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6,825
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34,364
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288,438
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43,889,132
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Blue
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song has a minimalistic approach about it, with loops in the mysterious introduction and reverse guitar parts that give it a psychedelic sound, like many on the Storm in Heaven album.
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Blue
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Submitted By: Big D
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The video shows the band down a dark alleyway in Islington, London. There was a separate video for the USA, which was filmed in Dublin.
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Come On
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song is followed by about 6 minutes of silence, and then Deep Freeze. Deep Freeze starts with random synthesised and 'radio fuzz' sounds (13:07), before a guitar backed by a synthesiser plays until the end (15:15), backed by a disembodied looped voice, and a baby crying. In the making of this track, producer Chris Potter left a microphone out of a second-floor window and recorded the everyday goings on on the street below. The "city sound" was originally going to be just 30 seconds long and put on the front of the first track Bitter Sweet Symphony, however, Potter decided that the novelty effect of this would wear off and listeners would be bored of the city sound- so he placed the sample on the end of Come On.
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Come On
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Submitted By: Big D
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The first new material the Verve released after their 2007 reunion was named "The Thaw Session" - a reference to the title "Deep Freeze".
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Gravity Grave
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Submitted By: Big D
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An extended version of the song was played at the 1993 Glastonbury Festival and lasted over nine minutes. That performance was released on the No Come Down B-sides compilation in 1994. The full version of the song, which appeared on this single, was included as part of The Verve's 2004 Singles Compilation package This Is Music: The Singles 92-98. The edit version was only released as the lead track on the Verve EP.
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Gravity Grave
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Submitted By: Big D
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Part of their "psychedelic era", this is another song with blurry visions and strong connections to drug taking, which the band, especially lead singer Richard Ashcroft, were more than apt to do. In fact, Ashcroft collapsed on stage at the 1994 Lollapalooza tour from taking too much ecstasy.
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History
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song is notable for being released after the band's sudden first break up (interestingly, the sign on the single cover reads 'all farewells should be sudden' and 'life is not a rehersal' on CD1 & 2 respectivly), and also for being the first song by the group to feature a string accompaniment. This formula would later prove to be commercially successful for several Urban Hymns (1997) singles.
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History
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Submitted By: Big D
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The lyrics of the first section of the song are based on the first two stanzas of William Blake's poem, London.
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History
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Submitted By: Big D
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The clapping featured on History was made by Liam Gallagher.
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History
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Submitted By: Big D
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The video shows a compilation of clips from The Verve's previous music videos.
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Lucky Man
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Submitted By: Big D
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The UK version of the video sees the band playing in the Thames Wharf complex, designed by Sir Richard Rogers, this is situated near Hammersmith, West London in post code W6 9HA. The US version was shot in New York, in an apartment and later on a mountain top.
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On Your Own
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song appears to be based on the work of The Smiths, using some of their techniques, such as adding major sevenths - and even features a lyric close to the one in How Soon Is Now?:
"You come in on your own and you leave on your own"
This Verve lyric can find easy comparisons with:
"and you stand on your own and you leave on your own".
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On Your Own
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Submitted By: Big D
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Lead singer Richard Ashcroft also recorded an acoustic version of On Your Own that contained only piano and acoustic guitar, in addition to Ashcroft's vocals.
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She's A Superstar
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Submitted By: Big D
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A music video was shot for this song in Thor's Cave, Staffordshire; this was the same cave pictured on the front of Verve's album A Storm in Heaven. The edited version (at just over 5 minutes) appears on the band's greatest hits album, This Is Music: The Singles 92-98.
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She's A Superstar
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song is, like all of the other songs released by the band around this time, very drug-related, both sonically and lyrically.
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Slide Away
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Submitted By: Big D
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Although the single was not a success on the conventional charts, the song shot straight to the top of US Indie Rock charts throughout 1993, and due to the popularity of the song The Verve were invited onto the successful 90s alternative rock festival, Lollapalooza, in the following year, 1994. The tour was disastrous for the group as lead singer Richard Ashcroft was hospitalized for dehydration, due to an overdose of ecstasy.
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Sonnet
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song has the same instrumental layout as The Drugs Don't Work, consisting of acoustic and electric guitars backed up with a string section which is mainly made up of violins. The song only uses 5 chords (not including adding ninth notes to chords).
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The Drugs Don't Work
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Submitted By: Big D
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Composer Richard Ashcroft wrote the song in response to the death of his father to cancer and is also thought to be influenced by his relationship with his wife, Ashcroft saying in an interview "to me, it's a lovesong".
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The Drugs Don't Work
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Submitted By: Big D
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The lyrics of the original demo varied from the eventual album track, with the main line changing from "They just make me worse" to "They just make you worse".
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The Drugs Don't Work
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Submitted By: Big D
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The single was also noted during Channel 4's "100 Greatest #1 Singles" programme as unintentionally capturing the spirit of the nation as it was released the day after Princess Diana died.
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This Is Music
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Submitted By: Big D
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The aptly named song is full of varied lyrical images — likely because the band were generally on ecstasy throughout the recording sessions.
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