- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- A Storm In Heaven · 1993
- Forth · 2008
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- This Is Music: The Singles 92-98 · 1995
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Super Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016) · 1997
- This Is Music: The Singles 92-98 · 1995
Essential Albums
- Made while Richard Ashcroft was processing the breakdown of a long-term relationship and the band were tumbling towards their first split, The Verve’s second album thrives on dark emotions. “This Is Music” charges its funk groove and inflamed guitars with defiance and rage, and acoustic ballad “On Your Own” is embittered by solitude and betrayal. The latter is a glimpse of the singer-songwriter classicism Ashcroft would eventually settle into, but “History” is the great leap forward here; its captivating sorrow driven by strings and a re-purposed William Blake poem.
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- Take a psychedelic trip with the space rockers who became arena-filling heroes.
- These Brits' sumptuously hypnotic music spans rock history.
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More To Hear
- Time heals all—including a decades-long legal battle.
About The Verve
Fronted by singer-songwriter Richard Ashcroft, The Verve became Britpop hitmakers in the 1990s with a sound heavily influenced by psych-rock. ∙ The Verve’s 1993 full-length debut, A Storm in Heaven, is one of their three releases to make NME’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. ∙ The title track of 1995’s A Northern Soul was dedicated to Noel Gallagher after he wrote “Cast No Shadow”—from Oasis’ breakout (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?—about Ashcroft. ∙ Urban Hymns remains one of the UK’s top-selling albums, thanks to the Grammy-nominated smash “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” which sampled a cover of The Rolling Stones’ “The Last Time.” ∙ After an 11-year hiatus, they shot to No. 1 in the UK with 2008’s Forth, which included the hit, “Love is Noise,” partly inspired by a William Blake poem. ∙ In 2019, Ashcroft was honored with the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, celebrating his 30-year career as a songwriter.
- ORIGIN
- Wigan, Greater Manchester, England
- FORMED
- 1989
- GENRE
- Rock