Claude says:The Verve's late-90s run was brief and brilliant—strings swelling over Ashcroft's swagger, that orchestral wall-of-sound thing that felt both grandiose and deeply melancholic—and this 2004 singles collection captures the era when they mattered most. You've lived with it lightly over the years, but "Bitter Sweet Symphony" keeps pulling you back, that rolling string arrangement and wistful vocal hook impossible to shake once it starts.