The Vines

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>>71232676
I still remember the NME covers from 2001-2002 and the gushing articles where they were all over the Vines dick.

It's crazy thinking back on it, because I was never much interested in them and I was slightly mystified that this supposedly reputable music rag was covering them like they were the second coming of Christ.

>>71232712
lol

>>71233043
this

Winning Days [Capitol, 2004]
The reason these Aussies saved neither Capitol Records nor rock and roll isn't this duff follow-up. It's their duff debut. Inferior to not just Nirvana but Oasis, led by a spoiled jerk who can't sing the lyrics he can't write, and of negligible musical interest beyond the stray hook, they demonstrated the biz's conceptual bankruptcy by parlaying a fluke hit into brief next-big-thingdom. Trash a few dressing rooms to a tune some a&r cornball can hum and you always stand a chance of convincing him you're a genius in the rough. C+

>>71233043
>supposedly reputable
Was there ever a point in time where NME was reputable?