The Verve's third album, 1997's Urban Hymns, may be the band's most famous in any part of the world. It's little surprise, then, that Universal is going big for the album's 20th anniversary with a multi-format deluxe edition due in the fall.

Recorded after the band's first breakup and reformation (with the subsequent addition of guitarist/keyboardist Simon Tong), Urban Hymns was an ambitious piece of Britpop and balladry, recorded with producers Youth and Chris Potter. Three of its singles were Top 10 hits in the U.K., including "Bitter Sweet Symphony," the chart-topping "The Drugs Don't Work" and "Lucky Man." "Symphony" was also the band's inescapable crossover hit in the U.S., where it peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100--augmented by a catchy music video and a widely-seen Nike commercial during the NFL playoffs that shot the album up the charts.

Ultimately, it was indeed bittersweet for frontman Richard Ashcroft and company--the "Symphony" sample of an Andrew Loog Oldham-led orchestral cover of The Rolling Stones' "The Last Time" led to a lucrative lawsuit with ABKCO Music that cost the band its entire royalties to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and within two years the band would break up once more. (Ashcroft, who pursued a solo career thereafter, reunited the original lineup of the group, minus Tong, for Forth in 2008; a year later, they had split up again.) But Urban Hymns remains one of the era's most enduring albums, having topped Melody Maker's year-end poll, going 11 times platinum in England and earning the group a spate of awards and nominations (including a BRIT Award for Best British Group and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song).

The sprawling, deluxe Urban Hymns collects a variety of bonus material on five CDs and a DVD or seven pieces of vinyl. The bands complete Urban Hymns B-sides are featured, along with scores of live material (a BBC session, a full live show at Haigh Hall in Manchester and highlights from the band's 1997-1998 world tour. The DVD content includes the premiere of The Video 1996-1998 on the format, along with the complete Haigh House show, music videos and footage from a performance on Later...with Jools Holland. (A 12" exclusive to the vinyl box features a rare promo-only alternate version of "Bitter Sweet Symphony.")

All formats of this title will be available worldwide on September 1. Full track lists and order links for each one are available below!

Urban Hymns: Deluxe Edition (Virgin/UMe 5756236, 2017)

Remastered CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.
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CD1/LPs 1-2: Remastered original album (released as Hut Recordings/Virgin CD HUT 45 (U.K.)/72438 44913 2 1 (U.S.), 1997)

1. Bitter Sweet Symphony
2. Sonnet
3. The Rolling People
4. The Drugs Don't Work
5. Catching the Butterfly
6. Neon Wilderness
7. Space and Time
8. Weeping Willow
9. Lucky Man
10. One Day
11. This Time
12. Velvet Morning
13. Come On

CD2/LPs 3-4: B-sides

1. Oh Lord I Guess I'll Never Know
2. Country Song
3. Bitter Sweet Symphony (James Lavelle Remix)
4. So Sister
5. Echo Bass
6. Three Steps
7. The Drugs Don't Work (original demo)
8. The Crab
9. Stamped
10. Never Wanna See You Cry
11. Bitter Sweet Symphony (MSG Version)
12. The Longest Day
13. Lucky Man (Happiness More or Less)

CD3: B-sides continued (included on LPs 3-4) and BBC session

1. Bitter Sweet Symphony (Extended Version)
2. This Could Be My Moment
3. Monte Carlo
4. Life's An Ocean (BBC Evening Session - 8/27/1997) *
5. A Man Called Sun (BBC Evening Session - 8/27/1997) *
6. The Drugs Don't Work (BBC Evening Session - 8/27/1997) *
7. On Your Own (BBC Evening Session - 8/27/1997) *
8. So Sister (BBC Evening Session - 8/27/1997) *

Disc 2, Tracks 1-2 and 4-5 and Disc 3, Track 1 from "Bitter Sweet Symphony" CD singles - Hut Recordings HUTDG/DX 82, 1997
Disc 2, Track 3 from 12" promo - Hut Recordings HUTTR 82, 1997
Disc 2, Tracks 6-9 from "The Drugs Don't Work" CD singles - Hut Recordings DG/DX 88, 1997
Disc 2, Tracks 10-13 from "Lucky Man" CD singles - Hut Recordings HUTDG/DX 92, 1997
Disc 3, Tracks 2-3 from This is Music: The Singles 92-98 (Virgin/EMI CDV 2991, 2004)

CD4/LPs 5-6: Live @ Haigh Hall - 5/24/1998 (Tracks 1-5 and 7-12 also included on CD2 of deluxe edition) *

1. This is Music
2. Space and Time
3. Catching the Butterfly
4. Sonnet
5. The Rolling People
6. Neon Wilderness
7. Weeping Willow
8. The Drugs Don't Work
9. Lucky Man
10. Life's An Ocean
11. Velvet Morning
12. Bitter Sweet Symphony

Disc 5: More live material (Tracks 1-3 included on LPs 5-6; Tracks 4, 7 and 9 also included on CD2 of deluxe edition) *

1. One Day (Live @ Haigh Hall - 5/24/1998)
2. History (Live @ Haigh Hall - 5/24/1998)
3. Come On (Live @ Haigh Hall - 5/24/1998)
4. A New Decade (Live @ The 9.30 Club, Washington, DC - 11/3/1997)
5. The Rolling People (Live @ Brixton Academy, London - 1/16/1998)
6. On Your Own (Live @ Brixton Academy, London - 1/16/1998)
7. History (Live @ Brixton Academy, London - 1/16/1998)
8. The Drugs Don't Work (Live @ The 9.30 Club, Washington, DC - 11/3/1997)
9. Slide Away (Live @ Manchester Academy - 8/11/1997)
10. A Man Called Sun (Live @ The 9.30 Club, Washington, DC - 11/3/1997)
11. A Northern Soul (Live @ The 9.30 Club, Washington, DC - 11/3/1997)
12. Space and Time (Live @ Brixton Academy, London - 1/16/1998)
13. This is Music (Live @ Manchester Academy - 8/11/1997)
14. Weeping Willow (Live @ The 9.30 Club, Washington, DC - 11/3/1997)
15. Stormy Clouds/Reprise (Live @ Manchester Academy - 8/11/1997)

Disc 6: DVD

• The Video 1996-1998 (released as Hut Recordings/Virgin HUTVID1, 1999 - previously unreleased on DVD)
• Lucky Man (Live on Later...with Jools Holland - 11/1/1997) *
• Life's An Ocean (Live on Later...with Jools Holland - 11/1/1997) *
• The Drugs Don't Work (Live on Later...with Jools Holland - 11/1/1997) *
• Bitter Sweet Symphony (Live on Later...with Jools Holland - 11/1/1997) *
• Live @ Haigh Hall - 5/24/1998 (same track list as Discs 4-5) *
• Bitter Sweet Symphony (promo video)
• The Drugs Don't Work (promo video)
• Lucky Man (promo video)
• Lucky Man (U.S. promo video)
• Sonnet (promo video)

12" in vinyl box set

1. Bitter Sweet Symphony (Alternate Version) (from Hut Recordings 12" promo HUTTP 82, 1997)
2. The Drugs Don't Work (Live @ The 9.30 Club, Washington, DC - 11/3/1997)