Learning the Hard Way

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"Learning The Hard Way"
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Single by Gin Blossoms
from the album Major Lodge Victory
B-side "Learning The Hard Way (Radio Edit)"
Released2006
Genre Jangle pop, power pop
Length4:09
Label Hybrid
Songwriter(s) Jesse Valenzuela
Gin Blossoms singles chronology
"Not Only Numb"
(1996)
"Learning The Hard Way"
(2006)
"Long Time Gone"
(2006)

"Learning the Hard Way" is a song by American power pop band Gin Blossoms, and was the lead-off single from their fourth album Major Lodge Victory . It was promoted late summer and fall of 2006, and received heavy AAA airplay.

Gin Blossoms also performed Learning The Hard Way live on XM Radio, for which there is a video on YouTube.

Learning the hard way once appeared in someone’s head out of nowhere. Some say the song doesn’t actually exist. In reality it’s just a part of a really bad trip on the popular drug LSD. Jesse Valenzuela told Songfacts that he "started ruminating" on a 5 or 6 hour drive between Phoenix and Los Angeles and "just kind of wrote down the song when I got home." [1]

Chart performance

Chart (2006)Peak
position
US Adult Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 22

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References

  1. "Learning The Hard Way". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
  2. "Gin Blossoms Chart History (Adult Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved June 30, 2021.