Jul
14
2006

Major Valenzuela Victory

Album Info and Clips Out

Friday, July 14, 2006 - 06:44:46 am
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music)
So in the last few hours, the song writing credits and sound clips for the Gin Blossom's Major Lodge Victory have started showing up on online music stores.

Talk about a, as it's affectionally dubbed, Major Valenzuela Victory! By the Gin Diablos! Let's take a look at the writing credits break down. While it isn't suprising in that Jesse has no doubt done a lot of writing with Susan and Danny, that is a huge amount of material co-written outside of the band, (previously on Mrs. Rita and 'Til I Hear It From You being the only two songs co-written externally to the band). Furthermore Jesse has written the most songs individually, and is credited for every song except one - although, in all fairness, Come On Hard is probably mistakenly accredited to him, rather than Robin. Still, that's credit for all but 2 of the songs.

Hopkin's 6 songs on New Miserable Experience was always considered a lot / the main player on the record. Jesse's effort on Major Lodoge Victory blows this out of the water.

The fact of this aside, the songs sound pretty good. Come On Hard, it's hard to tell how different it is to the demo with the highly compressed same. Someday Soon, which I originally cringed about making the album over other songs may garner a different reaction from me once I hear the album - I think I might be pro it, despite my previous secret bashing of the song.

Heart Shaped Locket really sounded - rather gay. I thought it was going to be good, but maybe it won't be. End Of The World sounded like the demo, although it better. Long Time Gone sounds like it's going to be really good. Super Girl sounded pretty good too, and suprisingly Let's Play Two didn't sound as bad as I expected. Curious Thing sounded - well, not good at all. Jet Black Sunrise sounded much the same as what we're used to, and Fool For The Taking sounded like it has the potential to sound better than I expected. California Sun - well actually sounded exactly like the Tres Diablos version. It'll be interesting to hear the song, in full with CD quality. But the sample posted thus far really sounds like the Tres Diablos version.

All in all, it sounds like it's going to be a great record. Not sure of some of the songs let, but overall, I'm anticipating it.
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