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New Miserable Experience
New Miserable Experience is the second studio album by rock band Gin Blossoms, released on August 4, 1992. The album was released to little fanfare and relatively lackluster reviews. However, nearly a year after its release the lead single, "Hey Jealousy", entered the top 40, with "Found Out About You" following a few months later. The album eventually reached multi-platinum status.
The band's guitarist, Doug Hopkins, was fired near the conclusion of the recording sessions for
member in 1994.
"New Miserable Experience" became the band's breakthrough album. The first single released from the album was "Hey Jealousy", which had been written by Hopkins. The song reached No. 25 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and No. 4 on "Billboard"s Mainstream Rock Tracks and later went gold, largely fueling the success of "New Miserable Experience". However, the achievement was overshadowed by Hopkins's suicide on December 5, 1993. The following year, another song