Everclear Album: “The Vegas Years”

Been listening to this a lot. Cool covers and it rocks! "Kicks," "The Boys Are Back in Town," and "Our Lips Are Sealed" jump out at me. I think most people who claim to be Everclear fans will like this, and you don't even have to be a die-hard fan.

Everclear takes a number of popular songs and "makes them theirs". What this really means is they release an album of covers, remade to sound like every Everclear song that's been put out in the past 10-15 years. A band can get by on one or two covers every once in a while, but really, this album only shows how fall they've fallen. Save yourself the trouble and just go to any bar on a Friday night to hear a bunch of pretty good rock songs "interpreted" into completely flavorless rock.

I love most of Everclear's music but I was disappointed when this album arrived and I discovered it was a cover album rather than original music (I ordered it without reading the description of it because I am an Everclear fan). The best song on here and arguably better than the Thin Lizzy version (Boys are Back in Town) was released on the Detroit Rock City Soundtrack several years ago so I've been rocking to it for a while now. Hopefully Everclear is working on some new studio stuff. I miss the late 80's when new quality rock music was coming out frequently from a wide variety of bands. Long live the two (lead and rhythm) electric guitar, one bass, one drummer, and a singer form of music.

This album sounds a lot like Everclear playing a wedding. I'm not really a fan of covers and this is no exception.

Nothing very original or anything like that.

Saw Everclear on their first stop of the tour for this album and they certainly rocked hard, but their originals are MUCH better.