Hard to believe its been 20 years. Amazing album.
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My favourite album.
Think 'A Northern Soul' is better. Urban Hymns was a classic album of my secondary school days.
I remember my brother buying this as one of his first steps outside of kiddie music. Not massively my cup of tea now but the songs remind me of good times.
Also they're from round ours.
Also they're from round ours.
Gravity Grave though, amazing track.
Love Sonnet, Bittersweet Symphony and The Drugs Don't Work, the rest bores me to tears.
Always felt at the time it was a bit over-rated myself, a bit Coldplayesque in how inoffensive and bland it was - could possibly be that you'd hear it pretty much everywhere you went though as background music. I much preferred Supergrass (I should Coco was around the time iirc) and that kind of upbeat noisy stuff.
Everybody had a copy of Urban hymns though, including me - I think it was the law
like with Definitely maybe.
Everybody had a copy of Urban hymns though, including me - I think it was the law
like with Definitely maybe.Not a bad track on it, or rather, not a track that I want too skip on the entire thing. Weeping Willow, Velvet Morning, Neon Wilderness and Come On are belters and it is one of the rare occasions in BritPop where a band got the singles right.
Also, I will forever associate it with Final Fantasy 7 as it soundtracked my first run through it.
Also, I will forever associate it with Final Fantasy 7 as it soundtracked my first run through it.
I like you Steve. I knew there was a reason why.
Lucky Man is also great.
It's ok I guess. There was some song with butterfly in the title that wasn't bad either. I never really got the hype with the rest
Just listened to it for the first time. Obviously I know some of the songs on it, but had never listened to the full album, I like it.
The hit was stolen from the Stones but... Still give it a listen every once in a bluemoon..
Saw this thread earlier so I strutted up O'Connell St in Dublin listening to Bittersweet Symphony this afternoon. Hadn't listened to the full album in at least ten years so I kept with it - it's one of those where you still know most of the lyrics. A great album should be more than the sum of its parts, and this one is. Space and Time my favorite track.
They got skullfecked by the Stones over that song. Interesting to hear both sides to the story.
Have a listen to the album that preceded Urban Hymns 'A Northern Soul', it is really good.
It wasn't exactly a Coldplay ripping off Joe Satriani level theft.
Velvet Morning is the best track on that album.
Enough to have the writing credits changed to Richard and Jagger.. But I get your point..
Far worse.
It's decent enough but not a patch on A Northern Soul.
When I was 14/15 I was given a cd discman and this was the only cd I had, I would get stoned and listen to it over and over. Such a great album.
Tune. Love loads of their early stuff but especially Gravity Grave, Slide away, All in the Mind and A Man Called Sun. Oh and Butterfly. Great, mind bending music. Think they lost that psychedelic edge by the time Urban Hymns came around.
Because it's a sample?
That was why they had to pay loads of money.It's not called "Bittersweet Symphony" either, it's the Andrew Oldham Orchestra version of "The Last Time", manager and producer for the Stones for a time.
From a legal perspective, that case is horrendous though. They shared songwriting credits to Jagger/Richards even though they didn't create the string arrangement.
It is a savage sample though.
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I know it isn't called the same, but that's just the title of the video. Didn't they get verbal permission to give their song a nod, and yet still got sued?Because it's a sample?
It's not called "Bittersweet Symphony" either, it's the Andrew Oldham Orchestra version of "The Last Time", manager and producer for the Stones for a time.
From a legal perspective, that case is horrendous though. They shared songwriting credits to Jagger/Richards even though they didn't create the string arrangement.
It is a savage sample though.
Yeah, seems like they had initially cleared part of it, but it became an aggressive copyright battle with another manager
http://www.thevervelive.com/2005/05/bitter-sweet-symphony-controversy-and.html
I disagree. The main melodic hook on the Verve's track is original. Coldplay took pretty much everything from Satriani including the main melodic hook.
Furry muff, opinions and that. I'd still say The Verve's is worse, purely because it's a more distinct part if that makes sense.
History means so much to so many.
Trump?
Seconded. It's a mystery why that album sold so badly, especially in a year when British guitar bands were in vogue. Gravity Grave, Starsail and Blue are also personal favourites. I won't mention their comeback album in 2008...
I don't think Elastica fans were ready for William Blake.
This is Music is my favourite track off A Northern Soul.
"A Northern Soul" was a bit too alternative to sell Oasis-type numbers but, in a year when Radiohead and Pulp enjoyed commercial success, you'd think there would have been a market for it. The band splitting up shortly afterwards probably didn't help.
Absolute belter of an album. Still have my copy of it I bought all those years ago
A Storm In Heaven is better than both. Don't like Ashcroft's solo stuff though.
History was the first song of my youth that just stuck with me in a really odd, visceral way and it's never really worn off. Christ knows how many times I've listened to it.
I wish these guys would reform, any signs of it happening?