Name: This is Music: The Singles
Brand: The Verve

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

1000166126

Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2025-01-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Unive­rsal

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

602465803587

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9999

Black LPx2

1000165737

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Extended format: Yes

2025-01-24

602465803648

99999

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Artist

The Verve

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Virgin

The Verve were an English rock band that formed in Wigan in 1990. The core members of the group were Richard Ashcroft on vocals, Nick McCabe on guitar, Simon Jones on bass, and Peter Salisbury on drums. They later added Simon Tong as a second guitarist for their album "Urban Hymns." Originally known as Verve, they changed their name to The Verve in 1994 after a dispute with a jazz label also named Verve.

Their early material was influenced by My Bloody Valentine and featured guitar-based soundscapes. However, they would later transition into a more conventional alternative rock sound. In April 1999, The Verve announced their disbandment but reunited eight years later to record a new album and resume touring.

Similar artists to The Verve include Richard Ashcroft, Ian Brown, Kula Shaker, Manic Street Preachers, Supergrass, Ocean Colour Scene, The Stone Roses, James, The Seahorses,
Doves,
Blur,
Primal Scream,
Travis,
The Charlatans,
Cast,
Noel Gallagher,
Embrace,
The La's,
Stereophonics,and Pulp.

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This is Music: The Singles, is a compilation album by The Verve originally released in November 2004 featuring two non-singles, tracks pulled from the sessions for their third album&nbsp;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 &nbsp;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,&nbsp;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&nbsp;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.

This is Music: The Singles

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Discover This is Music: The Singles by The Verve on vinyl. A compilation album featuring exclusive tracks, now reissued with powerful singles from their 2008 album. Available from UMR.