THE VERVE - Sonnet | REACTION (Coffee “Ko-Fi” Request) 

Sonnet is a masterpiece!!

Me and a friend of mine recorded this on a 4 track back when it came out. He was almost blind. He had a great talent for music. I was learning. We were 16 or 17. We practiced a few times for the first time. He is the only person to this day that ever heard me sing. We enjoyed a jam session. Wish we could have done more.

I was in my early teens when I heard this. It's so iconic to my youth.

The verve urban hymns album was one of the first albums I bought with my own money. A fantastic band and genius singer in Richard Ashcroft. Loving you're reactions guys.

Best single from the best album IMO... love it!!!!

Great choice. I clicked 'like' before even watching this one 😎👍

Does this make anyone else cry?😢

As the man himself said.. hees made millions of men cry . Now that's power

Check out Ashcrofts solo stuff, check the meaning, Song For Lovers, out of my body, Buy It In Bottles, the test, this thing called life. Etc he's done great post Verve stuff

I saw the stones in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2018 and guess who was the support act? yes Richard Ashcroft.

Loved your sonnet moment...! Urban Hymns, what a great album. Really enjoy the production on this, like those lovely twinkly bits of piano dropped in. Your banter is just great, love hearing your song discussions you're having so much fun...!

Ohh...this song is definitely in god's favorite playlist.✔👌🎶💖👏

If I remember right (without checking) they took the sample from an orchestra album of Stones songs that the Stones producer Andrew Oldham (sic?) put together, The Stones didn't even play on the fookin thing ! and the original Stones song didn't even have an orchestra on it ! P.S Not sure if you knew this already but the Oasis song 'Cast No Shadow' was written about Richard Ashcroft. Keep on keeping on (as they say in Wigan)

Wonderful track from a wonderful album, great front man. Very nice to see you react to this. Brings back great memories

My fave ever 💓

I have missed so many great videos w/ you guys, Ride and this! excellent

Sonnet ❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏

Bittersweet Symphony from the same album is one of my all time favourites songs. My dad used to play Urban Hymes in the car when I was a toddler, 21 now and that song stuck with me.

THE VERVE HISTORY (your welcome)

sonnet and into the mystic. thats my 2 all times. forever on playlist. never skip. new sub. PEACE, Belfast, Ulster, N.Ireland

Great album great track... and a good laugh also... thanks chaps ! ✌️🇬🇧

Great reaction. As always. Richard Ashcroft is, in my opinion is one of the most underrated musicians on the planet. I really believe if he was around in the 60s he'd be a lot more appreciated

Glad ya liked it

Great choice of song. Keep up the good work lads!

The Verve - This Is Music

Hi Guys..... I love watching your channel! Love the new intro / Thumbnail! BE well and get ready for the Judgeoff !

This is a great album, no duds. You should do "The Drugs Don't Work" or "Lucky Man" next, which doesn't sound anything like ELP's Lucky Man. If you gonna continue on the Brit Pop Trail, do "This is a Low" of Blur's Parklife album. Glorious! It doesn't get more 90s English than this....

"Blue Pacific Ocean" ... A very nice song / piece of music / atmospheric ... (oddly) unreleased from their last album "Forth" ... the music builds as this song progresses : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sUmTCHl4EGo.html

They’re from Wigan, not Manchester. The Mancs have more than enough. Give Wigan some love (full disclosure: I’m not from Wigan or ever been there, though I have read The Road to Wigan Pier)

I don't know why anyone wouldn't subscribe. You guys are great. Would love you guys to react to Ride - Time Machine.

Really intelligent reaction which is refreshing. I reckon you'd love passenger (that's a dude not a band by the way) try "riding to new York" by passenger...amazing!

Keep up the awesome work! Three songs from their earlier periods you should take a crack at: 1992: Gravity Grave. This was one of their first singles before they put an album out. It is very psychedelic, incredible bass lines and reverby guitars. It's incredibly hypnotic and you can see their influences from Krautrock and Jazz Fusion. They were considered a shoe gaze/space rock oriented band at this group. Nick McCabe is just an incredible guitarist in terms of managing feedback, delay, etc. 1993: The Sun, The Sea. This is on their debut album, A Storm in Heaven. It's a bridge from between their early shoe gaze sound and the more rock oriented sound of their next album. Slide Away is probably the best single from this album and Beautiful Mind is one of the most beautiful guitar (ambience with noise) songs ever written. 1995: This is Music. This is them at their rock oriented peak. The guitar just sounds massive, and Ashcroft has incredible swagger. History is the last single from this album and points towards the symphonic pop rock sound that they moved to in Urban Hymns. Back on My Feet Again is an incredible b-side from this era.

Hey Dude, from the first album, check out history....one of my all time favorites

More Verve please, Lucky Man, Drugs Don't Work, anything from that album really.

Great choice guys, the whole album is fantastic! Check out another band called Cast, their album All Change is really good! 👍

Listens to Sonnet then talks about Bittersweet Symphony

Hey, you should listen to this track: Magnolia, from Rufus T. Firefly, you will be suprised!

This song is a weird one for me. I absolutely love the first couple of minutes, but the extended coda/climax/outro - ie the next two plus minutes leaves me a bit cold. It’s not that it’s bad per se, it’s just that the verses coupled with chorus are so good and effective, the rest of the song sort of pales in comparison. I just wish they’d put in another verse, even in the form of an instrumental solo or something, and then shortened the end bit.

Such a great band, personally i think the second album A northern soul is their best work but Urban hymns is definitely up there as one of the great British albums of the 90’s. Good request 👍🏻

They’re from Wigan, not Manchester.

Check out history

Can you do Serotonin by Highly Suspect?

The thing is with Bitter Sweet that the Verve DID pay Decca to use the sample but the horrid manager, Klien who ripped off the Stones owed the polishing, not Decca. SO... The Verve thought they were ok but Kilien asked for 50%..... then realized the song was a hit and then asked for 100% of all royalties. The Stones hated Klien and had no say. When Klien died that is when they managed to give the Verve their royalties..... The Stone are the good guys in all this! *See the thamesmen video on it :)

Damn, see how Morrissey influenced them all

They aren’t from Manchester they’re from a town called Wigan which is in the county of Greater Manchester. If you ask most wiganers though it’s in the county of Lancashire…. Bit of useless information for you there 😊

The point is that the song is a kind of anti-sonnet: devotion without pre-ordaned structure; non-conformist modernity. It's a work of art, inspired by a real artist's desperate struggle with a serious addiction caused by a deep existential crisis. It's a recovery song: Urban Hymns is a recovery album. Well, that was always my take on it anyway ;)

Actually prefer the cover by ‘Faces On Film’, great song

Do you have a jet engine running full blast in the next room because the audio was awful?!?!