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This is Music: The Singles

Verve

Double LP

Release Date: Friday 24th January, 2025

Verve - This is Music: The Singles - Double Lp

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Artist

Verve

Title

This is Music: The Singles

Format

Double LP

Label

Country

Europe

Year

2024

Genre

Grade

NEW

Catalogue Number

6580358

Comments

14 track black vinyl 2 LP set. pre order expected 24/01/25

Product Information

Artist

Verve

Title

This is Music: The Singles

Format

Double LP

Label

Umr

Country

Europe

Year

Epic

Genre

Indie

Grade

NEW

Catalogue Number

6580358

Comments

14 track black vinyl 2 LP set. pre order expected 24/01/25
SKU: VT1730457655184
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  • Description

    This is Music: The Singles, is a compilation album by English alternative rock band The Verve: Richard Ashcroft (vocals), Pete Salisbury (drums), Simon Jones (bass) and Nick McCabe (guitar).

    Originally released in November 2004 it featured two non-singles, tracks pulled from the sessions for their third album Urban Hymns, ‘This Could Be My Moment’ and ‘Monte Carlo’.

    2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of an album that has never been pressed on vinyl and, under the group’s direction, this long overdue reissue replaces the bonus tracks with the powerful singles from the band’s 2008 reunion album, Forth – ‘Love is Noise’ and ‘Rather Be’ – as well as  including their second single ‘She’s A Superstar’ (1992) in its original, full-length, eight-and-a-half-minute form (rather than the five-minute edit). As such, the album now represents the complete story of The Verve’s singles.

    Named after the band’s sixth single, the first issued from their second album, A Northern Soul, it brilliantly documents the potency of The Verve’s relatively short but epoch-making journey through the musical cosmos.

    On their emergence (when they were known simply as Verve), they were frequently referred to as purveyors of the shoegaze sound, although their output was more expansive, cinematic and genuinely psychedelic than that description implies, as evidenced by their first three non-album singles/EPs, all of which reached the summit of the UK indie charts.

    After splitting up for the first time in 1995, they reconvened (with the addition of guitarist and keyboard player Simon Tong) to reach their commercial peak in 1997 with the hugely successful Urban Hymns, which was centred around a brilliantly accomplished suite of songs written by Ashcroft, including the worldwide smash ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, the UK number one ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’ and the beautiful and evocative ‘Lucky Man’.

    Combustible, intense and highly influential, this stellar journey is finally available on wax, where, in its definitive form, it easily stands comparison with any other singles collection from the last three decades.

  • Track List

    LP1 Side A

    1. This Is Music
    2. Slide Away
    3. Lucky Man
    4. History

    LP1 Side B

    1. She's A Superstar
    2. On Your Own
    3. Blue
    4. Sonnet

    LP2 Side C

    1. All In The Mind
    2. The Drugs Don't Work
    3. Gravity Grave

    LP2 Side D

    1. Bitter Sweet Symphony
    2. Love Is Noise
    3. Rather Be