Urban Hymns [5 CD/DVD][Super Deluxe Edition] Review Urban Hymns is the 3rd studio album by English rock band The Verve, released in September, 1997. It earned unanimous critical praise upon its release, selling over 10 million WW, and featuring the singles 'Bitter Sweet Symphony', 'Lucky Man' and 'The Drugs Don't Work'. The 5CD + DVD super deluxe features the remastered album, B-sides, unreleased live tracks and BBC sessions, a full live performance, promo videos and more. 56 page hardcover book, 5 postcards, and a poster are included as well. | |
| Storm in Heaven: Super Deluxe Edition Review Super deluxe four disc (three CDs + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) edition. The Verve's stunning debut album from 1993 gets a thorough overhaul with this wonderful box set. Remastered by Chris Potter (co-producer of the band's Urban Hymns) the original album comes amply augmented by all of the legendary pre-album EP tracks, associated acoustic versions, as well as two previously unreleased BBC radio sessions and two excellent previously unreleased studio albums - South Pacific and Shoeshine Girl. The DVD presents a 1992 Camden Town Hall concert, the US promo video for 'Blue' plus unseen footage of the band in New York in October 1992. There's also a new video for the unreleased 'South Pacific', made from the album's recording sessions, as captured by producer John Leckie. The package, which comes in a lift-off-lid box, also includes four post cards, a poster and a 48-page book featuring new interviews and previously unseen photos. | |
| A Northern Soul [3 CD][Super Deluxe Edition] Review For this super deluxe reissue, the album has been remastered and, once again, augmented by the inclusion of all associated B-sides, two previously unreleased BBC radio sessions and seven unreleased studio tracks, including powerful early versions of 'The Rolling People' and 'Come On' (later re-recorded for Urban Hymns) as well as 'Mover' and Muhammad Ali,' songs that were to be revisited for The Verve's 2008 reunion album, Forth. The package, comes in a lift-off-lid box, covered with silver mirri board as with the original 2LP vinyl release, and features four post cards, a poster and a 36-page book featuring interviews with the band (Richard aside) and never-before-seen photos by bass player Simon Jones, Chris Floyd and Michael Spencer Jones. | |
| The Queen Is Dead (3CD/1DVD) Review The first ever singles collection on CD and DVD by The Verve! The CD contains two previously unreleased tracks (This Could Be My Moment and Monte Carlo) taken from the classic URBAN HYMNS sessions. | |
| A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982)(11CD) Review A Northern Soul is the second studio album by The Verve which hit No. 13 on the UK album chart and has since received critical acclaim. A Northern Soul moved them from psychedelic rock to alternative rock, with the lyrics taking on a more prominent role. It features the singles 'This is Music,' 'On Your Own,' & 'History,' and will now be available on standard black vinyl. | |
| The Verve: Photographs by Chris Floyd Review Something happens when the Verve are together that none of them experience when they are apart. Individually, the Verve are all highly-accomplished players. Singer Richard Ashcroft has been called the greatest singer in the world by no less a peer than Coldplay s Chris Martin. Liverpool-born Simon Jones s dub-informed bass takes the Verve s music far beyond rock and into space and dub; Peter Salisbury plays drums more like a jazz great than a conventional rock drummer and when the tag guitarist of his generation is thrown about it often lands at the feet of the hugely adventurous, psychedelic, exploratory Nick McCabe. However, when they are together a chemistry takes hold that transcends the four people onstage to blast the Verve somewhere else entirely and this chemistry and spontaneity has survived an absence of almost a decade. Already, since their typically unpredictable 2007 reunion, live shows have been running the gauntlet of everything from material so new that Ashcroft has been singing the words from scraps of paper to long-lost, hazy B-sides like Let The Damage Begin and A Man Called Sun, amid all manner of musical fireworks. When they take the stage, literally anything can happen. After an absence of almost a decade, these songs are again being played, as they should be by the Verve themselves. The individual members have not been slouches. Richard Ashcroft has enjoyed a successful and prolific solo career. Simon Jones formed a band, the Shining, who were not altogether dissimilar to the Verve, and has played with Damon Albarn s Gorillaz. Nick McCabe has been remixing and playing with everyone from the Beta Band to John Martyn while Peter Salisbury has been playing with Ashcroft, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and has further diverted his musical obsessions into running a Stockport drum shop. However, all seem to have realized what their enormous fanbase has been telling them all along. That today, as much if not more than ever, music really needs the Verve. However, a band like the Verve would never settle for easy nostalgia. Even before they d set out on their initial comeback gigs last year, which sold out within an astonishing 20 minutes, they made public (via the NME website) the results of their very first jam session as a reformed band. The Thaw Sessions comprised 14 wondrous minutes of music, which signified their ability to spark off one another remained undimmed. Soon afterwards, the band debuted new song Sit And Wonder a tune trimmed from a 25-minute jam, just as they would in the early days, a taste of things to come. Those comeback dates proved so successful and were so enthusiastically received that the band immediately embarked on a full-scale tour of arenas in December of 2007, playing bigger gigs in many cases than the first time around. In 2008, they look set to up the ante even further, by appearing at many of the major festivals and, in a turnaround that would have seemed unthinkable even a year ago, releasing their enormously-anticipated fourth album. The results will certainly be worth the wait. - Dave Simpson. | |
| As You Were (Explicit)(Deluxe Edition) Review This U.K. quartet specializes in oceanic, wall-of-sound guitar pop that frequently takes off on long, trippy adventures. You will hear nods to acoustic Led Zeppelin and beat-crazed Stone Roses on this neatly packaged, 49-minute companion volume to A Storm In Heaven, but The Verve excel at a stoned, shimmering intensity all its own. --Jeff Bateman | |
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| Being There (5CD) Review Urban Hymns is the 3rd studio album by English rock band The Verve, released in September, 1997. It earned unanimous critical praise upon its release, selling over 10 million WW, and featuring the singles 'Bitter Sweet Symphony', 'Lucky Man' and 'The Drugs Don't Work'. The 5CD + DVD super deluxe features the remastered album, B-sides, unreleased live tracks and BBC sessions, a full live performance, promo videos and more. 56 page hardcover book, 5 postcards, and a poster are included as well. | |
| Core (25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)(4CD/1DVD/1LP) Review Super deluxe four disc (three CDs + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) edition. The Verve's stunning debut album from 1993 gets a thorough overhaul with this wonderful box set. Remastered by Chris Potter (co-producer of the band's Urban Hymns) the original album comes amply augmented by all of the legendary pre-album EP tracks, associated acoustic versions, as well as two previously unreleased BBC radio sessions and two excellent previously unreleased studio albums - South Pacific and Shoeshine Girl. The DVD presents a 1992 Camden Town Hall concert, the US promo video for 'Blue' plus unseen footage of the band in New York in October 1992. There's also a new video for the unreleased 'South Pacific', made from the album's recording sessions, as captured by producer John Leckie. The package, which comes in a lift-off-lid box, also includes four post cards, a poster and a 48-page book featuring new interviews and previously unseen photos. | |
| Storm in Heaven: Super Deluxe Edition Review For this super deluxe reissue, the album has been remastered and, once again, augmented by the inclusion of all associated B-sides, two previously unreleased BBC radio sessions and seven unreleased studio tracks, including powerful early versions of 'The Rolling People' and 'Come On' (later re-recorded for Urban Hymns) as well as 'Mover' and Muhammad Ali,' songs that were to be revisited for The Verve's 2008 reunion album, Forth. The package, comes in a lift-off-lid box, covered with silver mirri board as with the original 2LP vinyl release, and features four post cards, a poster and a 36-page book featuring interviews with the band (Richard aside) and never-before-seen photos by bass player Simon Jones, Chris Floyd and Michael Spencer Jones. | |
| A Northern Soul [3 CD][Super Deluxe Edition] Review The first ever singles collection on CD and DVD by The Verve! The CD contains two previously unreleased tracks (This Could Be My Moment and Monte Carlo) taken from the classic URBAN HYMNS sessions. | |
| Urban Hymns Review A Northern Soul is the second studio album by The Verve which hit No. 13 on the UK album chart and has since received critical acclaim. A Northern Soul moved them from psychedelic rock to alternative rock, with the lyrics taking on a more prominent role. It features the singles 'This is Music,' 'On Your Own,' & 'History,' and will now be available on standard black vinyl. | |
| The Queen Is Dead (3CD/1DVD) Review Something happens when the Verve are together that none of them experience when they are apart. Individually, the Verve are all highly-accomplished players. Singer Richard Ashcroft has been called the greatest singer in the world by no less a peer than Coldplay s Chris Martin. Liverpool-born Simon Jones s dub-informed bass takes the Verve s music far beyond rock and into space and dub; Peter Salisbury plays drums more like a jazz great than a conventional rock drummer and when the tag guitarist of his generation is thrown about it often lands at the feet of the hugely adventurous, psychedelic, exploratory Nick McCabe. However, when they are together a chemistry takes hold that transcends the four people onstage to blast the Verve somewhere else entirely and this chemistry and spontaneity has survived an absence of almost a decade. Already, since their typically unpredictable 2007 reunion, live shows have been running the gauntlet of everything from material so new that Ashcroft has been singing the words from scraps of paper to long-lost, hazy B-sides like Let The Damage Begin and A Man Called Sun, amid all manner of musical fireworks. When they take the stage, literally anything can happen. After an absence of almost a decade, these songs are again being played, as they should be by the Verve themselves. The individual members have not been slouches. Richard Ashcroft has enjoyed a successful and prolific solo career. Simon Jones formed a band, the Shining, who were not altogether dissimilar to the Verve, and has played with Damon Albarn s Gorillaz. Nick McCabe has been remixing and playing with everyone from the Beta Band to John Martyn while Peter Salisbury has been playing with Ashcroft, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and has further diverted his musical obsessions into running a Stockport drum shop. However, all seem to have realized what their enormous fanbase has been telling them all along. That today, as much if not more than ever, music really needs the Verve. However, a band like the Verve would never settle for easy nostalgia. Even before they d set out on their initial comeback gigs last year, which sold out within an astonishing 20 minutes, they made public (via the NME website) the results of their very first jam session as a reformed band. The Thaw Sessions comprised 14 wondrous minutes of music, which signified their ability to spark off one another remained undimmed. Soon afterwards, the band debuted new song Sit And Wonder a tune trimmed from a 25-minute jam, just as they would in the early days, a taste of things to come. Those comeback dates proved so successful and were so enthusiastically received that the band immediately embarked on a full-scale tour of arenas in December of 2007, playing bigger gigs in many cases than the first time around. In 2008, they look set to up the ante even further, by appearing at many of the major festivals and, in a turnaround that would have seemed unthinkable even a year ago, releasing their enormously-anticipated fourth album. The results will certainly be worth the wait. - Dave Simpson. | |
| As You Were (Explicit)(Deluxe Edition) Review This U.K. quartet specializes in oceanic, wall-of-sound guitar pop that frequently takes off on long, trippy adventures. You will hear nods to acoustic Led Zeppelin and beat-crazed Stone Roses on this neatly packaged, 49-minute companion volume to A Storm In Heaven, but The Verve excel at a stoned, shimmering intensity all its own. --Jeff Bateman | |
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