The Verve Urban

Urban Hymns is the third album by English rock band The Verve, released on 29 September 1997. It earned nearly unanimous critical praise upon its release, and went on to become the band's best-selling release and one of the biggest selling albums of the year.

Universal will celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Verve‘s Urban Hymns in September with a reissue campaign that includes a 5CD+DVD super deluxe edition and a massive 6LP vinyl box set. All formats feature a remastered version of the album (the work of Chris Potter and Metropolis’ Tony Cousins) and the super deluxe edition box set adds four further CDs offering B-sides, remixes, session tracks, BBC Sessions and two discs of unreleased live performance from the era, including the May 1998 hometown show in front of around 35,000 fans at Haigh Hall, Wigan.

Japanese two disc (CD + NTSC/Region All DVD) pressing of the Britpop band's 2008 reunion album features two bonus tracks on the audio disc ('Ma Ma Soul' and 'Muhammad Ali'), both of which were only issued on the UK LP pressing. The bonus DVD includes five live tracks performed at Coachella '08 along with a documentary entitled 'Space and Time.' The Verve are back! One of the biggest selling and more influential bands of the last ten years have reformed and recorded an album of new material. After the success of 'Urban Hymns', which to date has sold 3 million copies in the UK, 'Forth' is a true return to form, and the first single 'Love Is Noise' looks set to become a festival anthem this summer.

Forth is the fourth and final studio album by English rock band The Verve. It was released internationally on August 25, 2008, and a day later in North America. The band reformed in 2007, having broken up in 1999. Forth is their first album of new material since their 1997 album Urban Hymns.

The Verve‘s first two albums, 1993’s A Storm in Heaven and A Northern Soul from 1995 were both reissued by Virgin/EMI in September 2016 as multi-disc super deluxe edition box sets…

1998 Japanese reissue on Virgin of the band's acclaimed 1993 album for the label with three early B-sides added as hiddenbonus tracks: 'No Come Down', 'Where The Geese Go' and'Endless Life'. 13 tracks total, also featuring 'Star Sail'& 'Slide Away'.