Product Description

This Is Music: The Singles 92-98 is the definitive best of collection from The Verve. Consists of singles released from A Storm In Heaven, A Northern Soul and Urban Hymns plus various EP's, B sides and two unreleased tracks.

Track Listing

1. This Is Music
2. Slide Away
3. Lucky Man
4. History
5. She’s A Superstar
6. On Your Own
7. Blue
8. Sonnet
9. All In The Mind
10. The Drugs Don’t Work
11. Gravity Grave
12. Bittersweet Symphony
13. This Could Be My Moment (Previously Unreleased)
14. Monte Carlo (Previously Unreleased)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3790 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
This Is Music: The Singles: 92 – 98 represents a landmark collection of releases from one of the most celebrated British bands of the last decade, The Verve. Richard Ashcroft and his reformed band of northern souls stood astride the mid-nineties like a colossus, after finally producing the masterpiece that everyone knew they were capable of (1997's Urban Hymns). A collection of their most successful work is long overdue, particularly with Ashcroft's solo career stalled after two below average efforts.

This rolls out the singles from their three albums, early EPs and the obligatory new tracks too, both unreleased from the Urban Hymns sessions. Interesting though these collector's items are, the real treasure lies in simply rediscovering, like Suede, what a great singles band they were. Witness the grandeur and scope of "History" – with it's epic (if overdone) strings and classic Ashcroft delivery or the genuine melancholy of "The Drugs Don't Work." They became, as Oasis and the Stone Roses did, a band of the people; of the nation. The era-defining "Bittersweet Symphony", grand without the Gallagher's arrogance, somehow intellectual in place of their brutish stupidity, didn't so much carve The Verve a path as stomp one through the crowd. --Ben Johncock

CD Description
This definitive collection from the Verve brings together their biggest hits for the first time. From their debut single 'All In The Mind' through to all four singles which were released from their final - and most successful - album 'Urban Hymns'. Tracks from the first two albums 'A Storm In Heaven' and 'A Northern Soul' are also represented here. The release features fourteen songs in total, including two previously unreleased tracks recorded in 1997.

Customer Reviews

Pure Brilliance
This album is most certainly worth purchasing - especially if you're curious to learn more about a band that could have gone on to achieve so much more.

If you liked Urban Hymns, this 'best of' collection will introduce you to some of The Verve's more undiscovered (and unappreciated) earlier work of the 90's. This Is Music, On Your Own and History are all excellent singles from their 1995 album A Northern Soul, while Slide Away and Blue offer a more raw taste of music from their debut album A Storm In Heaven.

All In The Mind, Gravity Grave and She's A Superstar are all early efforts between 92-93 and are vastly different - but not necessarily worse - than the more popular offerings such as Bitter Sweet Symphony and The Drugs Don't Work.

The Verve were a true British rock band that made music the way it was supposed to be made. If you appreciate good music, you'll certainly appreciate this CD.

Mesmeric, awe inspiring - stunning!
"History has a place for us...it may take 3 albums but we will get there" (Richard Ashcroft).
This album cements the claim made by lead singer Richard Ashcroft at the start of The Verve's journey into the music business. It drips with genius from every track and shows why, in 1998, the world of music lost one of the most influential and pioneering bands in history!
The remixes of songs such as "This Is Music", "She's A Superstar" and "Gravity Grave" really highlight the overall power of the tracks and the unique quality of Richard Ashcroft's voice. The new tracks, "This Could Be My Moment" and "Monte Carlo" are a rare treat and leave me panting for more...alas it's over.
Mesmeric, awe-inspiring - BUY THIS ALBUM!

This IS Music!
What a great album, well worth the money!...and the wait.

Opener the raw "this is music" is such a confident song bursting with energy will be an eye-opener to fans who got into the verve around the Urban Hymns time.

"Slide Away" and "Lucky Man" follow, reminding us of the loss to the british music scene. Then perhaps the greatest single of the nineties "History", what more is their to say, just such a fine quality and haunting song.

Older songs fit really well with the later material (I'm sure they've mixed Richards vocals louder in the old ones too!).

Then the previoulsy unreleased "This could be my moment" ..WOW ...it is such a strong song, so joyous and triumphant and a bit "pop" too (still better than almost everything Ashcroft has produced solo though) and "Monte Carlo" is the just icing on a cake that leaves you thinking "if only they hadn't split..." Come on!