The Verve - Urban Hymns
NME.COM feature on The Verve - Urban Hymns album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 03 March 2003
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- Bitter Sweet Symphony
- Sonnet
- The Rolling People
- The Drugs Don't Work
- Catching The Butterfly
- Neon Wilderness
- Space And Time
- Weeping Willow
- Lucky Man
- One Day
- This Time
- Velvet Morning
- Come On
- Deep Freeze
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The Verve - Urban Hymns: Wikipedia Album Entry
Urban Hymns is the third album by English rock band The Verve, released on 29 September, 1997. It earned nearly unanimous critical praise upon its release and went on to become the band's best-selling release and one of the biggest selling albums of the year.
The album received nearly unanimous critical praise upon its release, with Melody Maker naming Urban Hymns as the number-one album of 1997 in its year-end list. The album is featured in book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
In the years following its release, Urban Hymns received much acclaim. In 1998, it won Best British Album at the Brit Awards, it was also shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, and Q magazine readers voted it the 18th greatest album of all time. The magazine placed it at the same position in 2001. In 2006 its editors voted it the 16th greatest album of all time. The Verve were awarded with the first ever "Q Classic Album" award for this album at the 2007 Q Awards. In a 2008 poll, Urban Hymns was ranked as the 10th best British album of all time.
The Verve were known for their music's complex, immersive sonic textures. "Bitter Sweet Symphony" was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and remains the band's most well-known song. "The Drugs Don't Work", the Verve's only number one single in the UK, has become a concert staple for jam bands and other groups. The rest of the album alternates between wistful ballads like "Sonnet" and "Space and Time", spacey grooves like "Catching the Butterfly" and "The Rolling People", and all-out rockers like the Led Zeppelin-esque, pounding "Come On", which closes the album.
The Verve had previously released two albums, A Storm in Heaven in 1993 and A Northern Soul in 1995. Neither album had achieved mainstream success, and the band split shortly after their second album due to internal conflicts. Vocalist Richard Ashcroft quickly reformed the group, including guitarist Nick McCabe, But also with Simon Tong, a friend of Ashcroft. The Verve had become a 5-piece music group
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The Verve - Urban Hymns Lyrics
The Verve - Lucky Man Lyrics
It's like, it's like, it's like
It's like, it's like, it's like
It's like, it's like, it's like
The Verve - The Drug Don't Work Lyrics
All this talk of getting old it's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown, this time I'm comin' round
And I hope you're thinking of me, as you lay down on your side
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony Lyrics
'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places
The Verve - Weeping Willow Lyrics
When morning breaks
We had our eyes and our lungs aching
Nothing's strange
It was in our hands
The Verve - Velvet Morning Lyrics
Yes, it's been long
And yes, I still feel strong
Into the half light
Another velvet morning for me, yeah
The Verve - Space And Time Lyrics
There ain't no space and time to keep our love alive
We have existence and it's all we share
There ain't no real truth, there ain't no real lies
Keep on pushin' 'cause I know it's there
The Verve - Sonnet Lyrics
My friend and me
Looking through her red box of memories
Faded I'm sure
But love seems to stick in her veins you know
The Verve - The Rolling People Lyrics
Big short got
I got one more life
Can you see it wastin' away?
The Verve - One Day Lyrics
One day maybe we will dance again
Under fiery skies
One day maybe you will love again
Love that never dies
The Verve - Neon Wilderness Lyrics
In a neon wilderness
He was restless
Escape loneliness
Find a new address
The Verve - Come On Lyrics
I must be feeling low
I talked to God in a phone box on my way home
I told you my answer
I left you my dreams on your answering machine
The Verve - Catching The Butterfly Lyrics
As though you were born
And so you thought
The future's ours
To keep and hold
The Verve - This Time Lyrics
Lookin' back on my life
You know that all I see
Are things I could've changed
I should have done
