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Forth | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Verve
Label: Mri Associated
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 1449
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.2
MPN: 61252
UPC: 020286125228
EAN: 0020286125228
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Sit And Wonder | | • | Love Is Noise | | • | Rather Be | | • | Judas | | • | Numbness | | • | I See Houses | | • | Noise Epic | | • | Valium Skies | | • | Columbo | | • | Appalachian Springs |
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Product Description
Something happens when the Verve are together that none of them experience when they are apart. Individually, the Verve are all highly-accomplished players. Singer Richard Ashcroft has been called the greatest singer in the world by no less a peer than Coldplay s Chris Martin. Liverpool-born Simon Jones s dub-informed bass takes the Verve s music far beyond rock and into space and dub; Peter Salisbury plays drums more like a jazz great than a conventional rock drummer and when the tag guitarist of his generation is thrown about it often lands at the feet of the hugely adventurous, psychedelic, exploratory Nick McCabe. However, when they are together a chemistry takes hold that transcends the four people onstage to blast the Verve somewhere else entirely and this chemistry and spontaneity has survived an absence of almost a decade. Already, since their typically unpredictable 2007 reunion, live shows have been running the gauntlet of everything from material so new that Ashcroft has been singing the words from scraps of paper to long-lost, hazy B-sides like Let The Damage Begin and A Man Called Sun, amid all manner of musical fireworks. When they take the stage, literally anything can happen.
After an absence of almost a decade, these songs are again being played, as they should be by the Verve themselves. The individual members have not been slouches. Richard Ashcroft has enjoyed a successful and prolific solo career. Simon Jones formed a band, the Shining, who were not altogether dissimilar to the Verve, and has played with Damon Albarn s Gorillaz. Nick McCabe has been remixing and playing with everyone from the Beta Band to John Martyn while Peter Salisbury has been playing with Ashcroft, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and has further diverted his musical obsessions into running a Stockport drum shop. However, all seem to have realized what their enormous fanbase has been telling them all along. That today, as much if not more than ever, music really needs the Verve.
However, a band like the Verve would never settle for easy nostalgia. Even before they d set out on their initial comeback gigs last year, which sold out within an astonishing 20 minutes, they made public (via the NME website) the results of their very first jam session as a reformed band. The Thaw Sessions comprised 14 wondrous minutes of music, which signified their ability to spark off one another remained undimmed. Soon afterwards, the band debuted new song Sit And Wonder a tune trimmed from a 25-minute jam, just as they would in the early days, a taste of things to come. Those comeback dates proved so successful and were so enthusiastically received that the band immediately embarked on a full-scale tour of arenas in December of 2007, playing bigger gigs in many cases than the first time around. In 2008, they look set to up the ante even further, by appearing at many of the major festivals and, in a turnaround that would have seemed unthinkable even a year ago, releasing their enormously-anticipated fourth album. The results will certainly be worth the wait. - Dave Simpson.
Album Description
The Verve are back! One of the biggest selling and more influential bands of the last ten years have reformed and recorded an album of new material. After the sucess of 'Urban Hymns', which to date has sold 3 million copies in the UK, 'Forth' is a true return to form, and the first single 'Love Is Noise' looks set to become a festival anthem this summer.
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 So many years in the making, so worth the wait. August 26, 2008
23 out of 31 found this review helpful
On August 26, 2008 at 12:15 am, I took a breath, opened my ears, and the world changed forever.
Was that appropriately dramatic? Was really shooting for heart-wrenchingly dramatic, not just regular old "Far From Heaven" dramatic.
OK, so maybe I'm kind of a loser for waiting up past midnight (on a work night!) to download an album from a band that (sort of) broke up almost 10 years ago, reading the lyrics while listening through it (twice!), then writing a review so that my fellow Amazoners can happily click me away into unhelpfulness. Which would be seriously unkind, because I'm seriously exhausted and have to get up in a few hours to relive Monday on Tuesday; not that my job isn't great, but it's just going to be one of those weeks, so it would be great if at least 10 million people buy this album after reading what I have to say about it.
Peerless.
Richard Ashcroft + Simon Jones + Nick McCabe + Peter Salisbury = Pure Peerless Musical Genius (PPMG)! I've never heard anything like this before, thus the use of the adjective "Peerless". This album, quite literally, cannot be compared to a single piece of music I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing before. It's kind of what I'd imagine Jeff Buckley's second album (if that album had been Revolver and the Beatles hadn't done it in the '60s) would have been like if the Mississippi hadn't consumed him first; not necessarily in tone and tenor but in PPMG.
Opening Forth with "Sit and Wonder" was a good idea. I was so ready to call that Bittersweet Symphony the Greater and run around for the next two weeks humming snippets of the tune so that when the good people of NeverWhere asked me "What's that amazing hymn you seem so attached to?", I could launch into a diatribe about the Verve's newest masterpiece. Sadly (or happily, matter of perspective I suppose), it's not even the best song on the album! It just turned out to be a "light" way to open the album without overwhelming the listener.
This is a heavy album, folks. Radiohead heavy, and that's probably a mild understatement (remember: Peerless). Let's shoot for another adjective that may (or may not) help me get my point across:
Timeless.
Timeless like Elvis, the Beatles, the Stones, the Roots, the artist formerly and currently known as Prince, and so few more. Forth could have been released anytime since 1960 (give or take a distortion or two) and no one would be the wiser. Ok, maybe not the `80s, but we can all admit the `80s were a little different.
In the interest of not making myself out to be an idiot, I won't make the all encompassing statement of calling this "The Greatest Album Ever", because it isn't. Not yet, anyway. I'll leave that up to VH1 and Dave Navarro, since they're obviously the experts on all things Great. But I will say this: Forth is now my favorite album ever. Ever! It's supplanted Stage's self titled album "Stage" which, for the 3 of you who know me, is quite a leap, because I'm a huge fan of Stage. And to prove my sinceriousness, I'll even sign off on this little review.
God Bless and Enjoy the Music!
John P. O'Brien
Leader of Mice
NeverWhere, USA
Forth time is a charm August 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In a nutshell, the sounds encomnpass all of what they have done, with a decided leaning to their Storm In Heaven days. Many of the tunes clock in at over 6 min, which here is a good thing with all the wonderfull embellishments resulting in another discovery in the soundscape with each re-run. It's been playing all day, and I wonder how many re-runs before I tire of it.
Worth The Wait August 26, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I found about The Verve from Urban Hymns and at first I thought the album was ok. However, with Verve albums it always takes a couple more listens to actually get the songs and it was amazing. After that, I went to their catalog and listened to Storm in Heaven and Northern Soul and of course it solidified The Verve being my favorite band of all time. So of course, Forth was like the best thing to happen to music in the last decade for me. It is pretty amazing how much this album seems to encompass all their previous work like they have said. The only real difference is the balladry of Urban Hymns. That might be a bad thing but with this band they can really do no wrong. "Sit and Wonder" is a great opener. Its pretty amazing to see how that song has developed since they first aired it live on their first set of shows in the U.K. "Judas" is like a pretty version of "Man Called Sun." "Appalachian Springs" is probably the gem of the album. The ending is so gorgeous. My favorite tracks on the album as songs they have never done anything like, "Columbo" and "Noise Epic." They both sound like they have three different songs in one but its pretty obvious they were both created from their infamous jam sessions. There is no band today like The Verve. No band has a set of musicians consisting of a guitarist like Nick McCabe, the greatest living guitarist, Simon Jones, truly one of the best bassists ever, and Sobbo, would not want any other drummer drumming for the Verve. This band will go down in history like Richard has always said as the greatest rock band ever. Or at least in my mind...
Awesome CD September 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a huge fan of the Verve and own every disc. The day they broke up was a very bad day for me so when I heard that they were reuniting and putting out a new disc I literally could not wait and I was not disappointed. The songs are amazinig leaning more towards the A Storm In Heaven disc and the last song is as good as any song on Urban Hyms. I can't understand how anyone could give this CD a one or two star rating. I can't wait for their next CD and hope they continue to mkae music for years!!
GOOD STUFF! August 26, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wow! Love this album. If you like Coldplay (actually, Coldplay stole most everything from The Verve), you will dig this album.
All the tracks are strong.
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