The Verve Documentary 

Hell yeah! ❤️

Still in full rotation in all of my music playing choices.

It's incredible. To me a Top 10 Album of all time.

I'm 100% with you there - I bought it on cassette the day it came out and it's been one of my favourite albums ever since. There's really nothing else like it, and it never ceases to completely thrill and hypnotise me. I like A Northern Soul a fair bit too, but it's just not on par with the debut. I dug Urban Hymns at the time, but have absolutely no interest in it now. It's interesting to me how as their music became more regular the album covers did too - Urban Hymns surely has one of the laziest, lamest cover pictures of all time. whereas all the images around A Storm in Heaven are phenomenal. I never bothered with Forth, although the cover for that one is better (if still kinda generic).

@@slothDAMN Awe man you totally hit on the head. I bought the vinyl album for Storm in Heaven so I could hang it up on my wall as art. It's so mysterious, the cave inviting you into it. Then the albums get more literal and flat. Urban Hymns is really a Richard Ashcroft solo album.

@@misubi I really need to buy it on vinyl, too - I still have the original cassette and CD, and also the deluxe edition CD boxset that came out in 2016 (which is a totally lush object, but tbh I'm not a massive fan of the remaster as it brings the drums to the fore in a way that very much changes the feel of the record, giving it an almost Madchester/baggy kinda vibe at times, which is both weirdly distracting and really dials back the almost elemental feel of the original mix - especially in terms of Nick McCabe's guitar, which on the OG version really did feel like the album title at times), but for some stupid reason I never picked it up on vinyl (the only Verve release I ever bought on vinyl was the Gravity Grave 12", which I still have and - like everything from this era of the band - also has fantastic cover art). The cover for A Northern Soul is meh but passable, but the Urban Hymns cover just plain sucks - that image would suck even if it was just a photo of the band in, say, an NME article circa the release of the album. And yes, that album is totally more of a Richard Ashcroft solo thing and massively suffers from a lack of noticeable input from McCabe. It actually really bugs me that most people only really know/associate the band with Urban Hymns and specifically Bittersweet Symphony, as that sound is so far from how they began and so less interesting, and was also much more a thing of its time (which, to my mind/ears, was not really a great time for British guitar-based music), whereas A Storm in Heaven, while very clearly an early 90s record, has proved itself to be timeless and utterly unique. So yeh, I 100% agree with you - and am sorry for the loooooong reply! 😂

You lucky bastard. I was at lollapalooza 93 (which they also played second stage) and had not heard of them at that point. I was probably watching Arrested Development (the hip hop group, not the show) or some other shitty band rather than seeing the Verve. Fortunately I finally found them and saw them perform several times since. I still would have loved to see their set….

Lucky lucky you I was born in 1999😭😭😭. This generation has nothing for me

Man I would love to see them live someday. People here in the states seem to only know Bitter Sweet Symphony and nothing else. Their discography is full of exciting material

Hopefully they will come back, I love the early trippy stuff it was amazing, everyone in the band was a super talented musician. A storm in heaven is my favourite album.

That's incredible! Never get rid of them!

​@@StainedGlassStories Here's a few more Irish Bands you may like to check out -- Rollerskate Skinny (the first couple E.P.'s & Debut Album had Jim Shields, Kevin Shields (MBV) brother, on Guitar. Check out "Cushy Daughter", "Violence To Violence", "Speed To My Side") The Whipping Boy (they should've been bigger. Check out "Favourite Sister", "Buffalo", "When We Where Young", "Twinkle") Into Paradise (check out "Burns My Skin" for starters.) Fontaines DC (start with "Big", "Hurricane Laughter", or just check out their bunch of KEXP Performances on the RU-vid. Fontaines DC have, so far, released three superb albums in the last three years. Fontaines DC should be the next big thing...) Gilla Band (formerly Girl Band. Another current Irish Band, check out "Paul" and then go forth.) .

Lucky man

Thank you Her Hall of Mirrors :) I'm glad you found it to be nostalgic!

Thank you so much, it really means a lot to read that! I hope I won't let you down in the future!

Neds were class. I still listen to their 1st two albums. Stuffies has some good stuff too. I would put Senseless Things and Mega City 4 in the same genre, crusty indie.

Thank you so much Ramiro, they are such an amazing group! I appreciate your continued support my friend

@@StainedGlassStories Un abrazo !

Thank you Creature Saintly! That's a great idea!

Thank you Adrian!

FR, your 20s are over, and on top of that it's 9/11. That would suck

Nick has released a ton of material on bandcamp. Si runs a recording studio and produces for bands.

Agreed! Incredible guitarist.

Swervedriver = Class. Raise and Mezcal Head mostly

Utterly shite? Are you mad? A Storm in Heaven has one of the most elaborate iconic album covers of all time! Brian Cannon at Microdot who did the design was THE 90s album art guy of that era, largely off the back of his work with Verve

@@Weatherface absolutely atrocious mate. Don't care if the artist was fckin Caravaggio, a good cover is "The Great Escape", "Definitely Maybe", "This is Hardcore" or even "Forth" since we're talking about The Verve. That light coming in some sorta cave made that you couldn't even see the burning "verve" letters unless you were getting close to it. Considering that those days it was all cassette tapes, even harder to read only to realise that was maybe a jazz compilation from Verve Records. A pile of wank

​@@jacquesmesrine8031 Well, you've laid down an interesting point of view there for people to enjoy for evermore so I'll leave you to keep soaking up the incredible cover of The Great Escape. While we're at it, have you seen how bad the Abbey Road cover is? It doesn't even say "The Beatles" on it anywhere.

@@Weatherface I remember being a toddler when I first saw Abbey Road on one if my dad's records and I found fascinating that one had no shoes. So even for a grown up baby, Abbey Road is interesting. Now, a storm in heaven couldn't even catch the attention of kid in the spectrum brother 😂

He’s a miles better songwriter than Noel.