Winning Days

Infobox Album | Name = Winning Days
Type = Album
Artist = The Vines


Released = flagicon|Australia 21 March 2004
flagicon|UK 22 March 2004
flagicon|US 23 March 2004

Recorded = Summer 2003 Bearsville Studios (New York)
Genre = Garage rock
Post-grunge
Alternative rock
Length = 38:28
Label = Capitol
Producer = Rob Schnapf
Reviews =
*Entertainment Weekly rating|4|5 [26 Mar 2004, p.71]
*Billboard rating|4|5 [http://www.billboard.com/bb/reviews/album_article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000468026 link]
*NME rating|5|10
*"Rolling Stone" rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/5198094/thevines?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple1 1 Apr 04]
*Blender rating|3|5 [Apr 2004, p.134]
*E! Online rating|3|5 [http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Music/RevID/0,1107,3174,00.html link]
*Filter rating|3|5 [#9, p.101]
*Los Angeles Times rating|3|5 [http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-ca-rack21mar21,2,4786158.htmlstory?coll=cl-suncal link]
*VH1 [http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1484502/01212004/vines_the.jhtml 26 Jan 04] | Last album = "Highly Evolved"
(2002)
This album = "Winning Days"
(2004)
Next album = "Vision Valley"
(2006) |

Misc = Singles
Name = Winning Days
Type = studio
single 1 = Fuck The World
single 1 date = December 15, 2003
single 2 = Ride
single 2 date = March 8, 2004
single 3 = Winning Days
single 3 date = May 24, 2004

"Winning Days" is the second album by Australian rock group the Vines, following their debut, Highly Evolved, and was released on March 23, 2004. The enhanced CD has the music video for "Ride". Winning Days was recorded in the summer of 2003 at Bearsville Studios in New York and was assisted by Bill Synans. It was mixed in September 2003 at Cello Studios in Los Angeles and was assisted by Steven Rhodes.

Making

In May 2003, the band became one of the last clients of Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York with Rob Schnapf again on production. While Craig Nicholls had talked of having a highly produced album, he told the Australian edition of "Rolling Stone" in March 2004 that they decided to stick to a less-is-more philosophy. "I wanted it to be — in my head — something grand, with big ideas and that vision sort of thing. But at the same time, that doesn't mean that something can't be special if it's just simple. Because I think that the songs are the main thing". The album received much criticism upon release due to the lack of truly new material as many of the songs were written before "Highly Evolved" was even recorded and some songs had appeared as B-sides to older singles. However it can be argued that the album would never fare as well simply because of the impact and success of the band's debut. Despite the backlash by critics, many fans still regard this album as a great release.

Track listing

tracklist
all_writing = C. Nicholls except 7, C. Nicholls & P. Matthews
title1 = Ride
length1 = 2:36
title2 = Animal Machine
length2 = 3:28
title3 = TV Pro
length3 = 3:45
title4 = Autumn Shade II
length4 = 3:14
title5 = Evil Town
length5 = 3:06
title6 = Winning Days
length6 = 3:33
title7 = She's Got Something to Say to Me
length7 = 2:32
title8 = Rainfall
length8 = 3:21
title9 = Amnesia
length9 = 4:39
title10 = Sun Child
length10 = 4:33
title11 = F.T.W. (aka Fuck The World)
length11 = 3:41

Personnel

*Craig Nicholls - Vocals, Guitars, Percussion, Moog
*Patrick Matthews - Bass Guitar, Piano and Keyboards
*Ryan Griffiths - Guitars
*Hamish Rosser - Drums, Percussion
*Rob Schnapf - Producer, Mixing
*Doug Boehm - Engineering, Mixing
*Susanna Howe - Album booklet photography
*Love Police - Album Sleeve

Charts

Trivia

In the CD shop on Drake and Josh there is a poster of the Winning Days album cover.

Winning Days was mastered by Ten Jenson at Sterling Sound, New York in October 2003.

External links

* [http://www.thevines.com/index2.htm The Vines Official Web Site]