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Product Identifiers

ProducerThe Verve, Youth, Christopher Marc Potter

Record LabelVirgin

UPC0724384491321

eBay Product ID (ePID)6050152157

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

Era1990s

Run Time4551 Sec

Release Year1997

FormatCD

FeaturesStudio Recording

GenrePop, Alternative, Rock

TypeAlbum

StyleBritpop, Ethereal

ArtistThe Verve

Release TitleUrban Hymns

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

DistributionEMI Music Distribution

Number of Tracks13

Country/Region of ManufactureEngland

GuitarNick Mccabe, Simon Jones, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Tong

MixingChristopher Marc Potter

EngineerChris Potter, Christopher Marc Potter

Additional InformationThe Verve's Biggest Success, Thanks to "Bittersweet Symphony" and "The Drugs Don't Work."

Reviews8 (out of 10) - "....Its sheer magnificence and spirit is such that the danger of it overwhelming anything that follows it is obvious. This, after all, is the musical signature of the year....The Verve's best album to date...", Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997.", "...a surprising--and stunning--comeback from Britain's shoe-gazing shamans the Verve, resurrected after two splintered years. Crooner Richard Ashcroft makes it all sound like churchworthy gospel." - Rating: B+, 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...their strongest album to date....the songs on URBAN HYMNS are anchored by propulsive guitar rhythms and sinuous, infectious vocals....a breathtaking venture, an ambitious balance of stargazing and worldweary pathos.", Ranked #18 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime", Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", "...An album of unparalleled beauty so intent on grabbing at the strands of music's multi-hued history....all songs which sound like they've lived a little more than most.", Ranked #3 in Nme's 1997 Critics' Poll., "A classic artifact of 1990s Britrock, a guitar album that resists being confined by those terms and a pop album unafraid to let its freak flag fly.", Included in Q's "The Best Male Angst Albums of All Time", Ranked #58 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...Rose to national anthem league, an appeal to a post-club generation who now use rock'n'roll as a comedown aid...", Ranked #1 on Melody Maker's List of 1997's "Albums of the Year.", "The most striking qualities of URBAN HYMNS now are its musical coherence and the powerfully sustained mood of melancholic stoicism.", Ranked #18 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

VocalsRichard Ashcroft

KeyboardsSimon Tong

DrumsPeter Salisbury

Number of Audio ChannelsStereo