LINK: I see via Dead Flowers that The Verve have come to their senses and reunited. British law, so far as I recall, requires all bands working in the genre of popular music to have a long-standing creative tension between their singer and lead guitarist (this is also known as "Johnny Marr's Law").* Recently, I've come to the opinion that the standard Verve narrative is incorrect: A Northern Soul is really their most exemplary moment--Nick McCabe's contributions run about equal to Richard Ashcroft's (Urban Hymns, while a great record from the Third Wave of Britpop, is more of a Ashcroft solo album featuring McCabe).
Nevertheless, The Verve demos from Urban Hymns? Awesome.
*Seriously: Ian Brown and John Squire, Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler, Liam and Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon, Jarvis Cocker and Russell Senior. Exceptions certainly exist (Spiritualized comes to mind), but Britain either has really lazy music writers, or a lot of creative tension.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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