Okay, so I'm a week late on this one, as it was released on August 4, 1992. In my defense, everybody else was late on it too; it took about a year to catch on, finally gaining momentum off the (very) slow building success of Hey Jealousy . It's a brilliantly written pop/rock song that almost didn't click with a grunge-crazed public. But, once it did, it was huge . The sad back story that will always haunt this band, of course, is the suicide of Doug Hopkins, whose songwriting is the not-so-secret weapon on New Miserable Experience . Behind all of the sugary sweet pop riffs and jangling melodies were horror stories of alcoholism, unrequited love and crushed dreams. The truly sad irony is, his dismissal from the band due to his own alcoholism eventually led to him taking his own life just as the tortured stories he was integral to creating began to gain traction with the masses.
SOMEHOW STILL A THING