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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.
rouck
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!
Outside of the one big hit on there it's a really underwhelming album. I'm sure it was great in 2002 but I don't think I needed to listen to it now, it was fine.
This is just fine, doesn't seem that different from a lot of other stuff in the world. Don't get how it could be considered one of the best albums ever.
This is an incredibly weird one, and I think my first real instance of 'why's *this* here?' - if you want slightly schlubby pub-rock garage from this era, then do Wolfmother or Jet, both of whom have albums I would have enjoyed listening to more than this.
Kinda shouty and annoying for my taste.
I was really into the garage revival of this period, and The Vines were not of any interest to me (and still aren't). They would show up in video game soundtracks and whatnot, but I don't know anyone who was into them, never heard them at bars, etc. So many better examples of this genre.
A lesser version of VU, pretending to be a lesser version of Nirvana, presaging being a lesser version of the White Stripes. Don’t see how this is anyone’s essential listening
There’s something about early 2000s rock that is I fulfilling. When it’s on, it’s pretty good but I’m left feeling empty and hungry after 15 mins. Reading that they have been compared to nirvana annoys me- he is defnitwy trying to channel scott weiland or Kurt but comes across as a bad impression.
They're alright. I was totally unfamiliar. Nirvana knockoff. Not terrible, but not required listening. Best Songs Homesick Country Yard Mary Jane
Boring average
4/10
Ei ihmeempää jäänyt käteen. Kitaraa ja bändimeininkiä.
Good singles, dull fillers.
Nothing special and also kinda annoying.
I'm a big fan of 00's indie and was happy to see the first such album pop up here... but this isn't the one. Lead singer has a good scream and the single is okay, but ultimately this feels very digital and manufactured. Starts off sounding like a commercial attempt at cashing in on a genre that was exploding at the time, and ends feeling like songs from a fictional teen movie about an indie band.
2 stars - there were so many more interesting bands out of the 2000s garage revival. This was not one. This is very generic and overall boring. I couldn't finish the thing.
Sounds like a Colin Furze video. Mary Jane was good!
In a nutshell: lightning in a bottle. Highly Evolved is likeable garage rock. I remember buying the CD when it came out and loved the droning swampiness of the guitar. It's only in the book because the UK press gushed over it just as The Strokes and The Hives were taking off. It reached platinum in Australia and won an ARIA… But speaking as an Aussie elder millennial who straddled the airwaves of youth radio and commercial radio for decades, I don’t believe this is the best example of indie rock from that era. Many Australian music aficionados wouldn't rate this in their top 10 Australian rock albums from the 2000’s. Instead of listening to Highly Evolved, I encourage you to find albums by artists that gave The Vines a leg up: You Am I (Hi Fi Way and Hourly Daily), The Living End (self titled) and Grinspoon (Guide to Better Living and New Detention). Overall: 3/10
Absolute landfill swill. Music to advertise your mild spec, affordable, small, 'youthful' hatchback to. Must have been a slow day round at Robert Dimery's gaff when he decided to put this on the list 😅
not my thing. 2/5
Didn't like.
Fatigued
Not great… did listen and gave it a fair shot. Not for me.
A lot of garage rock revival from the generator lately. I liked this more than The Hives, but not too much more. Honestly, I enjoyed the Britpop-leaning tracks (well, maybe just "Homesick") more than the straightforward alt-rock ones, which were just not very interesting. I'm surprised to read that The Vines were compared to Nirvana of all bands. I can maybe hear a bit of that on “In the Jungle”, but it’s too polished and careful. Just get a load of those perfectly-mixed hand claps and that "All right! Oh yeah!" declaration.
Not that cool imo
Fine. Not very imaginative.
For about half the album they sound like a knock-off Nirvana. Most of the rest sounds like other grunge / Brit-pop bands. And a couple that sounds like the kinks.
Like Mary Jane. None of the rest stood Out
2.5
I'm a bit of a sucker for indie garage punk bullshit, but even I can see that while this activates my neurons to a certain degree, there is just no practically no songwriting, personality or anything at all to grab onto.
Not horrible. Not great. Not original.
God some of these albums are so forgettable
Just because you love Nirvana doesn't mean that you should start a band.
So, how's your Nirvana cover band doing?
One of those ones that’s just so middle-of-the-road to me I can’t even understand why it’s been included. Forgotten it already. (1.5 stars)
Yeeaaaaah
The album your mom likes and thinks it will make her hip with the current generation. ⭐⭐1/2
meeeeh
Brash and clashy, with growling lyrics and the guitar sounds of grunge on cocaine. It feels altogether empty, although I might just be hungry for meaning today.
Not a winner for me…
So so. Love Outtathaway but the rest of the album left me feeling empty.
Maybe had I got into this when I was 20 it would’ve spoke to me. Mostly this came off as generic. 2.5/5
Obviously trying to emulate Nirvana, not pulling it off.
It's one of those albums that listening to it itself wasn't that bad but it's just a boring, forgettable early 00s alternative rock album without any innovation and it doesn't belong on this list imho.
Very of its time which isn’t saying much. Pretty forgettable.
Don't really hear anything in this band that I have not heard already. It's not bad, just should not be on this list.
Paved the way for The TikToks. I wish this bland album was as short as a proper vine
Day445 - i’m not much of a fan of early 2000”s rock but get free saved this from a one star
Canción destacada: Highly Evolved
The first time I listened to The Vines' Highly Evolved, I took an unintentional nap in the middle of it and awoke to hear the album's end. To do justice to my listening I gave it a second go-around, only to be caught up in miscellaneous endeavors that included washing dishes. Is my acquaintance with Highly Evolved indicative of how I feel about it musically? No, I feel as though there are solid moments throughout. But I do feel that not every hyped up early millennium garage rock revivalist band needs to be propped up to the point of reaching such lists as this. If this is how highly evolved indie rock could be, might as well place it in the background while better things are going on. Favorites: Highly Evolved, Autumn Shade, Outtathaway, Sunshinin, Country Yard, Mary Jane.
Nope. I didn’t need to hear this before I die.
Having heard it I’m not going to listen to it again. Nothing special or interesting here.
It’s….ok
A few decent, punky tracks and a few that feel a bit dirge-y
Music for Zach Braff
HIGHLY EVOLVED = Excellent Opener But suddenly drops in quality on #2, #3... Either I'm just not in the mood for this or it's really boring. Although, HOMESICK seems really good (lead vocals, answering vocals, guitar), but at 4:53, a tad too long. I guess if you were stoned, though... Somehow, GET FREE has generated 101,466,521 plays on Spotify. Perhaps a glitch in the counting program. In sun, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. 🥱🥱 ________________________________ 🎧 LPs reviewed: 75 🎧 LPs left to review: 924 🎧 LPs I found great/relevant enough to be mandatory listens (5): 17 🎧 LPs I *might* include in my own list (4): 19 🎧 LPs I will certainly *not* include in mine (1-2): 20
Another album I liked well enough musically but just could not vibe with the vocals, especially when they floated over into more “screaming” than singing.
These guys just don't know on which side their bread is buttered. I had heard three songs from them previously - "Get Free", the title track, and "Ride" - all of which are banging rockers. The first two are really the only rockers and the only bangers on this CD - in contrast to my expectations based on those three songs, this CD is loaded with boring slow ballads. It's especially strange because (a) the singer seems like a real screamer and (b) my stereotype of Australian rock bands is they don't know how to play anything slower than 140 bpm. Aside from those two singles, the only other track I really like is "Ain't No Room", which is less inspired but at least it's fun and fast. If they'd written just a CD's worth of material like that, this would be a fair bit better. I do kind of like the 60s psychedelic feel, it's drone-y in the style of "Rain" - but just can't get over the slow pace. Their producer really dropped the ball on this one - all he'd have to say was "Lads" (I assume he would address them as "lads"), "your rockers are great, let's do away with some of the ballads now, roight?"
Homesick //
Meh.
A mediocre disc by a band that completely passed me by. Not terrible, just not very interesting. Apparently I wasn't missing much.
They’re trying really hard and one can hear them trying really hard.
Not terrible, but also not near top 1,000.
Pretty obnoxious rock posturing. There’s some good energy and a decent sound, but for the most part it just doesn’t hit. There are better avenues for this kind of thing.
Quite blaah, lukewarm.
Everything about this screams The Hives to me, they're just not as good. I think I've gotten these two bands mixed up many times before, which has led to strange discussions. The Vines have a whiff of garage about them, but not enough for my taste, so they're just another pop group with a touch of flavour to them. Some of the tracks feel off, like it's pop, but producer told them to add some scream in there and more distortion to the guitars. Or the band wanted to do full blast garage, but the producer came in and smoothed things down just a touch... nah, this is not it. It feels out of whack and lopsided. Forced even.
when i started this album, something strange happened. i couldn’t explain it, but even though i had never even heard of this band, the music sounded very familiar. a few songs in i realized why i felt this way… they sound like ANY GENERIC OPENING BAND FOR ANY ROCK SHOW I HAVE EVER BEEN TO.
I feel like the British press may have hyped this one up a bit too much. It's fine. I wouldn't particularly say that it deserves a spot on this list purely based on the music. I can't really recall many tunes from it and I've literally just finished listening. It just didn't excite me like good albums do. It didn't grab me by the neck and make me sit up and listen. I found it to be pretty generic in all honesty. Feel like I want to say more but can't really think of anything else to comment on. If you like this kind of music, you'll probably love it. I found it alright. Just another 2000's alternative rock album.
Up and down for me as far as the songs went, usually somewhere between "I wouldn't kick this song out of bed" to "I would definitely kick this song out of bed, I drank too much tequila last night, and that led to a really bad decision."
Really just doesn't do much for me. The songs are super generic and repetitive. Maybe one or two songs worth coming back for but certainly not enough to justify the placement on this list. 4/10
Not sure why this is on the list. Not exactly bad but it sounds like generic grunge, but 10 years too late. 2.5 stars
kinda bland
more medium ass rock that has me asking once again, why do I need to hear this before I die?
What an Earth is this doing in this list? It’s not offensive but it’s very mediocre. I remember the name “The Vines” and the album artwork from the time but had a soliton compunction to investigate further. Listening to it, every track sounds like a blander version of someone else: Nirvana then Radiohead, then the Stooges, The Beatles… etc. I’ve said this about another 2000s band I think, but I imagine his sounds amazing (or at least slightly better than average) if you’ve never heard any other music before.
Struggled through this one….
I don't buy the Nirvana comparisons, This is all too slick and the songs lack a sort of authentic grit that you need for a good first album with this genre. If the whole album were like Get Free, those comparisons would make more sense to me. Oh boy, Factory is where this thing starts to take an unpleasant path for me.
Meh… there are some good tunes on here, but I really don’t think there is anything extraordinary which makes it one of the most important albums in history
Rating: 3.5/10 Why is this on the list?
Definitely too loud for me, but unlike many (many!) other albums I’ve listened to the past year, I could hear the musicality. I can understand why someone might like it.
i didnt know anyone made music like this in earnest ...
maybe deserves a 3 because there was some good stuff hidden in here but overall not a fan so we’ll go high 2
Highly average garage rock from Australia. I approached this album four times, and each time I got distracted after the first song. Even giving it my undivided attention was not helping. It just wasn't too intersting, quite contrary, it was a bit off-putting. Not really a fan of this band.
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Finished but it wasn't particularly good or memorable
too rowdy for me
Very mid.
Pretty obvious nirvana influence on this record. Which is nothing bad but it didn't reach near highs so it makes it feel underwhelming. Still i few songs that i pretty liked a certain amount. After that there's not much left. 2.5/5.0
Yeah goes okay, high twos
if this album had come out five years earlier and I’d heard it at 15 or 16 I think I would’ve loved it. But looking back and looking at the timeline, seven years after the Foo Fighters’ first album, it feels completely derivative and, 22 years on, completely uninteresting.
Get Free is the hit on this record, but beyond me reminiscing about it on a Big Shiny Tubes album, there isnt anything else here thats worth sticking around for. Pretty generic indie rock, thats it.
I can’t fathom how this album made the list. Talented Aussie dog c*nts for sure, but there’s absolutely nothing on here that feels original or worthwhile. “Get Free” is fine but it’s better in the “Angry White Boy Polka” by Weird Al. Is Weird Al even on this list?!?
What am I missing here? It’s just meh.
reminded me of The Downward Spiral at times but idk it wasnt that interesting
Nice enough
naah is hem toch net niet, voel hem niet, veel skip nummers
apparently i listened to the whole thing in the car and didn’t pay great attention. its ok.
Not very impressed. Some good riffs but too much distortion and the vocals were too strained for me. Some parts sounded like other things but maybe they sound like them.
Why is this on this list?
Not a fan. I've grown to like and appreciate a lot of their contemporaries from this era (the Hives, the Strokes as examples), but the Vines still just sound a little too much like they're reaching for an aggressive style that seems phony to me.
What if Nirvana tried to be The Beatles and sucked at it?
A very average rock / punk album. Nothing to write home about at all but pleasant to have on in the background and not have to concentrate on. There are some fun songs and high energy in moments making some of the tracks good. Homesick and get free for example is great. Favourite song: Homesick Least favourite: 1969 Album artwork: Cool cover though
its been pretty annoying so far, 'homesick's alright, some of the riffs are alright, punk isnt my thing like at all so. For an abum with such good guitar tones its pretty underwhelming. i quite like 'country yard' for its harmonies but if i want harmonies i'll just go the beach boys, and even in rare moments of enjoyment you get an absolute piece of shit tune like 'factory that totally fucking obliterates the vibe and or mood. feels more like a couple good songs and tonnes of badly written upbeat funk punk or whatever the fuck the intolerable parts are (which is most of it). again 'mary jane' is okay which is then immediately followed by 'aint no room' which features a guitar line remeniscent of an air raid siren, and equally as pleasant as one.
Meh. Trying to be Nirvana and Oasis at the same time is hard. And these guys came up short. Not sure why this album is one I must hear before I die. 2⭐️
Didn’t do much for me. Nothing specual
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Generic and dated sounding alt rock. Not for me. I feel like there are 5 other albums on this list that sound exactly like this.
A lot of fine energy and production, but these songs just weren't moving me.
This initially sounds pretty gnarly, but devolves into a series of pastiches all vaguely orbiting an alternative rawk nexus. For the first ten seconds or so of a number of these tunes, I am minded to think of other, superior tracks. So, there's one track that reminds me of 'Trampolene' by Julian Cope; another apes as Stone Temple Pilots. Yet the dream quickly evaporates, and the promise of great music snatched away. 'In The Jungle' is good. I remember selling this album at my weekend job and it seemed to stick around on the charts for an age.
Bland boring forgettable
Good singles, average everything else. I am not offended but won't be going back for further listens. There was a rash of these bands in the UK charts at this time, The Datsuns, The Von Bondies, Cooper Temple Clause, just straight ahead noisy rock. Kind of stuck between Mansun and Arctic Monkeys, these guys just never went anywhere.
Definitely not bad but got quite repetitive - need to be stricter on ratings so they're only going to get 2.4 but some alright songs.
Derivative and limited. I was wondering what the specific noise on the record was, beneath the guitars, drums and vocals, but it turned out to be the sound of a barrel being scraped. (A generous) 2 🌟
I lol’ed at the youtube video of the crowd moshing around and crowd surfing while the band passionately flopped down on the stage with their guitars for extreme, hardcore, guitar shredding… for a song that was definitely NOT that vibe.
Very bland. Nothing stood out.
kinda boring
Nothing special.
Utterly boring to my ears.
Swap this for something that is not drivel from England.
I don’t think you need to hear The Vines before you die - there are dozens of better noughties guitar bands, in my opinion. Get Free is exquisitely angsty and the rest is fine, it’s just that their songs all tend to sound derivative of a hundred other bands. Considering I’m judging this alongside the best albums history (supposedly) has to offer, I can’t give it more than a 2.5.
Pre-listening thoughts: I once again have never heard of this band or album. I’m so used to that atp. I’m like kind of growing resentful towards the guy who made this list for including SO MUCH British/aussie rock, like cmon man we don’t need to hear ALL of these before we die. We shall see though Post/during listening thoughts: this might be a little too heavy for my personal tastes. I don’t think I like this. Autumn shade is like whiplash from the title track. Is this classified as singing or just rhythmic yelling? I would almost like Outtathaway if this guys voice were tolerable. Some of this isn’t terrible when they actually sing! It’s like if Radiohead and Guns n Roses had a terrible lovechild. That octave singing in Country Yard is AWFUL. In The Jungle is like Welcome to the Jungle’s awful awful nephew. The “fav tracks” section on here is more like tracks I tolerated lol. You know what’s tragic is I love the album art, it looks like a video game! Sorry aussies 3/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: nope Fav tracks: Autumn Shade, Sunshinin, Homesick, Mary Jane Least fav tracks: Highly Evolved, Outtathaway, Get Free, Country Yard, In the Jungle
Like the garage rock, enjoyable and with an interesting mix of different songs, homesick is a little slower and get free really kicks it heavier. I'm stuck between a 2/3 for this one, it's good but I don't know if I would say it's great. There are flashes for me throughout
Nothing original going on here.
more like the very annoyings
It's kinda okay?? Nothing special
i had “get free” saved. it still hits. the rest idk man
Tan normal que ni me he enterado de qué va.
It’s fun but it isn’t much more in my opinion. A very decent listen but I do find myself surprised that this made the list with all the great albums put out in the early 2000s.
the most mediocre rock album i've heard in my entire existence i hope it burns
very clearly inspired by Nirvana which makes me wonder why am I listening to this and not Nirvana 2/5
If you like the White Stripes, The Strokes, Jet, Franz Ferdinand, or any of those other bands in the stripped down, lofi garage band genre, you'll love this. I think it sucked because it's very demonstrative of that shit genre that nobody asked for, and I'm pretty sure nobody ACTUALLY likes. The only thing I enjoyed about this was skipping songs halfway through, knowing that it would allow me to stop listening that much sooner. Highly Evolved: monotone screaming, shit guitar riff, lack of melody. Unlistenable. Skipped after half the song Autumn Shade: far better Outthatway: not quite as bad as Highly Evolved, but in the same terrible vein. There's a melody, at least. Skipped halfway through Sunshinin: not a-melodic, but mostly monotone vocals. Dislike. Skipped halfway through Homesick: best song so far. Still sucked. Skipped a little after halfway during guitar solo Get Free: trying to be grunge, but doing a bad lofi impression. Skipped during first bridge Country Yard: definitely solidifies my distaste for "lofi trying to sound like the Beatles" genre. Skipped Factory: fun opening ska-like riff. Maintained that ska-like energy through MOST of the song. It was ok until the chorus(?). Skipped after the second one In the jungle: fuck this list. Skipped Mary Jane: shit Ain't no room: worse 1969: unenjoyable. Thank goodness this is the last song There sure is a LOT of hot garbage on this list of albums everyone "MUST" listen to before they die. Is there some sort of subtext I'm missing there? Like, does the author think you should listen to garbage noise every once in a while to appreciate good music or something?
I always mix up the Vines and the Hives, which does neither group any favors. In the early aughts we were mad thirsty for straight-forward guitar rock and thusly forgave a lot of what tumbled out of garages across the globe. This doesn't strike me as the most authentic of the cohort: this is the Plain White Tees school of every song wanting to be a single, and the one breakout (Get Free) stands out as an aberration, the one idea that inexplicably stuck to the wall.
Ewww
I really like this genre, but I wasn't crazy about this album. I think there are plenty of other options that scratch this itch better for me. Purely on musical taste, this is a 3-star for me, but I feel like I should drop it a star because it's toward the bottom of the ranking for this genre to me.
Kind of boring
Quite Commercial. Struggling to figure out who this album was for. Very energetic yet verrrry generic sounding. Everything is well-recorded, but nothing seems to have a reason why it was recorded. I kept asking myself, “why?” Why was this album made? Is this pre-iPodification of all rock music, or does this just sound like an Apple ad because it was latched onto after the fact? I really don’t like this sound, but I’m just struggling to picture the person who does. Who listens to this?? 2/5
Lacking depth. Definitely not the second coming of Nirvana or whatever that journalist said.
I think one era of grunge rock was enough.
Pretty generic rock album, some nirvana influences can be heard (I.e. last track) 2.5
This album confused me. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it. It felt like when the tone changed from song to song I couldn't read the intention behind it.
✅Fun, easy listening. I saw somewhere that this was removed from newer editions of the book, and don't really have a lot of feelings about that. But I had a good time
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Sounds like jet, which is one of the worst bands ever. 2 stars for technically not being jet. I would love a good album next…
too punk rock whiney
I distinctly remember buying this album on CD when it came out, reading through the lyric book, being somewhat enthralled by its odd mix of Beatles meets Nirvana sound. It’s possible the author of 1001 has similar nostalgia because in retrospect this band was a blip on the radar of early 2000s garage rock revival, and this album is mainly a snooze with some pretty weak lyrics (really, Outtathaway?) and pretty average songs. Doesn’t belong on this list, period.
Totally ehh on it
Nothing special, just typical alt-rock without anything interesting. 2/5
They sound great, but I’m not sure what their sound is. They oscillate between Nirvana, Blue Oyster Cult, Oasis, and the Beatles. Hedging their bets for some money-making to be sure. Not a bad plan, just doesn’t grab me. Factory is a Beatles-style bop that sticks in my head.
It's pleasant enough, but I have no idea why this is on the list. As in: Zero idea. Particularly considering it's an Australian band while other Australian acts like Midnight Oil and Regurgitator, which were much more groundbreaking at their time, are missing.
um kind of forgettable to me, sorry. feels like an okay album to throw on in the background and forget about. it just feels very much like a lot of stuff that was coming out around this time. sorry!
Wildly inconsistent. The screamo singing was an unwelcome surprise. Autumn Shade, Country Yard and In The Jungle were fun but I just kept thinking if how much this band isn't the Arctic Monkeys. Interesting time capsule but not that good.
Garbage rock