Ocean Colour Scene Yesterday Today 1992 - 1997 Vinyl LP Boxset 2023
Tracklist:
LP 1 - Ocean Colour Scene
01. Talk On
02. How About You
03. Giving It All Away
04. Justine
05. Do Yourself A Favour
06. Third Shade Of Green
07. Sway
08. Penny Pinching Rainy Heaven Days
09. One Of Those Days
10. Is She Coming Home
11. Blue Deep Ocean
12. Reprise
LP 2 - Moseley Shoals (1996)
01. The Riverboat Song
02. The Day We Caught The Train – Have A Listen
03. The Circle
04. Lining Your Pockets
05. Fleeting Mind
06. 40 Past Midnight
07. One For The Road
08. It’S My Shadow
09. Policemen & Pirates
10. The Downstream
11. You’Ve Got It Bad
12. Get Away
LP 3 - Marchin’ Already (1997)
01. Hundred Mile High Club
02. Better Day
03. Travellers Tune
04. Big Star
05. Debris Road
06. Besides Yourself
07. Get Blown Away
08. Tele He’S Not Talking
09. Fozy’S Folk Faced
10. All Up
11. Spark And Cindy
12. Half A Dream Away
13. It’S A Beautiful Thing
All beginnings start with a name. And so, in October 1989, Simon Fowler, Steve Cradock, Damon Minchella and Oscar Harrison sat down together, chose their three favourite words, arranged them in a satisfactory order and became Ocean Colour Scene . A year later, they recorded their debut single ‘One Of Those Days’ and within months had a first taste of chart action with a third single ‘Yesterday Today’. Nevertheless, mainstream success would prove to be a trickier proposition. After a clutch of underperforming single releases, their record label, Fontana, dropped the band.
There followed a three year hiatus and a difficult period of self examination. When the band re emerged, they had reinvented themselves and faced the music industry guns blazing. In February 1996, ‘ The Riverboat Song’ smashed into the UK chart and trail blazed six consecutive top ten hits . Backed by the triple platinum selling Moseley Shoals and the number one album Marchin ’ Already , Ocean Colour Scene became one of the hottest bands in the country, as the hits kept rolling.
Thirty five years on , and Ocean Colour Scene are still together: making music and regularly selling out huge concert halls across the country. They have the support of an extraordinarily dedicated and loyal fan base who cherish their music and hold close to their hearts a lifetime of memories supporting the group. Yet Ocean Colour Scene have never been popular with the music press. They are frequently overlooked for the key role they played in the nineties music scene . They were, and still are, subjected to derision and scorn. It matters not. Ocean Colour Scene did it their way . Standing firm by their music. They became the people’s band . They believe in the soul of bass, drum and guitar rhythm. They exude melody. And they stand amongst the finest purveyors of the stirring sounds of a live concert . Each of the band has a passion to transcend everyday mundanity with music. And most of all they believe, as they always have, that one song can elevate the spirit and enrich the human experience.