Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and wonder what happened to the Vines? They're still around, just like Jet, but "their appeal is growning more selective" as Ian Faith would say.
I saw the Vines opening for Fountains of Wayne at Slim's a few months before they broke. It was clear that they were really talented, and had the right sound at the right time (2002, when the Strokes and the Hives and the rest were taking off) and played an amazing version of "I'm Only Sleeping" that won over even jaded FoW fans like me.
Back then, I thought if the Vines were the future of rock & roll, it was in pretty good hands, but they turned out to be just a tiny blip on the rock & roll continuum. Just like most of the other buzz bands from the early 2000s.
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