Highly Evolved
by The Vines

Album
Highly Evolved by The Vines
Year: 2002
Release date: 2002-07-16
Overall rank: 3,076th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 225 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2002 (51st)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (512th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,076th)

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

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Highly Evolved track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Highly Evolved
Average Rating: 81 (49 votes)Comments: View 0
2.
Autumn Shade
Average Rating: 81 (41 votes)Comments: View 0
3.
Outtathaway!
Average Rating: 81 (46 votes)Comments: View 0
4.
Sunshinin'
Average Rating: 78 (37 votes)Comments: View 0
5.
Homesick
Average Rating: 80 (38 votes)Comments: View 0
6.
Get Free
Average Rating: 84 (62 votes)Comments: View 1
7.
Country Yard
Average Rating: 79 (39 votes)Comments: View 0
8.
Factory
Average Rating: 80 (41 votes)Comments: View 1
9.
In The Jungle
Average Rating: 78 (38 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
Mary Jane
Average Rating: 80 (39 votes)Comments: View 0
11.
Ain't No Room
Average Rating: 76 (38 votes)Comments: View 0
12.
1969
Average Rating: 76 (39 votes)Comments: View 0

Highly Evolved rankings

Highly Evolved rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,076th | 2000s rank: 512th | 2002 rank: 51st  Overall chart history
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Highly Evolved ratings

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70/100 (from 225 votes)
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 !		10/02/2026 02:40 stareaterogni0n  Ratings distribution  59070/100
 
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 !		03/19/2026 02:14 BurndenAce  Ratings distribution  1,33876/100

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Highly Evolved forum mentions

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From 07/29/2017 13:42 | #195105 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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. (Edited)
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75/100
From 03/15/2015 21:26 | #136978 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Knocked my socks off at the time, and then... Hasn't aged well. (Edited)
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From 01/15/2018 17:32 | #205752 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Perfectly good, but far from earth-shattering. (Edited)
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60/100
From 10/13/2013 13:50 | #88356 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Really underrated album in my opinion
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From 09/26/2012 21:33 | #51259 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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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