The Verve: Urban Hymns

I CAN'T HAVE BEEN ALONE in not being convinced. Yet there were people from day one and the debut LP A Storm In Heaven making great claims and ridiculous comparisons that just didn't make sense. That album and the disjointed, troubled and occasionally great follow-up, A Northern Soul, were hardly bad, but they seemed so far from the Hall of Fame assertions of the early believers as to be vaguely ridiculous.