This Is Music: The Singles (20th Anniversary)
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This is Music: The Singles is a compilation album by English alternative rock band The Verve: Richard Ashcroft (vocals), Pete Salisbury (drums), Simon Jones (bass) and Nick McCabe (guitar).
Originally released in November 2004 it featured two non-singles, tracks pulled from the sessions for their third album Urban Hymns, ‘This Could Be My Moment’ and ‘Monte Carlo’.
2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of an album that has never been pressed on vinyl and, under the group’s direction, this long overdue reissue replaces the bonus tracks with the powerful singles from the band’s 2008 reunion album, Forth – ‘Love is Noise’ and ‘Rather Be’ – as well as including their second single ‘She’s A Superstar’ (1992) in its original, full-length, eight-and-a-half-minute form (rather than the five-minute edit). As such, the album now represents the complete story of The Verve’s singles.
Named after the band’s sixth single, the first issued from their second album, A Northern Soul, it brilliantly documents the potency of The Verve’s relatively short but epoch-making journey through the musical cosmos.
Released: February 2025
Cat: 6580364
Label: UMR
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Tracklist
LP1 Side A
1. This Is Music
2. Slide Away
3. Lucky Man
4. History
LP1 Side B
5. She's A Superstar
6. On Your Own
7. Blue
8. Sonnet
LP2 Side C
1. All In The Mind
2. The Drugs Don't Work
3. Gravity Grave
LP2 Side D
4. Bitter Sweet Symphony
5. Love Is Noise
6. Rather Be