| Moseley Shoals | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Ocean Colour Scene |
| Cover: | Moseley_Shoals.jpg |
| Released: | 8 April 1996 |
| Studio: | Moseley Shoals (Birmingham, England) |
| Genre: | Britpop, alternative rock |
| Length: | 54:27 |
| Label: | MCA |
| Producer: | Brendan Lynch, Ocean Colour Scene |
| Prev Title: | Ocean Colour Scene |
| Prev Year: | 1992 |
| Next Title: | Marchin' Already |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
Moseley Shoals is the second 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.[1]
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.[2]
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 including FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in nearby Sheffield, Alabama.
The album was produced by Brendan Lynch, and was recorded and mixed at the band's studio in Birmingham (Moseley Shoals).
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.
In 1998, Q magazine's readers voted Moseley Shoals the 33rd greatest album of all time.[3] The album was placed at number 42 on Pitchforks 2017 poll of "The 50 Best Britpop Albums."[4]
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.
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
| Chart (1996) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| UK Albums (OCC)[5] | 11 | |
| Chart (1997) | Position | |
| UK Albums (OCC)[6] | 75 |