Underneath - The Verve Pipe
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Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: Produced by Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger, 'Underneath' is the Michigan band's fourth release.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. They sound more natural than they ever have on record, and Brian Vander Ark and Donny Brown respond by their best set of songs.
  2. 80
    Adam's milked a meaty, soulful rock album out of the band…and it is good.
  3. The group has effectively reinvented/refound itself as a crack power-pop band.
  4. Underneath is the Verve Pipe's third album and it's more of exactly what made them a hit with "The Freshman" -- earnest alternative-lite vocals that cross Matchbox Twenty with Phil Collins delivered in sugary choruses that loop endlessly in case you weren't paying attention the first ten times.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. TimR
    10
    One of the best CDs of 2002. Takes several times of grab you. But its pop music at its best.
  2. Armand
    10
    Amazing album from one of the most underrated, unappreciated bands of our generation. Every song is incredible!
  3. EricB
    10
    Awesome CD, great song and a GREAT band!!!
  4. AndrewE.
    6
    Not my kind of music, but its sounds are somewhat soothing, but the lyrics are indeed questionable.

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