Verve: S/D ?

mainly i'm listening to she's a superstar over and over.

They were the first show I saw in San Francisco when I moved there in July of 1995 and end up seeing them six times total. They were the highlight for Lollapalooza 1994 along with the Boo Radleys. Even if Urban Hymns isn’t as great as their past work, it still is a really good album especially on road trips.

*INSANELY JEALOUS*

Oh...wait a minute...you're talking about THE Verve, purveyors of 1974-style soft rock?

the debut, i never could fully embrace

guess what? they're back.

http://www.theverve.tv/

*smacks forehead*

I got a REAL bad feeling.

Likewise.

More smooth MOR like Ashcroft's solo stuff, methinks. Least necessary reunion since the last unnecessary reunion.

Hahah, all too true.

i pretty much HATE Richard's solo stuff, especially as time went on.

hope that they feel the groove again because they are one hell of a live band.

*crosses finger* for good luck on this.

first Blur, now Verve...who is next?

Someone PLEASE book them on one of those Don't Look Back shows where they have to play all of A Storm In Heaven

I'm kinda shocked that McCabe is part of this.

Someone PLEASE book them on one of those Don't Look Back shows where they have to play all of A Storm In Heaven

And all of the early EPs, and the B-sides.

*pause*

Who are we kidding? At most they'll say, "This is an older song you might know" and only do "Slide Away."

Like they'd even do that. The "older song you might now" MIGHT be History, if you're lucky, This Is Music if you're REALLY lucky. This will be an Urban Hymns set. If McCabe's involved it's cos interest rates have rised and he's pushed on his mortgage.

At least it's a new album and they're not just doing a greatest hits cash-in tour.

is McCabe's participation really that big a surprise? I mean, what else does he have to do?

A friend suggested McCabe both 'resents and requires a steady routine,' and so the band format, though it irritates him, might irritate him less now than not having it.

If McCabe's involved it's cos interest rates have rised and he's pushed on his mortgage.

Or else Ashcroft knows that there's no way this will have any cred unless McCabe is on board from the beginning. Ashcroft probably realizes that he has to play nice and make this work or else he's opening up for puppet shows for now on.

months-old xpost to Keith - the old Cathouse was on Brown Street, the new one is on Union Street. And yes, I was at that Oasis/Acetone/Verve show.

Someone PLEASE book them on one of those Don't Look Back shows where they have to play all of A Storm In Heaven

Aye, that'd be brilliant. I'd be up for that. I have some reservations about the quality of material stemming from a reunion, but stranger things have happened.

I have some reservations about the quality of material stemming from a reunion, but stranger things have happened.

I suppose I'm just gun shy after the relative non-event of the House Of Love reunion with Terry Bickers - of course now they're doing one of those Don't Look Back shows.

I suppose the real questions here is whether or not Ashcroft has expunged all the ham and oatmeal out of his system and whether McCabe is interested enough to really cut loose.

Probably not.

(I'm blaming my "stranger things have happened" quote on the strength of, um, Take That, so don't be expecting miracles)

I'm not sure Ashcroft and McCabe have anything to lose, and there's hardly been a stack of people begging for their triumphant return or anything. Mind you, people bought into the Embrace revival, so, yeah, I have no point.

there's that brief run of single material at the start ("love is noise" -> "rather be") which is probably the least interesting part of the record, even though they are perfectly fine songs, but the rest of it sits in this space of psychedelic jamming that i just can't get enough of. i want to call it my favorite verve album, even though i grew up on urban hymns, even though storm in heaven has also kind of taken over my life recently bc of its delayed phosphorescent guitar stuff, but forth legit feels like the best of both worlds to me, space + songcraft + incredible pocket grooves. "judas," "i see houses," "noise epic," "columbo," "appalachian springs".... all really astonishing imo

loved forth since day one, even if at the time i mostly just listened to the front of the record. i've never really understood why so few people care about it, even when their pre-urban hymns albums percolate yet. cus as far as shoegaze reunion albums go...

"sit and wonder" is still my favourite though - all facets of the band get along well on that one. enjoying "rather be", as i do, despite it sounding pretty much like a richard solo track ("check the meaning" especially) probably exposes how i can never fully join the chorus of hate against richard solo, as much as i sometimes want to.

great pop memory: watching the verve headline glastonbury with my tv with my dad - who owned urban hymns for the singles. after the umpteenth minute of lanky figures silhouetted against lights and fog to droning noise he dismissively said something to the extent of "they're on drugs. this music is drug rubbish. terrible"

I wish Black Submarine had found its footing. I like the album reservedly... it's like they had all the elements but couldn't get momentum somehow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TRpuL4gu_s

god i am really obsessed with forth

― ivy., Thursday, July 11, 2024 10:56 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

it continues!!! one of my fave albums of all time at this point

Yeah it's probably their best I'm thinking

Ashcroft really, really sounds like Bono on this album

"numbness".... wtf is this song tbh....