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"Learning The Hard Way"
Single by Gin Blossoms
from the album Major Lodge Victory
B-side"Learning The Hard Way (Radio Edit)"
Released2006
GenreJangle pop, power pop
Length4:09
LabelHybrid
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.

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

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.


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