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. Hernandez, Raoul (15 November 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene: Moseley Shoals (MCA)". The Austin Chronicle . Retrieved 27 October 2015. 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. The album was produced by Brendan Lynch, and was recorded and mixed at the band's studio in Birmingham (Moseley Shoals).

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. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Moseley Shoals – Ocean Colour Scene". AllMusic . Retrieved 27 October 2015. It might be the band's most famous album, but it was actually their second studio release and the follow-up to their eponymous 1992 debut.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 November 1997, Moseley Shoals had sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide. [12] 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] One For The Road collates various live performances from 2004 with two new songs and a loving interpretation of the Small Faces “Wham Bam Thank You Mam”. a b Atkins, Jamie (May 2011). "Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals: Deluxe Edition". Record Collector. No.388. Diamond Publishing . Retrieved 7 June 2017.

Sullivan, Caroline (12 April 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene: Moseley Shoals (MCA)". The Guardian. p.41. 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". 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. 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.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. Hundred Mile High City, which is taken from the band's third studio album Marchin' Already also scored a No.4. 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. British album certifications – Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 23 January 2021.

Larkin, Colin (2007). "Ocean Colour Scene". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5thed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. History has been unkind to the "second wave" of Britpop- that group of young bands who rode the coattails of Oasis and Blur to the top of the British charts in 1996-97. Many second wave headliners are now routinely dismissed as imitators (Cast, Bluetones, Marion), whereas others remain well-regarded but disappeared after only a handful of albums (Longpigs, Mansun). Among that entire cohort of artists, Ocean Colour Scene is arguably the longest-lasting group whose material has aged fairly well. Moseley Shoals is the record that made Ocean Colour Scene famous, and it's the first of three LPs that rank amongst the better Britpop releases of the late-90's. Nothing here will convince you that Ocean Colour Scene deserves to be added to Britpop's "Big Four" (Oasis, Blur, Suede, and Pulp), but it should prove enjoyable to any serious Britpop fan.Krol, Eric (27 September 1996). "Albums: Ocean Colour Drowns". Daily Herald. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021 . Retrieved 14 September 2019. 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. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. 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.