Over a bottle of champagne on New Year's Eve, one of Recess' anonymous sources with close contacts to the entertainment industry divulged one of the best kept secrets in popular music: the Gin Blossoms were the most influential band of the 1990's. Music critics have long held that Nirvana, with their pivotal album, Nevermind, changed the face of popular music, but those tapped into the musical pulse of the nation have come to recognize that no album sounds more like what we hear on the radio today than the Gin Blossoms' 1994 opus, New Miserable Experience. Decide for yourself:
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