Moseley Shoals
Studio album by Ocean Colour Scene
Released	April 8, 1996
Recorded	?
Genre	Britpop/Alternative Rock
Length	54:27
Label	Island Records
Producer	Brendan Lynch
Professional reviews
All Music Guide: Insider's Guides review
Ocean Colour Scene chronology
Ocean Colour Scene (1992) Moseley Shoals (1996) B-sides, Seasides and Freerides (1997)

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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. Chris Evans (born April 1, 1966, in Warrington, England) is an English celebrity. ... TFI Friday was a light entertainment show, produced by Ginger Productions, and hosted by Chris Evans and broadcast on Fridays at 6pm on Channel 4 from 1996 to 2000, with a repeat later that night. ... The Eagles are an American rock music group that originally came together in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. ... A photograph of Leah Betts in a coma. ... Marchin Already is a 1997 album by Ocean Colour Scene. ...

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.^{[citation needed]}

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Track listing

1. "The Riverboat Song" (4:54)
2. "The Day We Caught the Train" (3:06)
3. "The Circle" (3:43)
4. "Lining Your Pockets" (3:36)
5. "Fleeting Mind" (5:09)
6. "40 Past Midnight" (4:01)
7. "One for the Road" (3:43)
8. "It's My Shadow" (4:23)
9. "Policemen and Pirates" (4:03)
10. "The Downstream" (5:32)
11. "You've Got It Bad" (4:26)
12. "Get Away" (7:55)

The Riverboat Song is a rock song by Ocean Colour Scene (OCS). ... The Day We Caught the Train is a rock song by Ocean Colour Scene (OCS). ... Moseley Shoals track listing The Day We Caught the Train (2) The Circle (3) Lining Your Pockets (4) Songs for the Front Row track listing One For The Road (3) The Circle (4) Youve Got It Bad (5) The Circle is a rock song by Ocean Colour Scene (OCS). ... Moseley Shoals track listing The Downstream (10) The Day We Caught the Train (11) Get Away (12) Songs for the Front Row track listing The Circle (4) Youve Got It Bad (5) Hundred Mile High City (6) Youve Got It Bad is a rock song by Ocean Colour...

External links

• Moseley Shoals at MusicBrainz