Urban Hymns

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a b Barker, Emily (25 October 2013). "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 200–101". NME . Retrieved 21 November 2022.

Album – Classifica settimanale WK 42 (dal 10.10.1997 al 16.10.1997)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. It was this beautiful, natural hybrid that can only be done by people who haven’t been taught music and someone who’s writing songs from the heart and soul,” frontman Richard Ashcroft recalls today. “You take that and then add the real complexity and detail to these songs that are actually, in some respects, basic. That’s how you get that quality and songs that work so well in the mainstream, but also have this depth and timelessness.” I had 100 percent confidence it was going to be massive,” drummer Pete Salisbury recalls of this intense time. “ Urban Hymns was a complete mix of where we were as a band. We were peaking.”Top 40 Best Selling Albums: 28 July 1956– 14 June 2009" (PDF). Official Charts Company . Retrieved 26 July 2011. Hits of the World – Eurochart". Billboard. Vol.109, no.46. 15 November 1997. p.53. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved 27 June 2021. a b Scribner, Sara (12 October 1997). "The Verve 'Urban Hymns' Virgin". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 1 March 2016. Boasting the remastered album alongside period B-sides and a flood of previously unreleased live recordings – including the group’s landmark hometown performance at Haigh Hall, Wigan, on 24 May 1998 – the 5CD+DVD box set is due for release on 1 September. 2CD and 3LP versions of the reissue are also being made available, while the uDiscover store is selling a limited edition 12” single (‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ [alternate version]/‘The Drugs Don’t Work’ [live from 9.30 Club, Washington, DC]) that brings some serious Verve rarities on to wax. Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.

Potter receives credit in the liner notes for "additional production and mixing" on the songs that the band recorded with Youth. "The Verve – Urban Hymns HUTLP 45". Discogs . Retrieved 1 April 2017. Tops de l'Année – Top Albums 1998" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 27 June 2021.Discos de oro y platino" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011 . Retrieved 19 December 2012. This twentieth anniversary reissue of the album is suitably epic in its presentation, although anyone who doesn’t consider themselves a Verve diehard may find much of it to be extraneous. The fourth of the five discs is the highlight; for the first time, we get the entirety of the band’s massive homecoming set in front of 30,000 people at Haigh Hall Park in Wigan in May of 1998. It finds them at the absolute height of their powers; after all, Urban Hymns was a record that was supposed to be played to crowds of that size.

Twenty years since Urban Hymns took The Verve from beloved cult band to globe-straddling heroes, the album receives a six-disc super deluxe box set reissue. a b Kot, Greg (26 December 1997). "The Verve: Urban Hymns". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 1 January 2017.The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (The Verve; 'Urban Hymns ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. Urban Hymns spent 12 weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart, with a total of 124 weeks on the chart. [35] It also became the Verve's first charting album in the United States, where it debuted at number 63 on the Billboard 200, [36] giving the band their first commercial success in the country. [37] Urban Hymns ultimately peaked at number 23 on the chart and was certified Platinum by the RIAA on 4 April 1998; [38] it remains the group's best-selling album in the United States, with more than 1.3 million copies sold as of 2009 [update]. [39] Legacy [ edit ] Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: The Verve". robertchristgau.com . Retrieved 7 January 2023.