The Verve Lyrics Freshman

The Verve (originally Verve) is an English alternative rock band. The band was formed in 1989 at Winstanley College, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, by vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury. Simon Tong later became a member. The band originally split in 1995, but reunited in 1996 to great commercial success. They split once more in April 1999. The band reunited once more in June of 2007, but this reunion was short lived and the band split again in August 2009.

Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to space rock and shoegazer music, by the mid-1990s the band had released several EPs and two acclaimed records. They also endured name and lineup changes, breakups, health problems, drug abuse and various lawsuits. The band's commercial breakthrough was urban hymns and its single Bittersweet Symphony, which became a massive worldwide hit.

Soon after this commercial peak, the band quit amid creative struggles within, and Ashcroft went onto a successful solo career. Tong briefly joined Blur as a replacement for Graham Coxon. It is rumored that Simon Jones did a studio album with Ari Pap of the Floor Monks called 'Aint Nothing To It' and was never released because they both had bigger projects going on at the time. Close family and friends assure us its a fabulous indie/rock/alternate album and they really wish it would have been released.

The Verve were chosen to close the 2008 Glastonbury festival which they did with a set based on the classic 1997 album 'Urban Hymns'.

Discography:
A Storm in Heaven - (21 June 1993) #27 (UK)
A Northern Soul - (3 July 1995) #13 (UK)
Urban Hymns - (29 September 1997) #1 (UK) #23 (US)
Forth - (25 August 2008) #1 (UK) #23 (US)

EP: "The Verve" (1992)
Gravity Grave
A Man Called Sun
She's A Superstar
Endless Life
Feel
album: "A Storm In Heaven" (1993)
Star Sail
Slide Away
Already There
Beautiful Mind
The Sun, The Sea
Virtual World
Make It Till Monday
Blue
Butterfly
See You In The Next One (Have A Good Time)
album: "No Come Down" (1994)
No Come Down
Blue (USA Mix)
Make It Till Monday
Butterfly
Where The Geese Go
One Way To Go
Gravity Grave (Live Glastonbury '93)
Twilight
album: "A Northern Soul" (1995)
A New Decade
This Is Music
On Your Own
So It Goes
A Northern Soul
Drive You Home
History
No Knock On My Door
Life's An Ocean
Stormy Clouds
album: "Urban Hymns" (1997)
Bittersweet Symphony
Sonnet
The Rolling People
The Drug Don't Work
Catching The Butterfly
Neon Wilderness
Space And Time
Weeping Willow
Lucky Man
One Day
This Time
Velvet Morning
Come On
album: "Forth" (2008)
Sit And Wonder
Love Is Noise
Rather Be
Judas
Numbness
I See Houses
Noise Epic
Valium Skies
Columbo
Appalachian Springs
Let The Damage Begin[Bonus Track]
other songs:
All In The Mind
Monte Carlo
This Could Be My Moment