Verve: This Is Music: The Singles (2LP)

"This is Music: The Singles" is a compilation album by the English alternative rock band The Verve: Richard Ashcroft (vocals), Pete Salisbury (drums), Simon Jones (bass) and Nick McCabe (guitar). The album was originally released in November 2004 and contained two non-singles taken from the recordings of their third album Urban Hymns: "This Could Be My Moment" and "Monte Carlo". 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of an album that was never pressed on vinyl, and under the group's direction, this long-overdue reissue replaces the bonus tracks with the powerful singles from the 2008 reunion album Forth - 'Love is Noise' and 'Rather Be' - and also includes the second single 'She's A Superstar' (1992) in its original eight-and-a-half-minute form (rather than the five-minute edit). Thus, the album now represents the complete history of The Verve's singles. Named after the band's sixth single, the first from their second album A Northern Soul, it brilliantly documents the power of The Verve's relatively short but epoch-making journey through the musical cosmos.