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Verve, The - Urban Hymns

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Catalog#:
7243 8 44913 2 1, CDHUT 45
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
Europe
Released:
29 Sep 1997
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Brit Pop

Tracklist

1   Bitter Sweet Symphony 5:58 X
    Lyrics By - Richard Ashcroft
  Orchestra [Performed By] - Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra
  Producer [Orchestra] - Andrew Loog Oldham
  Written-By - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards*
2   Sonnet 4:21 X
3   The Rolling People 7:01 X
4   The Drugs Don't Work 5:05 X
5   Catching The Butterfly 6:26 X
6   Neon Wilderness 2:37 X
    Written-By - Nick McCabe
7   Space And Time 5:36 X
8   Weeping Willow 4:49 X
9   Lucky Man 4:53 X
10   One Day 5:03 X
11   This Time 3:50 X
12   Velvet Morning 4:57 X
13a   Come On 15:15 X
13b   Deep Freeze X

Credits

Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] - Wil Malone
Artwork By [Cover], Photography [Interior] - Michael Spencer Jones
Artwork By [Microdot Sleeve - Assisted By] - Matthew Sankey
Artwork By [Microdot Sleeve - Designed And Directed By] - Brian Cannon
Bass - Simon Jones
Drums - Peter Salisbury
Engineer [Assistant] - Gareth Ashton , Jan Kybert* , Lorraine Francis
Guitar [Lead] - Nick McCabe
Keyboards, Guitar - Simon Tong
Photography [Interior - Additional] - Chris Floyd , John Horsley
Producer - Chris Potter (4) (tracks: 3, 5 to 8, 13) , Verve, The , Youth (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 9 to 12)
Producer [Additional], Mixed By [Additional] - Chris Potter (4) (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 9 to 12)
Programmed By - Mel Wesson , Paul Taylor (2)
Recorded By - Chris Potter (4)
Vocals, Guitar - Richard Ashcroft
Written-By - Richard Ashcroft (tracks: 2, 4, 7 to 12) , Verve, The (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 13)

Notes

Track 13, "Come On", ends at 6:34, and an unlisted track "Deep Freeze" starts at 13:01.

(P)&(C) 1997 VC Records LTD T/A Hut Recordings. Bel/Biem/SIAE Made in UK.

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Rated 5/5
Review by manchester Sep 29, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)
One of the greatest albums of the 90s and just absolutely fanatstic guitar music. Richard Ashcroft's lyrics throughout this album or pure poetry and beautifully poignant. The lyrics on 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' are just superb "It's a bitter sweet symphony that's life, you are a slave to money then you die", absolutely brilliant! 'The Drugs Don't Work' is a perfect song for all those in the later 90s on the big comedown after the wild excesses of the previous years. There's also some incredible musicanship on this album, with a brilliant nod to 60s psychedlia. Urban Hymns is a masterpiece from start to finish and is one of the all time great British Rock albums.