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Urban Hymns - The Verve

 
Description: Genre: Indie Rock & Punk - Britpop / Artist: The Verve / Audio CD released 1997-09-29 at Hut / Disc #1 ... more
Urban Hymns - The Verve ... Tracklisting
1 Bittersweet Symphony
2 Sonnet
3 Rolling People
4 Drugs Don't Work
5 Catching The Butterfly
6 Neon Wilderness
7 Space And Time
8 Weeping Willow
9 Lucky Man
10 One Day
11 This Time
12 Velevet Morning
13 Come On
14 Deep Freeze

Newest Review: ... Sonnet - I do like this song alot! Very simple, has a nice chilled out vibe. Very good. 9/10 3. The Rolling People - Bit ... more

 ... of a weird start to this one. Is ok, but I never quite 'got' this song. 6/10 4. The Drugs Don't Work - People rave about this song. People say it's there best work. And it is quite beautiful. But come on! It's depressing as Hell!! I just wanna be that cat in the bag, waiting to drown!! Sorry but I hate this song!! 5/10 5. Catching The Butterfly - Another unusual song. Real spaced out kind of feel to it. Don't mind this one to much. 7/10 6. Neon Wilderness - Bonkers! I just don't get it. Maybe if I was on...more

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andyoz
Premium Review Urban Hymns - The Verve: Classic Brit Rock, or crazy mentalist music? (524 words)
by - written on 31/05/09 (Very useful, 28 readings)
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Well as I'm reviewing my favorite albums I can hardly leave this one out can I. This one gets up there in many people's Top tens. Not sure if it quite makes mine. I took me along time to get into the Verve and by the time I bought this album I had heard all the hype and was expecting something amazing. It was very good, don't get me wrong. But maybe not just as good as I was expecting! So this is what I make of the music; 1. Bitter Sweet Symphony - A masterpiece, quite simply. This has to be one of the most well known songs in British history, soon as that iconic violin kicks in, you know your in for a treat. Awesome! 10/10 2. Sonnet - I do ...  Read the complete review

Travesty of a follow up, ruining the memory of The Verve tha ... (265 words)
by - written on 18/11/01
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The Verve were a magnificent band, and A Northern Soul is a twentieth century masterpiece. But this... This album is a let down. For two weeks as an 18-year-old, this album ruled my life, but now... The events surrounding its release were more a part of that euphoria than the actual music. Urban Hymns is bereft of the passion, the anger, the utter inability to compromise that made A Northern Soul so staggeringly good. Instead we get an over-produced, slick piece of target-market mush, shiny and empty. Posturing over passion, dull singer-songwriter tedium over explosive, expressive inter-band telepathy. Richard Ashcroft, over the course of The Verve's three albums ...  Read the complete review

tommy7
Premium Review Urban Hymns - The Verve: Sadly missed (836 words)
by - written on 08/05/01 (Very useful, 144 readings)
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The Verve released Urban Hymns in 1997 to great reviews from the public and the critics. Three years on I still regularly listen to what I consider to be in the top 5 albums of the nineties. This was the follow up to “Northern Soul” and was released after the band had reformed. Bitter Sweet Symphony (Single) This is a great track to open the album with. It starts off quietly and builds up into a great tune that you can’t help humming along to. The lyrics are also great as they explain the problems that make life a “Bitter Sweet Symphony”. This is a tune that most people will recall and it’s a pity that The Verve ...  Read the complete review

mo79
Premium Review Like a cat in a bag waiting to drown (846 words)
by - written on 08/05/01 (Very useful, 125 readings)
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In British music 1997 was the year of The Verve, atleast in terms of popularity (Radiohead's far better 'OK Computer' was overshadowed) that made dents in the year due to mainly two classic singles, a interest from the press who previously didn't care before, and a history that was finally coming to and end - permanently. Apart one split before, The Verve reformed plus one new member and delivered the Chris Potter and Youth (Killing Joke) produced 'Urban Hymns'. You must've been in a coma in '97, if you hadn't heard of anything about this album. This is the last Verve album, probably ever now. The thing that first ...  Read the complete review

Knor
Premium Review Urban Hymns - The Verve: Classic, no other word. (415 words)
by - written on 01/09/00 (Very useful, 75 readings)
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This double Brit-awarding album is totally classic. After the Verve broke up, they got back together in '97 to make Urban Hymns. They dissolved shortly afterwards, and Richard Ashcroft (band-leader, lead vocals, guitar, song-writer) has a solo carraer. The singles from Urban Hymns are Bitter Sweet Symphony (everyone's heard that. You know, the one with the violins!)Lucky Man (another clssssic) and, ofcourse, Now the Drugs Don't work. Contrary to common beleif this is not that depressing an album. Yes some of the songs are pretty sad, the lyrics are not exactly cheery, but some of the tunes are happy, and in some there's a sense of hope (admittedly in ...  Read the complete review

 

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