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The Verve Pipe - I've Suffered a Head Injury Audio CD

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The Verve Pipe Band: The Verve Pipe
Title: I've Suffered a Head Injury
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Release Date: 1995-12-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Ark of the Envious 2: Even the Score 3: Acting as Your Slave 4: Oceanside 5: I've Suffered a Head Injury 6: Clean Break 7: Martyr Material

Find the original
This cd was holding it's own in 5 disc changers all over the Central Michigan University campus with giants Under the Table and Dreaming, August and Everything After, Tuesday Night Music Club and Four (blues traveler). My introduction to the orignal release of this cd was in the fall of 94, my freshmen year(it seems to have been released 2 years prior). Also, a little George Benson never hurt anyone.

The business of music created the 7 song mutation you see here. The Freshmen on the original is the best version. Great songs like Martyr Material, Ark of the Envious and the title track remain though and would make this a safe buy. But if you can find the original with 'Brian's Song', 'Monterey' and 'The Freshmen' get it. Obviously The Freshmen is great, but I think the other 2 songs are key compnents of a complete album.

If you are a TVP fan or someone who enjoys seeing sucessful bands when they were at their most raw you should really enjoy this album. Now if we could just re-create the feeling of hearing it in the dorms for the first time. . . . . .

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College Sound Track
I have loved this album since it was released (thier first). I saw this band my freshman year at Club Soda in Kalamazoo Michigan and was blown away. For those of you that were introduced to TVP with Villians you need to go back and buy this album.

The Freshman debuted on this album and is later known as 'the fast version' (in concert atlease I have heard Brian refer to it as this) and is the most raw of the three or four recorded versions I have heard. Excellent.

One of my greatest memories was singing along to Martyr Material in concert at "The State Theatre" in Kalamazoo, MI with a pile of my friends.

I cannot say enough about this freshman appearance by a chronically underrated band.

TF.


Old School
Overall, it's a little more mellow (not like "The Verve Pipe" mellow), but the lyrics still have a rock edge. I bought the album for $5 at a Verve Pipe concert, and frankly, I expected a "Villains" kind of sound. And like always the poetic lyrics are really a treat. They start picking up their more mainstream sound in "Pop Smear," so this pre-mainstream album is really sweet. Worth checking out if nothing else! .


A little TVP history here...Too bad they cut the best song
Kalamazoo Michigan. 1991. The band (or at least the key elements) was then called "Jonnie with an Eye" and they often played at a bar called Ricks on the campus of Western Michigan. End of the show, Brian Vander Ark came on stage alone with just a guitar and sang "The Freshman. " Then and there I said this song is top 40 all the way. I was stunned to hear so good a band playing a campus bar.

This album, originally self produced at a studio in Grand Rapids, originally had three additional songs including the accoustic, non-commercialized "The Freshman". The RCA version now available has the first 7 tracks, but it's a serious shame that version of The Freshman never got out.

But this ablum does have some excellent VP tunes from the VERY early days. "I've Suffered A Head Injury" is a brilliant slam on Vanilla Ice and "oceanside" and "ark of the envious" are also excellent.

I'll save my ancient original CD. But you should get this one.


Must have for TVP fans
This after two months of non-stop listening. WOW! This is my edited review - the first was made after a week of listening. Move over Villains, this is my favorite TVP album. A Top 10, Take It To The Desert Island selection.

One song lends to another. Acting As Your Slave with perhaps the best two lines ever (the first two).

Not sure why someone would like Pop Smear (or Villains) and not like this album. While obviously coarser and less complex than those, the lyrics, driving drums and guitar, and seeds of future creativity are all there. Brilliant stuff.

If you can, try to get the original album (you will have to get it used) - the acoustic version of Freshman is a great alternative to the later Villains' version, and there are two other songs also not on the current version.


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