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Voyager 1 - RSD 2025 - Sealed

THE VERVE Voyager 1 (Record Store Day 2025 UK/EU limited edition 6-track LP on classic black vinyl. Originally released in 1993 in a run of just 1000 copies, Voyager 1 was a band-approved "pseudo-bootleg" capturing Verve's early live power before their debut album. Recorded in London and New York in 1992, it includes raw, extended versions of Slide Away, Gravity Grave, and She's A Superstar, plus the long-lost track South Pacific. This reissue is remastered from the original tapes with lacquers cut at Abbey Road Studios. A vital document of Verve's psychedelic beginnings - intense, immersive, and now making a welcome return to vinyl exclusively for RSD 2025. Picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed. Recommended)

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$40.49, £29.99  
Product Availability In stock. Order now for shipping on Thursday 24th July
Release Date 12th Apr 2025
Release Year 2025
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Virgin
Complete Stock List Go to The Verve
Product Catalogue No 7536413
Music Genre 00s Artists, Folk, Indie, POP, Male Solo, NME Indie/Alternative Artists
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
Tracklisting & More Information

Voyager 1 can reasonably be described as a ‘pseudo-bootleg’ album, in that it was a band-endorsed, official recording designed to look like an unofficial, pirate release (and given the catalogue number Jolly Roger 2 accordingly).

Made to introduce the band to the American market via Virgin’s then-newly inaugurated US ‘indie’ label Vernon Yard Recordings, the music it presented was recorded in concert in London and New York during 1992 and, and issued prior to their debut album, A Storm In Heaven, the following year.

As a live band, Verve (as they were then-known, before they were forced to change their name by legal action from the US jazz imprint of the same name) were already a significant force. Simon Jones’ bass and Pete Salisbury’s in-the-pocket drums provide a substantial foundation for Nick McCabe’s virtuoso guitar work, which deftly blends feedback, delay and reverb to sound like several instruments at once, while singer Richard Ashcroft rides the groove; swooping, raging and providing ad-libs in compelling manner.

The versions of two of their UK indie number one singles, ‘She’s A Superstar’ and ‘Gravity Grave’ are more rugged than their studio counterparts, the dynamics between the changes more intense, while the three cuts that were later included on their debut album - ‘Slide Away’, ‘One Way To Go’ and ‘Already There’ - provide a breathless, psychedelic experience that few of their peers were ever able to match.

The sixth track, "South Pacific", is the one song that remained unreleased in studio form for over 20 years (until the ‘A Storm In Heaven’ boxed set in 2015) and is aptly described by Brian Horgea on allmusic.com as, “like an ocean crashing down around your ears.”

Limited to 1000 copies in its original form (although legend has it that several hundred were damaged in transit, making it even more scarce), this reissue has been mastered from the original analogue sources and the lacquers cut by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road Studios.

Side 1
1. Slide Away
2. Gravity Grave
3. One Way To Go

Side 2
1. South Pacific
2. Already There
3. She's A Superstar

LP RECORD  
Recording Artist The Verve
Product Title Voyager 1 - RSD 2025 - Sealed
Product Information The Verve Voyager 1 - RSD 2025 - Sealed UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Artists Related To Erland & The Carnival, Richard Ashcroft, RPA & The United Nations Of Sound, The Shining
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