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] 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.

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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.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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In April, 2016, the album was re-released as part of the Record Store Day celebrations, on limited edition red vinyl, charting at No.5 on the vinyl album chart.

The memorial by which the band can be seen standing on the front cover is the Jephson Memorial in The Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa, UK. Moseley Shoals reached number two on the UK album chart, which no doubt helped them achieve a success when scoring a No.1 with their 1997 Marchin' Already album.

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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. 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. 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 Riverboat Song" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.13, no.9. 2 March 1996. p.16 . Retrieved 14 January 2020.Kessler, Ted (6 April 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals". NME. IPC Media. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000 . Retrieved 7 June 2017. In 2014 a special edition of Marchin' Already was released on a 2 CD edition and a special deluxe 4 disc box set which included a DVD of their live performance at Stirling Castle in 1998. Early 2015 saw the band celebrate their 25th anniversary with some acoustic concerts around the UK. They released a double CD live album which was recorded at the Manchester concert on the tour. Damon Minchella". Line6.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2008 . Retrieved 22 April 2008. 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. Ocean Colour Scene songbook which includes all guitar tablature/music and lyrics from their iconic second album Moseley Shoals.

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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. 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. Chart Log UK "Chart Log UK 1994–2010: B – Darren B > David Byrne". zobbel - Dipl.-Bibl.(FH) Tobias Zywietz . Retrieved 5 September 2020. 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 album was produced by Brendan Lynch, and was recorded and mixed at the band's studio in Birmingham (Moseley Shoals). 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. The Day We Caught the Train" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.13, no.26. 29 June 1996. p.20 . Retrieved 24 July 2020. They sounded pretty terrific in 1996. They don't sound so good in 2014; not quite. They were very good, but not good enough.