Urban Hymns 5CD+DVD

Expertly catching the mood of the late-‘90s upon its release in September 1997, The Verve’s third studio outing went on to become one of the all-time classic British albums. Eleven times platinum in the UK and with ten million copies sold worldwide to date, it also delivered four of the era’s most iconic tracks – ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’, ‘Lucky Man’ and ‘Sonnet’.

Now, exactly twenty years on, comes this Super Deluxe expanded edition, containing a host of special features. Re-mastering was undertaken by original co-producer Chris Potter and this 5CD / 1DVD box adds all of the era’s B-sides, the previously unreleased Haigh Hall concert plus further live material and BBC sessions from 1997-1998. The DVD features the full Haigh Hall concert, the ‘The Video 96-98’ documentary, a ‘Later With Jools Holland’ appearance from November 1997 plus the promo videos. There’s also a poster, a set of 4 postcards and a 56-page hardcover book including new interviews with the band and a vast selection of unseen photographs by Chris Floyd, who travelled with the band and was granted unprecedented backstage and offstage access.

Tracklist

CD 1
Remastered Album
1. Bitter Sweet Symphony
2. Sonnet
3. The Rolling People
4. The Drugs Don't Work
5. Catching the Butterfly
6. Neon Wilderness
7. Space and Time
8. Weeping Willow
9. Lucky Man
10. One Day
11. This Time 
12. Velvet Morning
13. Come On

CD 2
B-Sides
1. Oh Lord I Guess I'll Never Know 
2. Country Song
3. Bitter Sweet Symphony (James Lavelle Remix)
4. So Sister 
5. Echo Bass 
6. Three Steps 
7. The Drugs Don’t Work – original demo 
8. The Crab 
9. Stamped 
10. Never Wanna See You Cry 
11. (Bitter Sweet Symphony) MSG 
12. The Longest Day 
13. Lucky Man (Happiness More or Less)

CD 3
B-sides (cont.) + 2 session tracks issued in 2004*
1. Bitter Sweet Symphony (extended version) 
2. This Could Be My Moment * 
3. Monte Carlo* 
BBC Evening session 27/8/97 – PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
4. Life’s An Ocean 
5. A Man Called Sun 
6. The Drugs Don’t Work 
7. On Your Own 
8. So Sister

CD4
Live at Haigh Hall 24/5/98 – PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
1. This Is Music 
2. Space and Time 
3. Catching the Butterfly 
4. Sonnet 
5. The Rolling People 
6. Neon Wilderness 
7. Weeping Willow 
8. The Drugs Don't Work 
9. Lucky Man 
10. Life's an Ocean 
11. Velvet Morning 
12. Bitter Sweet Symphony

CD5 - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED 
Haigh Hall Encore:
1. One Day 
2. History 
3. Come On 
Further live material (Washington / Brixton / Manchester – 1997/8)
4. A New Decade - Washington DC 9.30 Club (3/11/97)
5. The Rolling People – Brixton Academy (16/1/98)
6. On Your Own - Brixton Academy (16/1/98)
7. History - Brixton Academy (16/1/98)
8. The Drugs Don’t Work – Washington DC 9.30 Club (3/11/97)
9. Slide Away – Manchester Academy (11/8/97)
10. A Man Called Sun - Washington DC 9.30 Club (3/11/97) 
11. A Northern Soul - Washington DC 9.30 Club (3/11/97) 
12. Space and Time - Brixton Academy (16/1/98) 
13. This Is Music – Manchester Academy (11/8/97) 
14. Weeping Willow - Washington DC 9.30 Club (3/11/97) 
15. Stormy Clouds (and Reprise) – Manchester Academy (11/8/97)

DVD
The Video 1996-1998 –originally issued as HUTVID1
Later with Jools Holland – 01/11/97 - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
1. Lucky Man 
2. Life’s An Ocean 
3. The Drugs Don’t Work 
4. Bitter Sweet Symphony 
Live at Haigh Hall - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED 
1. This Is Music 
2. Space and Time 
3. Catching the Butterfly 
4. Sonnet 
5. The Rolling People 
6. Neon Wilderness 
7. Weeping Willow 
8. The Drugs Don't Work 
9. Lucky Man 
10. Life's an Ocean 
11. Velvet Morning 
12. Bitter Sweet Symphony 
13. One Day 
14. History 
15. Come On 
The promo videos:
Bitter Sweet Symphony 
The Drugs Don’t Work 
Lucky Man 
Lucky Man (US version) 
Sonnet