The Vines

• Highly Evolved [Capitol, 2002]
• Winning Days [Capitol, 2004] C+

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Highly Evolved [Capitol, 2002]
"Highly Evolved," "Get Free"

Winning Days [Capitol, 2004]
The reason these Aussies saved neither Capitol Records nor rock and roll isn't this duff follow-up. It's their duff debut. Inferior to not just Nirvana but Oasis, led by a spoiled jerk who can't sing the lyrics he can't write, and of negligible musical interest beyond the stray hook, they demonstrated the biz's conceptual bankruptcy by parlaying a fluke hit into brief next-big-thingdom. Trash a few dressing rooms to a tune some a&r cornball can hum and you always stand a chance of convincing him you're a genius in the rough. C+