Hundred Mile High City | |
Cover: | Hundred Mile High City cover.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Ocean Colour Scene |
Album: | Marchin' Already |
B-Side: | "The Face Smiles Back Easily", "Falling to the Floor", "Hello Monday" |
Length: | 3:58 |
Label: | MCA |
Producer: | Brendan Lynch, Martyn "Max" Heyes, Ocean Colour Scene |
Prev Title: | The Circle |
Prev Year: | 1996 |
Next Title: | Travellers Tune |
Next Year: | 1997 |
"Hundred Mile High City" is a song by British rock band Ocean Colour Scene, taken as the first single from their third studio album, Marchin' Already (1997). The song was released in 1997 and reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's joint most-successful single on the UK Singles Chart and their second-most successful in terms of number of weeks spent in the top 75, staying in for seven weeks. It was also their first single to chart in Ireland and the Netherlands, peaking at numbers 15 and 98, respectively.
In 1998, "Hundred Mile High City" appeared on the soundtrack to the black comedy crime film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. After the film premiered in the United States the following year, the song was added to several US alternative radio stations in mid-March 1999.
UK CD single[1]
UK 7-inch and cassette single[2] [3]
A. "Hundred Mile High City"
B. "The Face Smiles Back Easily"European CD single[4]
Japanese CD single[5]
Personnel are taken from the UK CD single liner notes and the Marchin' Already album booklet.[1] [6]
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | ||
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United Kingdom | 16 June 1997 | MCA | [8] | ||
Japan | 21 August 1997 | CD | Universal | [9] | |
United States | 13 March 1999 | Alternative radio | MCA | [10] |
"Hundred Mile High City" was used as the theme to the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the computer game Three Lions.[11] [12]
Original Soundtrack]
. AllMusic. 21 June 2023.