"The group completed their fourth album last week (beginning March 3), after recording with the producer of their first two albums, Rob Schnapf, in Los Angeles."

NME Article

Excitement.

If this has been posted already im sorry but i looked and found nothing.

Right the fuck on.

Every small bit about the Best Of saddens me. I saw it posted on two of my favourite music piracy websites and something inside me died a little. Suppose it's better seeing it there than on the shelves of every decent record store.

This is bull shit. Bloody record company's trying to get the last of their money. This happened to Silverchair as well, a best of album was also released by their record company without their approval.

This confuses me...Why now? Specially when they are going to release a new album...
I think the timing is suspicious or just wrong.
And it is so sleazy do do it if the band didn't say yes to that...(I am not sure what is their opinion about it though)

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and you diagnosed him long before everyone else did you?
you could solve all the worlds problems if you could be bothered, couldn't you?
agreed that they'll be better without capitol. I hope to fuck their plan to release the best of backfires and works in the bands favour for the new album. There's something shady going on with the release dates there and i wouldn't be surprised if capitol are trying to either damage or ride on the sales of the new album.

While I don't approve of Capitol looking to squeeze out every last cent, I do think the timing may help because I've noticed people are starting to talk about the band again. So in a way this can help promote their new album and touring.

I heard that it was going to be released mid-year.

At first I didn't like the timing and the sleaziness of it all...
But I must admit I didn't look at it from that angle. If it helps, and if it makes people talk about them, then I guess it isn't that bad.
As long as it makes people pay attention to them..I was amazed when I talked to people that are in to well this kind of music that they didn't know about Vines...and I guess the last two years really damaged them in that way that they weren't around as the other bands were.

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course it's not, but you're saying that with the benefit of hindsight.

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but you'd agree that his behaviour was volatile?
I think you could look at that sentence from another angle. You could say that there are plenty of people out there who are naive enough to think that craig is mental, crazy or whatever they want to call it, and that all NME are doing is highlighting to those people that it is in fact aspergers. In a way, I wish those types of people would pick up on that sentence and not write the vines off on the basis that they think craig is mental.

just found this on NME:

http://www.nme.com/news/sxsw/35204

enjoy.

Thanks for the link!

Wow they seemed to have a great time and this part makes me abnormally happy




And "Jamola"?!
What is it? A name?
I want to here it here and now!!

"True is the night" sounds rather interesting...it seems to me that it's a Vision Valley type of song (of course just assuming by the name)

alright cool so when is the aussie release date?

No specific date has been announced yet, but it is expected to come out in June.

NICE, Kick off the summer with a nice imported cd.

if this week goes well for them record deal wise i'd say you won't be needing to import it.

shit even better

true is the night =

the vines cover of 4eva except well written and not cliched lyrics + strings

.... or at least that is what I am imagining....

^^^
sounds ------- mmm mmm goooooood

iTunes has "Best of the Vines," as well as amazon.com.



I really hope this works in the band's favor.

they can't write cheesy things anyway.
or at least, i hope so.

it's looking good, though i hope the same as you.
seriously, we've had no informations from the vines about that Best Of.
or maybe Capitol regrets them and wants to make money out of them without their permission.

I like the design of the cover....I like the white..
But isn't it strange that not a thing has been heard from the band about this one. Or maybe I'm just not informed.
As someone has said I hope this goes in their favor as promotion for a new album and as a financial benefit.

they'll see very very little of that money. I think they get about 5%.... I'm not sure, I'd have to look it up.

damn that's really little...i figured it wasn't a lot but still...i can't imagine not having the complete ownership or control of music that you wrote, or any artwork for that matter...i think it would drive me crazy, but then again i just remembered, Paul McCartney had to bid against Michael Jackson of all people to get his music, and he lost

they have control of the music and the lyrics- or copyright anyway. They just don't have copyright in the recordings. on a $20 CD, the artist gets about $1.50- that doesn't mean the record company get $18.50, they have a lot of out goings on that too, advertising, packaging, printing etc... Hopefully this won't go on for much longer, i think we're in a stage where the tide is turning and record companies won't have the power to be able to cling to those percentages any more- as much as i hate radiohead, what they did with in rainbows, and what muse are saying they want to do could help the music industry to no end.

yeah, i haven't done my research but i've had the feeling that record companies have got it wrong especially in the last 5 years or so...they seem like they didn't jump on board early enough with digital, were too busy suing people, and got left behind, or something of the sort. But the percentages...c'mon, small labels aside, the big corporate label business suits have 6 figure salaries at least, if i'm not mistaken (i'm not sure for what particular talent they get them though)...and now that the industry is suffocating, they seem to just be getting pissy that God forbid they can't drive a benz/prosche/whatever and pretend they're bad rockstars without the talent. Maybe that's too harsh and i'm generalizing, i understand, but you get my drift. And it seems pretty easy to milk an artist for all he's got to me...I mean consider kids who are eager and young and just want to be able to write and play...tell them you'll put them in a studio and pay for it...most will probably agree to no payment as long as you give them the studio time...kind of like blackmailing a person using their passion for music as leverage...it's probably one of the easiest psychological tricks to play on a person, especially a young one. Ok too long, sorry rant over

Well, for this new album...

I really hope Nicholls and Schnaf implemented the 'Enya-cognant 40-tracks for vocals' takes for that big vines sound! I love that stuff!

The only thing I'm slightly disappointed in is that the songs are going to be short again, but it's not too big of a deal.

some is fine... as long as its just vocals. too much will kill a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seiuJgwOPcU

Thought some of you fan girls may enjoy this interview with Craig from SxSW. He talks about the new CD. Comments on possible June release date.

as if we hadnt seen it already thanx anyways

AWSOME thankyou

Sure most of you have seen these. If not True As The Night & Brain Dead for ya. Live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smFPNnliSBE...feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aWCkDeBEPw...feature=related

Is it me or is he looking a bit TOO thin now? :S He looks on the verge of being ana...

He doesn't look dangerously skinny or anything, just thin. He looks really good, just hope he's taking care of himself.

yeah, hes thin but hes normal...cause if you look at older pics from 2001 or 2002 he looked exactley what he looks now. hes okay ^^

yeah but lets face it, he was hardly healthy back then.
He looks good and everything, it just shocked me to see he'd lost so much weight in a shortish amount of time...

yeah thats true, it was kinda shocking for me as well to see how much weight he lost in such a short period of time but Im sue hes naturally skinny and he only gained weight cause of the meds and some...homecooking of his mum or something

quitting weed, LSD, and whatever else you want doesn't help losing weight either.

actually smoking weed has been found to make you gain weight....

I still think that he gained weight because of meds (it he took any)
before he looked bloated and i knew couple of people who gained weight because of medications.
and I don't think he lost it in a short time...and he has a lot of energy so it seems he is healthy.

God, stop being so fing sensitive. Melba is kewl, you are not.
How old are you btw? I'm guessing 14.

Nice to see the boys are done with their album. Maybe they'll do a festival this summer.

well yeah

i srsly had to make sure i was looking at a recent picture though, i was like ONG look how skinny he's gawn!

The chub thread's gonna be a bit dead now....

he was on valium for some time.