No come down
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| Compilation album by The Verve | ||||
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Publication |
1994 |
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| Label (s) | Vernon Yard | |||
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Spiritual rock / ambient / psyche rock |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
44:09 |
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Paul Schroeder / Barry Clempson |
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Studio (s) |
Diverse, England |
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No Come Down ( Engl. : No decline ) is a compilation of the English rock band The Verve and their first release on the shooting of The in the band's name. It was released on May 17, 1994 as a digipack by Vernon Yard Recordings, New York .
description
Album and composition
This compilation includes classic B-sides , live recordings and tracks from rare special presses from 1992 to 1994 by Verve . Stylistically, No Come Down takes what the The Verve EP and A Storm in Heaven have shown to extremes : spherical soundscapes, hypnotic chants , percussionistic rhythms , remote underground moods, which, in addition to the psychedelia of the two previous releases, also the folk-like soulful spirituality of the Wigan Attends demos (the band's application songs for a record deal). Songs that still clearly show the influence of Funkadelic and Spacemen 3 .
Gravity Grave at Glastonbury '93
A special highlight of the compilation is the concert recording of "Gravity Grave". The track was recorded at the Glastonbury Festival in 1993 and also appeared on the festival sampler "In a Field of Their Own". At that time, as Verve , the band's instruments were stolen shortly before the start of the performance, so they had to borrow the equipment at short notice. It sounds so very brutal and hard, especially because of the sensitive Electro - guitarist Nick McCabe with foreign technology and natural feedback had to work. But impressed by the strange, unfamiliar sound and the fact that this is their first festival on such a scale, the band was so electrified that they didn't want to leave the stage anymore. When the technicians finally symbolized simply turning off the electricity and light, Richard Ashcroft in the improvised outro of Gravity Grave begs for goodwill: "We gotta go? One minute left, come on? Just one minute?" You get the minute, McCabe and Jones turn up the guitar and bass again and Ashcroft is allowed to fly again . The recording includes the pleading begging and finally the enthusiasm and verve (in the sense of the term) about the minute that the band gets. The song almost reached the ten-minute mark.
Getting Certain
After the legal dispute with PolyGram Records and Deutsche Grammophon because of the American label Verve , the band had to rename itself and proclaim the lack of reference to the label with a special release. The cardboard cover contains a corresponding entry The Verve is not affiliated with the Verve record label. The name of the title of the compilation is an expression of the fact that The Verve will not let themselves get down. But it wasn't to be the last legal battle in the band's history. Incidentally, the title song No Come Down was still called Verve Are Rising on the demos .
Outcouplings
- Blue (USA-Mix, US: 1994) remixed and re-released as part of the Lollapalooza tour through the USA
Track list
- No Come Down (03:14) - released on "Blue", 1993
- Blue (03:15) - USA mix released as "Blue (US)" in 1994
- Make It Till Monday (02:44) - Acoustic version released on Slide Away, 1993
- Butterfly (07:36) - acoustic version of the 1993 song on "A Storm In Heaven"
- Where The Geese Go (03:12) - released on "Blue", 1993
- 6 O'Clock (04:29) - published on Blue (US), 1994
- One Way To Go (07:16) - published on "All In The Mind", 1992
- Gravity Grave (09:22) - live from Glastonbury Festival , 1993
- Twilight (3:01 am) - published on Blue, 1993
Web links
- The-Verve archive pages from The-Raft.co.uk ( memento of January 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )