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"Hey Jealousy" is a song by American rock band Gin Blossoms. The song was included on the group's debut album, Dusted (1989), and was re-recorded for their 1992 album, New Miserable Experience . It was written by lead guitarist Doug Hopkins , who was fired from the band before New Miserable Experience was released.
Dusted is the debut album by the alternative rock band the Gin Blossoms. [2] It was released through San Jacinto Records, a small independent label as a 12-song tape and record in 1989.
Gin Blossoms is an American alternative rock band formed in 1987 in Tempe, Arizona.They rose to prominence following the 1992 release of their first major label album, New Miserable Experience, and the first single released from that album, "Hey Jealousy".
The album’s “Hey Jealousy” became the band’s first Hot 100 hit, followed by “Found Out About You.” Both tracks rose to No. 25 on the chart, while the latter topped Alternative Airplay ...
Although he had always dreamed of having a gold record, when he received one (for the song "Hey Jealousy"), he hung it up for two weeks before taking it down and then destroying it. Nine days later, after an intake consultation in the detox unit of Phoenix's St. Luke's Hospital, Hopkins purchased a .38 caliber pistol. He died of a self ...
Billboard called the single "pure pop joy." [1] Ed Masley of The Arizona Republic listed the song as the Gin Blossom's 15th-best song on his list of the band's top 30 tracks, writing that the song "certainly holds up as a pure pop song, from its yearning chorus, as a call and response between Wilson (who wrote the song with Valenzuela) and his bandmates, to a brilliantly constructed lead ...
The rock group Gin Blossoms ("Hey Jealousy," "Heard It From You") will perform a free show on the Grand Central Stage at the south end of the Reisch Pavilion. The State Fair runs Aug. 8-18.
(The latter seems like an obvious homage to the Gin Blossoms’ mega-hit “Hey Jealousy,” but Bentham confesses he couldn’t name one of their songs.)