Up & Crumbling [EP]

Gin Blossoms

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 1991)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: EP
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B000002GJV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #138,264 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Short, but sweet..., December 25, 2001

By	David Goodwin (Westchester, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This EP "tested the waters," so to speak, for New Miserable Experience, and while it's both short, and contains a few songs contained on that album, its exclusive tracks are excellent. Despite being formally OOP, apparently, it can be found *everywhere*, and is well worth the $5 that's usually charged.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get the albums!, September 11, 1998

By A Customer

The Gin Blossom's first album, New Miserable Experience, is destined to become a minor classic being as it is the almost perfect distillation of jangle, swagger and angst in a catholic style. The plaintive angellic rasp of heartbroken vocals laid over chiming raunch, evokes all the greats but with a distinctive edge of youthful desperation, despair, anger and excitement. That one of the principals then killed himself comes as little or no surprise as there is a definite sound of someone losing the will to continue in this world of broken hearts and desolation. Despite this the album is uplifting, with soaring harmonies, guitars that crunch and fizz, and even a touch of humour as the band show off their country licks and ways with a cynical lyric "....you can't call it cheating 'cos she looks a lot like you". Get the album as the e.p. only gives you half the story and the extra tracks arn't really that great.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good, August 14, 1999

By A Customer

okay, i'm willing to admit not their best work. but it's a million times better then any given cd written by a diffent band (again, with the exception of gas giants....)