Artist – Album: The Verve – Urban Hymns
Released: 29th September
1997
Sounds Like: 15 bitter-sweet symphonies
Sorry for the briefer blog posts this weekend; I’ve had a
bit of jam-packed weekend. Yesterday I was at a ball (ha, a ball, me!), whilst
today I travelled back from Nottingham (where, coincidentally, I met a
sprightly octogenarian who has been serving in the navy since 1943, and then I got
caught up in a huge anti-Conservative Party march down Manchester’s Oxford
Road). All of this extra-curricular activity has left me a bit bushed so I’m
afraid that this is the best we can do:
The Verve broke up in 1996, and so naturally they released
one of the greatest British albums of all time in 1997. Whether it be tub-thumping
anthems (‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, ‘Lucky Man’ and ‘Velvet Morning’), introspective ballads (‘Sonnet’ and ‘One Day’)
and psychedelic raves (‘Catching the
Butterfly’) Urban Hymns forged exceptional songs with stunning alacrity.
They broke up again in 1999, but since then we’ve not had
another masterpiece. Which is plain inconsistent.
That’ll do pig.
Albumaday... rating:
9/10
1. Bitter
Sweet Symphony – 5:58
2. Sonnet
– 4:21
3. The
Rolling People – 7:01
4. The
Drugs Don’t Work – 5:05
5. Catching
the Butterfly – 6:26
6. Neon
Wilderness – 2:37
7. Space
and Time – 5:36
8. Weeping
Willow – 4:49
9. Lucky
Man – 4:53
10. One
Day – 5:03
11. This
Time – 3:50
12. Velvet
Morning – 4:57
13. Come
On – 15:15
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