| 3 Car Garage: The Indie Recordings | |
| Type: | compilation |
| Artist: | Hanson |
| Cover: | Hanson-3_Car_Garage.jpg |
| Released: | May 12, 1998 |
| Recorded: | 1995 |
| Genre: | Pop rock |
| Length: | 44:52 |
| Label: | Mercury / PolyGram |
| Producer: | Hanson |
| Prev Title: | Snowed In |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Live from Albertane |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
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.
| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| European Top 100 Albums (Music & Media)[1] | 47 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon)[2] | 42 |
| Chart (1998) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[3] | 80 | |
| US Billboard 200[4] | 153 |