3 Car Garage

3 Car Garage: The Indie Recordings
Compilation album by
ReleasedMay 12, 1998
Recorded1995
GenrePop rock
Length44:52
LabelMercury / PolyGram
ProducerHanson
Hanson chronology
Snowed In
(1997)
3 Car Garage: The Indie Recordings
(1998)
Live from Albertane
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

3 Car Garage: The Indie Recordings '95–'96, also known simply as 3 Car Garage, is a compilation album by American pop rock group Hanson. It consists of material from their MMMBop 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 rock ballad, 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.

  1. ^ 3 Car Garage at AllMusic
  2. ^ Brunner, Rob (May 15, 1998). "3 Car Garage Review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on September 17, 2020. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  3. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 362. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.