The Verve - Slide Away

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Music video by The Verve performing Slide Away.

[@frecklefingers]

Criminally underrated album.

[@Ethercloud]

Mr. Doody Benn Jordan's album "Soundtrack to a Vacant Life". Another underrated victim.

[@vgfxworks]

just unknown, and then obscured by urban hymns..

[@carpios1986]

Fregoli Delusion literally true pioneers of this particular sound, what a beautiful bassline

[@Baccanaso]

@shadow0106 yeah Urban Hymns is amazing But A Storm In Heaven has got to be one of the best albums ever made imo

[@pigglesy]

What does criminally underrated mean?You wish it was as popular as Oasis?Can you not see the contradiction there?Listen to what you like.

[@stevenjamesmoss]

Verve at their absolute prime, no one could touch them at this point. Incredible song, how on earth does anyone write stuff like this.

[@sambell385]

I don’t know how incredible the lyrics are I like the sound but the lyrics are terribly muffled and undecipherable I’d like to know what he’s saying

[@tzt1182]

Nick McCabe's guitar is absolutely beautiful and unmatched. It still gives me chills all these years later.

[@bandybushido]

Sound words brother. x

[@dt7449]

‘ how on earth does anyone write stuff like this ‘ - brilliantly put mate 👌🏼

[@nitrum3000]

@@sambell385 Thats the point

[@detcelloc]

The guitar sound in this song is fucking epic

[@igorrodrigues97.]

detcelloc it’s fucking Nick McCabe

[@panchikofan123]

Listen to Slowdive also lol

[@O_Towne_Bear]

I use "sonic"

[@amancalledsun92]

cuz it's shoegaze - cool music genre)

[@paolo-n2000]

Sir Nick McCabe!!! Totally original player....

[@kiely4561]

they literally had the talent to be the greatest band in the world, it pains me that they never quite fulfilled their full potential

[@katoness]

Yes they did. The music is all that matters, it will stand the test of time.

[@bonnielang1739]

I absolutely agree!!!

[@andydillon1842]

Bonnie Lang Bang on mate.

[@yourunemployedfriendat2pm]

They are the greatest band in the world, what do you mean?

[@letmelive2006]

I agreeee!

[@UpperCanadaDLC]

why they ever left this sound is beyond me. Nick McCabe had this liquid guitar sound down like no other.

[@astralbluefish]

Such a shame because this album is one of the few albums i can still listern to all the way through from that time. Northern soul was great also but i want more of this, they came and gave it once and left us with one true Gem.

[@davida.quinnsr.8847]

It's cause he was doing C.B.D. everyone knows that!!

[@andrewknudsen6674]

Britpop happened. Shoegaze, long hair, psychedelia, and jamming went out quickly after '94. Almost every UK band fell in line. They used Owen Morris for Northern Soul, trying to get closer to an oasis sound.

[@ralphthewonderllama5229]

@@andrewknudsen6674 I think the irony here is that the one time I got the chance to see them live they were supporting Oasis at Earl's Court...when Oasis had earlier been supporting them. I only went to see the Verve, and they were magnificent, but as you say, they could have been so much more.

[@hishybear8241]

It wasn’t making money.

[@dioannalovecraft1117]

This song gives me a strange feeling of nostalgia. It's like a dream of another life I had.

[@Mikee22ification]

you had that life, are having, will have it, and the song is helping you connect - you need to continue that journey and the journey will make the life

[@josepar4174]

I guess we share the same feeling....me too.

[@alfonzo9289]

Yes. If you look into the lead singers beliefs in reality, this comment makes even way more sense..

[@Mikee22ification]

One of the best songs ever

[@leocadiajoanna2659]

AMO!!!!!

[@davida.quinnsr.8847]

👏👏👏

[@topspin213]

The bass line is perfect: simple but also brilliant and powerful. Suits the song like hand in glove. Simon Jones is a huge musician.

[@highhat583]

Simon Jones is such an underrated bassist

[@Soulrollsdeep]

Their best album by a hundred thousand light years, Leckie did an amazing job producing this.

[@c4rtelmike]

he did, but every song is too short by about 4 minutes

[@mcbill7352]

Yo this was leckie? He seems to have produced just about every British rock album ever.

[@hishybear8241]

@@c4rtelmikeand the rest!

[@jaydeepsarnaik7640]

Quite possibly the greatest underappreciated album of all time!

[@Thomasknife69]

Listening to this song just makes me think that so many people are talking about Richard being the best singer and Nick the greatest guitarist in the world, somehow underestimating how great musicians both Simon and Pete are. Just listen to this rhythm section. The Verve, as a whole, are just pure magic.

[@juanvalcarcel1620]

This video was filmed in Almeria, Spain. It was directed by Richie Smyth. You can even see at 1:55 an old Seat car with Almeria license plate.

[@constantreader7483]

Juan Valcarcel Thanks, Juan! I was trying to figure out the location but I couldn't find it. I thought it was in South America somewhere.

[@fernancastilloarenas]

Totalmente, el desierto de tabernas

[@dialecticalspectacle]

Thanks for the info! Directors never get credit.

[@DeronMidgeblu]

I walked into a Tower Records in 1993 saw this cd on display to listen to...blew my mind immediately and have been my favorite band since. Deep, melodic, haunting sound, and underrated band known "essentially" for Bitter Sweet Symphony. It drives me insane to hear them called a one hit wonder band. Bullshit x 100000

[@dt7449]

Funny, I did that with a stereo mcs album at tower records in 1993 aswell

[@Ricsard]

The Verve was easily the best British band of the 90's in my book besides Depeche Mode, Radiohead and Suede.

[@ingride3719]

1000% ❗❗❗

[@hishybear8241]

Never heard them called a one hit wonder. But other than that I concur!

[@r7coo]

This is the best Verve album - all killer no filler. I saw them support the Smashing Pumpkins in Newcastle in 1993. - The Pumpkins were great but Verve blew them off stage an incredible live band in their early days.

[@craichead333]

Agreed - seen the Pumpkins & Verve at the Brixton Academy during the same tour, Pumpkins kinda disappointed after the Verve opening...

[@alexanaya9704]

Pumpkins are terrible live period 😅

[@norbertovelazquez7441]

Pumpkins + The Verve!! Yes

[@saintcaprinus5658]

Exactly the same story. Smashing Pumpkins couldn't hold a candle to the Verve. They were at their peak around the time of that tour and flexing.

[@abinavshrestha]

I hate that until today i had heard only one Verve song. These songs are bloody genius.

[@CD-yr8tw]

Better late, than never...

[@Leo-qe3gl]

Before i forget: masterpiece. 😌

[@weeg91]

When I migrated to uk from switzerland I landed in a tower block with nothing but a radio and a verve CD. It wasn't this particular album, but that verve sound is so iconic, every track brings me back to that such peaceful from view 15 floors up, welcome to britain!

[@pigglesy]

We play coldplay Sheeran and inxs in our supermarkets.Go back to Switzerland and learn how to fight.This is rubbish.

[@virginiaknighten4687]

Sounds dreamy to me.

[@LostWing2008]

I was searching Slide Away of Oasis and i found this, it changed my life

[@CD-yr8tw]

I first heard this track in the autumn of '94, and searched for it for about 6 months. I heard it at a time when I loved this young woman, but it was unrequited. I always remember how I felt, and her, when I hear it.

[@richardwyant657]

Probably the best and most underated album ever

[@miriamhill7741]

Intense, pure, so beautiful. The Verve.

[@jackmceleny5372]

Slide Away and give it all you got.

[@MarkMizanin]

Jackie Chan My today fell in from the top

[@earthtonesHQ]

I dream of u and all the things u say

[@markd8931]

I wonder where you are now

[@jirawin7307]

Hold me down

[@johnmaher2586]

All the world asleep

[@andyberridge6455]

The Verve & Richard Ashcroft wrote some truly amazing music.

[@tomrothwell2013]

The video captures the non conformist atmosphere,of early 90's Almeria superbly.

[@paulcullum1473]

The Verve make Oasis sound like Status Quo 👊

[@balltongue666]

This is the kind of song I like to listen to on a sunny autumn day. I listened to it on repeat while driving in my car and it was just a dreamy experience.

[@youngatnaruto]

the sound is so warm........i know its weird but does anybody agree with me

[@cyyytr0n]

I do :)

[@666LadyByron]

I know exactly what you mean.

[@cyyytr0n]

omg guys we should start a band or something

[@youngatnaruto]

we should call it warm sounds or lucid dream

[@cyyytr0n]

OK I'll play the guitar first ha !

[@Nice1m8ty]

this the first album I ever got and it was given to me by my late brother many many years ago just before he jumped in front of a train. r.i.p brother.

[@darrenlamb5640]

Man thats tough. Cant imagine losing my bro. Hes been my best mate for 48 years now.

[@HamzaElMasry-yd1um]

فن و إبداع لم نعد نراه فى عصر ما بعد 2000

[@orio723]

'A storm in heaven' seems to be a peak of this band. It can be not as popular as 'Urban hymns' but it will always be a number one album for a true music lover. And yes, 'Slide away' is a standout song, one of the best actually...

[@lekkki1]

Exemplary guitar work by McCabe on this one. Oh heck, what am I saying, all the songs off this album are brilliant.

[@olika8]

I could die while listening to this song... A truly life-changing band.

[@xray455]

Slide Away, both Oasis and The Verve have created songs by that name that I feel lucky to even listen to. c':

[@jamiee8387]

+emily idrovo Both awesome songs.

[@giog3195]

I guess you can say you're a Lucky Man(or woman).

[@danielishere734]

@@giog3195 or gender neutral 😉

[@martynmalmygin5789]

I love you the Verve!❤❤❤ I truly love you

[@sammuniz5360]

This is bliss.

[@TrailerHitchRVCenter]

American from California. Discovered after they got big back in early 90's. My Dad came to US from West Ham England back in 1945 after war. I connect to Verve in my blood. Much respect from a Yank.

[@AllanOstermann]

This has been a true favorite of mine for years and years. I've been though some of the hell that Richard Ashcroft has. He inspires me. And damn, this song's intense.

[@swi58ch]

Allan Ostermann I love ashcroft, but what hell has he been through?. I cant see much about his life online.

[@AllanOstermann]

***** The Rolling Stones' lawyers sued them for sampling about 6 seconds of "Bittersweet Symphony." The Verve got nothing, no money for one of the best songs ever.

[@marcelaalmeida3771]

Allan Ostermann I've been aware of that, but there is something about it I still don't understand. Andrews Oldham Orchestra covered the song "The Last Time" from The Rolling Stones. Bittersweet Symphony melody is pretty much based on the Andrews' cover than properly on the original song, so why did they complain because of a resemblance to a cover? Did they have any rights on it, more than Andrews? Regardless of the answer, what the Stones did to The Verve was very very unfair.

[@calvancandy8384]

Marcela Almeida I think it was because it was making so much money - for what it's worth, Ashcroft said "It wasn't the Stones" I think he even got a phone call from Mick Jagger about it, it was the folk behind the scenes...

[@Mikee22ification]

+Allan Ostermann - what ever does not kill you just makes you stronger. . and the more you have gone through the more you see, and the stronger you are the more you can create

[@EBear23]

Still stunning in 2020. ❤️

[@Kelly-qy4yr]

This video is everything. These guys were way ahead of their time.

[@jasanlo]

The sound of the early nineties

[@MrTuurte]

I'll never forget The Verve and A Storm In Heaven. Pukkelpop festival, think it was '93. The Verve were performing really early (before noon) but the intensity of their set just blew everything away. Great band.

[@BellaZella3000]

the Intro is so beautiful

[@bvanvliet86]

And once again I find myself late at night listening to The Verve, I need to go to sleep but somehow I end up listening all night. Such an epic band, such epic tunes. If only we could go back to the 90;s... If only

[@maevemurphy5869]

This is my tribal music it takes me to places I thought I'd left behind when I lost my tribe I the millennium i the sound impacts me with joy a sense of freedom and belonging to people not just a time when we shared a simple beautiful common bond music powerful sound and lyrics we didn't need to understand because the two together made sense to all of us that it blew away and we luv still today it was our strong comman bond then and will always be we don't need the band to 6 together any band that changed our lives we should reconnect with each other because music is the thing we have in common and the memories around it will be very similar I'm sure we are very close in age even though we didn't live in the same parts of the world we all come here to tell our memories and opinions of the same thing. When you do think about it we are the same tribe

[@ralphthewonderllama5229]

Just miles ahead of everyone else...

[@RonShenkar]

This gives me direction in life. I feel like I know what to do.

[@dt7449]

Great comment , I get it !!!!

[@wesleystone8563]

Best band on the planet simple as that

[@aMulliganStew]

I'm sad and kind of surprised that I missed out on this song back in the day. You see, I was living in Boston, and listening hard for records that would "do it" for me, as this one does. But "Slide Away", for not being grunge, nor metal, nor pop, nor rock, nor alternative, fell between the cracks. Pity, though I am lovin' it now.

[@FluidTomato-iq9vl]

Simon really shines here.

[@Abcdefghijklmno4840]

the guitar sounds too cool in this song

[@deepdive888]

On repeat. Forever 💙

[@starpowerj]

I'm from America and I don't know anybody here who listens to old Verve!! Everybody knows Bittersweet Symphony and all that, but nobody I know has heard of earlier stuff like Slide Away, Northern Soul, A Storm In Heaven! I asked for their first two albums from my parents for Christmas because I can't find them in ANY music store. The closest band any store carries is "The Verve Pipe" and it's obviously NOT the Verve! Help!! I'm trapped in musical purgatory! Save me Richard Ashcroft!

[@bonscottrules]

I'm with you man. Love this band!

[@jonmcclane7433]

I still do, brother.

[@YourVeganFriendTonia]

just here to tell you I'm STILL going strong with them!

[@wandaschrader894]

Most def

[@alpinism]

My bro got me Urban Hymns for my birthday as he thought it was a band I would like. I’ve only just listened to this album today, I’m totally blown away, it’s my got to album now happy days !

[@robertsharp3238]

The bass drops, you know its going to be an absolute stormer, firget Bitter Sweet Symphony this is their highwater mark.

[@hoff90000]

I wanna cry because this is such a good and beautiful song..my ears are blessed

[@enndaley]

Saw this video on MTV when the album came out-promptly went out and bought it.

[@yourunemployedfriendat2pm]

Best band of all time

[@666LadyByron]

Someone please invent time travel so I can go back and see this done live. Seriously addicted to this album.

[@olderloverxx]

I saw their last gig 95 at T in the Park Glasgow before an announced split by Ashcroft - a small PACKED tent... they mesmerised yet you knew they were fucked. They broke up for a period, they just needed a rest. Drugs.... r bad...

[@astralbluefish]

I was there in 93 at Brixton Academy to see them surporting Smashing Pumpkins and even though i experienced it first hand i would give my left arm and more to jump on that time machine to see it one more time and i'm not the only one!

[@porterhall27]

I saw them in 1994 in a tiny club with a tiny audience...they were amazing

[@andrewoliver8930]

@@astralbluefish saw them both on the same tour in Leeds. Lovely noise.

[@nando19751]

the first time I heard this band and this song was back in the early 90's. me and 6 other friends on acid driving around in a car til early morning. thanx for uploading!

[@gerrystewart9858]

Won tickets on a late night college rock station to see a band named “Verve” (Their name at the time) who I had never heard of before, but they were coming to town in support of their debut album “A Storm in Heaven”, as the radio dj excitedly announced. This was during the height of the American grudge movement (which only appealed to me to a limited degree). The warmup act was an understated mellow band that I ultimately came to love named Acetone with living room type lamps on stage. The audience was comprised of less than 50 people, andI recall a counter-cultured skinny young female with short hair scream “We love you…. thank you for coming to town” I thought to myself, “What does she know that I don’t, and how does she know about this band?” “Verve” took to the stage, and I spent the rest of the evening awash in their trippy wonderful sometimes uneasy psychedelic sound that absolutely blew my mind. Aside from the fog, trippy lighting, and their explosive sonic tones, moving about on stage there was this lanky sorta Mick Jagger’s trippy hippy little brother on some serious drugs dude that I later found his name to be Richard Ashcroft, who would bend down in a crotched position and with a far-off look in his eyes singing often times unintelligible words within the sound wash right in the audience’s faces that had convincing meaning through his drama that commanded our attention while not pretentiously demanding it. I couldn’t take my eyes off of him as he continued to move about clapping to the beat of the music, but not in a happy join me kind of way, but more so in a possessed mesmerized kind of way. As I left the venue In a daze I was thanking the heavens for once again saving rock music while also thinking that heroin never looked so good before.

[@eboethrasher]

There is no "The" Verve, there is only Verve, now and forever.

[@quinker6569]

Sensational Band.......beautiful music as usual........

[@athenais1]

How perfect Nick Mccabe was 😍😍

[@helloworld2054]

The Verve, Oasis & Radiohead ❤️❤️❤️

[@michaelg2478]

......and Blur.

[@joosuahuopaniemi471]

@@michaelg2478 blur is shit

[@garrettbreedon9691]

Shut up

[@angrygrouse4989]

@@joosuahuopaniemi471 they were shit until 1997

[@mocho12100]

Not true, its shoegaze

[@contritisumus]

listening to The Verve is like eating Utz Potato Chips - you can't listen to just one song & they all flow together like a stream, winding, tumbling, slow, then fast, then slow💙💙💙

[@lauratacuriarqque8699]

The Verve es completamente perfecto para mi , no hay canción que no sea una obra maestra

[@user-pt7ms2pp5x]

It was the best album ever... Now noone of them (the Verve) cant create such kind of music. Only young & free minds (from money, families & social rulles) are able to create such music.

[@shopo6847]

Exactly, musicians compose what they feel in the moment of their lives, after their sucess or failure they can't compose the same music as before, because they wouldn't be honest with themselves, and they are not the same person as before neither.

[@antub13]

i totally agree with you, Kira! the verve are northern souls... free ;-)

[@xXcangjieXx]

I think Noel Gallagher talks about this in an interview with Sean Evans (Hot Ones)

[@somethingforjoey]

Slide Away by Miley Cyrus: No, thank you. Slide Away by Oasis: That's good. Slide Away by The Verve: Now we're talking.

[@diptimalik1652]

Hahahah😂

[@harleyquinn5826]

i like all of them tbh but the verve's is definitely the best one by far

[@stevewhite4241]

Masterminded brilliance..when a record hits you ..worth every million they earn.x

[@arifahmedmilin4207]

Criminally underrated song.

[@staceymaudsley3775]

This video is the closest you can get to doing drugs without actually doing drugs. Its fucking amazing

[@dt7449]

Wish I could find a nightclub that would play this at around the 1am point in the night 👌🏽 I wouldn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but I’d be BUZZING like fuck

[@staceymaudsley3775]

@@dt7449 Damn straight!!

[@undeadMahrukh]

I love love love and value every single thing they made so much. But I always loved "Storm in Heaven " with great affection.

[@nikolamunjas346]

Epic. Belgrade adores you.

[@Jaime0110]

What a tune

[@Scotty-P]

Incredible.

[@markoblazney6360]

simply…….. splendid. a perfect song………. finally. sigh. gasp.

[@paulyoung5073]

it's the guitar playing that gets me 👍

[@johndoa4839]

When ecstasy and creativity get it right

[@inesgrace9407]

I wonder which cup you drink from I hope It's mine....love this song

[@WTFDW]

Nearly 30 years on and still an absolute whirlwind of noise

[@ronaldmcisaac]

gawd, I loved this album back in the 90s, the soundtrack to many road trips on the west coast ...

[@ronaldmcisaac]

now some of the lead tracks in my good-old-days nostalgia

[@BuddinBuddha902]

What a song.....what band. Sux I never got to see them live.

[@electrostaticenteratainmen1759]

this song and the whole first album can only be summed up as Devine.

[@darrenlamb5640]

Or even divine

[@jmfmrock]

I absolutely love the verve... i think a storm in heaven is an underrarted album... richard ashcroft is an amazing songwritter... nick and all of them are outstanding musicians!!!!!!!!!

[@takeawalkwithme803]

I associate this song with serotonin enriched experiences.

[@geraintgriffiths5711]

A whirlwind of emotions ...only early verve can command that feeling in a person. .fuck this is so good!

[@LNClubsTheaters]

The Verve Rocks!

[@Abitibidoug]

Wow, I just heard this song today and it"s an absolute masterpiece. I first heard of The Verve in 1998 when they made it big with the Urban Hymns album. There's some good stuff on that album, but if this song is any indication their older stuff is awesome. It's like something from another world. I think I'll slide away now and look for that A Storm in Heaven album.

[@Destiny93134]

Simons base line as the beginning is magic.this is classic verve not the overplayed bsw and lucky man.

[@eustaciaraye6074]

Most underrated band! This album is utter perfection!

[@philkearney0577]

God I miss the 90s!

[@PamelaCantillano]

2020 and I'm discovering this song.

[@edwardmulholland7912]

Still brilliant, their 1st album stands the test of time. They weren’t built to last, but they left their mark on me and many others.

[@greenman5555]

1993 Flash back! My favorite song senior year of high school. When they were just Verve.

[@markob1892]

Turn this up LOUD! This is music.

[@JLaRoc7]

What a beaut. I can't believe they didn't play this song in that reunion show at Glastonbury seven years ago.

[@stefanoiaquinta8970]

***** In 1995 they played this song in Glastonbury Festival !

[@LaYziELoC7]

I love the mysterious vibes when listening this song and the larger then life video!!

[@ralphthewonderllama5229]

If this album had sold like Urban Hymns did, we might have had the Verve as they should have been. Masterpiece.

[@IngyDentist]

unique and amazing

[@TheBishMighty]

This single was released on my birthday- Sept. 20, 1993

[@xxet3rnalro3budxx89]

Haha I was born on sep 20th but a different year :)))

[@1292liam]

2.58 pinnacle shoegaze bliss, sounds

[@tosgem]

I've listened to these lyrics for 20 years and it only just occurred to me that this is a song to his ego or some other part of himself