Verve - This Is Music: The Singles 92

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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

Option	Votes
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 (nine months ago)

This is going to be so hard for me.

4 of 5

― Bee OK, Thursday, 24 October 2024 02:07 (nine months ago)

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 (nine months ago)

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 (nine months ago)

Gravity Grave is the coolest shit ever

― brimstead, Thursday, 24 October 2024 02:16 (nine months ago)

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

― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 October 2024 04:19 (nine months ago)

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 (nine months ago)

seconding Gravity Grave

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 25 October 2024 17:50 (nine months ago)

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 (nine months ago)

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 (nine months ago)

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

― brimstead, Friday, 25 October 2024 22:47 (nine months ago)

This was 32 years to the day:

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

― Bee OK, Sunday, 27 October 2024 00:39 (nine months ago)

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 (nine months ago)

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 (nine months ago)

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 (nine months ago)

Time

― Mark G, Sunday, 27 October 2024 02:00 (nine months ago)

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 (nine months ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 28 October 2024 00:01 (nine months ago)

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

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 28 October 2024 00:39 (nine months ago)

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

― System, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 00:01 (nine months ago)

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

― Bee OK, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 01:26 (nine months ago)

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