No Come Down

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No Come Down
No Come Down cover
Compilation album by The Verve
Released May 17, 1994
Genre Rock
Length 44:12
Label Vernon Yard, Hut Recordings
Producer The Verve, John Leckie, Paul Schroeder, Nick Green, William Smith and Barry Clempson
Professional reviews
The Verve chronology
A Storm in Heaven
(1993)
No Come Down
(1994)
A Northern Soul
(1995)

No Come Down is an album by The Verve, released in 1994 for Vernon Yard and Hut Recordings as a collection of B-sides and outtakes. It was the first release on which the original band's name Verve was changed to The Verve because of the conflict with the eponymous jazz record label (Verve).

"No Come Down", "Where the Geese Go", "Twilight", and "Six O'Clock" are outtakes from the sessions for the group's first album, A Storm in Heaven, and turned up on B-sides to singles from that album, including "Blue", presented here in a trivially different (vocally upfront) "USA Mix" - released to coincide with Verve's participation in Lollapalooza. Also outtakes are an alternate (earlier, folkish) version of "Make It 'Til Monday", and an "acoustic" version of "Butterfly", actually the same take as the album version but without the lead electric guitar overdubbed and with a different (again, earlier) vocal. "One Way to Go" predates the rest of the album, being taken from the B-side to their very first single, "All in the Mind", and thus inexplicably omitted from Verve EP, their first American release. "Gravity Grave", here in a famous live Glastonbury version, is also of an earlier vintage, and this take is closer to the protracted single release than it is to the earlier US EP version.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "No Come Down" (released on "Blue", 1993) – 3:14
  2. "Blue" (USA mix released on "Blue (US)", 1994) – 3:15
  3. "Make It Till Monday" (acoustic version released on "Slide Away", 1993) – 2:44
  4. "Butterfly" (acoustic remake of the 1993-song of "A Storm in Heaven") – 7:36
  5. "Where the Geese Go" (released on "Blue", 1993) – 3:12
  6. "6 O'Clock" (released on "Blue (US)", 1994) – 4:29
  7. "One Way to Go" (released on "All in the Mind", 1992) – 7:16
  8. "Gravity Grave" (live at Glastonbury, 1993) – 9:22
  9. "Twilight" (released on "Blue", 1993) – 3:01