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The Verve Pipe - The Verve Pipe Audio CD

A fair review of the The Verve Pipe "The Verve Pipe" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Verve Pipe reviews here, or go back to the The Verve Pipe tabs.

The Verve Pipe Band: The Verve Pipe
Title: The Verve Pipe
Rating:
Release Date: 1999-07-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Supergig 2: She Loves Everybody 3: Hero 4: Television 5: In Between 6: Kiss Me Idle 7: Headlines 8: The F Word 9: Generations 10: Half A Mind 11: She Has Faces 12: La La

4 1/2 stars to be exact
Since then I been purchasing their music, and can't get enough. I stumbled across this band by winning the Underneath album from a radio station. This album is not quite a good as Underneath, but quite worth owning. Although comments listed here state that Villians is a better album, I disagree. The songs on this particular album seems to be more soleful and evoking more emotion than Villian. I am also glad that Brian Vander Ark, who seems to be the heart of this band, has branched out and done some solo albums as well. .


INCREDIBLE ALBUM
The best are "Hero", "The F Word", "La La", "In Between", and "Television". Every song on this album is amazing. A MUST HAVE.


3 stars compared to most, 2 stars compared to other TVP CDs
Compared to the three set of Villains/Pop Smear/I've Suffered A Head Injury, this is a very disappointing CD and certainly marked the beginning of the slide into oblivion that now has Brian Vander Ark out soloing. My review title pretty much says it all. What I really wonder is what has happened to Donny Brown, as I have always thought his fabulous drumming and percussion was as or more important than Brian's vocals and guitar (although I seem to be the only one that feels that way). Anyway, this album appears to be a standard issue, just going through the motions. A few notable tracks, but nowhere close to the consistency of previous efforts. Before I read the reviews indicating the distortion/sound quality, I was wondering if it was just my car's CD player - I'll play it on my perfectly amped and speakered SUV system, and will come back and edit this review if the distortion isn't there, but I suspect it is. Crazy that the production crew, and the band itself, didn't note it. As carefully crafted as previous works have been, you almost wonder if it might be intentional - TVP letting us know that they know their sound was going, going. . . . Easy to say in 2003 that this was the beginning of the band's slide, but it appears that way. Even the fact that all of the song's lyrics aren't clearly printed as on the 3 prior works makes you wonder - again, intentionally trying to make us work to figure out how good the album is? or recognizing that the brilliance of previous efforts just wasn'there? I will continue to give the album additional listens, and it is a good album, just disappointing when you have gotten used to fabulous.


La La Means I Love You
It was a disappointment to me. I bought this CD on it's release date-years ago. However, with a few more plays it won my heart. Yet again, another CD you might want to listen to a few times before you judge it. It isn't something you can always appreciate right away. I personally have found special places for many of the songs on this album.

Please note that this is NOT "THE VERVE"! Reviews relating to Urban Hymns should be disregarded.


Aptly named
This CD didn't get the radio play of "Villians" because it lacks a "Freshman" type hit, but overal the album is by far better than "Villians" or "Underneath". If you are a fan of the Verve Pipe or a fan of good music this is a must have. Twenty years from now when Alternative music is considered old this will be the album that the Verve Pipe is remembered for.


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