{"id":67414,"date":"2020-10-02T22:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=67414"},"modified":"2020-10-02T22:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:04:30","slug":"the-gin-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-gin-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gin Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy (Official Music Video)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ah5gAkna3jI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeg havde en god ven i USA, som jeg bes\u00f8gte et par gange f\u00f8rst i 1990&#8217;erne. Vi snakkede tit om musik, og hun lyttede til meget af det samme som jeg lyttede til dengang. Underligt nok kendte hun <em>ikke<\/em> The Replacements eller Big Star, men til geng\u00e6ld var hun rigtig glad for albummet <em>New Miserable Experience<\/em> med The Gin Blossoms. D\u00e9t album blev solgt i omkring fem millioner eksemplarer \u2013\u00a0det er omkring fire og en halv million flere eksemplarer end der er solgt af The Replacements&#8217; albumudgivelser. Verden er underlig og ikke helt retf\u00e6rdig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Det ironiske er, at netop Big Star og The Replacements var The Gin Blossoms&#8217; store forbilleder. <em>New Miserable Experience<\/em> blev endda indspillet i Ardent Studios i Memphis, hvor<em><strong> <\/strong><\/em>begge disse forbilleder indspillede nogle af deres mest ber\u00f8mmede albums. Sangskriveren bag &#8220;Hey Jealousy&#8221;, guitaristen Doug Hopkins, led en Bob Stinson-agtig sk\u00e6bne. Hans misbrugsproblemer gjorde, at han blev smidt ud at The Gin Blossoms. Men hans bitters\u00f8de sange beholdt bandet, og de blev deres st\u00f8rste hits. Da <em>New Miserable Experience<\/em> udkom, havde Doug Hopkins sl\u00e5et sig selv ihjel. Verden er underlig og ikke helt retf\u00e6rdig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her, otteogtyve \u00e5r senere, genh\u00f8rer jeg The Gin Blossoms. Deres musik er ikke p\u00e5 h\u00f8jde med hvad Alex Chilton eller Paul Westerberg har pr\u00e6steret, selv om det bestemt er solidt h\u00e5ndv\u00e6rk, men det er nok heller ikke realistisk at forlange.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-gin-blossoms\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-gin-blossoms\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeg havde en god ven i USA, som jeg bes\u00f8gte et par gange f\u00f8rst i 1990&#8217;erne. Vi snakkede tit om musik, og hun lyttede til meget af det samme som jeg lyttede til dengang. Underligt nok kendte hun ikke The Replacements eller Big Star, men til geng\u00e6ld var hun rigtig glad for albummet New Miserable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-gin-blossoms\/\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s videre <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gin Blossoms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-gin-blossoms\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-gin-blossoms\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-retro","category-rocknroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}