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Now that it is ten years after The Verve Pipe's smash hit "The Freshman" threw the album "Villains" into super album status, and eight years after their self title album also known as the frog album came out, it is easy to say over the long haul the frog album is much better. The great thing about it is the fact that it doesn't have a song on it that was written to be a smash hit. It is very real. Songs like "Super-gig" and "the F-word" may lack the tear jerking quality of emotion but they are honest representations of where the verve pipe was at that time. "Headline" may seem the same to some people but it is actually a song about the regrets along the way not just through stardom but life. Brian Vander Ark's writing on this album is actually better than on "Villains" and "Underneath." Where spirit does lie on both of those albums, it also doesn't have the staying power. Sure their radio releases were more successful then "Hero." However, they lack the staying power of songs like, "Half a mind" and "Kiss me Idle." Where in song from "Underneath" like "Never let you down" which is a fun but tacky teenage type love song, you have on the frog album true odes of actual feeling. "Kiss me Idle" is true depiction of a perfect make out session. "Half a Mind" describes love that can't be contained even though maybe it should. Even "La La" as cheesy as it may sound at first is actually a break up song. "La La" is actually the cheesy description of the people singing "Never let you down." Add tracks like "She Loves Everybody" which is wonderful because every man has dated that girl before and has questions about it. What truly exclaimates the frog album though, is the second to last song. Like the entire first part of the album is rising plot action from a story and it comes to a crescendo or a climax at "She has Faces" and then like any good story has the falling action behind it with "La La." "She has Faces" is the perfect song it has simple but beautiful lyrics. It is almost as if the world is being seen through the eyes of a child, how something so simple can be so beautiful. That is the one thing the other have as well, great song choices that are well located on the album but not as much as in the form of "She has Faces" on the frog album. In my opinion the one Verve Pipe album I can put on over and over again is the frog album.Read full review
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Definately not their most popular album but easily the best. Top to bottom their is no weakness. The music is catchy, the beats are perfect, but it's the lyrics that make this the best Verve Pipe album.