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It has been said that the key to a successful cover is making the song sound like your own. By that measure, Everclear are very successful indeed, as every song on The Vegas Years -- a covers collection consisting partially of new cuts and previously released material, much like Poison's Poison'd!, released in 2007 on Capitol, the very same label that put out The Vegas Years -- bears the unmistakable heavy hand of Art Alexakis, who leans on heavy muted eighth-note rhythms through many of these 14 songs. When he's not pumping out these staccato guitar riffs -- he can't even resist them on a cover of Neil Young's "Pocahontas" -- he dresses "Rich Girl" up in "A.M. Radio" pop threads, turning it into something that could have fit into either half of Songs from an American Movie. All this means that if you read a song title here and imagine how Everclear would cover it, you'd be exactly right, as they make "This Land Is Your Land" into a sequel to "I Will Build You a New Life" and turn both Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town" and Cheap Trick's "Southern Girls" into lead-footed boogies. Again, according to the yardstick of turning songs into their own, this succeeds -- but whether that makes for enjoyable listening all depends on whether you find Everclear's increasingly stiff and staid post-grunge irresistible or not.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Daryl Hall, ComposerLyricist - Everclear, MainArtist
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Drama King Productions, Inc.
A.P. Alexakis, Producer - Everclear, MainArtist - Terry Hall, Composer - Jane Wiedlin, Composer
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Capitol Records Inc.
A.P. Alexakis, Producer - Everclear, MainArtist - Phil Lynott, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Capitol Records, LLC
Neal Avron, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - A.P. Alexakis, Producer - Everclear, MainArtist - Michael P. Packard, Composer
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 1997 Capitol Records, LLC
Barry Mann, Composer - Cynthia Weil, Composer - Everclear, MainArtist
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Drama King Productions, Inc.
Neil Young, Composer - Neal Avron, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - A.P. Alexakis, Producer - Everclear, MainArtist
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 1997 Capitol Records Inc.
A.P. Alexakis, Producer - Everclear, MainArtist - Owen Bradley, Composer - Beasley Smith, Composer - Marvin Hughes, Composer
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Capitol Records Inc.
Everclear, MainArtist - Woody Guthrie, Composer, Author
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Drama King Productions, Inc.
A.P. Alexakis, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Everclear, MainArtist - Tom Petty, Composer - Brian Malouf, Producer, Co-Producer - Michael Douglass, Producer, Co-Producer - Ricky Tubb, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 1995 Capitol Records, LLC
VAN MORRISON, ComposerLyricist - Everclear, MainArtist
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Drama King Productions, Inc.
Tom Petersson, Composer - A.P. Alexakis, Producer - Everclear, MainArtist - Richard A. Nielsen, Composer
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Capitol Records Inc.
Linda Laurie, Composer - Everclear, MainArtist - Jimmy Haskell, Composer
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Drama King Productions, Inc.
Nobuyoshi Koshibe, Composer - A.P. Alexakis, Producer - Everclear, MainArtist - Dan McLaughlin, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 1997 Capitol Records Inc.
Art Alexakis, Composer - Everclear, MainArtist
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Drama King Productions, Inc.
Alexander Call, Composer - Everclear, MainArtist - James Keller, Composer
(C) 2008 Capitol Records, Inc. ℗ 2008 Drama King Productions, Inc.
Album review
It has been said that the key to a successful cover is making the song sound like your own. By that measure, Everclear are very successful indeed, as every song on The Vegas Years -- a covers collection consisting partially of new cuts and previously released material, much like Poison's Poison'd!, released in 2007 on Capitol, the very same label that put out The Vegas Years -- bears the unmistakable heavy hand of Art Alexakis, who leans on heavy muted eighth-note rhythms through many of these 14 songs. When he's not pumping out these staccato guitar riffs -- he can't even resist them on a cover of Neil Young's "Pocahontas" -- he dresses "Rich Girl" up in "A.M. Radio" pop threads, turning it into something that could have fit into either half of Songs from an American Movie. All this means that if you read a song title here and imagine how Everclear would cover it, you'd be exactly right, as they make "This Land Is Your Land" into a sequel to "I Will Build You a New Life" and turn both Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town" and Cheap Trick's "Southern Girls" into lead-footed boogies. Again, according to the yardstick of turning songs into their own, this succeeds -- but whether that makes for enjoyable listening all depends on whether you find Everclear's increasingly stiff and staid post-grunge irresistible or not.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:34
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Everclear
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Capitol Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2008 Capitol Records Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2008 Capitol Records Inc.
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