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Verve Pipe — Colorful
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scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 10:28
 
Good song. It'd be better if the tempo were picked up a bit. 

TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Dec 31, 2011 - 19:32
 
Nice set Bill; hey Cynaera, my Gerbil is looking seriously drab and in need of a polish.

That was polish and not Polish, right?


salzburg4321
(Salzburg, Austria)
Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 01:37
 
Upbeat! Melodious!

DeAun
Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 17:57
 
 Cynaera wrote:
This one just caught me by the wrist and dragged me to someplace really warm and sunny. Think I'll stay here for awhile. Too much winter can make a person ugly inside.
 

{#Bananajam}  Rock on!



Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 17:47
 
This one just caught me by the wrist and dragged me to someplace really warm and sunny. Think I'll stay here for awhile. Too much winter can make a person ugly inside.

scarletdancer
(Irving, TX, USA)
Posted: Nov 16, 2010 - 22:10
 
Hadn't this, or anything from these guys in a while.  I like this.

raewah
(Somewhere where the mountains meet the plains)
Posted: Aug 13, 2010 - 10:57
 

THANK YOU!!!



zipper
Posted: Jul 12, 2010 - 13:27
 
Love this.

1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 16:50
 
remnants of Eli


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 16:50
 
Love this.  And "Underneath" is a really great song, too.  These guys get mistaken for The Verve, but they're infinitely different (and, IMO, better.) Grooving on this song.  Thanks, whoever provided it!  Could we get "Underneath" too? I'd be your best friend. I'd wax your skis. I'd polish your gerbil.

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet this is not my home)
Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 16:50
 
Play more stuff like this on RP- :)

nate917
(2,815 miles from home)
Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 05:56
 
 drews wrote:
Sounds like somebody trying to sing like Michael Stipe (badly)
 
I think you may be tricked into expecting Stipe because of that tremolo in the backing guitars, which is similar to one of REM's songs whose name escapes me right now.  I don't hear any actual Bad Stipe in the vocals.  (Someone will surely say that term is redundant.)


daveesh
(birthplace of the american revolution)
Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 05:56
 
ironic that the name of this song is "colorful"

spunkyboy62
(Grand Rapids, MI)
Posted: Oct 01, 2009 - 08:48
 
Two thumbs up for my hometown boys.

auburntigerrich
(Edge of the 'Verse)
Posted: Jul 30, 2009 - 07:41
 
Nice to hear some playing time for one of my favorite nineties bands which I think still hold up strongly today.

smilestoomuch
(Mad City, WI)
Posted: Mar 25, 2009 - 13:16
 
I loved this band in highschool, or rather that one song, "Freshmen." After he went solo, he played a show in Grand Rapids, MI (his hometown, I believe). I felt kind of bad for him, because I think most of the crowd was there just to hear that song. We all sang along. This is a little more polished (read: over-produced) than other offerings. 6

drews
(London, Blighty)
Posted: Dec 20, 2008 - 16:44
 
Sounds like somebody trying to sing like Michael Stipe (badly)

crazy
(yew nork, upstate)
Posted: Dec 20, 2008 - 16:40
 
hey, I like this

crazy
(yew nork, upstate)
Posted: Dec 20, 2008 - 16:40
 
hey bill, if you're reading not relevant to this song but I'm in the kitchen making xmas cookies and would love to hear some grinch songs either the classic or updated jim carey

holborne
(New York)
Posted: Oct 18, 2008 - 13:58
 
 Ellehcim wrote:


Actually, 'The Freshmen' was done by the Verve Pipe. I think you are thinking of Bitter-Sweet Symphony by the Verve. At least, that's the song I always associate with them
 

Ummmm....this is Verve Pipe.

quatsch
(Honolulu, HI)
Posted: Jun 14, 2008 - 05:42
 
squidish wrote:
I'm imagining Dana Carvey doing his pop singer, "Your're my layyy-duh..." while earnestly banging on a piano...


Choppin' brocolliiiiii!
Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home)
Posted: May 13, 2008 - 18:58
 
sfearll wrote:
this is nice... I like it!
Me too, good choice!
sfearll
(Monrovia, CA)
Posted: Mar 11, 2008 - 19:34
 
this is nice... I like it!
Ellehcim
(Ottawa, ON,Canada)
Posted: Mar 11, 2008 - 19:14
 
canadianbug wrote:
gorgeous! beats 'the freshmen' or whatever it was called. and that was catchy!


Actually, 'The Freshmen' was done by the Verve Pipe. I think you are thinking of Bitter-Sweet Symphony by the Verve. At least, that's the song I always associate with them
bluematrix
(confluence of mississippi and missouri rivers)
Posted: Mar 11, 2008 - 19:06
 
wow, lot of negative comments for a pretty decent song.
morgsy67
(Cape Cod, MA)
Posted: Dec 08, 2007 - 10:58
 
Whoh!
I thought this was Carbon Leaf!
I feel so 'tupid
andionita
(Bremen, Germany)
Posted: Nov 07, 2007 - 01:48
 
to my ear this is not exactly music. Maybe a combination of fragments/layers of music, at most.
trollboy
(Columbus, Ohio)
Posted: Sep 05, 2007 - 05:03
 
musikalia wrote:
Wow, this is awful!
yep, my first impression was :puke:
meloman
(Warsaw, Poland)
Posted: Sep 05, 2007 - 05:00
 
Too nada-surf-carbon-leafish for me.
squidish
(under the sea)
Posted: May 02, 2007 - 13:03
 
I'm imagining Dana Carvey doing his pop singer, "Your're my layyy-duh..." while earnestly banging on a piano...
daveesh
(birthplace of the american revolution)
Posted: May 02, 2007 - 13:03
 

deadalus451
Posted: May 02, 2007 - 13:02
 
This is okay, thats why I rated it a 4, but not much better.
musikalia
(Somewhere (over the rainbow))
Posted: Feb 13, 2007 - 01:57
 
Wow, this is awful!
burnthebridge
Posted: Jan 29, 2007 - 10:40
 
jennywho wrote:
Oh my god... I used to go see these guys at the small clubs in East Lansing before they signed with RCA. They were AMAZING. Imagine this song with lots of interesting harmonies, and you're getting close to what they sounded like pre-RCA. It's been mostly downhill since then. I highly recommend their album, "Pop Smear." Ok - cheesy name - but GREAT music.


Actually some decent music has come out of East Lansing, but they made the biggest splash. Saw them at the Aud several times.

Go Green!
Jack_Jefferson
(Columbus, OH)
Posted: Jan 29, 2007 - 10:40
 
Are they saying "I live on canned beef"?

:puke:
canadianbug
(nation's capital)
Posted: Jan 29, 2007 - 10:37
 
gorgeous! beats 'the freshmen' or whatever it was called. and that was catchy!
lmic
(Uniondale, NY)
Posted: Jan 29, 2007 - 10:36
 
Great power pop from a band I've never heard of!
wally42
(Steamboat Springs, Colorado)
Posted: Nov 17, 2006 - 13:15
 
Hinkamp wrote:
one of the cheesiest moments at the end of the movie "Rock Star" but it still got to me becuase of the emotion in this song...


I love that movie. I hadn't heard the original before I had seen Rock Star. They fooled me. I thought it was an original for the movie and was really impressed.


jennywho
Posted: Nov 17, 2006 - 13:14
 
Oh my god... I used to go see these guys at the small clubs in East Lansing before they signed with RCA. They were AMAZING. Imagine this song with lots of interesting harmonies, and you're getting close to what they sounded like pre-RCA. It's been mostly downhill since then. I highly recommend their album, "Pop Smear." Ok - cheesy name - but GREAT music.
Hinkamp
(Planet Utah)
Posted: Nov 17, 2006 - 13:14
 
one of the cheesiest moments at the end of the movie "Rock Star" but it still got to me becuase of the emotion in this song...
Mack
(London)
Posted: Oct 19, 2006 - 07:20
 
Diggin the Verve Pipe on a first listen Thursday wet afternoon - brightens up.
K-BILLY
(Rockin' in a Cube)
Posted: Oct 04, 2006 - 15:19
 
I thought it was SEAL as well!
Pyro wrote:
Reminds me of Seal!

trekhead
(Just Missed Me.)
Posted: Sep 05, 2006 - 08:27
 
Pyro wrote:
Reminds me of Seal!



Bri_boy
(Wigan, NW England)
Posted: Aug 07, 2006 - 02:56
 
Not heard anything from the vervepipe for years... got into them when we got married in las vegas, one of their albums seemed to be on constant rotation on the radio station we listened too.. happy memories

BTW they are not as good as the Verve who hail from Wigan, where i am writing this email from. IF you get the chance listen to Richard Ashcrofts new album,a real gem.
SCprof
(South Carolina)
Posted: May 11, 2006 - 08:23
 
First Verve Pipe song I can remember liking. Thanks, RP.
Pyro
Posted: May 11, 2006 - 08:21
 
Reminds me of Seal!
Jacksonstat
(Columbus OH)
Posted: Mar 28, 2006 - 13:22
 
Adore his voice
horstman
Posted: Jan 28, 2006 - 17:07
 
pedro wrote:
I'm still mad at them for stealing The Verve's name.

It's like a band calling themselves "The Beatles Pipe"


That's funny because when this station turned me on to the Verve, I went out and bought Urban Hymns in the used cd bin and right behind it was Verve Pipe-Villians. I was in such a rush that I thought "Hey, another The Verve album" so I bought it too. I was pretty p.o.ed when I found out that it was a different band.

Now I listen to the verve pipe all the time and although I think the verve is very good, The Verve Pipe just totally blows them away. At least Villians does. IMHO of course.
sesomswim
(cleveland)
Posted: Dec 01, 2005 - 12:07
 
pedro wrote:
I'm still mad at them for stealing The Verve's name.

It's like a band calling themselves "The Beatles Pipe"



if you want to be mad at someone, maybe you should be mad at The Verve for THEIR unoriginality. They initially named themselves Verve, which was already owned by an American Jazz Label. "The" was added after they lost a lawsuit claim against them. And their "one hit wonder" status lacks originality too, stealing the riff for "Bittersweet Symphony" from the Rolling Stones "The Last Time." And stealing is no exaggeration either: they lost a lawsuit for that song as well, since they didn't have permission to sample, relinquishing all royalties for the song. At least the Verve Pipe had hits that they actually wrote.

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