i guess everyone who didn't know who the verve was got an answer when they unleashed the monster that is "bittersweet symphony". i love that song but i guess there isn't anything to not like but i found myself taking a more liking to their third single of "urban hymns".
"lucky man" was introduced like most songs through mtv and i liked this song more than the previous single "the drugs don't work". i appreciate that song nowadays but i hated it with a passion back then. "lucky man" was the logical continuing after "bittersweet symphony" and it shared some sonical ideas and that glorious string ending. i think had the song taped off radio and used to listen to that quite a lot in my walkman.
a few years on i found some information on the intarwebs about a version of this song (and a version of "bittersweet symphony" labeled "msg") on the second cdsingle. the version is a dub of the song and removed most the guitar and leaves echoed fragments of the vocal. for someone like me that got into instrumental rock at that time and liked the aestethics of shoegaze; dub; post-rock and all that jazz, i was just over the moon.
it's to be noted that it is a dub and unlike "msg" which is more or a "remix" if we are going to be pidgeonholing twits. in "msg" then the song is stripped down to drums & bass and a whole lot of harps, strings (but not the andrew oldham strings), reverb and a dubby type vocal samples. it's lovely and it's like what james lavelle's remix of "bittersweet symphony" should have sounded like.
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