Dudley wrote: An audio arse-ache of a band

wellsyuk wrote:Mundane, Northern bent-nosed glossy, pretentious and anthemic clap-trap

re-read your comments and now click and one of the links and see how you are not making any sense. Your like a blind child wandering in the middle of the night. click a link...........

John George Peppers wrote:
All in the mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UIDGSSLDhg

Gravity Grave: Give it a min. to build up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Sm4KUgiqo

I don't consider the Verve after Northern Soul to be the same band, it was just Twat Ashcroft's solo thing. They should have sacked him early on or just let him play tambourine or something.

This Nick McCabe though, he can really play the guitar. Best British guitarist of his era in my opinion.

Sorry folks, despite the great wodges of crap that have been released under their name, I will side with the Not Crappers on this one.

madmanmunt wrote:I don't consider the Verve after Northern Soul to be the same band, it was just Twat Ashcroft's solo thing. They should have sacked him early on or just let him play tambourine or something.

This Nick McCabe though, he can really play the guitar. Best British guitarist of his era in my opinion.

Cheers! Well said.

I tried the links but got really bored, quickly. Yes the guitar sounded alright, but if Ashcroft tried to shoulder-barge past me in some poxy video like he does.. why I'd.....

wellsyuk wrote:I tried the links but got really bored, quickly. Yes the guitar sounded alright, but if Ashcroft tried to shoulder-barge past me in some poxy video like he does.. why I'd.....

Man you Brits are really hung up on the whole Bittersweet Symphony thing. Here in the states it was nowhere near as big. Nor did we have the media blitz you experienced.

I hope you listened to "all in the mind." I had that as the last link when it should have been the first. Prior posts have since been corrected.

All in the mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UIDGSSLDhg

madmanmunt wrote:I don't consider the Verve after Northern Soul to be the same band, it was just Twat Ashcroft's solo thing. This Nick McCabe though, he can really play the guitar. Best British guitarist of his era in my opinion.

As soon as that fuck opens his mouth, it goes from boring to wretched.

I like a lot of the loud, swirling psychedelic shoegaze stuff I've been played by Verve loving friends.
That guitarist knows what he's doing.
Bittersweet symphony is a good, catchy pop song. I have no problem with it.

The Verve were not crap. Ever see them live? Opening with A New Decade? That was sky-scraping, life-affirming stuff. Not crap and fuck all y'all.

space junk wrote:The Verve were not crap. Ever see them live? Opening with A New Decade? That was sky-scraping, life-affirming stuff. Not crap and fuck all y'all.

I'm with sj/rjr here.

I have been listening to "A Northern Soul" over the past two days, having previously dismissed all their stuff after "A Storm in Heaven". I love it. Their over-wrought pretension works for me, because they really seem to mean it and inject it with a stupendous amount of intensity. They're freaks to me, in that fashion. The guitar playing burns my brain. They frequently play rhythms that make me feel drunk even before the first vodka of my morning. And the songs stick in my head. Not crap.

I never see myself having any time for "Urban Hymns", though.

I remember loving the hell out of A Northern Soul and the earlier stuff, so NOT CRAP for that. Total CRAP for the band they became.