A Gin Blossom is an old drunk's nose. You know the old drunks with the red varicated bulbous noses? You'll see them on rubbies and in dark bars with afternoon drunks. I loved this band.
"If you don't expect too much from me, you might not be let down" This line always kills me, it's always a painful reminder of the obvious for those who know what I am trying to say.
The 90s are unique in that there are 2 types of alternative rock that sprouted out of that decade. The heavier, grungy type which has the likes of Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden, then there's this type of easy-listening alternative rock. Now 2 songs embody that 2nd alternative rock type. Toad The Wet Sprocket's "All I Want", and Gin Blossoms' "Hey Jealousy. Listening to any of those 2 songs instantly flashes me back to the early 90s. Good times man. I'm so proud to be a 90s kid
@@coldcreative4601 Thats like, your opinion man. Lol. All I Want is great song.. poppy, yes, but who cares? And huh? An elevator track? You ever been in an elevator? Seems like no. Maybe a dentist office track, that put down woulda made more sense. If you are gona insult a great song, at least get your comparisons right.
One of the cleanest voices in alternative rock n roll scene This album has great great fantistic guitar style. Hopkins was a true genius in songwriting.
@@estelita2173 the singer is robin wilson but the other comment was talking about doug hopkins who wrote the bands best songs. And yes he took his own life, if you read other comments you can an idea of how messy the situation was.
Proud 90's kid here! I never understood when older people talked about being proud of their unique music sound such as in the 70's or 80's. NOW I DO. We had our own sound in the 90's and man, is it AWESOME. You can always tell 90's music and Gin Blossoms is 90's to the core. 90's FOREVER MAN
@@revjim77 Dude that's like if he said, "So, I'll always want to listen for the rest of my life to music from the 70's" and you come back with, "Oh, so you could listen to The Captain & Tennille?"
f*ckin jolly right, kid!! As an official old fart who listened to Zep in my 73 duster, i love that 90's grunge-nirvana stuff...after the evil decade(1980's) this stuff was a welcome breath of musical air...even saw pearl jam at r.k.o. loved the 90's, was a great decade for me!!! The Blossoms are hard- core.
RIP Doug Hopkins. I was in tears reading your story. I hope you had all the help possible and that was the only outcome possible. You gave us a lot of good music
This is so my time...the Gin Blossoms...the Connells...10,000 Maniacs...REM...the BoDeans...Toad the Wet Sprocket...Sister Hazel...and if you are from the Norfolk, VA area the Waxing Poetics...that is late 80's early 90's music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love all of you guys!!!!!!!!!!
From the area. Hung with Robbin Thompson, Skip Castro, The Dad's, The States, Big City, etc. Love the Connels, Sister Hazel, and Bus Stop. Music, Live Music, was so big at that time.
Uh Oh! You know what that means, right? It means you're old, and now you sound exactly like the people you rolled your eyes at when they told you "Todays music doesn't hold a candle to what we used to listen to." It's OK, it's always going to happen that way. That's part of what makes it so funny. I'm just pointing it out because I remember when older adults used to say that kind of thing when I was growing up.
The greatest decade in music ever, The Gin Blossoms always manage to take me back to better times. If I could go back and just eternity in one decade it would be 1990 to 1999, I miss those years and the sounds of a generation. AIC, Better Than Ezra, Third Eye Blind, Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bush, Candle Box, Sonic Youth, Collective Soul, Matchbox 20, Janes Addiction, Days of the New. Best sounding decade ever. Like Bruce Springsteen said, "Real bands are made primarily from neighborhood, from a real time and a real place that exists for a little while and then it changes and it's gone forever".
High school grad of 95. These songs and groups are in my blood. So good and so important. Music is not made the same way and far to often for all the wrong reasons.
I wish I could make something look as effortless as Jesse does playing the riffs on this song (or any song really). Just saw them live and he's still on point.
Seeing them live back in the day was unbelievable... lived in Tempe watch them come from nothing and get to the success they did, saw them so many times honestly can't recall how many they always played so much louder, harder and faster live than any other albums sounded like... the Tempe scene was magical these guys and all the other bands at the time would mixitup change around members just goofing off night after night playing live in the tempe bar scene
If memory serves me correct, this was from the very first episode of the Jon Stewart Show, making Gin Blossoms the first musical guest in the show's history.
A helluva band with tragedy mixed in. Super tight with the three guitars and a hard hammering drummer, plus you add in a lead singer with soul, you have a lasting hit! Sounds as good in 2024, as it did then.
I saw them for the first time on tv last year in one of nba play off halftime shows. Since then his voice just gets me. I didn’t even knew them before but I love them ❤
One of the finest bands, not the first to come to mind when I think of my favorites but god damn whenever they come on I crank it all I think about is driving fast and falling in love
I wish they had kept the original "you can trust me not to drink and not to sleep around" lyric seeing as it hits home even further with all that happened with Hopkins
Being in Tucson we go to The Tempe and Phoenix area. Seen them countless times in little bars. Was 18 in 87. Watched them start and go big. Word spread fast about a decent rock band. People were talking saying they would make it. First time I seen them. Knew for sure. Great people.
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I don’t listen to the Gin Blossoms often but when I do, so do the neighbors!
your poor neighbours :(
@@mj.l i am knew to this band do you say your poor neighbors because its a bad song or just because of loud music
@@charlespoe1306
It's a classic joke, repeated 1000 times. It means "I love this song, the bloody neighbours are going to hear it, like it or not!" ;)
That's awesome! What a great comment... immediately made me smile!
This made me feel good in a moment i wasn't
60 now, but that was my time! Awesome rock!!
I'm 62!! This is STILL my jam😊😊❤❤
You can trust me not to DRINK!!!
RIP Doug Hopkins.
Well that line was a lie!!
A Gin Blossom is an old drunk's nose. You know the old drunks with the red varicated bulbous noses? You'll see them on rubbies and in dark bars with afternoon drunks. I loved this band.
Pretty sure the line is "you can trust me not to think and not to sleep around."
@@jonathanmoody390it was changed to that after Doug Hopkins died.
And not to sleep around.
Great way to start 2025.
Incredible songwriting.
The best era to ever exist ! The 90s !!!!!
YUP
Nope. 80’s.
@@scottzreality3061 80's had Oingo Boingo, the Fixx, and The Police....comparing the '90s to the '80s is laughable.
I agree.
Nope 70s was the best decade
"If you don't expect too much from me, you might not be let down"
This line always kills me, it's always a painful reminder of the obvious for those who know what I am trying to say.
Yeah, same here. Line hits me hard to this day.
Guy a was a lyrical genius
RIP Doug Hopkins
Me too
Yea it really gets to me, Im so tired of being a loser.. 2021
The 90s are unique in that there are 2 types of alternative rock that sprouted out of that decade. The heavier, grungy type which has the likes of Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden, then there's this type of easy-listening alternative rock.
Now 2 songs embody that 2nd alternative rock type. Toad The Wet Sprocket's "All I Want", and Gin Blossoms' "Hey Jealousy. Listening to any of those 2 songs instantly flashes me back to the early 90s. Good times man. I'm so proud to be a 90s kid
All I Want is a corny elevator track. The band is good, that song is not. Especially in comparison to Hey Jealousy
@@coldcreative4601 notice nobody thumbed up your idiotic take
@@coldcreative4601 Thats like, your opinion man. Lol. All I Want is great song.. poppy, yes, but who cares? And huh? An elevator track? You ever been in an elevator? Seems like no. Maybe a dentist office track, that put down woulda made more sense. If you are gona insult a great song, at least get your comparisons right.
@@brianmcgee127TTWS is incredibly underrated
"Breakfast at Tiffanys" is another one. A lot of Soul Asylum. Maybe Spin Doctors. Blues Traveler.
One of the cleanest voices in alternative rock n roll scene
This album has great great fantistic guitar style. Hopkins was a true genius in songwriting.
What's his full name?what happened to him?suicide?
@@estelita2173 the singer is robin wilson but the other comment was talking about doug hopkins who wrote the bands best songs. And yes he took his own life, if you read other comments you can an idea of how messy the situation was.
Thanks
Is Doug in this video?
@@Havasu1976 No, but he's in this one. He's the guy in blue flannel shirt playing the Les Paul:
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I always felt like their drummer was underrated 🥁... Dude had chops
Phillip Rhodes could absolutely destroy a kit. Played like he was mad at his set.
That’s because you’re right. He was.
they all did
Incorrect. He is rated exactly where he belongs.
Proud 90's kid here! I never understood when older people talked about being proud of their unique music sound such as in the 70's or 80's. NOW I DO. We had our own sound in the 90's and man, is it AWESOME. You can always tell 90's music and Gin Blossoms is 90's to the core. 90's FOREVER MAN
Uncle Rico so you would listen to Limp Bizcuit and Backstreet Boys?
@@revjim77 Dude that's like if he said, "So, I'll always want to listen for the rest of my life to music from the 70's" and you come back with, "Oh, so you could listen to The Captain & Tennille?"
@@trysometruth More like The Village People, lol.
f*ckin jolly right, kid!! As an official old fart who listened to Zep in my 73 duster, i love that 90's grunge-nirvana stuff...after the evil decade(1980's) this stuff was a welcome breath of musical air...even saw pearl jam at r.k.o. loved the 90's, was a great decade for me!!! The Blossoms are hard- core.
@@revjim77
That was late 90's garbage - the early-to-mid 90's had awesome music.
It's a bummer music can't get back to 90s rock again.
What. Stream or go buy they cd at a thrift store press play. Look outside
drummer is deadass one of the best I've ever heard. dude killed it
Funny because I thought he overplayed. especially in the choruses.
He ripped!
He played to an adequate professional level. Like thousands do
@@jimlahey3919 Your mom’s an adequate professional.
@@gbarrettomatesright? Barely made me go....
Damn they were good. Sad story of a great songwriter. Love this
Robin Wilson voice is unflappable. Same perfect tone no matter where he is singing.
@Matthew Barnes Singing? No, that's Robin.
@Matthew Barnes Sorry Dude, I'm pretty sure this was filmed during the mourning period after Doug committed suicide .
Agreed I'm a child of the 70s with Plant, Rodgers, Gillian, Zander etc ..but Robin is one of my favorite singers/phrasers ever!
@@cjpaulusma That's true, but Robin has always been the lead singer. His voice is pure gold! Doug wrote the song, but that's Robin singing.
RIP Doug Hopkins. I was in tears reading your story. I hope you had all the help possible and that was the only outcome possible. You gave us a lot of good music
The most creative people are often the most deeply troubled . Sad aspect of life
All those gigs at Long Wongs really paid off.
I served in the Navy with the drummer Phil Rhoads.
I still love Gin Blossoms
Early to mid 90's was a good era for bands like this and many others 😊
This is so my time...the Gin Blossoms...the Connells...10,000 Maniacs...REM...the BoDeans...Toad the Wet Sprocket...Sister Hazel...and if you are from the Norfolk, VA area the Waxing Poetics...that is late 80's early 90's music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love all of you guys!!!!!!!!!!
From the area. Hung with Robbin Thompson, Skip Castro, The Dad's, The States, Big City, etc. Love the Connels, Sister Hazel, and Bus Stop. Music, Live Music, was so big at that time.
This is so nineties it hurts
His voice is so pure. I love it.
The singer is fine. The songwriter is gone.
@@joecrowaz Thanks
Great Band
Great Songs
When this comes on the radio
The world stops
When I think of alternative music in the 90s, Gin Blossoms and Toad the Wet Sprocket are my first thoughts.
AGREED. Just saw both bands in the past week. Still great shows!
@@denisehicksbrown7502 Really?! Great to hear they are still doing it.
Me too!
Listen to that clean live performance, you just don't see skilled live singers like that anymore.
There out there, there's just no reward anymore Lol
@@veryfrugalts absolutely, they are out there just completely burried under a pile of the popular ones.
Uh Oh! You know what that means, right? It means you're old, and now you sound exactly like the people you rolled your eyes at when they told you "Todays music doesn't hold a candle to what we used to listen to." It's OK, it's always going to happen that way. That's part of what makes it so funny. I'm just pointing it out because I remember when older adults used to say that kind of thing when I was growing up.
@@jlnriddickexcept things really do change, and certain time periods produce better art, which suffers during periods of extreme corporate control…
That drummer has some good chops man !!! 💯🔥🎶🖐
The greatest decade in music ever, The Gin Blossoms always manage to take me back to better times. If I could go back and just eternity in one decade it would be 1990 to 1999, I miss those years and the sounds of a generation.
AIC, Better Than Ezra, Third Eye Blind, Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bush, Candle Box, Sonic Youth, Collective Soul, Matchbox 20, Janes Addiction, Days of the New.
Best sounding decade ever.
Like Bruce Springsteen said, "Real bands are made primarily from neighborhood, from a real time and a real place that exists for a little while and then it changes and it's gone forever".
Fun fact: human civilization peaked during the 1990s.
This is a great live version! These guys are so solid live. A rare trait!
opinion
@shadowyshutterbug Definitely opinion. It actually peaked in the 1970s. The 90s were the tail end... (my opinion. )
"Thanks to Gin Blossoms, you can look for their new song Idiot Summer on the soundtrack of Wayne's World 2"
Whoa, that sentence is so peak 90s.
Great singer . Love his vocals .
Forever a classic. Will always be an amazing song.
Slammin' drummer. Always loved this song.
The Gin Blossoms are a national treasure.
"And if you don't expect too much from me, you might not be let down."
Slammin' drummer. Always loved this song.
This is so nineties it hurts
Rip Doug, the genius of this band
The older i get the more the more i love this
This is a great live version! These guys are so solid live. A rare trait!
Love this group miss their music
I'd blast and sing all their music
51 and still listen to them
57, and me too! ❤
They still tour!
They still record and tour😊😊
Amazing..Robin has some voice...sounds just like the record
That is 100% Robin.
@Matthew Barnes @Matthew Barnes bro that’s totally Robin
to me, this is the epitome of 90's music...love it
Sounds haunting.....RIP... Doug Hopkins 🙏
I'm sooooo freaking missing the 90's
High school grad of 95. These songs and groups are in my blood. So good and so important. Music is not made the same way and far to often for all the wrong reasons.
We were fortunate to be around when some of the best music was first presented to the world. Music is magic.
by far the best live performance of "hey jealousy". Terrific !
Fun fact: human civilization peaked during the 1990s.
A very spot on observation...
it's all downhill from here...
Humans actually interacted with each other
@@TK_421_JT musicians actually played instruments.
What a hell of a time to grow up in. I’m sad for the 80s and 90s. Miss it.
I love it when I stumble on live a clip of favorite 90's song and the band sounds outstanding!!!!
55 and really like this group
Lead singer and guitarist sporting the 90s blunt cut. Cool cut. Great band.
Wow, Robin sounds exactly like the record! What a great vocalist.
Probably the most underrated band ever
Probably the most cliche and overused comment ever.
I was in my Mothers womb for 5 months when this song came out
The pure distillation of 90s alt rock.
Real, raw music without autotune. Love it.
Well well, look at that Peace Corps shirt! Ahh, the times I laid in bed listening to this song during my two years in PC...
I think his brother (?) was in Peace Corps.
Quite possibly the most 90's thing I've seen in awhile. I loved this tune back then. Seems like a million years ago
Great band, great song. Such a great sound.
Great alternativa band
I saw them in 1992 with Toad the Wet Sprocket! Such a fun show.
What a great live performance!! Everyone is doing their part to contribute to the great sound!!
I wish I could make something look as effortless as Jesse does playing the riffs on this song (or any song really). Just saw them live and he's still on point.
Jesse is awesome!!! 🎸 👏
Saw them live tonight. A+
i hadn't seen this before - thanks so much for sharing it ❤
Memories left behind..................
I love finding the live versions of my fav songs. Gin Blossoms brownie points!❤️✌️
Seeing them live back in the day was unbelievable... lived in Tempe watch them come from nothing and get to the success they did, saw them so many times honestly can't recall how many they always played so much louder, harder and faster live than any other albums sounded like... the Tempe scene was magical these guys and all the other bands at the time would mixitup change around members just goofing off night after night playing live in the tempe bar scene
R.i.p Doug Hopkins
these guys nailed it!! the guitar solo bombed but the singer made up for it
Love that song. Takes me back to the good ol days. 👍👍👍👍👍
If memory serves me correct, this was from the very first episode of the Jon Stewart Show, making Gin Blossoms the first musical guest in the show's history.
I still LOVE this band!
One of the cleanest voices in alternative rock n roll scene
"Hey Jealousy" on the radio: What a lovely song to sing along to.
"Hey Jealousy" performed live: This song friggin' rips.
A helluva band with tragedy mixed in. Super tight with the three guitars and a hard hammering drummer, plus you add in a lead singer with soul, you have a lasting hit! Sounds as good in 2024, as it did then.
Three guitars?? Where?
My favorites in high school. Fortunate to see them in 2006 in a small club in Chattanooga. Robin signed my Hey Jealousy tattoo. What a show.
WOO HOO!!! The Blossoms KILLIN it!!!
i saw this live on tv when it happened, i played that CD in my CRX all the time, mixed emotions...so much nostalgia, times where so great!
This album has great great fantistic guitar style. Hopkins was a true genius in songwriting.
Trust me not to drink
Is he is this video? I’ve been reading about him
@williamdavid9272 no, he had already passed away
Im so happy that i grew up listening to this kind of music. Was born on 1987.
I miss the 90s so much.
great lyrics and music 90's . Oh , great bad
I saw them for the first time on tv last year in one of nba play off halftime shows.
Since then his voice just gets me.
I didn’t even knew them before but I love them ❤
This song reminds me of my girlfriend in high school. What better days. So simple
I don't wanna have to take your job, Jon Stewart 😂❤
Nothing quite says 90s to me like big, baggy shirts. That was the look. I had many big, baggy shirts myself. Ive always loved this song.
Amazing.
The days when the finished product you played in your car sounded like the same product you saw live!!!
One of the finest bands, not the first to come to mind when I think of my favorites but god damn whenever they come on I crank it all I think about is driving fast and falling in love
I always loved that Doug wore a Jon Stewart show hat on their Letterman performance
A very underrated band but had created the best songs of the 90s
Damn that jam at the end was pretty rad
I’m wondering why people can’t sing anymore. I wasn’t a huge fan of this band but it’s a good song and he can sing!
My friend in high school thought the song was HLC...still cracks me up. But it DOES sound like it, and you'll never forget it now!
I miss this...
This always sounded like a Goo Goo Dolls song to me, great stuff!
Always thought Scott Johnson was SOOOO adorable back then as well as a fantastic guitar player. He's still a fantastic guitar player.
The kind of band and music that is not full of itself
Seeing Jon that young gives me the creeps...excellent performance!
Forever one of my favorites
I wish they had kept the original "you can trust me not to drink and not to sleep around" lyric seeing as it hits home even further with all that happened with Hopkins
Daaaaang that's an incredible voice live! Wow
Live !!! Wow ! Out of this world ! Great music
Being in Tucson we go to The Tempe and Phoenix area. Seen them countless times in little bars. Was 18 in 87. Watched them start and go big. Word spread fast about a decent rock band. People were talking saying they would make it. First time I seen them. Knew for sure.
Great people.
Just saw them in concert a weekend ago. Still super after all these years.