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Generally favorable reviews- based on 56 Ratings
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Positive: 43 out of 56
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Mixed: 5 out of 56
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Negative: 8 out of 56
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BenJMay 28, 2004I can't believe this is the same band that made "Highly Evolved"! This is mostly tuneless rubbish!
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RandyLMay 6, 2004
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GenericNickJan 4, 2006This album doesn't suck. There's just nothing in it to get excited about or prompt me to put it back in the player.
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GraceP.Apr 10, 2006Kick ass album..A departure from the agressive previous album..more mellowed and ithe album has me hooked on to The Vines since
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RBMar 15, 2004
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TylerCMar 24, 2004What the hell are reviewers thinking??? Sure, This cd isn't exactly an untimely masterpiece....but it's a good listen nonetheless! 47??? That is quite low....this album is much better then a 47...high 60 or low 70 seems more apporiate.
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TrishaLApr 2, 2004Winning Days is a great cd. Every track is great. I could listen to it forever. I has so many emotions throughout every song. The Vines are an AWESOME rock band! I think their taste is what are music society has been missing for a while and now that they've come we have music you can actually enjoy. Yay for the Vines!
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davepApr 6, 2004This is seriously dreadful stuff, stay well away. Rock has never been more bland.
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clarebApr 7, 2004
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MartinVFeb 2, 2005It may not be as good as highly evolved but it certainly is not an awful album. The songs are great like 60s melodic songs which if you like the beatles its like those songs. It won't put you to sleep if you like good music.
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NorthFreedomFighterApr 6, 2005This is a grower. I didn't take to it much at first, but as you listen on, you'll realize that this is the product of a man who just cannot seem to find himself and in frustration vents in the music. Touching if you think about it and worth giving another shot.
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GeorgiePnxAug 19, 2006This Album is Shite, its......................Atrociously Horribly sounding Sorry to brake all you Craig Nicholls Lovers hearts but he is going out with Dirty Harry....Vision Valley is even worse
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JohnJan 23, 2007
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chrissFeb 6, 2007This is maybe the best album i´ve ever heard! I can´t understand why some magazines mean that the songwriting would be to boring while they declare Vision Valley as "their best album ever"! This album contets pure emotion into diffrent extremes and i haven´t heard of another band which can describe them that perfectly as they did! Awesome!
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kennyzoomDec 11, 2004first you have to listen to the cd. get past the overplayed singles. then understand how great the album really is. it's a concept album too, and you'll get that if you listen to it more. it's infectious. i love it.
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stephnMar 13, 2004(because the vines rock)
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ameliamMar 13, 2004Don't listen to the critics, this album is a lot better than Highly Evolved. The songs show a lot more depth both musically and thematically. The Vines have been panned by the critics for releasing an album full of old songs, and it's true that they have -- this is the 2nd cd of the double album they originally wanted to release HE as. WINNING DAYS IS BRILLIANT!!
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MaxWMar 22, 2004If it wasn't for the MASSIVE press hype the Vines got a few years ago I am sure that this album would have rated above 80%. Why is that critics go all gushy for bands that are rarely heard of? It seems that critics love to hate the Vines because of all the press they were getting, even though it's not their fault they were getting all this press.
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[Anonymous]Mar 23, 2004This album is an amazing psychedelic mind trip and I love it.
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OwenOMar 23, 2004I give this album a 9. I absolutely love it, you can hear the Vines become their own band. They are not, and will never be, Nirvana part 2. Who cares. They're gonna be the Vines, and with albums as good as this and Highly Evolved, what more could you want? I'm already looking forward to the next album.
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JeremyGMar 29, 2004
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ttkkMar 29, 2004A maserpiece!
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MikeApr 21, 2004There is no depth to this album, and I can't tell at all what Craig is saying. But I love the guitar on this album, and there's great energy in this. I find this alot easier to listen to than the Strokes or the White Stripes.
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KoenDeCrockApr 22, 2004UTTER CRAP!!! TERRIBLE!!! Borrowed it from a friend, and it was just like I imagined it to be (see above).... Stay well away from this horrifying piece of drab.
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wackymanMay 25, 2004they have been hailed by critics and now they have been spitted out by the same I never thought they were anything special, just a plain band so a 7 is evidently in place here I never tend to bend my mind to whatever critics think
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RidetheSnakeJun 22, 2004
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Smitty800Jang34Aug 7, 2004It takes a few listens to get into, but dont believe those critics....ITS GREAT!
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MichaelZAug 16, 2005The Vines are my favorite band and this is they're best album yet!
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MojoPiNOct 19, 2007
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YanG.Apr 29, 2008Winning Days is The Vines best album- it has both slow, quiet and lyrical songs like Winning Days or Amnesia and fast rythemed rock songs like Ride or Animal Machine, both of them are familiar to every ear. All in all, this album presents us with 40 minutes of good music for all moods. Highly recommended.
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Awards & Rankings
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BlenderThere's something about the precision of the gear changes and the crisp efficiency of Rob Schnapf's production that hits the spot, however derivatively. [Apr 2004, p.134]
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The A.V. ClubThe album's midsection--in other words, just about everything between the first song and the last song--sags under the weight of midtempo, middle-of-the-road throwaways. [31 Mar 2004]
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Winning Days is a noisy triumph -- as good as their 2002 debut, Highly Evolved, and in some ways a leap forward in style and frenzy.