The Vegas Years

Performer: Everclear
Engineer: Dan McLaughlin; Dean Baskerville; Derek Steinman; Lars Fox; Neal Avron; Dave Friedlander
Producer: Dean Baskerville; A.P. Alexakis; Lars Fox; Neal Avron; A.P. Alexakis; Jane Ventom (Compilation); Dennis Wolfe (Compilation)
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Audio Mixers: Dan McLaughlin; Dean Baskerville; Neal Avron. Liner Note Author: Art Alexakis. Photographer: Lauren Dukoff. Like most post-grunge outfits, Everclear have made a career from songs with a giant guitar-driven sound and anthemic choruses. That approach holds for THE VEGAS YEARS, a collection of 15 cover tunes. Frontman Art Alexakis and company don't do anything too fancy with these covers outside of amping them up and boosting the backbeat, but it's the choice of songs that makes THE VEGAS YEARS a fun ride. Everclear playing Hall & Oates? Everclear playing the Go-Gos? Everclear playing Thin Lizzy, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie, and "867-5309?" The novelty is unlikely to carry for those who don't dig Everclear's rock stylings to begin with, but fans of the group will find much to love in this good-natured romp through the fun and familiar. Like most post-grunge outfits, Everclear have made a career from songs with a giant guitar-driven sound and anthemic choruses. That approach holds for THE VEGAS YEARS, a collection of 15 cover tunes. Frontman Art Alexakis and Co. don't do anything too fancy with these covers outside of amping them up and boosting the backbeat, but it's the choice of songs that makes THE VEGAS YEARS a fun ride. Everclear playing Hall & Oates? Everclear playing the Go-Gos? Everclear playing Thin Lizzy, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie, and "867-5309?" The novelty is unlikely to carry for those who don't dig Everclear's rock stylings to begin with, but fans of the group will find much to love in this good-natured romp through the fun and familiar.

In the aftermath of the Nirvana-led grunge explosion of the early 1990s, Everclear's grunged-out roots rock brought it all back home without a trace of pretension. At first glance, songs like "Santa Monica" and "Everything to Everyone" are deceptively simple-sounding, grunge pop affairs. By the end of the '90s, however, people listened a little harder and began to realize that bandleader Art Alexakis was actually a major songwriter of his time.

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