Reviews (page 5 of 7)
I don't think there has ever been a case of white boys doing reggae that was anything other than at best a bit crap and at worst dreadful- D'yer Mak'er by Zeppelin, Jamaica Jerkoff by Elton John, the career of The Police for example. Credit, then, to The Vines for giving us Factory. Sorry, not credit, that was a typo. It should have read 'Fuck The Vines for giving us Factory'. If you like Jet you'll think this lot are not quite as good as Jet.
it's an ok listen. gave me lots of Oasis vibes (which isn't a good thing). enjoyed the guitar melodies & the piano, and the different tempos of tracks
This felt like something I would have appreciated in my teens. Landfill indie type vibes. Totally fine!
The Vines is the most indie band name I've ever heard. This wasn't bad, nothing special but not bad.
I get why this was a big deal at the time. But I just didn't get the garage rock thing. This isn't bad. But it's boring. So. Eh
It's okay & I'm familiar with a few songs but I don't think I would listen again intentionally.
Good and bad... kinda forgettable in spots. 3.5
It's fine. I'm not sure why its on this list. It's not ground breaking. It's not the best of its style. It's not even controversial. It's just here. It's fine.
Decent garage rock sound. Some variety
Some good rock with kind of an indie, in-a-bar sound and style. Very solid performances and recordings. They play very well.
Thoughts before listening: This is a bit of a surprising entry to this list. The Vines always seemed like also-rans of the 00s garage rock movement, paling in comparison to bands like the White Stripes and the Strokes. Maybe they were a bigger deal in Europe? Anyway, I'm sure I'll recognize a song or two from the radio or an Apple commercial or something. Review: "Get Free" was a hit and a pretty good one at that. I'm also enjoying some other songs like "Factory" and "Ain't No Room". The singer has a Kurt Cobain growl and the music seems better produced than their peers, although in some ways that detracts from the sound. There is also a bit of a Britpop style that sneaks in. All in all these guys took a little from a bunch of different popular alt-rock styles and mixed it together...and its more fun than I thought it would be. 3-stars for being an enjoyable, albeit pretty generic listen.
Disliked most of it but actually quite liked Outtathaway, Sunshinin, and Homesick.
These dudes are pretty much “the British Strokes” but frankly I don’t find the songwriting as strong throughout this album. There are some solid hits including the lead single but overall it’s an okay garage rock piece from a band trying to fit the mold and not do their own thing. It’s far too safe.
Surprisingly refreshing! Nice groove
Fun listen, get why they got the nirvana call.
Ok, Homesick and Get Free are highlights. Overall not for me 3/5
# 160 : First Aussie album for me from the list! Definitely enjoyable. I’ll have to listen again as I reckon repeat listens would make it grow on me more as well. Fav Track : Get Free
Haven’t heard of these guys until now. Sort of sounds like if the Beatles were a punk/garage band at times. Ok rock band I reckon but not something I’d seek out
Enjoyable sound, songs all sounded a bit different, the radio single stood out from the crowd.
Although this type of music isn’t my cup of tea I can appreciate the music and how good the album is. It reminds me of nirvana mixed with rush and the doors.
Another album new to me! Nice to hear the garage band influences here (I can hear The Beatles in at least one song) though to my ears this doesn't quite convince. So, a good listen, but not an album I'll come back to. 3/5
Interesting mix of styles. Some 60’s ish, some grunge. Kinda liked most of it.
It was very diverse and had some good sound but was not memorable
Tandon Scale Rating: 3.5 Standouts: Get Free, Homesick, Factory, Mary Jane Foot Notes: 1 I can see the Nirvana comparison but they’re nowhere near Would I Listen Again: probably Album Cover Rating: (1-5) 4 Album Name Rating: (1-5) 3
a tad forgetable
Good indie.
Known album?
Pretty good Australian Alt. Rock band.
Solid. Several tracks are a good imitation of late era Beatles
Oh, the patented faux urgent edginess of the early aughts, of which era this is generic and no better than replacement level. Not that it's terrible but still ... One only likes the ballads, though "Sunshinin'" isn't terrible.
Not bad, but I wasn't expecting to be yelled at this morning! There are some good songs on here, but I don't think I'd run out to buy it.
Never listened to them before,. Enjoyed the album.
Þetta er betra en mig minnti. Ágætis noughties rokk.
Mostly OK with a few highlights
Pretty good balance of energy and quality. A little intense but easy enough to handle
Sounds like the early 2000s. Every band from that era. Not terrible. Just not original.
Close to being something I’d be crazy over, but just fall a little short. I’m not getting enough of something be it catchiness, a vibe, a state of mind, purpose, sound. Something just falls a little short, or maybe a few things combined
Cool sounding at the start,quickly gets boring.
It's OK.
Good
en classic 2000er vibe, aber nid im musig stil woni lose wür
While The Vines have more personality than other early 2000’s indie bands, their songwriting is still lackluster.
Lidl nirvana
The Vines was quite hyped when this album was released. Retrospectively it is not really standing out. Solid ok, but not exceptional
This was alright. Decent music but I think I tire of the rowdy alt/punk rock music. for that genre I prefer to stick to stuff I listen to as a kid.
It was ok I guess. Not sure how they stand out from any other indie band of the time.
I didn’t hate it.
Whenever an album comes up and it’s Of My Time, I tense up and expect it won’t hold up that well. Pleasant surprise on this one. These guys seem to have sort of faded behind the other *The* bands that came out, but I think this is a decent record. Was especially tickled by Factory.
It feels older than 2002. I remember it being one of the hot shit „The“ bands. But the content did not stick. It‘s quite colorful but as well quite nothing specific. 2.6
Better than I was expecting. They sorts sound like late 90s STP.
Average rock album. Nothing great, nothing bad.
Mostly not terrible
A touch better than good. Really liked "Factory" - sounds like they're trying to be the Beatles.
I feel like I had heard of this band but don't recall ever listening to them. I like them. Has a grungy rock feel to it. I'll have to give some of there other music a listen
Definitely a teenage James band. Get Free is in a video game I used to play I think it was one of the Burnouts so that was really random to hear That album didn't really do much for me it got pretty boring at the end
Like most albums the highs were high lows were low. Liked really random parts of songs and disliked parts of the same song. Get Free was the only one I knew before and definitely have always thought it was the Offspring
Album started off strong, I was a little sleepy so it took me a min to get into it but I dig it
So, this Australian band is “ frequently compared to Nirvana” (per Wikipedia). I guess that’s the current day equivalent of being the “next Beatles” we used to hear 40 years ago. Listening to this, I can tell they were inspired by Nirvana, maybe even trying to copy Nirvana. Not especially original. But the result is, at best, a pale imitation. It’s not bad, but it certainly isn’t memorable. 3/5
Ow wat stevigere gitaren, fijn!
I enjoyed this.
Interesting band and an interesting album. I had never really given much attention to The Vines. Parts of this are very enjoyable. I noticed in the blurb about them that they had been compared to Nirvana. That seemed apt at some of their best moments.
The Strokes auto-played when “Highly Evolved” was done. It was instantly clear they are so much better than The Vines. And I think that bears true for much of the garage rock revival of the early 2000s. The Vines just don’t stand out. I was not a fan of “Homesick,” “Factory,” or “In The Jungle,” and “Mary Jane’s” repetitive and juvenile five minutes was hard to bear. But it was followed by the decent “Ain’t No Room” - the album is an up and down roller coaster. “Outtathaway” and “Get Free” were hits for a reason though. They’ve been called “‘the second coming of Nirvana’ by the British press,” but they are largely unwarranted bar a couple of thrashy moments and vocal screams that never seem quite as genuine as Kurt Cobain. I did get some strong Stone Temple Pilots vibes a few times though. Ultimately The Vines stay on the 1001 was short lived. “Highly Evolved” is no longer on the list. And while too many 21st century albums have been pulled prematurely, this isn’t one of them. However, more deserving from 2002 and not on the list are: Interpol - “Turn on the Bright Lights” Queens of the Stone Age - “Songs for the Deaf” Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “BRMC” All ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Not as good in retrospect as some of the other return to rock of the early 2000s. Not the Strokes or White Stripes, but akin to maybe Jet?
Better than expected.
3.4
Never heard of this band and then I heard that one song and was like "oh yeah that song". I should have liked this more than I did since it was fine. Shame they compared them to Nirvana. Unfair to the band.
It's a cool sound, but I'm not sure I remember any of the lyrics. A punk/grunge vibe, definitely not the next coming of Nirvana. I would listen to some of the songs again, but nothing is an absolute must listen. 3.5
Good album!
Felt like a stereotypical early 2000's alternative album. Nothing bad to really call out, but also nothing that really stood out. Not an album I'd re-visit. Outtathaway and Homesick were my favorites.
More gritty than I expected actually
decent, nothing special
Solid! Enjoyed it but probably won’t revisit. Grungey sounds are always gonna go well for me
Aight boom
I never checked them out. They were always bracketed together with the Strokes. I didn't like the Strokes very much. I like the Vines better. If Nirvana were a brit pop band from Australia, they would have sounded like this. 3.5 stars. Favorite song: Outtathaway
Pretty good hard rock album. Vocals get a little shout-at-you at times which I am not a fan of but still an enjoyable listen for me. 3.5 stars
It was my first time hearing this album and I really liked it. I definitely get the Nirvana/Beatles comparisons, you can hear the references throughout the entire thing. Were those critics exaggerating? Maybe, but it’s still a very enjoyable album throughout. There’s hardly any filler. And I thought the entire “green” stylistic was pretty cool. 3.5/5 with the potential to grow on me further
It starts like any other indie rock from the 2000s; it gets some personality in the middle, and then it finishes like any other band from their time. It's not bad, but forgettable.
bleh 3*
Solid alternative sound. Not my favorite but I did enjoy this album.
скучновато цепляли крики посреди песен + довольно неплохой звук
Группа из Австралии, которая играет приятную такую индюшатину. С инди-музыкой вообще сложно: она может понравиться или не понравиться совсем случайно. У этих ребят есть что-то... тянущее, иногда буйное, всё такое разное. Есть противный вокал местами, который вдруг начинает нравиться после нескольких повторений одной и той же мелодической линии. Есть и какие-то "дурацкие" вайбы от этой музыки. Короче прикольно, что кроме Ацдц и Ника Кейва кто-то ещё музычку там играл, на другой стороне планеты.
preety good
What if The Strokes became a BritPop band?
Not bad, Get Free is a radio hit from the high school years. Other than that though nothing too noteworthy I’d come back too. Not a bad album by any stretch, but not my type of rock I vibe with. Good for a sunny day and some safe rock.
Fine but forgettable mid-2000s rock.
Has some nice parts, an hour after listening can't recall much though
I remember at the time thinking the Vines were really amazing. They're ok
Not bad, we have just been getting a lot of no name bands. I dont see what impact this has had on the music community.
This certainly is rock music. Some tracks have big homages to popular rock songs of the 70's 80's and 90's. They make some pretty good music, but still somehow have a lot of the style that rock in the 2000s had. Overall not bad, A strong 3/5
No real surprise this got exed in later editions as it's pretty dated, and standard issue "arent-we-just-the-coolest" edgy guitar rock from the early 2000s. Ballads work well, but everything else is forgettable, heard elsewhere, pretty templated, etc.
that one song plus a couple others
Definitely a cut above a lot of this type of post-grunge, punk-inflected rock in both substance and style. Definitely still solidly in that pack, though. Not sure anything distinguishes it that highly above a lot of peers. Still I enjoyed it, though it's not a genre I go too all that much anymore.
It's a good album, but it's not particularly "great" at anything. I don't quite see why this is on this list, even though I enjoyed it.
Kind of interesting that this found any purchase on this list. Just fine.
A fun surprise to come across this album. I first heard it around 2008, I think it was a random selection in the CD section at the Fargo Public Library. Beyond that I had not context for it, no one I knew listened to this band. I remember really loving a couple of the songs, and really not caring for a couple as well. That's still more or less true upon re-listening now in 2023. My favorites back then were "Outtatheway" - which I actually performed a cover version of in our basement band at the time - and "Factory". I find that I still like the former, and am a little less fond of the latter now. But some of the others are sticking out now in a good way, including "Highly Evolved", "Ain't No Room", "1969". Others slow the album down, namely "Homesick." After some reading I am still not entirely convinced of its place on the list, but it was a nice surprise to come across this again, and it is inspiring me to check out the rest of their discography.
More I listen to stuff like this, the more the alt-indie-rock sounds of the late 90s to early 00s start to sound so one dimensional and formulaic.
Feel dumb after comparing that Sugar album to nirvana. These guys were REALY going for grunge in 02 and found it. Solid work that I'll never hear again.lol
Beter als verwacht 3,5?
Get free entuudesta tuttu. Tämän listauksen mittarilla selkeästi keskivertoa parempi joten helppo kolmonen.
Viihdyttävä, ei kuitenkaan sen erikoisempi. Helppo kuunneltava
Ihan jees garage-tykittelyä
3.75
Basic bitchery of the early aughts.
3.5
More meh than fine. Mostly reminded me of all the other Brit bands who seem to love the letter V. Leans more Oasis than Nirvana. That's a bug more than a feature.
Comme vous le savez probablement, dès lors que je ne me souviens plus du contenu d'un album, mon premier réflexe est d'aller fouiller dans la conversation que j'entretiens avec mon ennemi juré eltrapeze pour y chercher une éventuelle réflexion partagée. J'ai donc écrit "vine" dans l'outil de recherche et suis tombé sur ce message envoyé par cet inculte assumé datant du 9 octobre 2018 : "ah tiens d'ailleurs ça y est j'ai choppe la vine Frank Ocean." Vous l'aurez compris, je n'ai tiré aucune information intéressante de cette recherche mis à part qu'eltrapeze n'est pas foutu d'écrire un message correctement.
Y avait 50 fois mieux dans le genre mais au moins on s'est pas trop fait chier ce matin, plus qu'une dizaine de mois et l'on pourra enfin s'extraire de ce générateur de malheur.
Listening a one off song by The Vines is good - an entire album of his voice whining.... is not so good
I had enough of garage so the garage revival wasn't something that I got too exited about.
It was an okay listen.
Y u so mad
Mira ah, este disco me pasó de largo en su momento, ni siquiera recordaba su single más exitoso, pero ahora que lo escucho definitivamente entra en ese grupo de discos que lamento haberme perdido.
Alt Rock band, the Vines from Australia. Their Debut album. Singles: ----------------------------------------------- "Highly Evolved" (UK, 32) "Get Free" (#7 US Modern Rock, #24 UK) "Outtathaway!" (UK, 20; US ALT #19) "Homesick" (AUS, #50) Standouts: Get Free, Highly Evolved, Outtathaway!, Homesick, Factory. 3/5
Sounds like an average attempt at keeping grunge relevant into the 2000s.
Very uneventful and run of the mill alt rock album
3.5/5. Very difficult lead singer but as it turned out he had Asperger’s. It’s a fairly solid record but nothing groundbreaking nor innovative in its genre, somewhat forgotten record and band.
This album is completely non-offensive but definitely doesn't take any risks or pushes the genre forward. It is a mix of Britpop, garage rock, neo-psychedelia, post-punk/new wave revival, and a touch of grunge through a pop filter. Because they're trying to do so much, the Vines end up with a sort of bland sound that sits somewhere between the Beatles and Oasis. Even the vocals seem like a Liam Gallagher/John Lennon approximation. I'm honestly confused why this album is included in this list. There are much better early 2000s rock revival albums to include that are influential and genre defining.
This was pretty good. Catchy, with the right amount of acidity. Stylistically this is all over the place, and a couple of these tracks could have been dropped to make a much better album, but I enjoyed it. I get the comparisons to Nirvana, but The Vines are pretty toothless by comparison. Most insightful comment by a fellow reviewer: "Garage rock for Britpop fans." Fave Songs: Homesick, Get Free, Sunshinin, Autumn Shade, Country Yard
Rating: 6/10
Some good songs some boring songs
A rebuf de la penúltima resurrecció del rock, a començaments de mil.leni, de la mà de The Strokes, i menor mesura, The White Stripes, van sorgir tota una sèrie de bandes que van acabar amb la moda del nu metal, i van donar una nova vitalitat al rock, aquest vegada influenciat sobretot pels sons de finals dels 70. Els australians The Vines van sorgir amb força, de la mateixa manera que bandes com Kings of Leon, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Jet o els suecs The Hives... quins anys! Escoltat ara amb perspectiva, el seu debut 'Highly Evolved', el seu disc més recordat, és un bon exemple del que es feia aleshores, però res extraordinari. Un bon grapat de temes per disfrutar del moment, si més no
I was told I would absolutely love this, but I didn't. Some songs were great and I'll be coming back to them, but the rest were so forgettable. Plus the marathon songs they placed in there killed the vibe at times. They tried too hard to be like Nirvana and ended up as a sugar-free version.
This was a decent album. Definitely had some post grunge style to it but also some early 2000s alternative. The comparison to nirvana is kinda comical as they are much more a standard alt rock band. Nirvana is one of the greats bands of all time. I haven’t even heard of these guys until today so that should some their cultural importance. But overall it was good. Nothing amazing. 6.5/10
Enjoyed it!
5/10. The Vines is a pretty lame name for a band.
Really liked the vocalist(s) but overall the music was just okay for me. I wouldn’t seek out their music, but I wouldn’t hurry to change it if it were already on.
Best Song: Outtathaway. Imagine if the whole album were played with this forward-leaning intensity? Worst Song: Mary Jane. Protracted, weepy-sounding chorus. Oh, and it's one of the longest songs on the album? Nice. Overall: Very middle of the road. It seems like the band can't decide whether they want to be a ripping cool rock band or a top 40 chart chaser. Ultimately they take the average and end up sounding kind of uninteresting. Immediately after this album finished, a Queens of the Stone Age song came on and it felt exactly like what The Vines wanted to do, but better.
Quite a strong take on the band's noisier influences, keeping the energy and most of the scuzz across even the slower cuts.
The only Vines songs I knew before listening to this were Get Free and Outtathaway, so I was expecting an album full of slightly more "alternative" Buckcherry-ish douchiness. But, it's better than that for sure. I didn't expect such a psychedelic pop influence, sure the influences from Beatles and Floyd are really clear, but well enough done. And the singer's clean vocals aren't so bad when he's not doing...that thing he does with his voice. Honestly, not a bad record, I was expecting worse.
See my review for the Hives; copy and paste. That's not exactly true, because this was a true album and not a collection of singles. But it's the same garage rock revival sound. Which I do not mind. And in some ways I don't mind all the garage rock albums that made the 1,001 list - seems a bit overdone in the same way as all the electronica entries, but at least I like garage rock. Still, like the Hives, I don't really know what distinguishes some of the 2000 garage rock bands from the others. I really liked the title track for all its energy and buzzy sound (too bad it is so short, and starts and ends abruptly). Ditto to the two big singles Outtathaway and Get Free (a great rocker). But most of the rest of the album (except maybe Sunshinin) was a bit unremarkable, other than I now noted another band who I can say that Jet copied (see all the softer piano-based songs like Homesick or Country Yard). Of course, the Hives seem to have done some copying themselves - the riffs for In The Jungle feel like Day Tripper meets CCR and I can't put my finger where I've heard some of the riffs in Mary Jane or 1969 (I didn't mind these songs, but they felt a bit recycled). Long story short, I'm not rating the Vines higher than the Hives, even if it is a more complete album.
Haven't listened to The Vines since I was in school. Thought it was okay, the second half of the album drags a bit but there are some bangers here. Highlights: Highly Evolved Outtathaway Get Free
Pretty standard sound for this era of punk, not edgy or too upbeat, but perfectly ok. 3.5
Another one that is no longer in the book. 3.5 / 4
Entertaining rock. Mixture of slow moody songs with the faster raucous. I can hear occasionally the Nirvana influence, but a good tight set of straight forward rockers.
17th May 2023 Listened mainly in the office but finished off the day after. Work pint after then pub to see Hannah visiting from aus. One all time classic, like that it had a mix of tones on it and not just heavy heavy. 3.5 if I could
Not too much to say on this album to be honest, I didn’t find it that interesting but there was a good handful of enjoyable songs. I particularly liked some of the slower songs such as “Homesick” and “Mary Jane” where I think the band really shined, not as much of a fan as some of the more rock style cuts such as “Get Free” despite it being their most popular song. Not sure if I need to give this album more chance to sit with me but just as an album I didn’t find it all too appealing despite liking the songs on it. I feel they should’ve either gone the more rock and roll sort of route or stuck with the lighthearted indie rock style, it feels like they’re trying to do too much sometimes, still a great sound though.
Decent album and solid production. Way more punk/grunge than I expected, vocals reminded me of early Thom Yorke. appreciate the varied tracklist and sequencing but tf was up with that ska intro strong 6, light 7
I guess the generation 10 to 15 years younger than me should have been allowed their own go at Indie Rock.
I remember it being a little better than just the single. but it's not.
Yay, another generic 2000s "punk" band.
The best song is barely mid and yet miles ahead of the others.
Shit nirvana
pues no eh
how does a band with this much energy have 0 personality
If you like white men screaming, then you're in luck! And this time they're from Australia!
No
A truly confusing listen! The first handful of songs made me think it would all be the kind of sanitised corpo-radio let's-sell-the-next-Nirvana get-it-kids?-we-know-you-will-like-this kind of thing. And in many ways, it is that - ten years on from the grunge 'revolution' or whatever, it became so commercial as to now be completely safe. And we're also getting the post-Oasis imitation, sort of via the Beatles but without any of the interesting production sound. I actually think many of these songs would have been way better with a different production approach and I'm shocked to learn that the producer worked on Either/OR and XO, which I think are recorded in ways that suit the material very well. Something grittier is needed here, I feel like the same songs as shitty demos on a four-track would just serve the songs way better. This mix is far too clean and sterile and sounds like some royalty-free playout at the Dr Martens wholesale outlet. It sounds like what people who still think Camden is cool listen to. And I HATE that stupid megaphone EQ thing they kept doing to vocals in this era - it just sounds corny and draws attention to how clean the rest of the production is, needlessly! That all being said - two things made me see this as not a waste of time. The first is the song 'Homesick', which is a goddamn gorgeous beautiful song - a genuine gem, a sincere detour with sweet, prophetic lyrics about phone use and isolation with the simplest of melodies that just feels sent from onhigh. What a shame that it was followed by 'Get Free', which was their lead single but I thought one of the weakest of the weak songs and a rip-off of the 'Damaged Goods' final vocal. Some of it reminds me of that YAK song, but I think YAK did something darker and almost Nick Cavey with the production that made it slightly better (but still not good, looking back). I then watched the performance they did on Jools Holland and it contextualised a lot - three thin band members, the sound is also very thin - the lead guitar tone is inexplicably thin in particular in a way that sounds kind of funny against the awkward almost ska bassline - so yea, 'skinny' sums is all up. And he's a sort of proto-Cameron Winter / black midi doing all these incomprehensible yelps and flinging himself around but in a totally non-threatening way. His freak-out at the end of 'Outtahere'(?) in the live version was sort of cute and endearing in how ridiculous it was, flailing into the drum kit and knocking it all off its podium. I was more endeared to the bassist, who was just solidly doing his thing and occasionally singing along a bit, with a nice voice. Anyway - that was all funny and JH called it 'an exquisite display of rock and roll!' which is a real insight into the early 2000s. It seems labels had piles of cash to splash around and were pushing packageable versions of previously subversive genres - in a way, I feel a bit bad for the Vines because they clearly love the Beatles and they clearly love Nirvana and they have some good songs, but it just sounds so bland and dated in its packaging. Haha I forgot about 'Factory' -- a truly incomprehensible song, a totally non-commital 'Ob-La-Di' meets 'Heroes and Villains' which somehow called to mind Corey Feldman's cover of 'Working Class Hero' (no idea why). I had to save that one just for the audacity! 'Mary Jane' is a beautiful Meddle-era Pink Floyd song and '1969' is a pretty good Nirvana song, but other than that this stank. I went through an arc with this one - the bits I hated I really hated, but then I started feeling bad for them. 'Homesick' redeemed the experience! The 2000s were an odd time.
Kind of boring
Nothing special about this. Seems like a run of the mill alternative band.
Nothing special
Don't think this should be on here but wasn't totally unpleasant. Only listened to the first few songs.
2.5 Some of the slow songs, Autumn Shade and Country yard are just painful to get through. Get Free is the only thing that stands out. Rounding down on this, felt a bit generic
After listening to this, it's unclear why it's on this list. It was fine, just not in anyway a standout that justified its position on this list.
Bland modern alternative rock. Is it awful, nope. But it’s just predictable and indistinguishable to other artists. So many of these types of records on here, they all end up blurring together. This being in the 2000s means it was late to this party, meaning I subtract an extra star. 2/5
Has not dated well.
Zpev jako metal ale do klidnejsi hudby
Unmemorable
Pretty apparent from the get go that this is not worth the title of an album you need to listen to before you die (but I’m beyond the illusions that title gives new users at this point). Milquetoast early 2000’s rock that swears it’s got attitude. “Outtatheway” into “Sunshinin” put me in a funk that couldn’t be fixed. Why is this? I ask the question not in disgust, but because I’m grasping to find anything unique about this record. The lead singer sounds like a much worse Julian Casablancas when he’s singing in a more mellow tone. The instrumentation is totally bland. Why? Low 2/5
Time locked, boring Brit Pop. I never got into Oasis or blur and any of those brit alt rock bands from the late '90s and I never will.
Indie landfill.
Album 38/1001. Listened 5/18/2026. Couldn't get into this one. I don't remember hearing it when it first came out, and I didn't think it aged particularly well. Won't listen again.
why are we yelling
"we have nirvana at home"
Kinda boring
Album 195. Highly Evolved (https://open.spotify.com/album/14rRGdr4K5UoaEFVw9jqBG?si=S1VA_hlURqyBHmJZW1wjiw) — The Vines (2002) It's a fine rock album. Didn't change my life, don't wanna relisten anything. It's just a rock album, like thousands of other rock albums. 2/5 No liked songs
It’s fine - just nothing special
Couple of good songs on this one…but meh
Oasis but somehow even more unoriginal and hit with a fat dose of corny 00s production.
I really didn't like this album.
meh, całościowo normalnie się słucha, ale nic co wpadło do głowy
Not my thing. For me, there isn’t any remarkable song in entire album.
I’d loved ‘Get Free’ when it came out and it remained on my playlists for years, I always wondered why they didn’t have the same success as say, The Strokes - but that’s clear now. It started off so dully I hardly realised it had kicked off. Musically it felt it was trying to be Nirvana circa Bleach but lyrically and production wise it was truly nothing remarkable and kind of a bit cringe with ‘Mary Jane’ and ‘1969’ being almost caricatures of good music. Not for me.
I like the cover art. Unfortunately it does not seem to go with what I'm hearing. I hit skip when it gets screamy. Then I noped out altogether.
There's nothing here that you haven't heard from any other indie rock band from the early 2000s. This album isn't bad, but there's nothing about it that makes it stick out from the crowd.
Memomarably unmemorable. Well made but nothing clicked for me.
Not that bad but ultimately mid.
I thought I had never heard of The Vines until I listened to “Get Free” - a song I had completely forgotten about, but which is a banger. I also didn’t mind “In the Jungle”, but the rest of the tracks just didn’t do anything for me and it all just became too shouty towards the end.
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Ok
I know “get free” was a big single. But man, this isn’t that great. It’s ok. It’s not bad. But the hype over the years I think is too much.
Wow would you look at that? Yet another Garage Punk album from the 2000s on the 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die list!! Who would have seen that coming?? I get that Garage Rock was a big deal during the early 2000s but like come on man with all the other projects that were snubbed, did this really need to make the cut? It is a very average and safe pick if you ask me with the only notable part of this being the band being from Australia. I was down with the music for the first couple of tracks but the longer this went on the messier it got and the less I cared. A lot of these Garage Rock acts are so repetitive and same-y that it is hard to not blend them all together if you aren't being careful. I want to give this band as much credit as I can because I think they made a fun project, but I just can't seem to care about this as an album. Unfortunately Highly Evolved is anything but that and feels stuck in a cycle of conformity that plagued a lot of the Rock scene during the 2000s.
Outathaway is my favorite song so far. Some of the songs sound too much like other songs I know—to the extent that if I expected some effort I could figure out which song exactly they were riffing off of. Others reminded me of grunge tunes but with a peculiar 60s sensibility—not sure exactly how to explain that one. The album as a whole didn’t stand out as unique enough to merit inclusion in s as list like this one. 2 stars
So many influences, so poorly imitated.
I only remembered this band for the single Get Free - they never really stood out for me amongst all the other "The" bands of the time. The rest of the album was ok but nothing special, kinda like a grungy Supergrass. The singers vocals started to annoy me after 30 mins or so.
My second album in a row to feature a song titled "1969." So that's cool. Also - this band is trying so hard to be Nirvana, but they just don't got it. We have Nirvana at home, ya know. Also - I've never heard a 2 minute song be too long, but this record manages to pull it off. There are some good guitar tones now and again, but what good is a guitar tone if you don't play anything interesting with it? I realize I will sound incredibly pompous saying this but that isn't how I mean it: I could get a group of dudes together, set up a garage with instruments and mics, and we could whip out a record of comparable interest over a weekend. That is not a boast. That is a roast. TWO STARS
So close to being great - kind of disappointing. The singles were so exciting when they came out. They were raw and punky and grungey and everyone was saying new Nirvana (in a way that no band can live up to). I love that sound from this band, but then the album feels a bit of a mish mash of heavier grungey stuff, tame indie rock, pale imitation Beatles.. Doesn't flow for me and nothing lives up to the quality of those big singles.
On hand, not bad, on the other, really did not need to be here.
This is ok, not essential. Two stars
I never purposely listened to The Vines at the time this record came out. It's possible I heard them at a party or out at a bar but it was all mixed-in together in a garage rock soup with The Hives and The Strokes at the top of people's minds — and, I didn't have any of those records either. I'd bought in on The Go/The White Stripes and The Dirtbombs though as I wasn't immune during the flood of garage rock bands. So, it's 24 years later and not being a reader of Rolling Stone, ever, I have missed all the hype for this particular record and band. The shift between Highly Evolved and the second song Autumn Shade is abrupt and somehow telling. The band goes uptempo, shows downtempo and then settles into mid-tempo for Outtatheway and whatever comes next I don't know yet but they seem to be searching for themselves as much as showing the listener who they are. I can't hear the artistic statement they're trying to make with this record. It sounds to me like a grab-bag of garage-isms mixed with bits of britpop and a little grunge in an attempt at broad appeal or in honor of music they were inspired by. Overall, I find it to be fairly crass in its commercialism and I find that more offensive from bands that trade in the tropes of rebellion. In other words, what I forgive or expect of Destiny's Child I tend to log as real strikes against many rock bands. It'll probably cost a star. The best tracks tend to be the shorter ones and I've started to wonder if that's because they have trouble connecting multiple musical ideas together within a single song — and maybe that's great for a certain kind of listening experience. So, I don't deny the talent of the band but these Aussies were definitely riding a wave.
This is a fun, indie pop-tinted aussie garage rock but it is just too generic to stand out on its own.
Kinda whatever. Just not for me
Like, it sounds good and all, but isn't 2002 a bit late to be doing this type of alt-rock? Not really anything special, but I kinda do love this type of sound so I don't completely hate it really.
Totally does not belong on a list like this. Maybe it’d be fine on the 10,001 albums to listen to before you die.
It insists upon itself
it was fine! a fun listen in the background but if I focused idgaf
i forgot this album was playing while i was listening to it
I liked the Vines for one month in high school and this is the first time I've thought about them since. Aggressively fine.
Some cool sounds, but doesn’t ultimately really “gel” together.
I thought I was not going to like this one but I got pleasantly surprised. It is not only very well produced but there are no obvious misses. 7/10 [KEEP]
I had some expectations.... But this was bad. They had some obvious inspirations and they just did worse in every category. 1.5 is warranted so I guess they get 2.
Veers so wildly between hard grunge ripoffs and terrible soft rock balladry that listening risks genre whiplash. Sadly, even when the music is worthwhile, it's still very derivative. I'm not even 100 albums in yet and, even as someone who enjoys mediocre white-boy alternative rock, I'm getting the sense there's far too much mediocre white-boy alternative rock for a "must listen" list.
Ah fuck dit is een schreeuw band of niet? Snap meteen de Nirvana vergelijking en ik ben daar geen groot fan van. Nirvana voelt voor mij grotendeels als best wel vet, totdat ze beginnen te schreeuwen en dat hoor je meteen bij Outthathaway. Instrumentaal heel vet, scheurende gitaren dikke prima, maar dan opeens word besloten dat je dit het beste kan schreeuwen en dan word het er gewoon niet echt veel beter op... Dit is wel echt Ali-expres Nirvana. Ik ben er niet heel erg weg van, sommige nummers pakken me wel iets meer. Grappig genoeg is Get Free een absolute schreeuwplaat maar gecombineerd met de dikke melodie trek ik dat nummer dan weer prima. Vaag... Verder? Natuuuuuuurlijk staat er een trage, ska'achtige ballad over Marihuana op. Meest overrated drug aller tijden, maar ze zijn niet klaar voor dat gesprek. En natuuurlijk is het ook nog eens een matig nummer. Album is wel zo voorbij, dat is wel echt positief want ik heb totaal niet het idee dat ik 3 kwartier hiernaar heb geluisterd. Ben helaas niet erg positief, dus daar is het eindoordeel dan ook naar: Veel geschreeuw, lijkt nogal weinig inhoud. 2 sterren. FAVO: Get Free
Decent enough garagey/grungey rock n roll that should be filled under whatever and left there. Nothing really hits ('In the Jungle' comes close) but nothing makes me want to take the album and smash it against the wall. I guess that's good or at least not bad. Whatever. I can't imagine ever wanting to hear The Vines again but if someone is playing them at a place, I happen to be at I imagine I will tap my foot a few times and smile as I pretend that I'm happy to see you. Whatever.
It's like the royalty-free version of grungy alt-rock music that you'd hear performing in a TV programme. What's with the vocalist's accent? The overall ear-feel is good, with crisp instruments and lots of dynamic range, but it's just a bit generic and bland.
Ukjent. Garage rock revival. Enkelte sterke spor her, og det generelle nivået er greit nok. Intensiteten er tidvis veldig fengslende. Totalt sett et midt-på-treet-album. Halvparten av fem er to og en halv, og denne gangen runder jeg ned. Dette handler nok primært om at jeg ikke opplever dette som verken særlig originalt eller interessant (og det ville vært skandaløst å gi dette samme score som Zeps første album). Hvis resten av albumet hadde hatt samme stil som introlåta Highly Involved og “balls-to-the-walls” Outtathaway, ville tallet vært høyere. Top 3: Highly Evolved, In The Jungle, Outtathaway
Completely forgettable.
hoe kan dit top 1000 zijn?
Listenable but probably wouldn’t go back
Treads no new ground and smears its smelly feces on the existing ground
Listened a couple of times and it all sounds a bit generic indie/rock/grunge lite. I did not listen to them first time around so no nostalgia hit and cannot really be arsed to give them the time of day today. Its not bad - but struggling to think will ever come back to it.
Rather ironic to call the album 'Highly Evolved' and then to mimic your heroes. The title track goes full-bore Kobain. It's a fair track, but one you'd expect to be mid-album acceptable filler rather than one of the showpieces. It's the sort of album you don't need to listen to more than once as there's very little nuance. When they break the formula it's more enjoyable. There's a bit of distinction with 'Country Yard' which has a nice lilt and harmonies, and not just the quiet/scream dynamics. The phased guitar is so very grunge (Soundgarden). There's also the issue that all the UK music press went ape for them at the time whereas this would've been better percolating as an underground hit. Can't blame them for that of course, but it's 'incredible' reputation preceded what is rather a forgettable album, full of bland indie-rock. They strive for Nirvana and often end up with Jet.
The Hives are better.
They're not bad, but they do sound like a fake band from a movie at times. It's laughable that anyone compared these guys to Nirvana.
A couple of decent tunes. Too much unnecessary screaming for me. Mostly rubbish.
2 . unnecessary .
Generic
The Vines aha. Und schon wieder Millennial (Dad)-Rock der zu Recht dem Vergessen anheim gefallen ist.
Not bad but not great and not essential. This is the problem with popular rock music from this era. It’s only just serviceable and aimed at a fairly conservative audience. There’s way more important rock albums that need to be included on this list than these kinds of albums. It wasn’t a terrible listen though. There are some wild parts but they sound a bit disingenuous and although they try some progressions with more than 3 chords they sound like stuff we’ve already heard before done by much better bands. No matter what they try it doesn’t seem to elevate the pieces any further than a mildly good but forgettable listen. p.s. I might be a bit harsh though because it turns out they saved the best song for last! Although it does still have a by-the-numbers feel to it, I’ll probably give this album one more listen.
It was OK but nothing special.
It’s ok and enjoyable at times but a decidedly average, quite derivative, piece of music that doesn’t justify inclusion on the list.
This album was album, maybe missed when that kind of music was in its peak but it's relatively alright. Leaving this in the background is pretty decent.
Indie normalito y repetitivo, suena a britpop moderno aunque sean australianos
Just not that good.
Derivative, boring crap that I barely got through. But Homesick is one of the best songs on any album so far
Even in Australia, alt rock still isn't good.
It was fine, just monotonous and didn't bring much new to the table IMHO. Nothing I would seek out again.
--Highly Evolved...energetic but generic opener --Autumn Shade...slowed down, distorted guitar rock. boring --Outtathaway...fun garage rock --Sunshinin...something a little more danceable. enjoyable --Homesick...aimless baroque pop --Get Free...nice energy but doesn't do it for me --Country Yard...their voices aren't good enough for the Beatles-esque harmonies they're foisting upon us. maybe they're being ironic? --Factory...I like the guitar/bass breakdown in the middle --In the Jungle...generic rock song #334 --Mary Jane...the obligatory is-it-about-a-girl-or-weed? song. of course it's six minutes long --Ain't No Room...I feel like the Vines CAN rock, they CAN slow things down and get melodic, they just don't really excel at either at this point --1969...just in case you needed another clue that the Vines were influenced by the 60s
Dull and uninspired.
'Rock is Back!' screamed the front cover of the Sept 2002 issue of the Rolling Stone with a photo of The Vines (also mentioned on the cover; The Strokes, The Hives, The White Stripes). The Rolling Stones mistakes a corporate marketing exercise for real rock yet again, what a surprise. The early 2000s rock "resurgence" was really just a dying spasm of a barely animated corpse before the genre finally collapsed into irrelevancy. Don't get me wrong; I love rock and roll. But even at the time, I couldn't get too excited about the garage rock revival of the early 2000s. It seemed much more cool posturing, fashion and retro references than something truly new and dangerous. Now, I reckon many of those bands could put on an exciting and energetic show (and that certainly was the Vines' reputation at the time), but seriously, was this world changing? In their hometown, The Vines came up playing venues like the Annandale and the Iron Duke Hotel, where you could see an equally exciting band almost any night of the week. My own shitty band had played those venues on multiple occasions, and I feel like we could give The Vines a run for their money on a good night. So why did _these_ bands get all the trappings of Important Music, like Rolling Stone covers and NME raves and major record deals? I am currently reading Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011, Lizzy Goodman's excellent oral history which details the rebirth of the New York rock scene in the new millennium. She clearly thinks all of these bands were pretty cool and exciting and yet the underlying message is clear; it was a moment in time when the record industry had money to invest and needed something exciting and cool to market, and these bands happened to be in the right place at the right time. They aren't that special, really. In the case of The Vines, Craig Nicholls was a compelling frontman who could craft a catchy tune, and the record company invested enough money to produce a pretty good sounding record (although a careful look at the credits reveals the extensive overdubbing by the producer and session musos). But, as Steve Albini points out, anyone can make a 'good sounding' record if you spend enough money on it. Nicholls can craft a good tune and present it with gusto, but he wears his influences on his sleeve. Not quite plagiarism but _that close_ (*holds up thumb and forefinger with tiny gap between*). Seriously, if I was having a beer at the Iron Duke and The Vines had got up and torn through this set live, I would be pretty stoked. They seem like a great little live band. But I have seen hundreds of great little live bands, and what makes this one so special? Not much really. 2.5 stars, rounding down for music industry hype bullshit (which is not really their fault, but, hey, that's the game!)
Post-grunge revivalism masquerading as innovation, album falls on its face as ideas run out. Good fuzz sound.
Crisp production and decent performances but these songs are very forgettable. Favorite track was Get Free I guess?
The fuzz sound and the higher tempo rock songs were to my liking and I wished there were more of this. Some of the slower songs felt dull. Best song was Highly Evolved.
the short songs are better than most of the garage rock revival stuff out there because they have some aggression and power. as far as music press pushed acts from the time go this isn’t bad, though slower songs like Homesick and Mary Jane do less than nothing for me. deserves to be one of the 1001? no lol
The Vines played a concert in London that got one of the only ever 0 star reviews from the Guardian
This type of music strives to be included in NHL games. 1.5
This is #day516 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… I have a memory of The Vines from my college days. I remember sitting in a pub with a fellow student, talking about music, grunge, I think, and this band came up. Listening to Highly Evolved years later, though, I clearly hear it as a product of its era: '00s garage and indie rock. Not really something I reach for anymore, and maybe never truly did. I'm also not sure what this album has to do with those you must hear before you die. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day517.
- There are certainly 3003 albums I would rather hear than this one before I die ..... none of them are by Linkin Park. -
These guys came right after the Strokes exploded and brought rock and roll back. They were meh then and have not aged past that.
2/5 - I thought this was forgettable at best. I didn’t get into this style of early 2000s band where everybody was “The” something with tons of hype. Maybe The Strokes sucked all the air out of the room. Didn’t need to hear it.
Enjoyed ‘Homesick’. Meh on the rest.
Didn’t have time to pay much attention to this but from what I picked up it’s fairly generic indie-rock. Nothing too remarkable about it.
Derivative slop. Autumn Shade was good though.
This was certainly one of the albums of all time.
Meh.
Compared to Nirvana. OK. But not Nirvana.
So middle of the road that I’m taking the first exit
I love Nirvana
Not bad
generiskt
Opening track promised more than the album delivered. A high 2, but a 2
It's ok but I'm not overly blown away either, at times the vocals lean into a Cobain like sound, but the songs are not at the Nirvana level, at times it feels like a Britpop inspired record but again just doesn't have the songwriting punch of Oasis, Blur, the Verve, etc. it's ok, not sure it should be on the list.
I remember when these guys blew up, and I'm trying to remember the knock against them at the time. I want to say it was that vocalist Craig Nicholls was shamelessly aping Kurt Cobain? And now that I check Wikipedia, yeah, they were compared to Nirvana a lot. I remember not caring for them then, and that hasn't changed 23 years later. This sounds like rote post-Nirvana alternarock uniting with post-Hives garage rock. Two great tastes that don't taste great together.
I thought this was a pretty generic and almost boring album.
Always happy to discover new Australian musicians.
I didn't expect this one to be boring but it was
Fair to middlin’ …..there are much better candidate from this era.
I liked the first track, but the rest of the album was just another early 2000’s forgettable rock album.
Album review 001 Highly Evolved by The Vines (2002) Rating 2/5. I remember being underwhelmed by this album back when it was first released, especially so with all the UK music press hype that was surrounding the band. Still not impressed 20+ years later; a couple of the slower tracks are ok but there’s very little on this album that makes me think I’ll be listening again in the coming 20 years.
First time hearing this. I read this was a 60s garage rock inspired band, but I hardly heard anything like that. It was more like a generic late 90s/early 2000s alternative band. The music never really caught me. The singing was whiny. I'm not gonna be checking this out again.
I really don't understand why this was included on this list. Paint-by-numbers rock. Had this come out this year, I would have accused it of being AI. I always got these guys and the Hives confused whenever I cared enough to even give them any thought.
Fuck this haha Homesick wasn't good but get free is such an annoying song right from the start, it's trash I can't believe it's supposedly one of their best, god! Outtathaway might have been the best one. When the singer screams it gives it at least some kind of energy. There's some classic british pop music influences in this. But every good idea they had came out sounding like dollar store the offspring or some shit. It sounds corny (not that the offspring dosent sound fucking corny haha.) I'd get why someone would like this, it sounds like good songs by other band by moments. In the background it's probably fine, but a whole album is alot! Mary jane is trash sounds like oasis Aint no room was ok
Adequate.
The screaming vets obnoxious after a while
Just some Australian dudes making loud alt-rock. Unfortunately, though it has the loud guitars, it lacks the special sauce that characterizes the genre's best bands. As a matter of fact, I found it aggressively boring. I could do just as well to forget about this album as listen to it.
1. Highly Evolved - 5 There are things I like and don't like on the track. Lyrics are good, bass is great, drums are superb, guitar sound is excellent. Background screaming is awful and the lead vocals waning out isn't a great sound. 2. Autumn Shade - 5 Instrumentally it's good but lyrically it's pretty poor. The instruments are given an brilliant amount of space on the end of the track to play out a lovely sound. 3. Outtathaway - 6 Vocally it's horrible, lyrically it's good, insturmentally it's absolutely brilliant. The screaming signing type is a style of music I absolutely have no care for, which is exactly what's preventing this track from going from a 6 to a 10. 4. Sunshinin - 3 Instrumentally it doesn't sound as good as there's a lot of noise at the end of the track. Vocally and lyrically it's pretty unimpressive. 5. Homesick - 3 It's just not a very well written track. Instrumentally it's good and the guitar solo in the bridge is awesome, but everything else about the track is either annoying or just unpleasant. 6. Get Free - 8 Great sound. Vocally it's unpleasant in small bursts but it's not bad overall and it's an amazing rock sound. Drums and riffs are defintiely the highlight. 7. Country Yard - 2 It builds well but the opening two and a half minutes are horribly painful vocals to listen to. Really unpleasant track overall. 8. Factory - 2 The guitar solo in the bridge is the only enjoyable part of this track. 9. In The Jungle - 1 It's just very vocally unpleasant. Instrumentally it gets a lot better as the track goes on but you suffer through so much just to get to that point it doesn't feel worth it. 10. Mary Jane - 9 The best thing on the album not because it's vocally enjoyable but because it's a superb collection of instruments and sound. The screaming horror of previous tracks and non-existent here and you're left with this 60s/70s rock sound that's superbly pleasant. Lyrically it's a bit repetitive but it's still a good track overall. The bridge into the outro is absolutely excellent. 11. Ain't No Room - 4 Instrumentally it's very good, especially between the verses and choruses with the guitars and the pace of the drums. Lyrically it's okay. Vocally it sounds horrendous, especially in the choruses and even more so in the absolute car crash sounding outro. 12. 1969 - 2 Instrumentally it's good but that's the only enjoyable part of the track. The vocals, which descend into screaming at times, are some of the worst on the entire album. Awful sound. Average Rating: 4.17 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.08 Rounded Down: 2 Stars
Hey, they're Australian, that's an interesting characteristic There aren't enough interesting characteristics about the music so all I can do is make surface-level observations Apparently everyone compares them to Nirvana, which I didn't expect, it's not something I really intuitively pick up on, it feels like there's something naturally exciting about Nirvana's sound that isn't here If this were the original Nirvana there wouldn't be a second coming. Or maybe there would I've been confused by the hype around things before
Get Free is very good, but otherwise - well, we all have our albums we love not because they are great, but because they came out when we were 16. Alas I was grown when this came out. It's a 2 from me.
The cover looks like AI to me for some reason. Maybe it's the font. I didn't enjoy this one, everything was too loud and didn't sound great. The start of Aint No Room reminded me a lot of One Hundred Years by the Cure.
Not bad
Flashbacks to 2001 or whatever. I forgot I used to listen to that Factory song all of the time. I’m so old now.
**An ok album, too much screaming vocals and banging instruments
Ok ish but not a great album, certainly wouldn’t put it into the top 1000
I remember it well - or so I thought. Actually remember the radio play for the singles and the hype around this being nu-grunge or whatever - the spirit of Nirvana - but not having the substance to really back that up. Doesn't feel like an album that has a thread, more the exciting promise of a style that came and went so quickly like many bands and genres during the early noughties
It clicks all the boxes for a well made alt rock album. However, it doesn’t do anything emotionally for me. It’s the equivalent of a white rice and unbreaded chicken dinner. It will feed you but it’s very bland.
Australian Stone Temple Pilots. Just not as good as STP.
Aged without grace.
Simply dreadful. Why is there an afrobeat reggae song in here?
extremely mediocre indie rock. irritated me
The Vines hit it big in the momentary zeitgeist that fortuitously swung their direction. Aside from that, there's not much here.
Meh
Kinda grungy, but not grungy enough It’s just okay - nothing notable. I don’t like saying that for so many albums. I’d like to think I have something more to say about it, but I’ve got nothing. As I’ve said before and will say again, that’s probably more on me than the music. 2.5
Ok. I didnt find it special enough to be on this list. Get Free. Good song. Really liked In the Jungle
Meh. I liked one or two songs but the rest fell kind of flat. Too much repetition on a couple of tracks (sounded like they just needed to fill time) and an incredibly grating voice didn’t help. While I can definitely hear the Nirvana influence, calling this band “the next Nirvana” is suchhhh a reach.
2 stars.
I’m a basic B when it came to listening to this one. Both of the songs I grabbed for my playlist were on Spotifys most streamed list for the artist. Outside of those 2-3 songs, there was nothing special to me and I likely won’t revisit/am not interested in the rest of their discography.
This sounded a lot more like Nirvana than I expected. Which put me off.
Not aged well. Struggling to remember what all the hype was about. YOu might as well listen to Nevermind.
Sounded like Alice in Chains light
Maybe this was a decent sound at the time. But it sounds pretty generic and dull now.
This is about the most basic early-2000's rock I have ever heard, a real dud choice for this list. However, as a reprieve from the endless US and UK bands, these guys are actually Australian, although you can't tell. Another album I could have gone to my grave without hearing while still feeling like my life had been as rich as it could be. Two stars, and that's generous as they didn't actually offend me.
As a stand alone album - maybe a 3. But I question why its here, among 1000 other albums touted as the GOATs.
This album is just alright to me. It's a modern hard rock slightly punky sound that grabs from other great bands of those genres, but the combination just doesn't do enough. "Get Free" is a great tune but is somehow pretty forgettable. Once it's over, I don't remember much about it... but then when I hear the song again I'm like "hell yea". 2/5
You ever notice that nobody asks what ever happened to The Vines? Because even when the garage rock revival was a big deal The Vines were mediocre and bland. This album is a great example of that. This album sounds like a sophomore slump but it’s their debut album. The ballads are dull and the “rock” songs are also dull. If this came out today people would wonder if it’s an AI band because it sounds soulless and generic.
A shit version of the Stereophonics. Plus some unnecessary shouting.
Not the worst album so far but arguably the least deserving of a place on this list. I still really like get free but other than that it's all just completely unremarkable.
Interesting British alt rock with an alternate singer....but It's nothing special, dunno why it made the list of the best 1001.
I really kept waiting for the "Next Nirvana" part to show up, but it wasn't even Nirvana on Temu
I thought a couple songs were pretty good, but toward the end if felt like every song was falling into the same boring screaming and drawn out uninspired guitar pieces that tends to bother me about a lot of punk.
2.5
bit of nothing, can't all be bangers!