Urban Hymns
by The Verve
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Urban Hymns is ranked as the best album by The Verve.
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Urban Hymns track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Urban Hymns rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 8/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 47 Music Albums of 1997 | 33/47 | 2 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 61 Music Albums of 1997 | 16/61 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Pastiche | Top 26 Music Albums of 1997 | 3/26 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 91 Music Albums of 1997 | 6/91 | 5 |
| 2026 | davidhuret | Top 17 Music Albums of 1997 | 15/17 | 1 |
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 60/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 90 Music Albums of 1997 | 43/90 | 3 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 6/100 | 19 |
| 2026 | ornot27 | Top 92 Greatest Music Albums | 10/92 | 88 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 858 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 5,468 | |||
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Urban Hymns ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/18/2026 01:08 | Neil_71 | 145 | 78/100 |
| ! | 09/03/2026 15:22 | marcoserra1966 | 881 | 59/100 |
| ! | 08/08/2026 09:17 |  nextorgd | 1,229 | 84/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.3/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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Urban Hymns forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 3 days ago in Chart of the day (#5444): By Romanelli BestEverAlbums 4 days ago in Chart of the day (#5443): By javicho07 BestEverAlbums 09/17/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5438): By luigybetisUrban Hymns comments
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This album is better than I expected, Bitter Sweet Symphony is obviously the best song, but there are so many good songs on this album, Weeping Willows is next, followed by Catching the Butterfly
(Edited)
Shortlisted for the 1998 Mercury Music Prize. The winner was Bring It On by Gomez (Edited)
SomethingSpecial 07/01/2025 12:25 | #309845
Growing up with an image of The Verve as a one-hit-wonder band, I had no idea what I was missing, with songs as equally brilliant as Bittersweet Symphony, like The Drugs Don't Work, Sonnet, and Lucky Man. (Edited)
Nothing New Under The Sun
There is Nothing New Under the Sun (The Book of Ecclesiastes in The Bible)
If you go down to Seville, or Cordoba, in Southern Spain, you can still see where the reconquest painters painted beautiful murals on top of the Moorish original painting. With time, the paint has peeled, and, in places, you can see the work of two cultures living side by side.
To claim that this album has not been heavily influenced by all that has gone before, itself influenced by other older art & artists, would be to claim the unclaimable.
It is still, however, a work of great beauty, particularly side one. The key may be to unpeel everything, and just listen to the one or two works which started everything. I prefer to enjoy the different interpretations, and the continuity, without ever losing sight of the origins.
(Edited)
VictorVale 07/18/2023 21:22 | #298197
Clássico bem maior que o sucesso de Bitter Sweet Symphony.
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