for me, this is The Verve's best album. i know its polished and well produced and is relatively mellow compared to the space-rock of their earlier days, but being well produced and mellower isnt always a bad thing, as this album clearly shows.

Bittersweet Symphony is one of the best Peoples' Anthems ever, and it's a travesty that the Rolling Stones have tried to muscle in onto it and stealing credit where it is undue. The Drugs Dont Work is beautiful, one of the most perfect and moving songs ever written - even after 5 minutes you never want it to end while The Rolling People is a return to their heavier space-rock days. but its better than any of the 'space-rock' theyve done previously in my view.

while the more immediate tracks (singles, and also Weeping Willow and Space And Time), the less obvious tracks also grow on you after repeated listens (This Time, Catching The Butterfly). Urban Hymns is an album that bores more fruit the more you revisit it, which is a sign of… more »

for me, this is The Verve's best album. i know its polished and well produced and is relatively mellow compared to the space-rock of their earlier days, but being well produced and mellower isnt always a bad thing, as this album clearly shows.

Bittersweet Symphony is one of the best Peoples' Anthems ever, and it's a travesty that the Rolling Stones have tried to muscle in onto it and stealing credit where it is undue. The Drugs Dont Work is beautiful, one of the most perfect and moving songs ever written - even after 5 minutes you never want it to end while The Rolling People is a return to their heavier space-rock days. but its better than any of the 'space-rock' theyve done previously in my view.

while the more immediate tracks (singles, and also Weeping Willow and Space And Time), the less obvious tracks also grow on you after repeated listens (This Time, Catching The Butterfly). Urban Hymns is an album that bores more fruit the more you revisit it, which is a sign of a truly great album.

and just to add to what people say about this album soundtracking the late 1990s, for me there is a universalism about the album - it not only soundtracks the 1990s, but well beyond.