Richard Ashcroft on the making of Urban Hymns (2012)
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- Опубликовано: 15 фев 2018
- Lammo revisits a classic album interview with The Verve's Richard Ashcroft.
The Verve's 3rd LP remains one of the top 20 best selling British albums of all time and walked away with the Brit for Best Album and a nomination for the Mercury Prize. It also spawned the mammoth singles, Bitter Sweet Symphony, Sonnet, The Drugs Don't Work and Lucky Man.
Now, as the band celebrate 20 years since Urban Hymns' release, Steve returns to an interview originally recorded for the album's 15th birthday, in 2012. 
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McCabe put them into the stratosphere. Without him, the magic 'aint there.
Sir Nick McCabe - he’s a lucky man he met him
The Verve were the sum of their parts and think it’s ungracious how Richard doesn’t really acknowledge the band’s contribution
You can definitely hear it the difference in his solo stuff minus the band
The interview with Simon and Nick about Urban Hymns is far more gracious.. Richard sees it more as his record, but it wasn’t until Nick came back that it really took shape musically.. as for the solo albums, they end up in the bargain boxes pretty damn quick which tells its own story.
Never the same without Nick McCabe, and he knows it deep down.
We all know it. The demos were flat as a pancake.
As talented as Richard is, The Record would never have sounded as good without the other 3
Especially Nick McCabe
The other 4. Simon Tong played a massive part in Urban Hymns.
Exactly.
Love to see The Verve reunite again one day. I was to young to see them in 2007/2008.
Saw Ashcroft at my hometown in 2019 and it was fantastic, but would really, really love to see The Verve just once before I die.
This is the one band that are sorely missed in todays music. They do not make albums like this anymore.
Richard's attitude to the rest of the band seems unfair. They improvise the music around the recorded version. He wrote the original version, fine, but that band never played songs the same way twice. That flexibility was unique. He obviously saw them as 'help'. As soon as he thought he could do it himself, he got rid.
‘My soul is the most powerful thing’. I’ve heard the demos mate, without McCabe coming back in it would’ve sold about 300 copies.
I am so glad to have been born in the decade of the verve , r a nails the feeling of the time with urban hymns , brilliant individual tunes on a masterpiece of a record , ✌
So miss the Verve! Last of a dying breed!
Highly enjoyable listen thanks
One of the great albums in british music history. Timeless stuff and the most underated bands of the last 50 years
Great album, but arguably it's not even The Verves best. A Northern Soul is a piece of absolute genius. But coinciding with their first break up sadly snuffed it out. That kinda shows how good they were tho.
underated?!? by whom? Folk love them, the press loved them so why underrated?
One of the most enjoyable Ashcroft interviews I've heard
Hope Rich will still remember to. Sometimes you have to HOLD ON ;-) what a great Album!
Great video editting
Fascinating.
Great interview 👌
Not only is Richard an erudite and articulate speaker, I believe he is, possibly, the most underrated creative genius in popular music. I really enjoyed this interview. Thank you for posting it!
*When he was in the verve. Solo = no.
Happiest he’s ever sounded
What none of them ever talk about, which is actually rare and commendable for a band that’s split (three times) is the role drugs and alcohol played. McCabe and Ashcroft have both made subtle inferences to it in interviews if you pay attention, but nothing specific, which comes across as out of respect for each other, their legacy as a band, and the music.
Compared to The Roses after the first split, The Mondays, and pretty much everyone else, who went through everything in the music press in detail, usually in bitter personal attacks, The Verve never did.
There’s a RA interview when he first went solo though where he mentions that he wasn’t comfortable anymore with seeing people ‘having 4 bottles of Becks and chopping out lines first thing in the morning’, and another where he said that if they carried on, ‘someone would have ended up dead, and then you might as well just chuck all their records in the bin’.
At the end of the day, The Verve/ Verve were a drug and alcohol fuelled band in a drug and alcohol fuelled decade.
Some bands, surprisingly, managed to negate that and not implode, like The Charlatans and Primal Scream (just about).
Plenty of bands went the other way and I think that lifestyle played a big part in their breakups.
I get the impression RA wanted to settle down with his new family and put the rock n’ roll madness behind him (and they did cane it to the point of near breakdowns).
Wow wonderful interview
‘Noel stuck his knife in with my solo career’. Seems like that friendship is officially over.
Lucky Man & Bitter Sweet are 2 of the best songs ever written.
@Doves behave
@Doves enjoy yer night mate
This song and the recluse by plan b and super grass alright are the best melodic songs in the last 25 years in my opinion.
His debut album was excellent but since then it's been all downhill except for a handful of songs.
Still would have been better as a Verve record. Especially songs like Brave New World.
@@bibsma3401 agreed, weird timing that you commented on this as im just about to submit "History" to @iximusic '1995 - listening party' in the next hour.
He's had his moments as a song writer. Verve where great. Comes across as pretentious but who cares.
What is the song he refers to that Liam Gallagher recorded with John Squire?
TrainInVain it's called love me and leave me on the seahorses lp do it yourself
David Byrne cheers
Would love to track down a pair of Dingoes, maybe a trip to Majorca is on the cards.
More Ashcroft ego overdrive. He’s nothing without those guys backing him up.
The arrogance of Ashcroft makes him incredibly unappealing. His solo stuff is drivel. without McCabe he wouldn't be where he is.
Along with everybody was a great album
hahahahahahaha. Well yes, if you like middle of road Radio 2 drivel, I guess. @@ROC14088
Subtitles please
Richard n Dylan .My faves 😍
Who is that Chinese fella with Richard?
As excellent as the LP is, he's sold it for his solo career for 22 yrs, 80% of the LP was already done in terms of the songs he wrote. He still rinses the singles from The Verve, hence why he will always be labelled "that man from The Verve"
I don't get the ego thing yous are talking about?
Nice picture but Kates really let herself go..
Hair loss is part of menopause
Mad Richard got greedy on this album.