Verve (The Verve album)
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Verve is the first studio
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 release by English
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 rock band
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 The Verve
The Verve
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, released in December 1992 on Vernon Yard Recordings
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 in the United States
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 and Hut Records
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 in the United Kingdom
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. It features songs that never appeared on another studio release by The Verve. The two singles
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 from the EP would reappear on the B-side
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 compilation
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 No Come Down
No Come Down
No Come Down is a compilation album of B-sides and outtakes by The Verve, released in 1994 for Vernon Yard and Hut Recordings. It was the first release on which the original band's name Verve was changed to The Verve because of the conflict with the eponymous jazz record label .- Overview :"No Come...

("Gravity Grave") and the singles compilation This Is Music: The Singles 92–98 ("Gravity Grave" and "She's a Superstar").

The EP captures the Verve's early style of shoegazing
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-influenced psychedelic rock.

Track listing

  1. "Gravity Grave
    Gravity Grave
    "Gravity Grave" is a song by English rock band The Verve and was released as the band's third single in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1992 by Hut Recordings. It reached number 78 on the UK Singles Chart....

    " [Edit] – 4:27
  2. "A Man Called Sun" – 5:45
  3. "She's a Superstar
    She's a Superstar
    "She's a Superstar" is a song by The Verve and was released as the band's second single in the United Kingdom on 22 June 1992.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 cover of this single...

    " [Edit] – 5:03
  4. "Endless Life" – 5:32
  5. "Feel" – 10:42

Personnel

  • Richard Ashcroft - vocals
  • Nick McCabe - guitar
  • Simon Jones - bass
  • Peter Salisbury - drums
  • All tracks produced by Barry Clempson except "A Man Called Sun"
  • "A Man Called Sun" produced and mixed by Paul Schroeder
  • Mixed by Barry Clempson and Tony Harris, Paul Schroeder ("A Man Called Sun")
  • Photography by Michael Spencer Jones
  • Sleeve concept & design by Brian Cannon for Microdot
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