Now, exactly twenty years on, comes this 3 double-LP box set version of ‘Urban Hymns’ containing a host of special features. Eleven times platinum in the UK and with ten million copies sold worldwide to date, it also delivered four of the era’s most iconic tracks – ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’, ‘Lucky Man’ and ‘Sonnet’. They're the people, beyond ourselves, that are really gonna appreciate this.Expertly catching the mood of the late-‘90s upon its release in September 1997, The Verve’s third studio outing went on to become one of the all-time classic British albums. It's more really for us and the fans, who have stuck around all the years and have supported us, and me, and the whole thing as an entity. Unless you're in a slightly self-conscious state of mind and you're totally in on your own instrument. Like when we go and listen back, we tend to buzz off somebody else. "I'm sure when Nick's playing his guitars he's buzzing off the drums and bass, or the vocals. "That the beauty of this band - the sum is greater than the parts," says Richard. So for this we literally just pressed record and saw what happens. The fact that we did that for 10 or whatever years, that's still there, man, that never disappears. "Locked away in a room in Wigan, 16, 17, just jamming. "That's how we learnt to play music," Simon Jones continues. Just us playing together, bouncing off each other." "Si found loads of live versions of things like 'Life's An Ocean', and they were getting more elaborate each night - they piss on the originals from a great height. "I've been listening to some live Verve stuff," Nick McCabe enthuses. That's the only reason I'm here really, to get the four people together to create this sound. "It's exciting, for the four of us to do that kind of thing again. The beauty of the jams is that we just don't know where we're gonna go to next," Richard Ashcroft explains of 'The Thaw Session' (the title a reference to 'Deep Freeze', the strung out, experimental secret track on 'Urban Hymns'). The download will be available for one week only. Twenty minutes later, they picked up their instruments and started playing. When The Verve got together again for the first time in 9 years, they met in a recording studio in West London.
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