If the Verve Pipe never had another hit to match "The Freshmen," it was not for lack of trying, nor was it for lack of material - as their first hits compilation, Platinum & Gold Collection (re-packaged in 2007 as Super Hits) proves, they had similarly hooky material that fit well into mainstream alt-rock radio. Starting as an acoustic ballad, by the time it turned into a radio hit it was given a brooding sensibility, heavy on heavy guitars and echo, that didn't just fit into the post-Nirvana landscape of '90s modern rock, it epitomized how alternative rock was no longer underground - it was a commercial juggernaut. That hit, of course, was "The Freshmen," a pained, earnest mid-tempo dissection of a relationship gone wrong that the band's lead singer/songwriter, Brian Vander Ark, wrote years before the Verve Pipe had formed. The Verve Pipe were one of the handful of post-grunge bands that had a hit in the mid- to late '90s that was ubiquitous, and then had the bottom suddenly fall out from underneath them.
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