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

This is going to be so hard for me.

4 of 5

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.

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

Gravity Grave is the coolest shit ever

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

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

seconding Gravity Grave

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

Oh yeah, that one for sure.

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

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

This was 32 years to the day:

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

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.

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

Have to consider this more

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...

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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.

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

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