Audio Cassette review:
The Verve Pipe - The Verve Pipe

The Verve Pipe - The Verve Pipe

Band: The Verve Pipe Title: The Verve Pipe Rating: Release Date: 27 July, 1999 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Supergig 2: She Loves Everybody 3: Hero 4: Television 5: In Between 6: Kiss Me Idle 7: Headlines 8: F Word 9: Generations 10: Half a Mind 11: She Has Faces 12: La La

Editoral Review The quintet's 1996 RCA debut hit with its title track, "Villains," as well as "The Freshman," pushing the LP past platinum. The late '90s produced a spate of faceless if hit-making pop-rock bands with names like Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind, Dishwalla--and Michigan's Verve Pipe. While their self-titled sophomore album boasts songs not nearly as memorable as its predecessor, the Verve Pipe still deliver an impressive-sounding LP with songs both elaborate and unadorned. On "Supergig," singer Brian Vander Ark infuses the tune's jangly yet driving psychedelia with Richard Butler-like vocal inflections, while the more straightforward and peppy "Hero" finds a happy medium among dense, melodramatic pop-rock tunes and several sweet if nondescript ballads. With a few exceptions (the edgy and devil-may-care "The F Word" and "Hero") the dozen tracks populating The Verve Pipe are forgettable if adroit efforts. --Katherine Turman .. You can see a complete list of all The Verve Pipe discography, or go back to the The Verve Pipe tabs