Villains is the third studio album, and first major label release by the Verve Pipe. It was released in March 1996. The band received its first hit in "Photograph", which peaked in the top 10 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. A year after the release of the album, a reformatted version of "The Freshmen" peaked at number 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The single was also the band's sole appearance on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 5. The success of the song helped this album go platinum. To date, it is the Verve Pipe's best selling album. The album was originally pressed in a blue case to match the color of the artwork, which included the slower recording of "The Freshmen," before it was later re-recorded and added to subsequent pressings.

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Villains is the third studio album, and first major label release by the Verve Pipe. It was released in March 1996. The band received its first hit in "Photograph", which peaked in the top 10 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. A year after the release of the album, a reformatted version of "The Freshmen" peaked at number 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The single was also the band's sole appearance on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 5. The success of the song helped this album go platinum. To date, it is the Verve Pipe's best selling album. The album was originally pressed in a blue case to match the color of the artwork, which included the slower recording of "The Freshmen," before it was later re-recorded and added to subsequent pressings. Artwork The artwork includes a toy duck in a darkened background and inverted-like coloring. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the Villains booklet and liner notes.

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Notable quotes

“I’ll tell you a minor secret of playing villains. Mine are usually polite and almost invariably charming. Nobody likes a nasty villain.”
— James Mason in James Mason: The Boys From Brazil by Roger Ebert, Chicago Tribune, (October 12, 1978).
“Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.”
— Plutarch, Moralia (2d century), Volume I. Of Bashfulness.
“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats.”
— William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 2, line 14.
“His nunc præmium est qui recta prava faciunt.”
— Knavery's now its own reward.

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