Ocean Colour Scene
Ocean Colour Scene (often abbreviated to OCS) is an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1989. They have had five top 10 albums, including a number one in 1997. They have also achieved seventeen top 40 singles and six top 10 singles to d ...
.
The album was a follow-up to the successful ''
Moseley Shoals
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'', and is in a similar style. The songs were taken from the band's catalogue that they had built up since forming several years earlier.
Background
The single "Hundred Mile High City" was used in the film ''
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
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''.
P.P. Arnold
PP, pp or Pp may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Pianissimo'', a music term meaning ''very quiet'', from musical dynamics
* Production code for the 1967–1968 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Enemy of the World''
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appears on "Traveller's Tune" and "It's a Beautiful Thing". A more subdued version of "Traveller's Tune" originally appeared as a B-side to "The Day We Caught the Train".
The album knocked
Oasis
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Noel Gallagher
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Ocean Colour Scene
Ocean Colour Scene (often abbreviated to OCS) is an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1989. They have had five top 10 albums, including a number one in 1997. They have also achieved seventeen top 40 singles and six top 10 singles to d ...
his congratulations through a plaque on which he had inscribed, "To The Second Best Band In Britain".
Steve Cradock
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famously retorted "it's an honour to be described as Britain's second best band, ahead of Oasis but behind the Beatles".
In 2007 the song "Get Blown Away" was covered by British indie band The Enemy as a B-side to their single "It's Not OK", albeit just a piano and vocal version.
On 4 February 2014, ''Marchin' Already'' was reissued as a two disc deluxe version, with the second disc containing B-sides from previous singles. There is also a three disc/one DVD super deluxe version with added demos and radio sessions on Disc 2 and a live concert from the Marchin' Already tour from the Manchester Apollo on 22 February 1998, with the original released VHS of their concert from Stirling Castle making up the DVD release.
Disc 1 – regular 13-track album
Disc 2:
#"Falling to the Floor" – 3:58
#"The Face Smiles Back Easily" – 3:24
#"Hello Monday" – 3:43
#"Song for the Front Row" – 3:03
#"On the Way Home" – 2:24
#"All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes" – 3:31
#"The Best Bet on Chinaski" – 2:51
#"On and On" – 2:15
#"Mariners Way" – 3:20
#"Going Nowhere for a While" – 3:34
#"Expensive Chair" – 3:46
#"Song of a Baker" – 3:15
2014 super deluxe version
Disc 1 per deluxe edition
Disc 2 (B-sides):
#"Falling to the Floor" – 3:58
#"The Face Smiles Back Easily" – 3:24
#"Hello Monday" – 3:43
#"Song for the Front Row" – 3:03
#"On the Way Home" – 2:24
#"All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes" – 3:31
#"The Best Bet on Chinaski" – 2:51
#"On and On" – 2:15
#"Mariners Way" – 3:20
#"Going Nowhere for a While" – 3:34
#"Expensive Chair" – 3:46
#"Song of a Baker" – 3:15
Radio Sessions:
#"Song for the Front Row" (acoustic)
#"Debris Road" (acoustic)
#"Travellers Tune" (acoustic)
#"Hundred Mile High City"
#"Travellers Tune"
#"Spark and Cindy"
Demos:
#"Blown Away"
#"Hello Monday"
#"Expensive Chair"
#"It's a Beautiful Thing"
Disc 3: ''Live at Manchester Apollo 22/2/98''
#"Hundred Mile High City"
#"Better Day"
#"Travellers Tune" (Ocean Colour Scene, P.P. Arnold)
#"Lining Your Pockets"
#"One for the Road"
#"The Circle"
#"You've Got It Bad"
#"40 Past Midnight"
#"It's My Shadow"
#"The Riverboat Song"
#"Get Blown Away"
#"Debris Road"
#"The Day We Caught the Train"
#"Get Away"
#"Foxy's Folk Faced"
#"I Wanna Stay Alive with You"
#"It's a Beautiful Thing" (Ocean Colour Scene, P.P. Arnold)
#"Song of a Baker" (Ocean Colour Scene, P.P. Arnold)
Disc 4: ''Travellers Tunes: Live at Stirling Castle'' (DVD)
#"Hundred Mile High City"
#"Better Day"
#"Travellers Tune"
#"Blown Away"
#"The Circle"
#"Besides Yourself"
#"This Understanding"
#"The Riverboat Song"
#"Debris Road"
#"Lining Your Pockets"
#"The Day We Caught the Train"
#"One for the Road"
#"It's My Shadow"
#"You've Got It Bad"
#"Get Away"
#"Robin Hood"
#"I Wanna Stay Alive with You"
#"Day Tripper"
Personnel
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Simon Fowler
Simon Geoffrey Fowler (born 25 May 1965) is an English singer, best known as the frontman of Ocean Colour Scene.
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– vocals, guitar, harmonica
* Steve Craddock – guitar, piano
* Damon Minchella – bass
*
Oscar Harrison
Oscar Lloyd Harrison (born 18 April 1965) is a British musician who currently plays drums with Birmingham-based Ocean Colour Scene and the British ska band The Beat. He also plays piano and bass guitar, and occasionally sings lead vocals.
Li ...
– drums
*
PP Arnold
Patricia Ann Cole (born October 3, 1946), known professionally as P. P. Arnold, is an American-born British-based soul singer. She began her career in 1965 as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. The following year she relocated to Londo ...
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