Moseley Shoals

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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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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.A few months later I am in town to spend a bit of birthday money, and there at the front of Virgin MegaStore was Moseley Shoals, despite the fact that it had been out for nearly six months by that point. Yeah, they were another Britpop band, but these guys were getting a big promo-push through festival season. 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. Ex-Manchester Utd footballer Dion Dublin launches new musical instrument". NME.com. IPC Media. 28 January 2010 . Retrieved 29 January 2010.

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Dingwall, John (5 October 2007). "Amy Macdonald: I Heard Paul Weller Whistling My Song". Daily Record. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Moseley Shoals – Ocean Colour Scene". AllMusic . Retrieved 27 October 2015. 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. Unleashed on the world on 8th April 1996, the album featured singles in the likes of The Riverboat Song, The Circle and The Day We Caught the Train, but how much do you really know about the album and its creation? And what makes it so iconic? On 22 June 2016, the band officially announced that Scottish musician Raymond Meade would be joining the band permanently on bass, following the departures of both Dan Sealey and Andy Bennett. Meade had already played live with the band since the start of the year.

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Moseley’ takes its name from an area in Birmingham, Moseley Shoals is a tribute to Muscle Shoals, the legendary soul recording studios in Alabama. A low-key start to their career was boosted by two things – the endorsement of two of Britain’s biggest pop stars – Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher, and the exposure given to the first single, "The Riverboat Song", by Chris Evans on his hit TV show TFI Friday. 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.

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White, Adam (1 November 1997). "Jorgen Larsen's Universal Music International Emerges as a Global Force". Billboard. Vol.109, no.44. p.99 . Retrieved 17 October 2020. Alongside Marchin' Already and One from the Modern, Moseley Shoals is an album that belongs in every serious Britpop collection. One of the better Britpop releases by a band that isn't one of the genre's "Big Four". Finally, we have The Collection (2007) a canny mixture of old and new, live and studio with a highlight being their live take on “Day Tripper” from the Electric Ballroom. DeLuca, Dan (4 August 1996). "A guide to the explosion in pop music that's got the British all excited". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p.161.

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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. Krol, Eric (27 September 1996). "Albums: Ocean Colour Drowns". Daily Herald. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021 . Retrieved 14 September 2019. 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. A few important things happened in Britain in the summer of 1996. Dolly the Sheep was born, leading to global debate about the ethics of cloning. The Spice Girls released Wannabe, leading to global debate about who wanted to be Baby Spice. England got to the semi-finals of the European Championships, still their best performance in half a century. And a band from the Birmingham suburb of Moseley reached the top 10 with an album that combined cord-clad 60s nostalgia and northern soul influences with robust, melodic Britpop songcraft.

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In 1998, Q magazine's readers voted Moseley Shoals the 33rd greatest album of all time. [13] The album was placed at number 42 on Pitchfork's 2017 poll of "The 50 Best Britpop Albums." [14] Moseley Shoals: Deluxe Edition [ edit ] The Guardian’s Peter Paphides wrote of Marchin’ Already: “From the ominous opening power-chords of ‘Hundred Mile High City’ to the mournful, exhausted conclusion of ‘It’s A Beautiful Thing”, OCS’s third album is not so much an album but a journey, complete with its share of emotional peaks and troughs. Marchin’ Already shows OCS drawing on much wider influences they’re usually given credit for: the band’s mod influences are well-documented, but ‘Foxy’s Folk-Faced’ and ‘Half A Dream Away’ respectively repay some debt to Fairport Convention and The Specials (whose trombonist Rico plays on the latter).” The memorial which the band can be seen standing in front of in the album artwork is The Jephson Memorial in The Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa. The guitarist and bass player were also in wellers band so it's no surprise that this record shares a bit of his sound circa 'wild wood' and 'stanley road'.Paul even helps out a bit with guitar and keyboards. 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 Day We Caught the Train" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.13, no.26. 29 June 1996. p.20 . Retrieved 24 July 2020. Marchin' Already, the follow-up to Moseley Shoals, went to No.1 in the UK Albums Chart, [4] displacing Oasis' Be Here Now at the top of the charts in 1997. In 1998 they headlined their own arena tour in support of Marchin' Already and played three sold out nights at Stirling Castle, Scotland. a b c d e f g h i j k "British certifications – Ocean Colour Scene". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 6 July 2023. Type Ocean Colour Scene in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter. Krol, Eric (27 September 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals". Daily Herald. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021 . Retrieved 14 September 2019.