The Verve is back recording again. I guess Richard Ashcroft had enough of his solo career. Should be interesting to see if they recapture 1997's Urban Hymns glory days.

Info:
#217 on AM
www.the-verve.info/album_urbanhymns.html

Videos:
Lucky Man:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZyTO0jW8T2o

Sonnet:
youtube.com/watch?v=RiQgEn5ibYg&mode=related&search=

Bittersweet Symphony:
youtube.com/watch?v=V-Po8uJeoUw&mode=related&search=

The Drugs Don't Work:
youtube.com/watch?v=n4XCGeckA-E&mode=related&search=

Music Samples:
www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A6jd8vwmua92k

Fans, haters, Underrated, Overrated, what's the consensus?

Loved it from first listen.

Amazing album, I can just listen to Bittersweet Symphony all day, and the rest of the songs are, almost all, great. I dislike a few although I don't know which ones right now.

An amazing album of the brit-pop era (albeit at the tale end of it...)

Bittersweet Symphony is a classic, but songs like Sonnet, The Drugs Don't Work, and Weeping Willow show the true songwriting talent of Richard Ashcroft.

Favorite album moment: guitar solo at 3:51 of The Rolling People.

It's a very good brit-pop album. "Sonnet" is amazing.
But as a whole I prefer the album "A northern soul", great from start to finish.

Heard it once, liked it, but never had the urge to listen again. 7/10