Moseley Shoals

Moseley Shoals
Studio album by Ocean Colour Scene
Released 8 April 1996
Recorded at Moseley Shoals Studio, Birmingham
Genre Britpop, alternative rock
Length 54:27
Label MCA
Producer Brendan Lynch
Ocean Colour Scene chronology
Ocean Colour Scene
(1992)		 Moseley Shoals
(1996)		 B-sides, Seasides and Freerides
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Austin Chronicle[2]
Los Angeles Daily News link

Moseley Shoals is a 1996 album by the British rock group Ocean Colour Scene which was released during the Britpop era. The album reached #2 in the UK charts, and amassed 92 weeks on chart, making it the band's most successful album in terms of weeks on chart, despite a later album reaching #1.[3]

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 the end of 1996, "Moseley Shoals" had sold 1.3 million copies.

The word Moseley is taken from a suburb of the same name in south Birmingham, UK, where three of the band members were born. 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.

The album was produced by Brendan Lynch, and was recorded and mixed at the band's studio in Birmingham (Moseley Shoals).

In 1998, Q magazine's readers voted Moseley Shoals the 33rd greatest album of all time.

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: Deluxe Edition

Released on 7 March 2011, the remastered album contained the original track list, plus all the B-sides from the four singles released ("The Riverboat Song", "The Day We Caught the Train", "The Circle" and "You've Got It Bad"). Most of these (all except "You've Got It Bad (demo)", "Men of Such Opinion", "I Need a Love Song" and "Justine") appeared on the B-side compilation album B-sides, Seasides and Freerides.[4]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ocean Colour Scene[5]. 

No.TitleLength
1."The Riverboat Song"  4:54
2."The Day We Caught the Train"  3:06
3."The Circle"  3:43
4."Lining Your Pockets"  3:36
5."Fleeting Mind"  5:09
6."40 Past Midnight"  4:01
7."One for the Road"  3:43
8."It's My Shadow"  4:23
9."Policemen & Pirates"  4:03
10."The Downstream"  5:32
11."You've Got It Bad"  4:26
12."Get Away"  7:55

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Moseley Shoals – Ocean Colour Scene". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Hernandez, Raoul (15 November 1996). "Record Reviews – Music – The Austin Chronicle". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Ocean Colour Scene full Official Chart History, Official Charts Company, retrieved 08 July 2016
  4. ↑ Atkins, Jamie. "Moseley Shoals: Deluxe Edition". Record Collector. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  5. 1 2 Moseley Shoals (CD booklet). New York City: MCA Records. 1996. DOC061.
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