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product_id: 47869953
title: "A Northern Soul"
brand: "the verve"
price: "€ 16.42"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 8
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# A Northern Soul

**Brand:** the verve
**Price:** € 16.42
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

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- **What is this?** A Northern Soul by the verve
- **How much does it cost?** € 16.42 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Description

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Verve - A Northern Soul - CD












.co.uk








The Verve's first album, A Storm In Heaven was a little too much like a wet weekend to really live up to its title, dallying in intangible psychedelia. Bolstered by Oasis producer Owen Morris, A Northern Soul delivered a lot more. The opening "A New Decade" was imbued with all the glorious bombast that its title suggested, and "This Is Music" sounded like some furious gospel, with shamanic lead singer Richard Ashcroft bellowing the title like he was administering to his flock. Inconsistencies marred A Northern Soul, however, with "Brainstorm Interlude" hardly even worthy of inclusion, and "Life's An Ocean" simply unrolling as an overlong jam. The album's clincher, surely, is the almighty "History". The Verve's greatest achievement, "History" is an epic, tearful elegy, and to date one of rock music's greatest moments. It alone proves that A Northern Soul is a failed masterpiece. By the next album, Urban Hymns, The Verve had learnt to dispense with the filler. --Louis Pattison

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Not History
  

*by A***. on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 June 2016*

Yet another replacement cd (still got original vinyl, not a scratch) keep coming back to this album the verve where my favourite of the 90s, dark and lonley and on the verge of panic attack whilst maintaining a sense of doom ashcroft paints it with flashes and flecks of brainstorm colours, theres a chink of light, a way out, can you see it?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    All time great.
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2018*

some say its the best album ever made and its hard to disagree with that statement, its certainly up there with the all time greats

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Four Stars
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2018*

very pleased with the purchase

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