The Verve

McCruiskeen

F*ck me man, they were good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgsPAsno4OU&feature=related

And my point is?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Agreed I was and still am a huge Verve fan, Northern soul was an epic album. Slide away is another favourite of mine.

AnonoBoy

Someone gave me Urban Hymns as a present when it came out.

I tried but I could never listen to it the whole way through.

Dull band.

Sad Professor

I loved A Northern Soul and Urban Hymns. They were a great band at the time. Didn't bother with their newer album though. Heard it was fairly unimpressive.

SilverScreen

Their debut A Storm In Heaven is the only album I can listen to these days, it was pretty damn solid actually despite being overlooked. Urban Hymns sounds poor nowadays.

This song is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X45hWP_QKt0

Sir Graball

McCruiskeen wrote: »

F*ck me man, they were good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgsPAsno4OU&feature=related

And my point is?

Yeah great Joy Division based intro to this track - Have to agree with others generally that earlier albums were best work. Urban Hymns hasn't dated though some really great songs on that !!

me-skywalker

2nd album I ever bought with mine own money was Urban Hymns Instantly fell in love with it!

Love is Noise is a great track too!

unkymo

What a band, never got to see them live which I regret! Nick McCabe is a terribly underrated guitar player.

Nick McCabe and Simon Jones are in a new band called The Black Ships. You can download a free EP from their website; http://www.theblackships.com/music.html

No idea what Ashcroft is doing though!

Hannibal

I thought their last album Forth was pretty good, it had the psychadelic feel of their earlier albums and apart from a couple of tracks it wasn't as radio friendly as Urban Hymns but it's well worth a listen.

Richard Ashcroft had an album out last year called The United Nations of Sound which was hit and miss with a couple of very good tracks on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8pZFjczSyA

unkymo

It was an alright album, a couple of good songs on it as you said.

He hasn't done much since but I found this on Youtube.
Its a song called 'Screw You,Screw Me' which was only made available a few weeks ago. Great tune!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqEPe-sDVaQ

Android 666

McCruiskeen wrote: »

And my point is?

You need to listen to some better music?

iGenius

Great band. Ashcroft never came close with his solo stuff.

Corholio

iGenius wrote: »

Great band. Ashcroft never came close with his solo stuff.

I dont know how many would be in this category, but I quite liked his solo stuff. Was very different from The Verve and he wasn't even trying to do Verve-type stuff anyway.

Lot of soulful tracks with some great melodies behind them. His solo stuff is very underrated IMO.

I liked "Human Conditions" even though it wasn't very well received.

iGenius

Corholio wrote: »

I dont know how many would be in this category, but I quite liked his solo stuff. Was very different from The Verve and he wasn't even trying to do Verve-type stuff anyway.

Lot of soulful tracks with some great melodies behind them. His solo stuff is very underrated IMO.

I liked "Human Conditions" even though it wasn't very well received.

Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of his solo stuff, but I don't think he ever came close to the brilliance of The Verve. Wasn't too keen on the United Nations.. album though.

He's a cool f*cker.

falan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX3zGTMkHfo

What a band!!!! My fave song by them!:)

Temaz

Classic tune tucked away as a b-side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNV0q_zFC34

thesultan

Zero1986 wrote: »

Their debut A Storm In Heaven is the only album I can listen to these days, it was pretty damn solid actually despite being overlooked. Urban Hymns sounds poor nowadays.

This song is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X45hWP_QKt0

Epic

inmyday

Android 666 wrote: »

You need to listen to some better music?

Go on. Im dying to know what superb music you listen to.

Miguel_Sanchez

Alright. Less of the sniping at each other.