Villains (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Villains
Type = studio
Artist = The Verve Pipe


Released = March 26, 1996
Recorded = ???
Genre = Grunge
Length = 53:40
Label = RCA
Producer = Jerry Harrison
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rk9ss33ua3rg link]
*Robert Christgau (C) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=verve+pipe link]
Last album = "Pop Smear"
(1993)
This album = "Villains"
(1996)
Next album = "The Verve Pipe"
(1999)

Villains, the third studio album and first major label release by The Verve Pipe, was released in March 1996. The band received its first hit in "Photograph," which peaked in the top 10 on the "Billboard Modern Rock Tracks". A year after the release of the album, a reformatted version of "The Freshmen" was released and topped the mainstream rock charts. It peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, the group's only song to chart on the Hot 100. The success of the song helped this album go platinum. This is The Verve Pipe's greatest-selling album to date.

Track listing

All songs by Brian Vander Ark unless noted.

#"Barely (If at All)" – 3:45
#"Drive You Mild" – 3:02
#"Villains" – 4:42
#"Reverend Girl" – 4:27
#"Cup of Tea" – 4:26
#"Myself" – 4:47
#"The Freshmen" (The Verve Pipe, Jack Joseph Puig) – 4:29
#"Photograph" – 4:55
#"Ominous Man" – 4:20
#"Real" – 1:51
#"Penny Is Poison" (A.J. Dunning, Brian Vander Ark) – 3:30
#"Cattle" – 3:42
#"Veneer" – 5:32