Congratulations I’m Sorry by Gin Blossoms

Congratulations I'm Sorry, the third album from the Tempe, Arizona band Gin Blossoms, came out on A&M in 1996 as the follow-up to their 1992 breakthrough, New Miserable Experience. The title says it all: according to singer Robin Wilson, it's what people kept telling the band, congratulations on the hit album, followed by condolences for their friend and former guitarist Doug Hopkins, who died by suicide in 1993.

Musically, they stuck with what worked: jangling guitars from Wilson and Jesse Valenzuela, sweet harmonies and melancholy hooks, which some critics found too close to the last record. Most pressings also left off the 1995 hit "Til I Hear It from You". Still, it gave them "Follow You Down" and the Grammy-nominated single "As Long as It Matters", and it went platinum. The band broke up in 1997.

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