''3 Car Garage: The Indie Recordings '95–'96'', also known simply as ''3 Car Garage'', is a compilation album by American

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. It consists of material from their ''

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'' demo album minus four tracks. There is much confusion that ''3 Car Garage'' contains tracks from both the ''MMMBop'' and ''Boomerang'' demo albums, when actually, only songs from ''MMMBop'' are present. The tracks that never made it from ''MMMBop'' to ''3 Car Garage'' are the shorter version of "MMMBop", "Something New", "Incredible", and "Baby (You're So Fine)". As the songs on this album were recorded a year or two before '' Middle of Nowhere'', the brothers' voices are noticeably higher pitched. The album also contains the original version of the hit song "MMMBop", which was a

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, unlike the up-tempo pop version that became a hit. 3 Car Garage: The Indie Recordings is the only Hanson compilation not on streaming platforms.

Track listing

Personnel

* John Chambers – guitar * JaMarc Davis – guitar * Louis Drapp – bass, guitar, harmonica * Isaac Hanson – guitar, fiddle, piano, producer, sequencing, vocals * Taylor Hanson – piano, keyboards, conga, drums, producer, vocals * Walker Hanson – photography * Zac Hanson – drums, vocals, producer * Craig Harmon – Hammond organ * Lewis Harris – bass * Dan Hersch – mastering * Dana Higbee – piccolo * Bill Inglot – mastering * Stirling McIlwaine – photography * John Morand – engineer

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:3 Car Garage Hanson (band) albums 1998 compilation albums Mercury Records compilation albums