Winning Days

Winning Days is the second album by Australian rock group The Vines, following their debut, Highly Evolved, and was released on March 23, 2004. The enhanced CD has the music video for "Ride". Winning Days was recorded in the summer of 2003 at Bearsville Studios in New York and was assisted by Bill Synans. It was mixed in September 2003 at Cello Studios in Los Angeles and was assisted by Steven Rhodes.

This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.

Making

In May 2003, the band became one of the last clients of Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York with Rob Schnapf again on production. While Craig Nicholls had talked of having a highly produced album, he told the Australian edition of Rolling Stone in March 2004 that they decided to stick to a less-is-more philosophy. "I wanted it to be — in my head — something grand, with big ideas and that vision sort of thing. But at the same time, that doesn't mean that something can't be special if it's just simple. Because I think that the songs are the main thing". The album received much criticism upon release due to the lack of truly new material as many of the songs were written before Highly Evolved was even recorded and some songs had appeared as B-sides to older singles. However it can be argued that the album would never fare as well simply because of the impact and success of the band's debut. Despite the backlash by critics, many fans still regard this album as a great release.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by C. Nicholls except 7, C. Nicholls & P. Matthews.

1. "Ride" 2:36
2. "Animal Machine" 3:28
3. "TV Pro" 3:45
4. "Autumn Shade II" 3:14
5. "Evil Town" 3:06
6. "Winning Days" 3:33
7. "She's Got Something to Say to Me" 2:32
8. "Rainfall" 3:21
9. "Amnesia" 4:39
10. "Sun Child" 4:33
11. "F.T.W (aka Fuck The World)" 3:41