The Verve - This Time

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Postby buglight » Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:25 pm

I'm sorry. But this song transcends both space and time
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Postby buglight » Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:30 pm

There is time
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Postby rubicon » Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:14 pm

Song is sick

Album is sic

5 bloody stars
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Postby it's the suspense that gets me » Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:17 pm

i like the song 'lucky man' because it was written by steakspoon
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Postby Grumby » Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:21 pm

it's the suspense that gets me wrote:i like the song 'lucky man' because it was written by steakspoon


i really hate this song for some reason

the one in the op's cool though
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Postby BlackSugar » Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:28 pm

I look at urban hymns the same way I see ritual do lo habitual
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Postby Riverchrist » Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:11 pm

Considered making some riposte about "Space & Time" which I like a lot but instead it's the rare chance to post their last good song:

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Postby buglight » Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:15 pm

I actually got into The Verve before ever discovering Oasis, who were the first band that I got obsessed with. BSS gave me so much escape in an otherwise extremely repressive and restrictive home environment, and I found "Lucky Man" and "Weeping Willow" soon after. Not sure why Oasis was the band I ended up attaching to more, but Urban Hymns is still really special to me. Every song is basically about being a broken human being, but they're all so consistently beautiful and uplifting.
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Postby separator » Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:28 pm

this is like u2 doing ok computer (which came out 4 years later :shock:)
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Postby Grumby » Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:50 pm

Grumby wrote:
it's the suspense that gets me wrote:i like the song 'lucky man' because it was written by steakspoon


i really hate this song for some reason

the one in the op's cool though


man, that song is just so boring.

anyone agree? "lucky man" is a slog
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Postby Grumby » Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:50 pm

i don't have a concrete opinion on the verve though at all though i haven't even listened to an album all the way through.
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Postby separator » Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:51 pm

lol i forgot to include the song i was talking about

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Postby Grumby » Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:53 pm

richard ashcroft must have influenced chris martin or david gray with his vocals i think. that's all i think about when i hear "lucky man", kinda sounds like david gray
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Postby buglight » Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:23 pm

This is my favorite version of "Slide Away" although I kinda prefer the vocals on the album cut

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Postby buglight » Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:24 pm

I've been meaning to relisten to A Northern Soul because I don't remember it at all. I know I've heard it though
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Postby buglight » Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:27 pm

The bassline on "Slide Away" is seriously one of the best ever
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Postby Getbetter » Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:33 pm

The Verve are easily my favorite britpop band(Pulp are 2nd!)., A Storm in Heaven is a great new psychedelia/shoegaze album and sorta gets swept under the rug by the latter more commerical friendly albums. their guitarist, Nick McCabe? Is very much underrated. Also the thaw sessions noteworthy for later verve stuff.
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Postby Riverchrist » Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:47 pm

budlite supernova wrote:I've been meaning to relisten to A Northern Soul because I don't remember it at all. I know I've heard it though


Even after all those helpful reminders that THIS IS MUSIC.
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Postby Visionquest » Sun Apr 26, 2020 9:28 pm

one of the best songs ever recorded.

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Postby France 98 » Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:58 pm

Considering how much more accessible and palatable their songs were, it's weird they weren't absolutely dominant over Pulp or even bigger than Blur. Blur's one of my favourite bands ever but they don't really have much spread and their consistency is a bit wonky at times, whereas this thing had so many anthemic songs and heaps more potential singles.

also how sick is the sort of baggy guitar work on this?

also also, the production on Urban Hymns is an absolute case study. not every album should sound like this. not very many in fact. but with the pomp and weight of these songs, the slickness is just really well done. the balance of the vocals and the strings and the little production-y-synth swirls (which really reminds me of Paul Epworth's stuff ten years later) is right-on. just sounds like an album. like something you really look at and remember in the CD case as a kid. maybe that's just my actual experience though.
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Postby saranclaps ultra mode 9000 » Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:24 am

i bought the verve pipe cd thinking they were the verve and that shit sucked.
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Postby Getbetter » Mon Apr 27, 2020 11:59 am

The b-sides in my memory were better than the actual album "forth".


ESPEICALLY BLUE OCEAN that's around the 49 minute marker





Pulp and The Verve are my favorite Britpop acts. The Verve tho they were a band you could take drugs to compared to the others. The Verve were like the band you took ecstasys to even Richard Ashcroft would take bunch before a gig.
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Postby Shotfrog » Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:16 pm

My senior year in high school I did this weekly program after school in Boston and I could just about listen to half of this CD on each leg of the drive to and from the train station. This song and then entire back half of the CD are all bound up with driving home at night when that was new to me.
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Postby emotional fascism » Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:30 pm

the Verve are pretty great huh?

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Postby BlackSugar » Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:34 pm

they're one of my favorite bands and I love every minute of northern soul. saw them in 97 touring hymns and it was a blinding show in multiple ways
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