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milomorris:
Thanks for the video.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on August 05, 2008, 12:13:37 am --- The Verve - Lucky Man (5:08)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyTO0jW8T2o&NR=1[/youtube]
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Really enjoyed this cut...I thought at first it might be a cover from the movie of the same name starring Malcolm McDowelll which I really loved. It's not, but an excellent song! I want their CD!!
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 12, 2008, 09:01:04 pm ---Really enjoyed this cut (Lucky Man)...I thought at first it might be a cover from the movie of the same name starring Malcolm McDowelll which I really loved. It's not, but an excellent song! I want their CD!!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Hymns
You're welcome, Lee--I really liked The Verve (and Richard Ashcroft), and I especially liked their 1997 album Urban Hymns, which included Lucky Man. I also tried to post the excellent (and wildly popular) song, Bitter Sweet Symphony from the same album, but Youtube has killed my post twice due to problems with the rights. Too bad.
Here is another song from Urban Hymns:
The Verve - Sonnet (4:26)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiQgEn5ibYg&feature=related[/youtube]
Lastly, here is the latest in re: The Verve, right off the presses:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/08/leaked_the_verve_record_worlds.html
From New York Magazine:
Leak of the Week
8/13/08 11:00 AM
Leaked:
The Verve Record
World’s First Decent Reunion Album
Courtesy of EMI
The Verve, Forth
Official Release Date: August 26 2008
The Verdict: Last year, following a decade of increasingly cheesy solo output, Richard Ashcroft finally broke down and put his band back together. The resultant Forth sounds (mercifully) nothing like his albums and not much like the Verve's 1997 breakthrough Urban Hymns either, but instead more like the band's noodle-y, reverb-soaked mid-nineties material. This is a good thing. Nick McCabe's awesome guitar playing could probably cover a multitude of sins, but there aren't really any here (even not-great single "Love Is Noise" sounds pretty good in context). Highlights include "Judas," "Numbness," and "I See Houses," but whenever these guys get together and play one chord for six minutes (as they do on pretty much all tracks), it's hard to complain.
optom3:
The Verve, Bittersweet symphony is up there in my top 10. !!!! Was reasonably entertained by Cruel Intentions.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: optom3 on August 13, 2008, 06:46:33 pm ---
The Verve, Bittersweet symphony is up there in my top 10. !!!!
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Me too.
Ten years ago (!!) I was working on a very hard project--and for whatever reason, I became obsessed with Bitter Sweet Symphony.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony
"Rolling Stone ranked "Bitter Sweet Symphony" as the 382nd best song of all time. In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Bitter Sweet Symphony" at number 18 in its list of the "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever". In September 2007, Q published a list of "Top 10 Tracks" as selected via a poll of 50 songwriters; "Bitter Sweet Symphony" is included.
"Although the song's lyrics were written by Verve vocalist Richard Ashcroft, it has been credited to Keith Richards and Mick Jagger because the song uses the Andrew Oldham Orchestra recording of The Rolling Stones' 1965 song "The Last Time" as its foundation.
"Originally, The Verve had negotiated a license to use a sample from the Oldham recording, but it was successfully argued that the Verve had used 'too much' of the sample. Despite having original lyrics, the music of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" is largely based on the Oldham track (the song uses the sample as its foundation and then builds upon, though the continuous riff is Ashcroft's creation), which led to a lawsuit with ABKCO Records, Allen Klein's company that owns the rights to the Rolling Stones material of the 1960s. The matter was eventually settled, with copyright of the song reverting to ABKCO and songwriting credits to Jagger and Richards."
So the Rolling Stones (or their lawyers, which means the same thing, grrr!) took all the money, even the lyrics (and till this day!) because arbitration decided that the song took too much of the 'sample' then allowed. Richard Ashcroft went into major depression, and the band folded. Anyway, the band reformed last year, and they are releasing a new album 11 years later, this month.
But it is why the song is frequently taken down on Youtube.
Well, I'll try again--in July, 2008, at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London, Chris Martin of Coldplay asked Richard Ashcroft to join in with a rendition of Bitter Sweet Symphony. It was for a good cause--I hope Youtube will leave this version of the song up so I can post it here--if not, well, I tried!
(By the way--the crowd looked very happy!)
Coldplay & The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Chris Martin and Richard Ashcroft at Live 8
Hyde Park, London, 2 July 2005 (6:14)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBKuFGUA0_U[/youtube]
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