The Verve - Love Is Noise/ A Man Called Sun (Live 2007)

When The Verve announced they were reforming I dared hope that they might surprise us all and come back doing something like the amazing shoegazey psychedelia of the first LP or at the very least the mint but more pedestrian sounding stuff on A Northern Soul. This was obviously about 91% hope, 8% insanity and 1% expectation. Their new single's here and it's called 'Love Is Noise' though it would've been better off being called 'We Deserve Nothing More Than Painful, Painful Deaths'. Honestly, this is the worst kind of MOR shat. It's terrifying to think that a band capable of something as amazing as that version of 'Gravity Grave' at Glastonbury could end up here, it's more embarrassing than Richard Ashcroft's solo stuff or him singing with Coldplay at Live 8. I mean he used to be cool as fuck.. I think Jason Pierce must've put some sort of smack curse on him for stealing his girlfriend or something, making him go all limp and shit. Worse still, they've dadrocked up 'A Man Called Sun' on the 7". This release saddens me.