This Is Music

Wow. One contribution only? This is like the most touching piece of music I have heard in a long while. To me, it's about being a musician. (I've been on the shelf too long. Sitting at home on my bed too long. Now it's time to hear my song.) The name of the song seems to be telling the listener that "music is the life i'm living now; this is music"

The writer sees music as something that reflects his thoughts about his life. Writing a song and the emotions and thoughts that go into it. (We've got a lot of living to do. There's a door in my mind that's open wide)

And of course the fun... (I'm gonna move on the floor with my sweet young thing. Down down down we go till we reach the bottom. Of our soul with this is music.)

How can anyone call Northern Soul dissapointing? That just begs belief. It is so much more honest than the overproduced, steralized more successful successor. To understand the Verve is to understand this album.

This Is Music is my favourite Verve song. I love History, but somehow the London reference by a lad from Wigan grates with me.

It is about musical freedom, discovering your own sound and then getting off your arse to do something with that vision and then making that your all consuming passion (or drug). A passion which ultimately led to friction in the band and the break-up of the Verve.

Simply stunning and I have to admit that on the back of my iPod is engraved the simple lyric "This Is Music", says it all.

what beautiful lyrics! It's sooooooooooooo so pretty there is nothing prettier ever to exist ever. I wish the author were here so I could give him a hug!

Uh...I think I may like it a little too much...

This is a great tune one of the best on the disappointing Northern Soul album. Ashcroft was well know for making a lot of bold statements at this point of his career and going by the title, this seems to be one of them. When the Northern Soul album was in its recording process the band members especially Ashcroft were taking a large amounts of ecstasy. So the lyrics in my opinion could just have an ambiguous meaning as a result of the high's on being on ecstasy.

i .do. love this song. and it's really applicable to any art thing really, that you fall in love with it, that it's your life. also, i can relate, the whole being on my shelf too long and how's the world gonna take me bit. this is really one of the verve's best, in my opinion.

To me this feels like somebody who lives in a small dead end town or somewhere that they dont want to be, and has finally decided they they have had enough and finally gained the strength to leave.

"Stood at the top of a hill over my town, I was found" - Wow.

This song is kinda like Bittersweet Symph. since both involve music and life but This is Music views it (music) as all the things simonflay states and Bittersweet views music as a soundtrack

I think Ashcroft is singing about sucicide because the person in the song hasnt found love or doesnt feel loved.

'Stood at the top of my hill over my town, i was found' - Possibly means suicide

'Ive been on the shelf too long' - 'Left on the shelf' is a term used when someone hasnt gotten married or found love.

Sitting at home on my bed too long - Depression maybe?,

Now it's time to hear my song - Suicide note?

How are you gonna take it - How are you gonna react?

Finding myself used to be hard,But now, I see the light - Now that the person is dead they realise they were wrong about themselves.

If love is a drug,Then I don't need it - They now know they were loved afterall

Jesus never saved me,He'll never save you too, and you know - Jesus didnt save them from themselves,Maybe they have lost faith?

Yeah i know i think to much,Im probably wrong but thats the way i see it.

Ashcroft is a poet.

Or more literally, if he's writing it from his home town point of view, thinking about escape elsewhere (got my things and now i've gone..). plenty of big hills around Wigan, there's Rivington which overlooks Haigh Hall & Country Park, which itself overlooks the valley that the town centre lies in, then hills back up over the other side to ?Billinge, i think? (Apols if any mistakes there, am a newcomer to the land of Pies). could be wrong but some of the pics on the this is music single look like they were shot up rivington.

An arms in the air statement of intent.