Verve: S/D ?

Anyway, Elvis T. saw them last night in Vegas so I await the report.

While this Coachella report has a roffle or two. Unintentionally.

i used to think they were the link between the stone roses and spiritualized. not sure why any would care now.

You might perhaps consider reading the posts regarding the reunion upthread or something. Maybe.

but it is still richard ashcroft right? surely he hasn't become less of an idiot just because a few years have passed. i've read the posts and these seem of the same sort that are giddy over that mbv atp lineup. i must be waiting for the majesty crush reunion in order to be won over, swervedriver tours blah, the return of mat from revolver ugh, toni halliday making horrible enya-style things yikes, it's not good.

Actually the Las Vegas show is tonight. I understand all the doubt, especially when Ashcroft is involved, but more than anyone else involved in Reunion 2008 I believe the Verve have the most amount of unfinished business. I'm excited more about this show than I am for MBV or Terrastock.

I just realized that I used a lower-case T in "the." I suppose that's my equivalent of Mulder's "I want to believe" poster.

Ummmm Wow!

You know, Jones and Salsbury are terribly underrated.

Shocking highlight of evening: McCabe had guitar/effects rig problems all night. Not detremental overall but he was clearly frustrated enough to javelin-toss his guitar straight into his amp at the end of "C'mon." Coming back for the encore he made a great "fucking hell don't make me play that doomed guitar!" face.

Irritated McCabe made for some amazing moments though. "Already There" and (of all things) "Lucky Man" which transformed into an upwardly-spiraling moment of Hawkwind proportions. Ashcroft said "I feel like we're flying" and I had to agree with him.

New songs are promising. Final song was a strange one that reminded me of New Order's "Elegia" with McCabe going full-bore. I wanna hear it again.

Sold. I already was but Jesus this is good to hear.

San Francisco show online: http://www.wavesandwires.com/?p=37

Set list from Vegas:

A New Decade
Sonnet
This Is Music
Space And Time
Life's An Ocean
Already There
Weeping Willow
Sit And Wonder
The Rolling People
Velvet Morning
The Drugs Don't Work
Lucky Man
Come On
History
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Love Is Noise

I've never really noticed how much Dickie sounded like Ian McCulloch before.

If anyone in the NYC area has an interest, a friend has an extra ticket to tonight's show she's happy to sell at face value. Get a hold of me ASAP, though!

According to early rumors the new album will be out August 19 with a US tour to follow in Sept.

Anyone know who is producing the album?

Scott Storch

First play for new single on radio 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaVgY9NSa_M

Um, that's fucking horrible.

Just came to here to post that it's on their Myspace http://www.myspace.com/thevervetv (wait, thevervetv? That was the best they can do?), and to echo that sentiment. Even more disappointing than the first time I heard Dickie Ashcroft's first solo single.

What the hell is going on around 2:40 (if you can stand it that long). Sounds like he's channeling Fred Durst or something.

this is awful. i'll probably buy the album anyway, completist that i am.

"Love Is Pain" more like "'Love Is Pain' Is Pain" amirite

Uh Oh. Well then, so much for that. I literally don't think I could have imagined it being worse. And this after "Sit and Wonder" not completely sucking? It really is just comically bad.

http://classic.excellentonline.com/article.php3?story_id=785

the song is OK, hope for a good album from these guys. so yeah put me in the camp that is looking forward to hearing some new stuff from one of the best live acts i have ever seen.

There's a tune, called Mover, available as a free download from their website this week.

http://www.theverve.tv/

so much better than "Love is Crap" - but it's not on the album.

i listened to 'love is noise' for the first time not five minutes ago and can't remember how it goes.

I'm getting many lols from the tracklisting for 'Forth'...

1. "Sit and Wonder"
2. "Love is Noise"
3. "Rather Be"
4. "Judas"
5. "Numbness"
6. "I See Houses"
7. "Noise Epic"
8. "Valium Skies"
9. "Columbo"
10. "Appalachian Springs"

Ah, so Mover IS a b-side - it sounds like one. Shame.

Verve b-sides search & destroy?

Back On My Feet Again
One Way To Go
Let The Damage Begin
Three Steps
Echo Bass
Man Called Sun
Twilight
Country Song
Monkey Magic (Brainstorm Remix)

Destroy = the bollocks country ones from Urban Hymns-era singles that don't have elastic grooves and pyrokinetic guitars.

Does Louis lie Verve b-sides?

I've got no love for the Verve but the single sounded absurdly good at Glastonbury - much ravier, the sample really prominent - a Jacques Lu Cont remix waiting to happen.

The sample's part of the thing that really grates on the recorded version, for me; I'll admit that a much ravier take on the tune would be good, though. From streaming the Myspace version there seems to be a lot of interesting keyboard / electronic stuff going on in the periphery which might redeem it; low bitrate versions are only going to accentuate that sample in nasty ways.

thanks for that link, i like Verve B-sides.

Yeah, at the Las Vegas show "Love Is Noise" sounded like straight-up New Order with McCabe going nuts on it. Some remixes of this could be terrific.

Mover's an ancient song I think? From '93 maybe?

didnt know that:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:wxftxz8aldse

And an album cover...

http://www.spin.com/sites/spin.com/files/imagecache/huge_page_view/sites/spin.com/files/080702_verve_art.jpg

Whaddaya know, a storm in heaven.

i'm so bored of this "naming albums after the number of albums the band have made only not quite huhuh" shit :-(

? are there a rash of these album titles that I don't know about?

xxpost Ned i dunno, looks like pretty clear skies to me. 10% chance of rain, maybe?

I've seen the storm in heaven from both sides now.

"Fourth" is a number. "Forth" is a direction.

I like how it tries to look important. I'm glad someone is still doing this.

So, hey, I'm watching their Glastonbury set on BBC3 at the moment. This is some of the worst fucking music I've heard in years.