Verve - This Is Music: The Singles 92–98 (and 08) poll

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Verve - A Storm In Heaven POLL

I could have done the other one or even the other one but this comp had two songs from the Verve EP and couldn't pass it up. Dropping "The" as even the cover art doesn't have it, only the font. Also ILM's only album poll dropped it and it was how I originally knew them. Also for "She's A Superstar," you can vote for either version because the full version is just so epic. I have never heard these two new songs from this comp and adding "I See the Door" as it's on the Japanese edition. Also adding the singles from Forth for ivy, I hope they appreciate that but by no means pressure on vote for either of them here.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
11. "Gravity Grave" Verve EP, 1992 8:21 6
4. "History" A Northern Soul, 1995 5:28 6
12. "Bitter Sweet Symphony" Urban Hymns, 1997 5:59 5
1. "This Is Music" A Northern Soul, 1995 3:38 4
5. "She's a Superstar" Verve EP, 1992 5:04 (8:56 full) 4
6. "On Your Own" A Northern Soul, 1995 3:36 2
2. "Slide Away" A Storm in Heaven, 1993 4:06 2
10. "The Drugs Don't Work" Urban Hymns, 1997 5:05 2
14. "Monte Carlo" Previously unreleased 4:58 1
16. "Love Is Noise" Forth, 2008 5:29 1
9. "All in the Mind" Non-album single, 1992 4:17 1
8. "Sonnet" Urban Hymns, 1997 4:24 1
7. "Blue" A Storm in Heaven, 1993 3:39 1
3. "Lucky Man" Urban Hymns, 1997 4:49 1
17. "Rather Be" Forth, 2008 5:38 1
13. "This Could Be My Moment" Previously unreleased 3:59 0
15. "I See the Door" Japanese bonus track "On Your Own" single, 1995 5:20 0


Bee OK, Thursday, 24 October 2024 02:06 (one week ago) link

This is going to be so hard for me.

4 of 5

Bee OK, Thursday, 24 October 2024 02:07 (one week ago) link

This and (particularly) She's a Superstar are among my favourite record sleeves. Maybe Microdot's best design session.

I did ask for this compilation for xmas 2004. I didn't receive it (but I was given Travis' Singles, released the same day, ahem). Four years later I went and bought all their non-Urban Hymns (which I already owned) albums (sans Verve EP) ahead of Forth being released. That included this which I probably should have listened to more often, as I so often did with singles compilations, but I think I was peeved that She's a Superstar was edited, when Gravity Grave is allowed to be uncut. It's not like having both in full would have pushed the CD capacity.

Anyway, great compilation, admirably bumpy sequencing, don't really know what to vote for.

you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 24 October 2024 02:12 (one week ago) link

Wait, "Love Is Noise" might actually be my favourite Verve single, by quick process of elimination. I'll think about it still.

you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 24 October 2024 02:14 (one week ago) link

Gravity Grave is the coolest shit ever

brimstead, Thursday, 24 October 2024 02:16 (one week ago) link

i wonder which cup you'll drink from
i hope it's mine

mookieproof, Thursday, 24 October 2024 04:19 (one week ago) link

I really liked 'Monte Carlo," it sounds like the older stuff or before UH type of stuff.

Bee OK, Friday, 25 October 2024 16:25 (one week ago) link

seconding Gravity Grave

Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 25 October 2024 17:50 (one week ago) link

Listened to the Glastonbury version of 'Gravity Grave' on the way home from work today. 'We got one minute c'mon!'.

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 25 October 2024 18:42 (one week ago) link

Oh yeah, that one for sure.

I did like "No Come Down" off the album of the same name, but it's not here...

Mark G, Friday, 25 October 2024 21:53 (one week ago) link

that’s a beautiful tune and a great little collection of stoned half conscious psychedelia

brimstead, Friday, 25 October 2024 22:47 (one week ago) link

This was 32 years to the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svCjk807UcE

Bee OK, Sunday, 27 October 2024 00:39 (six days ago) link

Part of the reason why I voted for "She's a Superstar" (long version) is because of those live shows. I first saw them in July 1993 then again later that same year. They were just so into their craft and the shegaze sound was swirling throughout. I one time saw them where it was so loud that it overloaded the power and was cut. Richard Ashcroft was so into it that he kept on going. They were special in those early days.

Bee OK, Sunday, 27 October 2024 00:48 (six days ago) link

Difficult to avoid gut-voting "Gravity Grave" immediately. I mean it's all there right in the first track.

Have to consider this more

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 October 2024 01:05 (six days ago) link

I one time saw them where it was so loud that it overloaded the power and was cut.

That was the show at The Roxy, right? Unbelievable...

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 October 2024 01:05 (six days ago) link

Time

Mark G, Sunday, 27 October 2024 02:00 (six days ago) link

I one time saw them where it was so loud that it overloaded the power and was cut.
That was the show at The Roxy, right? Unbelievable...

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, October 26, 2024 6:05 PM (yesterday)

It was at the Roxy! I have been to louder shows there, ie MBV Loveless tour but only one band was able to blow a circuit that cut the power.

Bee OK, Sunday, 27 October 2024 19:16 (six days ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 28 October 2024 00:01 (five days ago) link

early Verve were absolute masters of the soft/loud/soft dynamic

the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 28 October 2024 00:39 (five days ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 00:01 (four days ago) link

Interesting results, glad that someone voted for "Monte Carlo," my discovery of this poll.

Bee OK, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 01:26 (four days ago) link


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