Vision Valley

Infobox Album
Name = Vision Valley
Type = studio
Artist = The Vines


Released = flagicon|Australia 1 April, 2006 flagicon|UK 3 April, 2006 flagicon|US 4 April 2006
Recorded = BJB studios, Sydney
Genre = Garage rock Indie rock Post-grunge Alternative rock
Length = 31:29
Label = EMI, Capitol Records
Producer = Wayne Connolly, The Vines
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qlf6zfd5ehpk~T1 link]
*The Guardian Rating|4|5 [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1742847,00.html link]
*Pitchfork Media (3.4/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22979-vision-valley link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/9571252/review/9597772/vision_valley link]
*Sound Generator rating-10|5 [http://www.soundgenerator.com/burner/review_detail.cfm?reviewid=1243 link]
*Xdafied Rating|2.5|5 [http://xdafied.com.au/music/reviews/4.html link]
Last album = "Winning Days" (2004)
This album = "Vision Valley" (2006)
Next album = "The Best of The Vines" (2008)
Misc = Singles
Name = Vision Valley
Type = studio
single 1 = Gross Out (Radio Promo)
single 1 date = Early 2006
single 2 = Don't Listen to the Radio
single 2 date = April 10, 2006
single 3 = Anysound
single 3 date = August 19, 2006
single 4 = Dope Train (Video Promo)
single 4 date = April, 2007

"Vision Valley" is The Vines' third album. It was released on 1 April 2006 in Australia and on 3 April 2006 everywhere else except in the USA, where it was released on 4 April 2006. There are no contributions made to the record by bassist Patrick Matthews due to his involvement with the band Youth Group, and the band's video podcast proves this.

Due to lack of promotion, the album suffered a lackluster debut in the United States, debuting at an underwhelming #136 on the Billboard charts and selling a disappointing 7,839 units. By week 2, the album completely slid off the Billboard 200.

The album received mixed reviews from many critics. However there were mostly positive reviews from the United Kingdom in particular, with music publications such as Q and NME giving the album 4/5 stars and 7/10 respectively, and some even claiming it was of greater quality than their explosive debut "Highly Evolved".
Q had Vision Valley at #69 in their Albums of 2006 Poll, dubbing the songs 'superior grunge anthems'.

Both "Anysound" and "Spaceship" appeared in season 3 of The O.C in episodes 21 and 24 respectively.

Track listing

tracklist
all_writing = C. Nicholls
title1 = Anysound
length1 = 1:55
title2 = Nothin's Comin'
length2 = 2:00
title3 = Candy Daze
length3 = 1:40
title4 = Vision Valley
length4 = 2:42
title5 = Don't Listen to the Radio
length5 = 2:10
title6 = Gross Out
length6 = 1:18
title7 = Take Me Back
length7 = 2:42
title8 = Going Gone
length8 = 2:44
title9 = F*k Yeh
length9 = 1:58
title10 = Futuretarded
length10 = 1:47
title11 = Dope Train
length11 = 2:36
title12 = Atmos
length12 = 1:50
title13 = Spaceship
length13 = 6:07

Limited Edition DVD

#"Highly Evolved"
#"Get Free"
#"Outtathaway"
#"Homesick"
#"Ride"
#"Winning Days"
#"Gross Out"
#"Studio Walkthrough with Wayne Connolly"

Personnel

*Craig Nicholls – vocals, guitars, keys, bass on "Futuretarded"
*Ryan Griffiths – guitars, keys, percussion, backing vocals
*Hamish Rosser – drums, percussion, backing vocals
*Andy Kent (You Am I) – bass
*Tim Kevin (La Huva) – special arrangements, piano, organ
*Nic Dalton (Half A Cow Records) – electric mandolin
*Amanda Brown – violin
*Rowan Smith – violin
*Sophie Glasson – cello

Production

*Wayne Connolly – producer, recorder, mixing
*Dan Clinch – additional engineering
*Anthony The – additional engineering
*Veit Mahler – additional engineering

Charts

Recording and mixing

Vision Valley was recorded at Electric Avenue, Velvet Sound, Big Jesus Burger and NikiNali studios, Sydney, Australia. It was mixed at Velvet Sound and Electric Avenue and it was assisted by Veit Mahler, Jason Lea. At Velvet Sound, it was assisted by Dan Clinch and Anthony The and also at BJB, by Peter Farley and Jodie Wallance.

Vision Valley was mastered by Don Bartley at Stuio 301 in Sydney, Australia.

External links

* [http://www.dreamintheinsane.com/ Dreamin the Insane] Fan club
* [http://thevines.org TheVines.org] Fan website
* [http://boss.streamos.com/download/capi001/thevines/podcast/vines_podcast.sit Video podcast] Podcast of the band talking about "Vision Valley" (with samples of "Anysound", "Nothin's Comin", "Vision Valley", "Don't Listen to the Radio", "Gross Out", "Going Gone", "Futuretarded" & "Spaceship".) Originally released on March 9, 2006. Please note that to watch the podcast you need to use a program called StuffIt to expand the file and once the file has been expanded/extracted it's required you have iTunes for play back.