Album Info
| Artist: | The Verve |
| Album: | This Is Music: The Singles |
| Released: | Europe, 24 Jan 2025 |
Tracklist:
| A1 | This Is Music | 3:38 |
| Engineer - Tony Cousins | ||
| Musical Assistance [Studio] - Mark Lee | ||
| Producer - Owen Morris, The Verve | ||
| Written-By - Nick McCabe, Peter Salisbury, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones | ||
| A2 | Slide Away | 4:06 |
| Engineer - Tony Cousins | ||
| Engineer, Programmed By - John Cornfield | ||
| Mixed By - Chris Potter | ||
| Producer - John Leckie | ||
| Written-By - Nick McCabe, Peter Salisbury, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones | ||
| A3 | Lucky Man | 4:49 |
| Arranged By [Strings] - Wil Malone | ||
| Engineer [Assistant] - Gareth Ashton, Jan Kybert, Lorraine Francis | ||
| Engineer [Recording], Mixed By, Producer [Additional] - Chris Potter | ||
| Mastered By - Tony Cousins | ||
| Producer - The Verve, Youth | ||
| Written-By - Richard Ashcroft | ||
| A4 | History | 5:28 |
| Arranged By [Strings] - Wil Malone | ||
| Arranged By [Strings], Producer - Owen Morris | ||
| Mastered By - Tony Cousins | ||
| Musical Assistance [Studio] - Mark Lee | ||
| Producer - The Verve | ||
| Written-By - Nick McCabe, Peter Salisbury, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones | ||
| B1 | She's A Superstar | 8:53 |
| Mastered By - Tony Cousins | ||
| Mixed By - Tony Harris | ||
| Producer, Mixed By, Engineer - Barry Clempson | ||
| Written-By - Nick McCabe, Peter Salisbury, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones | ||
| B2 | On Your Own | 3:36 |
| Mastered By - Tony Cousins | ||
| Producer - Owen Morris, The Verve | ||
| Written-By - Nick McCabe, Peter Salisbury, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones | ||
| B3 | Blue | 3:39 |
| Engineer - John Cornfield | ||
| Mastered By - Tony Cousins | ||
| Mixed By - Chris Potter | ||
| Producer - John Leckie | ||
| Written-By - Nick McCabe, Peter Salisbury, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones | ||
| B4 | Sonnet | 4:24 |
| Engineer [Assistant] - Gareth Ashton, Jan Kybert, Lorraine Francis | ||
| Engineer, Mixed By - Chris Potter | ||
| Mastered By - Tony Cousins | ||
| Producer - The Verve, Youth | ||
| Programmed By - Mel Wesson, Paul Taylor | ||
| Written-By - Richard Ashcroft | ||
| C1 | All In The Mind | 4:17 |
| Engineer - Steve Elswood | ||
| Mastered By - Tony Cousins | ||
| Mixed By - Chris Potter | ||
| Producer - Paul Schroeder | ||
| Written-By - Nick McCabe, Peter Salisbury, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones | ||
| C2 | The Drugs Don't Work | 5:05 |
| Arranged By [Strings] - Wil Malone | ||
| Engineer - Jeremy Abbiss | ||
| Engineer [Assistant] - Gareth Ashton, Jan Kybert, Lorraine Francis | ||
| Engineer [Recording], Mixed By - Chris Potter | ||
| Mastered By - Tony Cousins | ||
| Producer - The Verve, Youth | ||
| C3 | Gravity Grave | 8:21 |
| Mastered By - Tony Cousins | ||
| Mixed By - Chris Potter | ||
| Producer, Engineer - Barry Clempson | ||
| Written-By - Nick McCabe, Peter Salisbury, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones | ||
| D1 | Bitter Sweet Symphony | 5:59 |
| Engineer [Assistant] - Gareth Ashton, Jan Kybert, Lorraine Francis | ||
| Engineer, Mixed By - Chris Potter | ||
| Mastered By - Tony Cousins | ||
| Producer - The Verve, Youth | ||
| Written-By - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Richard Ashcroft | ||
| D2 | Love Is Noise | 5:29 |
| Arranged By [Strings], Violin, Electric Violin - Davide Rossi | ||
| Producer - The Verve | ||
| Producer [Additional] - Tim Bran | ||
| Producer, Mixed By - Chris Potter | ||
| Written-By - Richard Ashcroft, The Verve | ||
| D3 | Rather Be | 5:38 |
| Written-By - Richard Ashcroft |
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Description
2LP - Limited Edition Colour Vinyl.
This is Music: The Singles, is a compilation album by English alternative rock band The Verve: Richard Ashcroft (vocals), Pete Salisbury (drums), Simon Jones (bass) and Nick McCabe (guitar).
Originally released in November 2004 it featured two non-singles, tracks pulled from the sessions for their third album 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 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, 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 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.
