Editing Winning Days

{{about|the Vines album|the title track|Winning Days (song)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox album
| name         = Winning Days
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[The Vines (band)|The Vines]]
| cover        = TheVines WinningDays.jpg
| alt          = 
| released     = 23 March 2004
| recorded     = Summer 2003
| studio       = [[Bearsville Studios|Bearsville]] (Woodstock, New York)
| genre        =
* [[Alternative rock]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_vines/winning_days/ |title=Winning Days |publisher=[[Rate Your Music]] |accessdate=6 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.last.fm/music/The+Vines/Winning+Days |title=Winning Days by The Vines |website=last.fm |accessdate=6 October 2011}}</ref>
* [[Garage rock#Revivals|garage rock]]
* [[post-grunge]]
* [[neo-psychedelia]]
| length       = 38:28
| label        = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
| producer     = [[Rob Schnapf]]
| prev_title   = [[Highly Evolved]]
| prev_year    = 2002
| next_title   = [[Vision Valley]]
| next_year    = 2006
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Winning Days
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Fuck the World
 | single1date = 15 December 2003
 | single2     = [[Ride (The Vines song)|Ride]]
 | single2date = 8 March 2004
 | single3     = [[Winning Days (song)|Winning Days]]
 | single3date = 24 May 2004
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
<!-- Aggregate scores -->
| MC = 50/100<ref name="Meta">{{ cite web | url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/winning-days/critic-reviews | title=Critic Reviews for Winning Days | publisher=[[Metacritic]] | accessdate=6 November 2011 }}</ref>
<!-- Reviewers -->
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r676386 |tab=review |label="The Vines: ''Winning Days'' > Review" |first=Heather |last=Phares |accessdate=6 October 2011}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''
| rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/bb/reviews/album_article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000468026 |title=Winning Days |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |accessdate=21 June 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040814145112/http://www.billboard.com/bb/reviews/album_article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000468026 |archivedate=14 August 2004 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Meta"/>
| rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev4score = B<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,602384,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016000552/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,602384,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 October 2008 |title=''Winning Days'' (2004): The Vines |first=Tom |last=Sinclair |date=26 March 2004 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |issue=#757 |issn=1049-0434 |accessdate=6 October 2011}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev5score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/05/popandrock.shopping |title=The Vines, Winning Days |first=Caroline |last=Sullivan |date=5 March 2004 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |issn=0261-3077 |accessdate=6 October 2011}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev6score = {{rating|5|10}}<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/artistKeyname/7340 |title=Vines : Winning Days |first=Imran |last=Ahmed |date=12 March 2004 |journal=[[NME]] |issn=0028-6362 |accessdate=6 October 2011}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' 
| rev7score = 2.7/10<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8472-winning-days |title=The Vines: Winning Days |last=Ott |first=Chris |date=14 April 2004 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307154203/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8472-winning-days/ |archive-date=7 March 2012 |access-date=6 October 2011}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thevines/albums/album/5198094/review/6067618/winning_days |title=The Vines: Winning Days : Music Reviews |last=Fricke |first=David |authorlink=David Fricke |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=10 March 2004 |accessdate=21 June 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070513041740/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thevines/albums/album/5198094/review/6067618/winning_days |archivedate=13 May 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev9score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="Meta"/>
| rev10 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev10score = C+<ref name="CG">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=30 November 2004|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgvts-04.php|title=Consumer Guide: Mine Enemy the Turkey|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|accessdate=13 December 2016}}</ref>
}}

'''''Winning Days''''' is the second studio album by Australian [[alternative rock]] band [[The Vines (band)|The Vines]], and was released on 23 March 2004<ref>{{Cite web|title=Winning Days|url=https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-vines/winning-days/|website=Rate Your Music|access-date=25 May 2020}}</ref> It is the follow-up to their debut, ''[[Highly Evolved]]''.<ref name=":0" /> The enhanced CD has the [[music video]] for "Ride". ''Winning Days'' was recorded in the summer of 2003 at [[Bearsville Studios]] in [[Woodstock, New York]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Vines - Winning Days|url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Vines-Winning-Days/release/1159365|publisher=Discogs|access-date=25 May 2020}}</ref> 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.

==History==
The Vines recorded ''Winning Days'' in May 2003 at [[Bearsville Studios]] with producer [[Rob Schnapf]], who had also produced their debut album ''Highly Evolved''.<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/winning-days-ahead-for-vines-20031216 | title="Winning Days" Ahead for Vines | magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] | date=16 December 2003 | accessdate=13 June 2017 | author=Dansby, Andrew}}</ref> "Fuck the World" (later abbreviated to "F.T.W.") was the first song released from ''Winning Days'' and was released on 15 December 2003, three months prior to the album's release.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-vines-40-1374273 | title=Fuck! It's the Vines! | work=NME | date=16 December 2003 | accessdate=13 June 2017 }}</ref> The song is sarcastic in nature despite what its title seems to imply; as stated in a 2005 ''[[NME]]'' article, "''Winning Days'' is anything but".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vines: Winning Days|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-7340-308386|date=12 September 2005|website=NME|access-date=25 May 2020}}</ref> During interviews given by lead singer [[Craig Nicholls]] in 2004, he stated "I definitely think the world is a good place, but maybe it would be better if people didn't hate so much and kill animals. At the same time, it's like, whatever. It's just a planet, that's all."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1484502/01212004/vines_the.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040419001455/http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1484502/01212004/vines_the.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 April 2004 |title=Vines Saddle Up And 'Ride' To End of the World |first=Jon |last=Wiederhorn |date=26 January 2004 |publisher=[[VH1]] |accessdate=6 October 2011}}</ref>

The next single "Ride" was released on 23 February 2004.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-vines-41-1374837 | title=The Vines Back to 'Winning' Ways | work=[[NME]] | date=11 December 2003 | accessdate=13 June 2017}}</ref> "Ride" reached number 94 on [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2004|Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004]].

[[Winning Days (song)|The title track]] was released as the third and final single on 24 May 2004.

==Critical reception==
''Winning Days'' was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an [[weighted arithmetic mean|average]] score of 50 based on 23 reviews.<ref name="Meta"/>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = [[Craig Nicholls]], except where noted
| title1   = [[Ride (The Vines song)|Ride]]
| length1  = 2:36
| title2   = Animal Machine
| length2  = 3:28
| title3   = TV Pro
| length3  = 3:45
| title4   = Autumn Shade II
| length4  = 3:14
| title5   = Evil Town
| length5  = 3:06
| title6   = [[Winning Days (song)|Winning Days]]
| length6  = 3:33
| title7   = She's Got Something to Say to Me
| writer7  = {{hlist|Nicholls|[[Patrick Matthews]]}}
| length7  = 2:32
| title8   = Rainfall
| length8  = 3:21
| title9   = Amnesia
| length9  = 4:39
| title10   = Sun Child
| length10  = 4:33
| title11   = F.T.W.
| length11  = 3:41
| total_length =
}}
{{Track listing
|headline=Japanese bonus edition<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_Vines_000000000193816/item_Winning-Days_1899366|title=Winnings Days - The Vines|publisher=hmv.co.jp|accessdate=4 April 2021|language=Japanese}}</ref>
|title12=Drown the Baptists
}}

==Personnel==
*Craig Nicholls – vocals, guitars, percussion, Moog
*Patrick Matthews – bass guitar, piano and keyboards
*Ryan Griffiths – guitars
*Hamish Rosser – drums, percussion
*Rob Schnapf – producer, mixing
*Doug Boehm – engineering, mixing
*Susanna Howe – album booklet photography
*Love Police – album sleeve

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
!scope="col"|Chart (2004)
!scope="col"|Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|Australia|7|artist=The Vines|album=Winning Days|rowheader=true|accessdate=9 September 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Austria|40|artist=The Vines|album=Winning Days|rowheader=true|accessdate=9 September 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Wallonia|63|artist=The Vines|album=Winning Days|rowheader=true|accessdate=9 September 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|France|51|artist=The Vines|album=Winning Days|rowheader=true|accessdate=9 September 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|47|id=4913|artist=The Vines|album=Winning Days|rowheader=true|accessdate=9 September 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Switzerland|77|artist=The Vines|album=Winning Days|rowheader=true|accessdate=9 September 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|UK2|29|date=20040328|rowheader=true|accessdate=9 September 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|23|artist=The Vines|rowheader=true|accessdate=9 September 2020}}
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Discogs master|127915|type=album}}
* {{MusicBrainz release group|mbid=3b3b5d2a-bfb2-310f-af9c-ddc9c2a334c7|name=Winning Days}}

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