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  Type Album
  Artist Ocean Colour Scene
  Cover Moseley_Shoalsjpg
  Released April 8, 1996
  Recorded
  Genre Britpop / Alternative Rock
  Length 54:27
  Label Island Records
  Producer Brendan Lynch
  Last Album '' Ocean Colour Scene '' <br /> (1992)
  This Album '''Moseley Shoals'''<br /> (1996)
  Next Album '' B-sides, Seasides And Freerides '' <br /> (1997)


''Moseley Shoals'' is a 1996 album by the British rock group '' Ocean Colour Scene '', that was released during the Britpop era.

The first single taken from the album was "The Riverboat Song", which was popularised by Chris Evans on TFI Friday . Perhaps their best remembered song "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" (with its tune inspired by The Eagles and lyrics referencing Leah Betts ), was also due to be released, but the band decided to concentrate on 1997 release '' Marchin' Already ''.To date "Moseley Shoals" has sold 1.3 million.


MISCELLANEA


  • The album reached #2 in the UK charts, selling over 600,000 copies.

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

  • 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.

  • The word Moseley is almost certainly 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, home to several famous 60s soul recording studios.



TRACK LISTING

# " The Riverboat Song " (4:54)
# " The Day We Caught The Train " (3:06)
# " The Circle " (3:43)
# "Lining Your Pockets" (3:36)
# "Fleeting Mind" (5:09)
# "40 Past Midnight" (4:01)
# "One for the Road" (3:43)
# "It's My Shadow" (4:23)
# "Policemen and Pirates" (4:03)
# "The Downstream" (5:32)
# " You've Got It Bad " (4:26)
# "Get Away" (7:55)


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