. Excellent overall.

[@jencherepes]

This album got.me through college . Hey Jealously was our pre party song

[@davidjohnstone9732]

It is one thing to every once in a while find a song that can serve as a resonator for personal experience, This song is one of them, But to find an entire album such as New Miserable Experience that can serve as a resonator for one's own life is a rarity in itself. I bought this CD when it came out in "92 and has been one of my favorites ever since.

[@frederickglasser5617]

I got the cassette then the CD then saw them in 1993 at the Coachhouse. I'd really want this album played at my funeral just so People could have something great to listen to remembering me.

[@VickiBee]

This song reminds me now of our loved one, who will be 29 forever. Eric Bennett, 10/17/71-9/11/01.

[@Breloom_Battles]

:(

[@9450jjo]

His voice gives you the feeling of the song...the song is sad and haunting of memories happier then his here and now. Well written song and emotion sung by one of the best of this generation. Always a classic and many memories for all who hear it come to the surface......some rides don't have much of a finish, that's the ride I took. He told you what was coming for him in his own way. Sad, true but for ever lasting in this song. Leaving us forgotten memories

[@rodrigocaceres2879]

? Why does everyone think that it's the vocalist that commited suicide?Not attacking, but I'm genuinely curious. This wasn't written by Doug Hopkins either as far as I know, so unlike Hey Jealousy, you couldn't tell anything about him since it's not related to him. It does sound as something he would have written though.

[@charliehope6833]

Rodrigo Cáceres almost the entire album was written by Doug...that is why they didn’t have much success after this album...they fired the song writer and he killed himself after his songs made it big...from my understanding the album is about one girl...

[@PhilOsGarage]

And just like that, I'm transported back in time... It's 2003, a young British guy cruising down the freeway in Maryland in a camaro borrowed from a friend. We were heading for a thirdgen F body show, windows down and tunes up. Fantastic memories which will live with me forever

[@westmezzanine4321]

Just came up one day in my Spotify recommended about a month ago, didn’t even know it existed. Criminally underrated song.

[@Erix7810]

2:31 The drummer's use of the ride bell right there makes all the difference for me with this song. Everytime i listen I play my air drums there. Nailed it.

[@Riotboy1]

Such a beautiful song.

[@uneedtherapy42]

guy's voice just sounds like a heartbreak... not that that's a bad thing but it just feels so melancholic (in a good way)

[@b8nducciify]

Kcuf I wish I knew when I was 16 how young 29 was. At 43, still learning from this song… Natas bless

[@HisGlory768]

My favorite song when I was 17.. I had no idea what 12 more years would mean for me..a baby son when I was 29.😃

[@Insomniugh]

I'm m not sure how many people noticed but Rhodes is a really talented drummer! Especially on 29. They are all great, but it's easy to miss the stuff he's doing if you're not a musician.

[@theScrupulousBerserker]

CLASSIC! - GIN: WE REMEMBER, THIS WHOLE CD WAS FUCKING AMAZING!!!

[@ninob2943]

Best band to come out of the Grand Canyon state

[@Andrew-rk4vv]

I grew up playing drums to me the drums in this is great

[@asmr_pancake4419]

This CD 💿. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@lennyelectric259]

It's so sad on so many levels.

[@yukianonuevo1548]

BEST.SONG.EVER.

[@coreyabell8017]

New Miserable Experience= Epic album

[@Andrew-rk4vv]

Only time will tell childhood dreams those that don't dream don't live

[@Eli-ok3sp]

Time won't stand by forever if I know it's true And I've learned not to say never Or else I'll seem the fool Twenty-nine you'd think I'd know better Living like a kid When my lies may seem less than clever Is when I fall for it Only time will tell if wishing wells Can bring us anything Or fade like scenes from childhood dreams Forgotten memories Some rides don't have much of a finish That's the ride I took Through good and bad and straight through indifference Without a second look There's no intentions worthy of mention If we never try So hang your hopes on rusted-out hinges Take 'em for a ride Only time will tell if wishing wells Can bring us anything Or fade like scenes from childhood dreams Forgotten memories Only time will tell...

[@bigoen]

I absolutely love this album...helped me get through some fucken bullshit...

[@xharleycamelx77]

love this song

[@justinrogers9480]

🎶there's no intentions worthy to mention if we never try....🎶

[@gwenjosie]

This song meant more to me when I turned 29...

[@praszt]

Hopkins ... jut him can play guitar like that .. simple but deeply. Its a great sound

[@vandamonelugsanay1737]

Hello 2020 :)

[@shelbytownsend2653]

To me...This song was always about breaking through social or personal barriers to me and seeing what unfolded.

[@elwoodblues934]

I waisted my time till time waisted me. Youth is waisted on the young.

[@rebeccarosehirschfield7386]

"Wasted"! Doug Hopkins, a sublime poet, had impeccable grammar and spelled every word perfectly. Could someone perhaps bother to learn from the maestro? Very concerning, folks! ; {

[@tgplaysjr.5867]

Awesome

[@matthewblodgett1789]

My best friend.

[@Rik-g9f]

Great song. I'm old. Heip me

[@mjmanuel883]

Some rides don't have much of a finish... There's no intentions worthy of mention If we never try.. no one really knows what lies ahead..

[@chocklad9]

his voice...

[@rebeccarosehirschfield7386]

The voice of Robin Wilson, actually: his own perosnal Judas! ; {

[@rebeccarosehirschfield7386]

*personal

[@arij22]

Thanks Great Song!!

[@ianmarkfrancisco9461]

HELLO from 2016!!!

[@asmr_pancake4419]

Hey from 2021. Not a moment too soon !👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@mytipsycat]

Does anyone know why this song is called 29?

[@johnpiassek2224]

"It's from the line 'at 29, you'd think I'd know better".

[@28bass211]

great song by guitarist Jesse Valenzuela..

[@ronaldcole8265]

Fever . 2 angels

[@hitonedsob4251]

GOD...Good OL' Daze

[@omardelvalle4994]

Que tema!

[@johnparinellojr.2035]

How many people where listening to this song right before there 30th bday?

[@koujustkooling6521]

Damn 29 And Until I Fall Away Found About You And Ms Rita Are One Of My Favs From This Album😕 But Doug Ain’t Wrote Them He Sung It So Heavenly Idec If He Did Or Didn’t His Sound And Style And Voice Was Amazing

[@DADDYDRAGONGIRL]

doug wrote this song but jesse song it. like I said before you can even check he was force to give up the right to his songs to jesse

[@DADDYDRAGONGIRL]

RONIN SANG LEAD ON THIS SONG DOUG OUT OF THE GROUP

[@DADDYDRAGONGIRL]

ROBIN SANG LEAD ON THIS

[@Rockesb888]

Doug wrote the intro to this song but Jesse wrote the rest. Robin sings lead vocals on all of them. Also, Doug DID in fact write Found out about you, which is one of my favorite songs of all time.

[@rayalbert7639]

How did nobody close to him know he was on the brink? It's so painfully obvious on this album, this song specifically, as well as Until I Fall Away. Serious feels right here.

[@PhilOsGarage]

Sometimes it can be very well hidden.

[@rayalbert7639]

I guess you're right, many people probably figured the music itself was the release, not realizing it was the torment. His voice breaks my heart on this album.

[@rebeccarosehirschfield7386]

My theory is that they might all have dropped the ball on the poor, sick, hopeless man. He wrote it all; this was the last incarnation of his many brillant bands, and the one which FINALLY broke! But as his three songs went to Number One (I was a freshman at Brown University, thrilled by Hey Jealousy in particular, but not by the sonorous alt-rock genre per se - my bad!), NOBODY ever learned his name. By the time I was halfway through that freshman year, he had committed suicide. Never been so devastated in my entire life. I've independently lived his suffering, if I do say so myself, and I like to dream that he might have returned my unrequitable passion and unending love for him. I fell in love with Doug Hopkins a whopping 23 years too late! (Yup: I stare at his photos, talk to him, tease him, and weep a lot.) What would I have done? Dumped him into that off-white Hey Jealousy video GTO, gotten him to drive to LAX or all the way northeast to my hometown of Manhattan, and put us on the next plane to London so John Peel's successors at the BBC could have properly discovered him!!! (Yup: I'm also furious that they DID NOT DO SO ON THEIR OWN!!!). The fucking intellectual rockpopsuperstar Genius of Tempe. Still today, no one in the Phoenix Metro Area (except his own sister, friends, and the Tempe Historical Society) HAS BOTHERED TO LEARN ABOUT HIM. TOO INCREDIBLE. ; {

[@bradbrown947]

+Rebecca Rose Hirschfield you might need to seek some therapy.

[@rodrigocaceres2879]

? I'm confused, you think the singer is the one that commited suicide? It was Doug Hopkins and while the lyrics does sound like Doug Hopkins style, this was written by Jesse Valenzuela, I believe.

[@ronaldcole8265]

Blinding stars

[@edturner3807]

Jesse Valenzuela , one of the guitarists , wrote this

[@koujustkooling6521]

Doug Wrote 18 Songs Before He Died So I Believe The Third Album Was All His Work And I Believe Follow You Down Was His Song As Well Because The Lyrics Sound Like Something Doug Would Make And We All Know The Style Is Doug

[@charlestonrezz5188]

@@HamburgRailfan 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@Thorbie]

Tell me you don’t know anything about the Gin Blossoms without telling me you don’t know anything about the Gin Blossoms… 🙄

[@kingbed6175]

chords and lyrics? +

[@topeatondo267]

....smile

[@georgecopeland8252]

Damnit i just turned 30 and this song has lost it’s meaning.

[@koujustkooling6521]

Found About You Was Written By Doug Actually

[@rafaelsorote2588]

🤘🤘

[@ronaldcole8265]

Carnival cemetary, blue leaf wizard

[@ronaldcole8265]

Pierre me'chain, spiral Galaxy.... Dr. Toh chin chye, Singapore flag .. amen...

[@ronaldcole8265]

Invisible door opening

[@ronaldcole8265]

Abandoned churchbasement, wall portal

[@ronaldcole8265]

Alan Weaver's, elf ear

[@koujustkooling6521]

I’m convinced that the third album were all of Doug songs since he wrote 18 before he died

[@Thorbie]

This is conspiracy theory bullshit.

[@ronaldcole8265]

Eric dyers ghost

[@rhythmtone]

Doug Hopkins wrote it, and he was amazing, but he wasn't the singer ...

[@tonybrick2095]

Doug didn't write this one. Jesse did. It sounds exactly like a Doug song, but it isn't.

[@DADDYDRAGONGIRL]

DOUG WAS FORCE TO GIVE UP THIS RIGHTS TO HIS SONGS TO JESSE/ AND THIS WAS ONE OF THEM (kou just kooling ) you are 100% right. if this was jesse then why have he not write anything like this again

[@berliepliego2295]

022318

[@koujustkooling6521]

And I Believed He Wrote Some Songs On This Album Shit Maybe All Doesn’t Really Matter The Band He Made And Wrote For Did Him Dirty Because The Label Told Them To Drop Him Instead Of Them Being Real Friends And Helping Him Out They Fucked Him Over

[@DADDYDRAGONGIRL]

how can anyone hear this song, and say doug did not write this song. he was force to give up right to his songs to jesse. but that not the point I am trying to make. YOU CAN HEAR DEPRESSION ALL UP AND DOWN IN THE LYRIC. of someone calling out for help. this song should have been a #1 hit, just a simple great, great song. and jesse delivery on the track was outstanding.

[@Rockesb888]

It does sound a lot like a Doug song but apparently it’s Jesse who seems to be writing in the same vein as Doug here. Doug did apparently write the guitar intro to this song though. Doug was mad the band was seeing success without him but I don’t remember him ever saying they stole his writing credits.