It’s great. The only way anyone could criticise it would be to say it’s a little bit like “Life’s what you make it” by Talk Talk. Both are excellent imho.
Yes, McCabe was undoubtedly a fantastic guitarist. Yes, Ashcroft had a great voice and wrote great lyrics. But listen to that rhythm section on this? OOF! Really tight, really powerful and very groovy. They wouldn't have been the same band without those 2 lads.
This is the Verve I love - McCabe is on some different s.h.i.t!!!! next level guitar playing -funky, sky scrapping and melodic. Then you go Simon's super groove baseline and Ashcroft ridding it all with his mystic meandering baritone...... f*cking special I tells ya!!!
Placid Casual yeah. Totally mystic and different level of musicianship. Oasis and radiohead be damned. The verve were on their own and got shoved into britpop land. They werent even a part of the scene other than the 'hit' song. But they lifted the game and made everyone better. Ashcroft is a uniquely gifted singer songwriter that comes once in a life. Mccabe is so underrated its laughable. Such is life.
I couldn't have said it better. I respect the talent (or lack) of the other bands, but Verve were on another level. And live, when they were at their best, they were untouchable!
This is absolutely stunning. Why didn't the Verve get the attention they deserve in the US? There is unbelieveable intelligence, complexity, and skill in this band. Maybe it takes a more sophisticated musical appreciation taste to understand how great this performance is. Twitter, Facebook, blog them, or whatever .... this is head and shoulders above the music we are spoon feed by the music industry. This is one american who repents for not giving the Verve they attention they deserve.
WOW...............lyrics.......bass line........guitar........I remember this song in my life 1996. Time it slips away, pace yourself young ones. You don't need drugs to over come the deceit of this world. Discover god through music, early morning birds, spontanious kindness, night skys and written words
@@geraintgriffiths5711 so true...I keep coming back time and again to listen to this "Bloody Masterpiece". I wonder if Richard Ashcroft realises how how brilliant a moment this was! How brilliant Nick McCabe is!
fruitycolax When Be Here Now came out in August it got poor reviews pretty much across the board and was seen as a big anti climax after the build up. Then when Urban Hymns came out in September, it blew everyone away, and the Verve were seen as the number one band in Britain all the way through until they split in summer '98. When they played Haigh Hall in Wigan in May '98, that was like their version of Oasis at Knebworth or the Roses at Spike Island.
It’s mad how they played life’s an ocean really as it was never one of their mainstream songs. It does however highlight each musician at the peak of their powers
Nick Mcabe - Like having a genius octopus with 4 guitars in your band. Verve were the best band of the 90's. They should have been the best band ever. No other band could play live as a unit like they could
I saw them support Oasis at Earls Court in the year this performance was on tv,and they stole the night from them,was a week before UH was released aswell.Unreal
“Nick McCabe coaxed gorgeous, shimmering wodges of sound from his instrument while exuding all the enthusiasm of a man waiting for a bus." That’s a quote from a reviewer who attended a Verve gig in the US in 1993. The quote was intended as a criticism that Nick was visually uninteresting to watch on stage. But I love the quote all the same because it describes Nick’s playing style to a T. On stage, he’s visually understated, but his sound is anything but.
As a hard core The Verve fan - I'm so glad that time start to shape the greatness of this band. This band and Pink Floyd the best live bands i've ever heard/saw. Cheers ✊🏻
I recorded this back in the 90's and have watched it in excess of 500 times. Easily. I've probably watched it on UA-cam 30 times in the last month lol. An amazing performance. Listen to the applaud they get after, fantastic. The only guitarist I've heard make love to a guitar like that is Hendrix :-)
My favourite song of all time and always will be! Best version ever! I will be listening to this over and over til I'm old and grey :D. (God help the other people in the old peoples home when I'm blasting this out! ha ha ha!) xxx
F! That is soooo good." there's something inside of meeeeee, crying out for something else....and if someone here's my screams, well...put it in a letter to me......" F that is good!
fahucks sake this is soon good. mcabe firing on all cylinders and ashcroft flying off the back of him. unbelievable - greater than the sum of their parts when they played together.
Wow I swear you keep getting better the older I get. Love you more and more as the years go by. What a fantastic beautiful, poetic song. Words can't describe what that song does to me like so many more of your songs. Eternally grateful for the memories. Will be a fan until the day I leave this earth. 😚
Yes indeed, and it's always at this point into the performance, where I as a guitarist myself, burst out in laughter out of sheer astonishment about this pure brilliancy these guys and especially McCabe delivered here. To be able to play with sounds like that, flawless, in a constant stream of emotion, going for the kill everytime, without any fear, pushing himself further out with every note he plays. You'd think "well, he's a damn risky player, he's gotta make some mistakes from time to time", but nah, he just nails every sound he's going for. I mean, just to be able to think of that 'purr'.. The cherry on top of the icing, on top of an already super delicous masterpiece of a dessert. It's freaking ridicouless, it is to me the pinnacle of what you can archieve as a musician, not just as a guitarist. No one comes even close to that level of soundscaping.
Truly amazing performance. Life's an Ocean, Gravity Grave and Velvet Morning are getting me through all night dissertation writing. Fuckin' outstanding
It just doesn't matter how many times I play this record or watch this version it just gets fucking better & better every time. This band are absolutely fucking light years ahead of every one. COME ON THE ROLLING PEOPLE!!!! Legends.
Life's an ocean Too much commotion Too much emotion Dragging me down Living for today Don't have time to pray Ready for the game Take a line of fickle flame Imagine the future Woke up with a scream I was buying some feelings From a vending machine Say that I will see Something more than I have There's something inside of me Crying out for something else And if someone hears this scream Put it in a letter to me Slippery slidey road down Slippery slidey road down Slippery slidey road down Slippery slidey road down Life's an ocean Too much commotion Not enough emotion To satisfy me Slippery slidey road down It's slippery slidey road down Hold my hand and we'll walk down Dry those eyes and we'll walk down Slippery slidey road down Slippery slidey road down Life's an ocean Life's an ocean Too much commotion Too much emotion
After splitting up in 95' this was the chance to show to the nation how good a band they were, the critics were unsure and after Bittersweet symphony they had to perform to get the credit they deserve, and they did just that in spectacular fashion. This performance is just unbelievable, The Verve at their best. Everyone clicks and Ashcroft, when McCabes solo kicks in gets lost in it all. An amazing performance.
The bass line sucks you in and stirs your soul… the drums are hypnotically mechanical… the vocals haunt you from a place in the past… the guitar is just plain otherworldly! McCabe is an unequaled prodigy. The Verve may well have been the last truly skilled live band. If you think McCabe was good in this performance check out his live effort at Haigh Hall in 1998. I hope you enjoy it… I know I have - REPEATEDLY!
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Probably Nick McCabe’s finest hour.
The 29 people who dislike this can get straight in the bin.
It’s great. The only way anyone could criticise it would be to say it’s a little bit like “Life’s what you make it” by Talk Talk. Both are excellent imho.
God save the Queen.
@@sweetf2a the fuck are you talking about, you deaf? sounds nothing like it
McCabe paints sonic landscapes and his style is worth 10 virtuoso guitarists. Give me McCabe over Bonamassa every day of the week
Second, third an fourth this statement! Top top class
Talent ,ya he sure has it , one of the all time greats ,,😏
too right man
@@kathleenrivera3715 sss! '5z. Z
@@kathleenrivera3715 sss! '5z. Z
Fuck me. That’s one of the best live performances of any song I’ve seen!
so right.Absolutely incredible. For me Nick McCabe steals the show.
The only live show I've ever seen where each member of the band steals the show individually, simultaneously.
And collectively.
One of the greatest live guitar tones I've ever heard.
Yes, McCabe was undoubtedly a fantastic guitarist. Yes, Ashcroft had a great voice and wrote great lyrics. But listen to that rhythm section on this? OOF! Really tight, really powerful and very groovy. They wouldn't have been the same band without those 2 lads.
100%
So true 👍
On point thats right!!!!a great Band with the powerful Songs on every Album...love it
100% agree, bass + drums made the band.
Everything about this performance is incredible, but the guitar really is just on another level
Well said...
Agreed. Reminds me of Robin Guthrie tones & effects
This is the Verve I love - McCabe is on some different s.h.i.t!!!! next level guitar playing -funky, sky scrapping and melodic. Then you go Simon's super groove baseline and Ashcroft ridding it all with his mystic meandering baritone...... f*cking special I tells ya!!!
Placid Casual nailed it mate
I'm completely converted mate
Placid Casual
Lol 4 sure man
Placid Casual yeah. Totally mystic and different level of musicianship. Oasis and radiohead be damned. The verve were on their own and got shoved into britpop land. They werent even a part of the scene other than the 'hit' song. But they lifted the game and made everyone better. Ashcroft is a uniquely gifted singer songwriter that comes once in a life. Mccabe is so underrated its laughable. Such is life.
I couldn't have said it better. I respect the talent (or lack) of the other bands, but Verve were on another level. And live, when they were at their best, they were untouchable!
Their best track and this version is better than the studio take
checking in, still watching this years later! :) The guitar is out of this world.
This is absolutely stunning. Why didn't the Verve get the attention they deserve in the US? There is unbelieveable intelligence, complexity, and skill in this band. Maybe it takes a more sophisticated musical appreciation taste to understand how great this performance is. Twitter, Facebook, blog them, or whatever .... this is head and shoulders above the music we are spoon feed by the music industry. This is one american who repents for not giving the Verve they attention they deserve.
WOW...............lyrics.......bass line........guitar........I remember this song in my life 1996. Time it slips away, pace yourself young ones. You don't need drugs
to over come the deceit of this world. Discover god through music, early morning birds, spontanious kindness, night skys and written words
beautiful words of wisdom...enjoy the trip....we are ONE family...
nice to see someone who is AWAKE out there....god speed brother!
Here comes the blue light
That fuckin bass! And of course McCabe is a magician on the guitar.
William Boardman
Simon Jones on bass
Here in 2022 still. What a groove. What a sound. Discovered another dimension of The Verve!
Still here ..I come back every few weeks ...a bloody masterpiece..
It's a sonic magnet.
@@geraintgriffiths5711 Absolute masterpiece...
I remember watching this live on Jools back in ‘98 as a college student.
@@geraintgriffiths5711 so true...I keep coming back time and again to listen to this "Bloody Masterpiece". I wonder if Richard Ashcroft realises how how brilliant a moment this was! How brilliant Nick McCabe is!
Imagined the future, woke up with a scream... I was buying some feelings, from a vending machine.
Steve Milian truer words have never been spoken 20 years ahead of their time
social media and smartphones
At that moment in time on that show in 1997 the verve were probably the best band in the world..based on that performance alone..just pure perfection!
scaftag 1997 was probably Oasis just off the back of morning glory and releasing Be Here Now
fruitycolax
When Be Here Now came out in August it got poor reviews pretty much across the board and was seen as a big anti climax after the build up.
Then when Urban Hymns came out in September, it blew everyone away, and the Verve were seen as the number one band in Britain all the way through until they split in summer '98.
When they played Haigh Hall in Wigan in May '98, that was like their version of Oasis at Knebworth or the Roses at Spike Island.
I'm a big Verve fan but I'm pretty sure Radiohead were seen as the best band in the world at this time
Smashing Pumpkins ruled the world from 1995-1997.
It’s mad how they played life’s an ocean really as it was never one of their mainstream songs. It does however highlight each musician at the peak of their powers
I still find it unbelievable everytime I watch this. And I don't think it'll ever change.
Me too
Favourite live performance of anything. Ever.
one of the best musical performances ever committed to TV in my opinion.
Forget Urban Hymns, people. A Northern Soul is The Verve's masterpiece.
Northern soul will always be legendary to anything. Urban hymns wasn't bad either.
A Storm in Heaven was better than both imo.
Storm in heaven is amazing too! I don't really think they have any bad work lol
A storm in heaven and forth are the best
I agree 100%
Nick McCabe's guitar work is o another planet. The drums snd bass are so together funky groove dudes
McCabe = Genius.
mccabe genius....
One of the best live performances I've ever seen, perfect!
There is a balance between guitar and vocal here which is probably top of its game.mcabe and Ashcroft at their finest..spread the love
yeh baby
This live version is even better than the album version!
Just listen how Richard sings. I mean, you can hear he was inspired, just flawless...
It's like you believe every single word that comes off his mouth
This is my favorite! McCabe is a legend! Wow!
the best - one of the - top 5! mccabe !
This song reminds me of great moments on the beach, The Verve the best band of all time
Nick play the guitar like a boss and Richard sing like the best
Nick Mcabe - Like having a genius octopus with 4 guitars in your band.
Verve were the best band of the 90's. They should have been the best band ever. No other band could play live as a unit like they could
I saw them support Oasis at Earls Court in the year this performance was on tv,and they stole the night from them,was a week before UH was released aswell.Unreal
Agreed, saw them back in the day. This is music! What else can one say?
“Nick McCabe coaxed gorgeous, shimmering wodges of sound from his instrument while exuding all the enthusiasm of a man waiting for a bus."
That’s a quote from a reviewer who attended a Verve gig in the US in 1993. The quote was intended as a criticism that Nick was visually uninteresting to watch on stage. But I love the quote all the same because it describes Nick’s playing style to a T. On stage, he’s visually understated, but his sound is anything but.
the paradox of inner scape
Shoe gazing at its best
He's too busy piloting the spaceship to heaven to dance on stage.
Spellbindingly good, incredible unique sound from a brilliant band..
As a hard core The Verve fan - I'm so glad that time start to shape the greatness of this band. This band and Pink Floyd the best live bands i've ever heard/saw.
Cheers ✊🏻
so true....verve had the potential to reach pine floyd heights...too bad their band management was soooo poor...
This is music!
I recorded this back in the 90's and have watched it in excess of 500 times. Easily. I've probably watched it on UA-cam 30 times in the last month lol.
An amazing performance. Listen to the applaud they get after, fantastic.
The only guitarist I've heard make love to a guitar like that is Hendrix :-)
I always thought 2:23 was a simply perfect riff / transition in this song.....so good.
My favourite song of all time and always will be! Best version ever! I will be listening to this over and over til I'm old and grey :D. (God help the other people in the old peoples home when I'm blasting this out! ha ha ha!) xxx
Genius! Amazing....nothing else out there like this! I am so blown away everyday!
Verve are a treasure trove of musical goodness!!!
F! That is soooo good." there's something inside of meeeeee, crying out for something else....and if someone here's my screams, well...put it in a letter to me......" F that is good!
I feel you man
Watching this again.. in 2019.. slippery slide..
I haven't heard this live version,- wow!! Incredible the band are so tight and grooving so well. Love it!!
I want to play my guitar and sound like that!!!
fahucks sake this is soon good. mcabe firing on all cylinders and ashcroft flying off the back of him. unbelievable - greater than the sum of their parts when they played together.
This song is ETERNAL......🚀
Nick's guitar is like 10-80!
Seeing the great Simon Tong is nice too. The whole band rocks this song with raw talent.
Hard to top this
Every fecken time I listen to this, it gets better. Seminal.
Nick is just too
good
the average man walking down the street doesn't know how fucking cool this this is..he doesn't know it exists. .what a shame.
Keep it quiet brother
i agree , it's their loss ha ha ha our gain
Geraint Griffiths
That's what makes him the average man
That is the Way of Things
Haha that’s what I needed to think about!
Such a drama... I will not sleep tonight
Word!
These guys were so good live . Leeds Duchess Of York mid 90s ! Almost blew my corduroy bell bottoms off!
i saw this when it aired and it never left me. stunning. perfection.
Absolute class!
I'm always buying feelings from a vending machine. the verve is one of my top British bands
Wow I swear you keep getting better the older I get. Love you more and more as the years go by. What a fantastic beautiful, poetic song. Words can't describe what that song does to me like so many more of your songs. Eternally grateful for the memories. Will be a fan until the day I leave this earth. 😚
life was an Ocean, 90s melancholia never had it so good..
at one point during this performance McCabe actually makes his guitar purr :- )
Yes indeed, and it's always at this point into the performance, where I as a guitarist myself, burst out in laughter out of sheer astonishment about this pure brilliancy these guys and especially McCabe delivered here. To be able to play with sounds like that, flawless, in a constant stream of emotion, going for the kill everytime, without any fear, pushing himself further out with every note he plays. You'd think "well, he's a damn risky player, he's gotta make some mistakes from time to time", but nah, he just nails every sound he's going for. I mean, just to be able to think of that 'purr'.. The cherry on top of the icing, on top of an already super delicous masterpiece of a dessert. It's freaking ridicouless, it is to me the pinnacle of what you can archieve as a musician, not just as a guitarist. No one comes even close to that level of soundscaping.
The band is so talented even their accounted plays the drums
One of the best bands live that’s better than recorded imho
No sell out!!
Saw them live at Oxegen festival 2008. Changed my life. Special band
that drums...😍
Truly amazing performance. Life's an Ocean, Gravity Grave and Velvet Morning are getting me through all night dissertation writing. Fuckin' outstanding
No cabe duda que Nick es uno delos mejores guitarristas de los 90s, no por su tecnica sino por sacar ese sonido tremendo a las strato.
Amazing Band! Long Live The Verve! How about a new record in 2021??? The WORLD needs more Verve music!!!
Fantastic Fender sound. Great groove.
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A wonderful trip into the heart!!!
Outstanding
It just doesn't matter how many times I play this record or watch this version it just gets fucking better & better every time. This band are absolutely fucking light years ahead of every one. COME ON THE ROLLING PEOPLE!!!! Legends.
Every day... Every single day I watch this. WoW!
This is the best song and performance and band to grace this planet EVER! Just saying! :D x
This song is amazing!! just as this perfomance!! i can't believe i had never seen that!!
can't get enough of this track live.
Buying some feelings from a vending machine. Richard was a prophet
Cool live jive. Best track on Northern Soul.smooth.
Every aspect of this song is just pure brilliance! You could watch that 10 times in a row and get lost in a different part each time! 👏🏻
I agree with every worded sentiment here about this band. Killer all around, damn.
Bass is bad ass on this one! I love this groove! Love the band so much!
Life's an ocean
Too much commotion
Too much emotion
Dragging me down
Living for today
Don't have time to pray
Ready for the game
Take a line of fickle flame
Imagine the future
Woke up with a scream
I was buying some feelings
From a vending machine
Say that I will see
Something more than I have
There's something inside of me
Crying out for something else
And if someone hears this scream
Put it in a letter to me
Slippery slidey road down
Slippery slidey road down
Slippery slidey road down
Slippery slidey road down
Life's an ocean
Too much commotion
Not enough emotion
To satisfy me
Slippery slidey road down
It's slippery slidey road down
Hold my hand and we'll walk down
Dry those eyes and we'll walk down
Slippery slidey road down
Slippery slidey road down
Life's an ocean
Life's an ocean
Too much commotion
Too much emotion
After splitting up in 95' this was the chance to show to the nation how good a band they were, the critics were unsure and after Bittersweet symphony they had to perform to get the credit they deserve, and they did just that in spectacular fashion.
This performance is just unbelievable, The Verve at their best. Everyone clicks and Ashcroft, when McCabes solo kicks in gets lost in it all.
An amazing performance.
One of the tightest, best performances by a band at any venue
so much better then the album version.
That Strat has some fucking bite to it! McCabe opens up the tonal palate of a Strat like Hendrix did. He’s a fucking genius!
The Verve is my favorite band ever. No band seems to inject such passion and emotion into their music.
killer song bro
McCabe on God mode.
Doesnt get any better than that. Greatness x
a complete band !!!
McCabe coming through again
One of tbe best live performances I have ever seen.
Heart & soul
All them this is the best performance
Everything about the verve is a master piece can't compare Their albums its a journey ❤️
Una banda haciendo magia.
One of my top 10 for sure live performance of a song...F this is good!!
Wonderful version !
Peter is really digging in here !
OMG I can't believe I'm watching this. The real thing in real time... Such a great band, a great album.
The bass line sucks you in and stirs your soul… the drums are hypnotically mechanical… the vocals haunt you from a place in the past… the guitar is just plain otherworldly! McCabe is an unequaled prodigy. The Verve may well have been the last truly skilled live band. If you think McCabe was good in this performance check out his live effort at Haigh Hall in 1998. I hope you enjoy it… I know I have - REPEATEDLY!
Great to look back on great music as now it's on it's arse
this is just soooooooooooooooooooooo fucking good. The Verve at thier very best
Hell yeah!!