The Verve Are Not Yet Afraid

The Verve in essence is a not entirely friendly battle between Nick McCabe, the underwater guitar god and Richard Ashcroft's dark, consumptive sensuality of the poet barfly. The dynamics just slightly on this record make the vocals a little louder and the rad guitar just a little quieter. You can sense his resignation that the world might not ever love him as much as Noel Gallagher loves him. In 1995 he got married. And I just absolutely if I were in this band, I would outright refuse to even appear in a photograph with this guy unless you were wearing a Chewbacca mask or something.