have the guys said anything regarding this at all?

no they havent so far...probably too busy with their new album

let the creative juices flooww

i love the vines!

...sweet

It's true.. it is rather pretty, making it rather tempting. Nah the new album is bound to look tastier

Those green circles are a total rip-off of The Music's album cover.



I really hope Craig will do the cover again.

nothing explicit. Perhaps the reason the boys and management have been so secretive about release dates plans is because they want capitol to release this best of before the new album comes out, and also so that they can piggy back any commercial advantage from it.

the best of would be damaging in two circumstances:
1) if it's released after the new album (which it appears from constant set backs of the release dates that's what capitol may be trying to do) leading people to think it's something it's not.
2) people assume that because a best of is being released that the vines are over and there's nothing else coming.

either way capitol are leeching scumbags and there's nothing anyone can do about it. the only thing the boys have to back them up is the trademark of 'the vines' but that doesn't really help them much. its a shit situation to say the least and I bet the boys are fucking miffed about it.

after all...its not that bad actually. i mean the guys get their money from it AND there is gonna be a new album anyways so better dont freak out about it too much ^^ i mean record industry sucks but theres nothing you can do about it im just looking forward to the greaaaaat new album!

I'm perfectly aware that Wikipeedia is hardly ever a reliable source, but in the article on The Best of the Vines it's said that
The Best Of The Vines is a compilation album by The Vines and contains a selection of singles and album tracks from their first 3 albums released under Capitol Records. The band did not have a say in the release having been dropped by Capitol records in 2007, however they picked the songs.
Did they really?

How could they pick out the songs if they had no say in it. This is ridiculous, I bet someone from Capitol wrote that article.

So the band is profiting practically nothing from the album?

why should the person who has written that article know that?? if WE dont even know it

how does that even work? it makes it seem like the band just said "oh, just in case a best of album is released any time soon, here are the songs we'd like on it."
the whole idea of a best of album is stupid. like everyone said, they only get released if the band is breaking up or on hiatus. if they're not, it's usually in the middle of their career and they want to break things up a bit by releasing a greatest hits. if they've had a lot of success in the charts and they just want to showcase their no. 1's.

argh.

easy every record company the Vines record for will own their songs forever so now that the Vines have been dropped their old label have decided to release a best of CD to scrape every last penny out of a band they believe hasn't recouped the money they invested into them hoping they'd become a cashcow they could milk for years on end like Nirvana or some iconic band of similar status, so they probably gave the Vines an ultimatum, we are releasing the album anyway, you can choose to pick the tracks that appear or we will do it ourselves (with the risk of making it a bad comp).

So the Vines probably wanting to keep their names of a mediocre product decided to pick the tracks themselves i guess.

Oh yeah i wrote that wikipedia article by the way and there is still a chance that them picking the tracks isn't true but i read somewhere they did can't remember where though. Looking at the tracklist it seems likely to me because as if those suit wearing dudes at a record label would put that much effort (it's pretty much a perfect comp for beginners) into a comp CD by a band that hasn't made them much money since highly evolved. Plus it has Spaceship on it as if a commercial radio minded label would put a track like that on there, even though it's awesome wasn't Dope Train the 3rd single after all?

Not that I don't appreciate you putting that article together, but there's a long way from 'seems very likely to me' to 'I know for sure they did it'.
You've probably read that bit about them picking the songs from my post two pages back, in which I said this:


To me, the tracklisting looks exactly like something dudes in suits would come up with - but then again, that's just me-, it features all of their singles plus six of 'safe bet'-type picks. (And btw, as far as I know, Dope Train isn't a single.)

I think this is where the trademark bit might well come in- technically, although Capitol own the copyright in the recordings, they don't own the copyright to the music or the lyrics. Nor do they have any part in the trademark of 'the vines'- meaning that if Capitol released a best of album that was potentially damaging to the band's reputation then the vines would have grounds for suing for breach of trademark. As a party who has a stake in the album through the copyrights, but more importantly the trademark, in order to avoid any potential liability it's probably best that they asked the band to pick, or at least have some say in which songs go on it.
it's the law peeps.

the tracklisting is ugly

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Best-Of-The-Vines-...tem380007496964

laugh out loud

have you seen it in your local record stores?? i havent

yeah i saw a quite afew...in the vines section under the vines card in the cds, all they had was the best ofs and none of their albums.....i was so annoyed now if anyone wanted to buy some of their stuff they'd just buy the best of.....grrrrrr
that was at JB HI-FI

what are the 'clean' versions supposed to be?
seriously, this best of is the shit, Capitol's director is such a bastard for releasing a Vines cd after throwing them out of the label.

the tracklisting for it is horrible I think.