The Verve are set to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their seminal greatest hits collection, This Is Music: The Singles, with a vinyl pressing of the project.
Order the vinyl edition of This Is Music: The Singles.
Released on vinyl for the very first time, This Is Music: The Singles, is a double LP compilation album by The Verve, which consists of Richard Ashcroft (vocals), Pete Salisbury (drums), Simon Jones (bass), and Nick McCabe (guitar).
The black and light blue/red vinyl editions will be released on January 24 and can be purchased alongside a new range of band merchandise from the recently launched official The Verve online store.
The compilation was initially released on CD only in November 2004 and, for its 20th anniversary, has been updated with a new tracklisting.
The two tracks pulled from the sessions for their third album, Urban Hymns, “This Could Be My Moment” and “Monte Carlo,” have been replaced by singles from the band’s 2008 reunion album, Forth. These new tracks are “Love is Noise” and “Rather Be.”
Additionally, their second single, “She’s A Superstar,” from 1992, is included in its original, full- length, eight-and-a-half-minute format (rather than the five-minute edit that featured on the first edition of this compilation). As such, the album now represents the complete story of The Verve’s singles.
The vinyl edition of This Is Music comprehensively documents the potency of The Verve’s epoch-making journey through rock music history. Their early 45s — “All In The Mind,” “She’s A Superstar,” “Gravity Grave,” “Blue,” and “Slide Away” – all topped the UK independent chart and made the Wigan, Lancashire band one of the most exciting group’s in the UK.
1995’s A Northern Soul album saw the band develop their sound even further and spawned three truly memorable singles: “This Is Music,” “On Your Own,” and the much-loved “History,” the group’s first collaboration with string arranger Wil Malone, which was issued as the band splintered for the first time.
They reconvened (with the addition of guitarist and keyboard player Simon Tong) to reach their commercial peak in 1997 with the hugely successful Urban Hymns, which was centered around a brilliantly accomplished suite of anthemic songs written by Ashcroft, including the worldwide smash “Bitter Sweet Symphony.”
