Moseley Shoals

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The word Moseley is taken from a suburb of the same name in south Birmingham, UK. The album title as a whole is a punning nod to the city of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the location of several famous 1960s soul recording studios. [ citation needed] years on i'm surprised how decent it still sounds. You can hear the small faces,kinks,traffic,fab 4 etc but the singer has a good voice and they can play all right. 'riverboat song' copped them their first break and a big hit from chris evans tv show but the first half of the record matches it in quality. Moseley Shoals is the second studio album by Birmingham-based Britpop band Ocean Colour Scene. It was their breakthrough record, earning them huge mainstream success and spawning hit singles such as “ The Riverboat Song”, “ The Day We Caught the Train” and “ You’ve Got it Bad”. It reached No. 2 on the UK albums chart and has sold over a million copies. After splitting with bassist Damon Minchella, the band continued to record and perform. Releases in 2001 ( Mechanical Wonder), 2003 ( North Atlantic Drift), 2005 ( A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad) and 2007 ( On the Leyline) continued the trend of releasing new material every two years.

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Sullivan, Caroline (12 April 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene: Moseley Shoals (MCA)". The Guardian. p.41. Marchin’ Already confirmed their arrival as a major force with more original classics in the shape of “Hundred Mile High City”, “Better Day”, “Traveller’s Tune” and “It’s a Beautiful Thing” – the latter pair featuring P.P. Arnold and exuding a heady whiff of Northern Soul. Again we’d point you to their Deluxe and even Super Deluxe editions where their prolific but high-quality output can be heard spread across 3-CDs/DVD in the latter case, including live sets at Manchester Apollo and Stirling Castle. As the Birmingham band's seminal album turns 25, we delve into its' name, artwork and biggest singles. As I listen to it again, I am hoping that it will reach the heights of musical excellence that I expect of it. It doesn't & they don't. Dingwall, John (5 October 2007). "Amy Macdonald: I Heard Paul Weller Whistling My Song". Daily Record.Following the huge success of Moseley Shoals, the band’s third album, Marchin’ Already shot to No. 1 in the UK when it released in September 1997. The singles promised so much. The sound was so distinctive. It sounded so different from the other unexceptional, run of the mill, popular music doing the rounds on the British Top 40. The Day We Caught The Train scored a No.4 on the UK singles chart - their highest chart position to date.

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History has been unkind to the "second wave" of Britpop- that group of young bands who rode the coattails of Oasis and Blur to the top of the British charts in 1996-97. Many second wave headliners are now routinely dismissed as imitators (Cast, Bluetones, Marion), whereas others remain well-regarded but disappeared after only a handful of albums (Longpigs, Mansun). Among that entire cohort of artists, Ocean Colour Scene is arguably the longest-lasting group whose material has aged fairly well. Moseley Shoals is the record that made Ocean Colour Scene famous, and it's the first of three LPs that rank amongst the better Britpop releases of the late-90's. Nothing here will convince you that Ocean Colour Scene deserves to be added to Britpop's "Big Four" (Oasis, Blur, Suede, and Pulp), but it should prove enjoyable to any serious Britpop fan. One from the Modern was released in 1999, and peaked in the UK Albums Chart at No.4. The record spawned three top 40 singles, " Profit in Peace", " So Low" and " July". [4]

On the quirkily titled A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad OCS were forced to replace Minchella and the other three came up with the goods, aside from covering George Harrison’s “Wah Wah”(from his All Things Must Pass masterpiece) and Keith Anderson’s “My Time”. Another strong disc, this contains “Free My Name”, which restored them to the charts while the production skills of Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Idlewild, Kylie Minogue) kept them honest and fresh. They sounded pretty terrific in 1996. They don't sound so good in 2014; not quite. They were very good, but not good enough. Hundred Mile High City, which is taken from the band's third studio album Marchin' Already also scored a No.4. Krol, Eric (27 September 1996). "Albums: Ocean Colour Drowns". Daily Herald. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021 . Retrieved 14 September 2019.

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British album certifications – Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 23 January 2021. The following year, in 2016, the band announced several special concerts around the UK to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their 1996 hit album Moseley Shoals. They also played several dates in Australia for the first time in their career. The first single taken from the album was " The Riverboat Song", which was popularised by Chris Evans on TFI Friday. " The Day We Caught the Train" reached number four in the charts, with "You've Got It Bad" and "The Circle" also reaching the top 10. "One for the Road" was also due to be released, but the band decided to concentrate on the 1997 album release Marchin' Already. By November 1997, Moseley Shoals had sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide. [12]Ocean Colour Scene songbook which includes all guitar tablature/music and lyrics from their iconic second album Moseley Shoals. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. Ocean Colour Scene should have been one of the great Britpop bands. They should have been the stalwarts of the bands who set the movement apart. this should have been one of the great albums of the 1990s. It should have made it to nº 1 on the U.K. Sales' Chart, and not stalled at Nº 2. Damon Minchella". Line6.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2008 . Retrieved 22 April 2008. Thing is, over time I fell out of love with Moseley Shoals and Ocean Colour Scene as a whole. It wasn’t that they weren’t good at what they did, it was just that there were outside factors. While it was well known that they had had their career resurrected by Noel Gallagher hawking their demo tapes around every record company desperate to sign up any white boy guitar-toting four piece, the fact that they were more than happy to play a second sycophantic fiddle to a lesser act despite being musically much more diverse and infinitely more talented was a real shame.