Highly Evolved
by The Vines

Album
Highly Evolved by The Vines
Year: 2002
Release date: 2002-07-16
Overall rank: 2,986th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 223 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2002 (51st)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (502nd)
Award Best albums of all time (2,986th)

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Highly Evolved is ranked as the best album by The Vines.

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- This album (2,986th)
Highly Evolved Lower ranked (16,837th) »
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Overall rank: 2,986th | 2000s rank: 502nd | 2002 rank: 51st

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 223 votes)
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70/100
 		03/19/2026 02:14 BurndenAce  Ratings distribution  1,16476/100
 
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 		03/03/2026 23:28 Devilwoac  Ratings distribution  1,10497/100
 
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 		02/27/2026 16:44 Jakor  Ratings distribution  5,25368/100
 
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 		02/18/2026 13:24 mash  Ratings distribution  1,44688/100
 
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 		01/10/2026 04:24 imacgill  Ratings distribution  2,67679/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.6/100, a mean average of 69.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.

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70/100
From 01/15/2018 17:32 | #205752
Perfectly good, but far from earth-shattering.
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Rating:  
70/100
From 07/29/2017 13:42 | #195105
Probably the least heralded of all the... "The" garage-rock bands that dominated the alternative charts in the early 2000s, they were the most straight-forward and most beholden to their influences (mainly the 80s american underground and grunge), but they had a decent enough sound and plenty of energy. Unfortunately they had a tendacy to write half-baked rock songs that were all hook and no sinker, every song feeling mildly dissapointing despite providing an initial blast. So overall, the sound was appealing but all the mediocre songs with no real distinctive artistic voice unfortunately makes for a middling listen, but at fifteen it was suitable enough for my rock-n-roll ankling for just riffs and attitude.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 07/11/2016 15:53 | #171104
Favoritas: Ottahaway, Get Free, Autumn Shade, Homesick
Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
Rating:  
75/100
From 03/15/2015 21:26 | #136978
Knocked my socks off at the time, and then... Hasn't aged well.
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60/100
From 10/13/2013 13:50 | #88356
Really underrated album in my opinion
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From 09/26/2012 21:33 | #51259
An album that starts out great and then... well it falters... They remembered to keep the guitars plugged in. That is the main thing after all.
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85/100
From 06/28/2010 09:47 | #13230
A good live band-
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