Highly Evolved

Not bad, but the British press might have gotten just a wee tiny bit ahead of themselves when they hailed the Vines as 'the second coming of Nirvana'.

An absolutely nothing special alt rock/ light punk record

I mean, it's fine, but doesn't belong on this list.

Garage rock for Britpop fans. 5/10

Meh. Could have gone my whole life without hearing it

This has no place here. It's derivative and so devoid of originality. What a joke to include it in the 1001 best albums.

Not my favorite album. The melodies are great and have a distinctive late 90s/early 2000s sound. There's an awful screamo vocalist in this band. I don't know why he's included...to add angst? Anyway, I hate him.

I really like their sound. A bit Brit-pop but not quite so pop-sounding - a bit rougher around the edges like garage rock. Sort of like Oasis with a touch of grunge. Very nice. 4 stars.

“The next Nirvana” my ass. This is one of the most flaccid, soulless rock albums I’ve ever listened too.

Suck my massive yellow dong. A mega record that smacks you round the chops and buries its dick in your cheek. My bum is twitching and it's not even time for breakfast. Fire a dog into a lamppost and watch it wee it's pants.

Really love the sound that is somehow distinctively early 2000s and also evokes an earlier time. Good stuff. Best track: Get Free

Auww, you did such an amazing job picking out your 90s alt rock coloring book and you're so good at staying inside the lines and picking the right color crayons for every area!

Fav: Homesick Least Fav: Factory Is this just the Australian child of Nirvana and Oasis? Yes. Do I love it in spite of that? Also yes

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 8/10 Did not expect an album I grew up with on this list. I was actually surprised that this album made the list. If I wouldve made a book with influential bands from the 00s garage rock/postpunk revival this wouldnt be on the list. Don't get me wrong, I love this album. I would say the band is just a bit too niche for this album. I know the Strokes and Arctic Monkeys made the list, which I totally agree. But including the vines? Nahh. If the listmakers really wanted to include an influential niche 00s garage band the Hives shouldve been chosen. (This could be foreshadowing). Not gonna lie, I love this band especially Ride, which is not on this album. Would definitely listen to this album again. But would not call it legendary. Ps: its an Australian band, not British 🇦🇺 Favourite tracks: Outtatheway Get Free 1969 Country yard Least favourite: Factory Mary Jane 8/10

Nr. 31/1001 Highly Evolved 3/5 Autumn Shade 4/5 Outtathaway 3/5 Sunshinin 3/5 Homesick 5/5 Get Free 3/5 Country Yard 4/5 Factory 3/5 In The Jungle 3/5 Mary Jane 4/5 Ain't No Room 3/5 1969 4/5 Aberage: 3,5 The influence of Nirvana on this Album could easily be heard. All around enjoyable

Great album - maybe? I had it on at work, listing to I, but... cannot recall a single song or tune.

OK but nothing too special.

The Vines suck. Friend of mine had a bad experience at a Vines convert, and I've disliked them since. There are many better Australian pub rock bands more deserving of a spot in the list. Even from roughly the same era, the list is missing Wolfmother's self titled debit, Jet's excellent Get Born, Silverchair's Frogstomp, Neon Ballroom or Diorama, and Powderfinger's Odyssey Number Five . Grinspoon released an album the same year, which was a better album, even Bodyjar, the Living End, Killing Heidi, Waikiki... and yet this tripe makes it.

This is OK. I think I like a couple of songs by these guys, maybe they’ll be on here. All fine… nothing very memorable. What are those songs I like? Hate to Say I Told You So and Tick Tick Boom, not on here though, not much of interest on this album. Oh. It’s The Hives that I don’t mind. Who the fuck are The Vines? Why the fuck are they on this list?

Am I losing it, or does this kind of sound like a hair metal record in a bunch of spots?

This was a strong contender for a 5 from the first track and it was solidified as a 5 for me as soon as I heard get free, song I’ve always heard but never really knew where it came from. I love early 2000s alternative rock like this and this was 50 pure minutes of it with 90s grunge influences galore (I don’t think this is “the second coming of nirvana” but it’s definitely heavily inspired by them). Another favorite of mine was outtathaway.

Fun little time capsule of the early 2000s. All decent songs. I hear a lot of STP on there along with early punk

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would/remembered. I think I probably lumped it in with all the other indie albums that were around at the time when it was released but listening now it sounds a lot stronger (or I just forgot about it). Some real bangers and a bit of early 2000s nostalgia.

Really enjoyed this, a generous 4 as I reckon repeat listens would make it grow on me more as well

Fun, high-energy rock that plays with a variety of sounds and does them all well. Really enjoyed this!

Noisey enough to be fun.

A proper year 9 staple this! Surprised it made the list but glad it did, must be about 20 years since I heard this. Doesnt quite sound as dated as I expected, and it’s easy to forget how decent the early 00s were for garage rock! Couple of tracks tht passed by without notice which detracts a little, but a nostalgic gem nonetheless

I feel like I should like this a lot more than I do.. influenced by a lot of bands I like, good production, experimentation.. but to be honest I felt nothing for most of this album.

It’s fine. STP without the songwriting

Listenable but not essential. Heavily influenced by Nirvana in places, although never reaching those heights, reminiscent of the likes of Feeder in others. I have heard this before and little stuck other than "Highly Evolved", which I like, and "Factory", which I don't.

Lot of energy, lot of variety. Lot of screaming. Pretty good guitar and drum work. Ain’t No Room is the best song, some filler (Mary Jane) make for an about average debut. (2.6*s)

This is about as good as you were going to get for post 2001 radio rock, that weird time between the grunge bands and the indie rock re-do. Some of these songs, usually the more aggressive ones, are pretty great. "Get Free" and "1969" are good rock songs, if lyrically pretty dumb. The album kinda falls apart when they try to get introspective. "Autumn Shade" and "Country Yard" are just filler. "Factory" serves to remind you that, yes, they listened to and liked the Beatles. The rest of this is pretty generic to be honest. It's not that memorable but it's fine.

Highly Evolved is good in places, average in others, never bad or annoying, but frustratingly inconsistent. You get a meh track followed by a good one and back and forth; Autumn Shade, Sunshinin, Get Free and Factory are good, the tracks between less so. There's strong lead guitar work on most tracks but the vocals miss more than they hit throughout, probably a low 3 overall.

Garage rock indie landfill, in the UK both a charity shop staple and an ever-present in Poundland's £1 CD racks. Competent but spectacularly unmemorable or distinctive. 1.5 stars really but rounding up as it's not difficult to listen to.

I don't recognize any of these song titles. I don't like it. Too screamy/yell-y. I can see why Get Free is most played. It's probably the best, but I still don't like it much.

What a bonkers track sequence in this album. I had to back and double check I didn’t have shuffle on. This is The Vines. It should be 1. Slow song is acceptable 2. Increasing intensity track 3. Lead single 4. Slower but harder rocking song 5. Quick song 6. Slower song 7. 2nd single 8. Experimental track 9. Song that starts slow and comes back around quick. Overall I was disappointed after knowing the singles for 20 years.

I only made I through half this album before giving up.

Heavy inspiration from Nirvana for sure, but I wouldn't classify them as the "second coming". I saw someone mention Oasis, and now I hear it. This is a great album, I really enjoyed it. Going to delve through their discography and see what else is out there.

This has been a week of my favourite early 2000s albums. I loved this album when it came out. Before today, I don't think I'd listened to it all the way through since probably 2003. I like every song on this album and wouldn't cut any of them. I think as a teen, my favourite song was "Country Yard" but these days, I think it's "Factory." Fun nostalgia trip today.

The best albums come to you at the worst times, don't they?

Banger

I love this album; I owned it when it came out. Just a peak of the Aughts garage rock. When The Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, and Tame Impala all indicate your band was a reason that they sound like they do, then you know you’re doing something correct. So sad that they only managed a small amount of music at the peak of their powers.

I am a massive fan of this album.

Still great fun to listen to.

Yup it’s definitely the vines.

Oh this rocks. Greatly enjoyed it. Never heard them before, but will be listening again for sure.

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Forgotten how amazing this is. It’s aged well.

Hadn’t heard of the Vines before but I loved this album! Another one introduced by the 1001 challenge that I may not have found 4.5/5

The Vines and the Hives make up the twin bastions of perfectly honed Chaos channeled into emotive magic. Perfection.

An album I loved at the time, and still do!

I hadn't listened to much of the Vines music, but always remembered liking it. I'm happy to say this album didn't disappoint. It's great from start to finish. On the one hand, it's unoriginal in the sense that you can hear bits of Blur, Nirvana, the Clash, Oasis, and a few others. However, they seem to have blended it all together in a unique way. Impressive debut album and one that I'll definitely come back to.

I haven’t ever heard of The Vines. This is a great album though… really strong debut. I noted that this is one of the “demoted” albums that are no longer on the 1001 list. Has the influence or lasting impact of The Vines not played out over the last 22 years? Then again who knows how this album may be influencing artists and music in ways we will never comprehend. Regardless of these meta-questions, I loved this album’s varied styles and great solid rock performances. It’s a great album demoted or not, and I could certainly come up with a list of albums still on the 1001 list that I think could easily be displaced for Highly Evolved.

Me encantó, 100% lo mio

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Excellent!

9/10

suprisingly awesome. lotta range. 5/5

I could hear some Weezer in them but like current Weezer. I really liked the creepy changing tempos

Yes they sound like Oasis, however unlike Oasis, they are not (to my knowledge) a bunch of pretentious jerks who think they're God's gift to music. Also I don't think they're the second coming of Nirvana. You can definitely hear Nirvana's influence on them, but they are not in the same league. That being said I thoroughly enjoyed this album. It honestly reminded me a bit of Cage the Elephant on their debut and Thank You Happy Birthday. They had nice variety on their stuff so it wasn't just 45 minutes of garage band rock. Really liked the fast hard hitting songs, they sounded great on them, but then they also sounded really good on the slower more melodic songs which was really cool to hear because normally bands on this list (at least recently) have been really good at one or the other but not both. Really liked this one a lot.

Highly Evolved by The Vines. I originally was going to decirbe this as Nivana but from Califonia and less suicidal. I have no just discovered they are Australian which is like Cali...but better. This is great, its fun, hits in the right places and is right up my ally

8/10

loved - rockin

hell yeah, I liked that one 🤘🏼

One of my favorite albums of all time. Every song on here is just an absolute banger, and there’s an exceptional amount of variety too. Such an underrated band.

9/10 crazy good rock album absolutely adored the diversity

I hadn't heard of The Vines before listening to this, and that's a shame

Excellent live album. Not only could Nirvana make great original songs, but they could make covers better than the originals, while live.

Gritty. Distorted. Energetic. Engaging. A great debut album from The Vines. I need to explore more of their catalogue.

Good clean aussie rock show

Really enjoyed this one. Loved the energy of Highly Evolved and the harmonies in Sunshinin. There's a nice mix of fun/energetic and some tamer songs. Added to my main playlist.

My favorite discovery so far!! They are like psychicadelic Beatles meet Nirvana and I am here for it!

Grungy garage rock fused with angry punk. Awesome album.

this album was weirdly pivotal to me in that it was one of the first albums i got really in to that was 'heavier' than my usual musical fare. That synopsis puts this album weirdly into the category of gateway music.

Man, that was a delight. I didn't really know what to expect from this one. I was aware of the band but wasn't familiar with their catalog. Turns out, this was my jam. I loved the "modern garage throwback" vibe so much. It was such a groove and I was digging it already but when "Get Free" hit, I was all-in. What a freaking great track. I got nothing negative to say here. Full marks. Immediate replay.

Great album, somehow I have about 3/4 of this in my library but enjoyed the whole thing. Get free in particular is timeless, amazing riff, sounds huge, always puts me in a good mood. Love this sort of garage rock and even though as the Vines' careers shows it does get a bit samey, one album's worth is spot on.

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This was pretty good, passively listened to it, reminded me of Oasis. 4 stars

Good album. Fun. Indie rock, basically. Evidently, some critics called them “the next Nirvana,” but I won’t hold that against the band.

I really enjoyed this album. I liked the song Mary Jane.

Haven’t heard this album in years. Still holds up!

Sold riff rock - much needed palette cleanser 🤟

Get Free was actually an attempt to get free tickets to a Houmous & Chutney tour. We knew what they were doing. Didn’t work. Nothing comes free in Len’s world! 3.9

It's giving Stone Temple Pilots

Can't hate the Vines. Get Free is an incredible Australian track. Brilliant energy live.

Surprisingly good. I expected something a lot less polished based on my memory of this band from when they came out

Wow, have not heard of this group before. Ahh yes, 2002 is when it came out and I wasn't really listening to new music or even getting into music that much. I liked a set of bands and that was it. At least this project is helping me get my groove back and discover new music (to me at least). yeah, this album rocks! It's raw and power and some slower jams as well. Just good hard rock, maybe in the classic 70's Aerosmith realm. Less blues-influenced. More garage band type music. I dig it. 4.25/5, almost a 4.5, just was lacking a couple of songs to get it there. Great album though!

4.2 Severely regret never giving these the time of day when I was younger, presumed they were another The Hives/White Stripes/Strokes without even giving them a listen for some reason. Like if Nirvana decided to infuse a bit of 60s psychadelica with a teaspoon of britpop in there. What surprised me most it really seems to work. Looking forward to exploring more over the coming months

Nice album from The Vines from down under. They bring a good rock sound that sounds great pretty much all the way through the 40 minute album. A couple quick hits, a couple slower songs, some varied vocals, good solos, solid drumwork. Highly Evolved has a little bit of everything and nearly all of it works. This is one of the better finds off this list for a band I was unfamiliar with previously. I'll have to check out some of their other hits to see if they were able to keep it going. 3.86 stars

It's a bit Jet, it's a bit Oasis, it's even a bit Stones. I was worried it was going to be copy/paste of Get Free - and it mostly is - but then we hit Sunshinin and Country Yard which are welcome lower-energy jams. Later on there's Mary Jane, which is a sleepy Travis or a little-bit-happier Radiohead style wander. And -then- there's Factory, which might as well be the Ska/punk collab Elvis Costello and John Lennon never had. It's so much fun.

This was good, solid rock music. A bit grungy and a bit different in places, enjoyed it.

Pretty good

Interesting

Very nice!

This album is a chameleon and honestly....it's good? I enjoyed it? But I think it's trying to be all the things and listens more like a love letter to the 90s more than anything else. The soaring guitars in some of the songs sound so British and reminiscent of Wonderwall. Homesick sounds like it could be in Smashing Pumpkin's Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Mary Jane sounds like it could be on any random 90s alt rock album. Factory is super bubbly and bouncy and feels like their ode to the ska movement that become popular during that time. And all the screaming parts sound like a Nirvana sound attempt. I don't hate this but it also does not feel original enough to be on the 1001 list.

I know this band's name but not their music. I thought this was pretty good. I hear a blend of Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana and the Beatles. I also hear Jet, also Aussies. I imagine the Hives had some influence on them.

Brought to you by the era of "The <noun>s" bands. First exposure to the vines outside "get free", actually really enjoyed the album overall, had to give it another listen. Just up my street, but nothing super noteworthy, 4* Comparing to Nirvana is bit much. Highlights: get free, outtathaway, country yard

Enjoyed this, a mix of indie, grunge, britpop and psychadelica. It comes together nicely with some good variety between the heavier tracks and ballads. Probably not a 5* album because The Vines wear their influences very heavily on their sleeves. Factory sounds like The Beatles, In The Jungle sounds like Don't Fear The Reaper, etc. Could easily go on but those were the last two tracks as I write this. Still an enjoyable album though

This album is very much a time and place for me as I listened to it often during my senior year of high school. It doesn’t hit as hard as I remember and given distance and more musical awareness, it’s a bit of an oasis ripoff in places, but still great.

Fun listen, classic garage rock.