One of my absolute favourites and I have a lot of OCS favourites 😂 Lucky to have been following these guys since 1996 and even met them at the queens hall on Edinburgh in 1996 where they gave us a signed 7 inch demo of you’ve got it bad 😁
I wish this band still existed!! They make meaningful lyrics and amazing melodies Sooooo underestimated I’ve wished them back for yrs in terms of them letting the know who they are as the world would be better for them! This album will always be my early childhood saviour along with along morrisette lol The words mean more the older u get they set more So talented 😊🥰🥰🥰🥰
So heres my thing, 96... Mum n Dad were still alive, England put on a show at the Euros, I left college to start a Computing degree, discovered Weed, Friday nights were all about TFI then a night of the fizz, saw Ocean Colour Scene at the electric ballrooom Camden and started dating this young college girl Joanne who was totally beautiful inside and out and wanted to learn about sex ... shit i had it good.
I'm 27 and my dad brought me up on OCS, one of the first bands I was ever exposed to. I think the world has gone to shit and I envy you for being a young man back then. Definitely sounds like you had it good! You didn't have it bad at all :)
The only thing that surprises about OCS is why it took so long for them to hit the big time. By 1996, Steve and Damon were 27 while Oscar and Simon were 31 - pretty late to make it as rockers (Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison were all dead at 27, for instance). I guess, however, the OCS members all looked younger than their actual age. Looking at them playing in 1996, who would've guessed Simon was 31? A lot of the other bands that made it big that decade did so when members wer a fair bit younger. For instance, when Oasis broke through in 1994, Liam Gallagher was only 22 (although I guess Noel was 27). On the other hand, that long apprenticeship of hard slog and live gigging, probably did give OCS a real advantage over that whole layer of 90s bands when they did finally burst into the bigtime in '96.
Too be fare, I was 16 on 96 and OCS did seem like old geezers. They wrote some great tunes but their image seemed a bit naff, especially to me considering my dad was an original mod.
I first saw OCS in 1996 at Knebworth woth Oasis and all those other fantastic bands, bought Moseley Shoals the next day. Played that album to death, this track still gives me goose bumps! The solo part is just immense. Saw them again this weekend and they were just as fantastic. Only difference was in 1996 I was a carefree 19 year old now I'm 47!.
Bought Painting too. "We don't look in the mirror now, cause the face that's lookin back, is lookin rather cracked, so we don't look in the mirror now..."
I bought You Got It Bad single back in mid 90s, But never seen the promo vid of it. Along with single version Travelers Tune and Hundred Mile High City are the best OCS has done. Is this the orignal promo video or recreated for youtube?
@celticghirlxxx Saturday wasn't released too long ago, and On The Leyline before that. Plenty of OCS albums knocking about (North Atlantic Drift is sooo ridiculously good.) Have some patience on the OCS front :) they always come. We got Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds coming, which should be class. You know who I want back? The La's! On other news the Bluetones are splitting up :( final tour atm.
For me, they've never made a better song than 'The Circle' but when I think of the essence of Summer back in my childhood in the 90s, this song is one of the songs I think of that really encapsulates the feeling.
I used to see OCS at Wolverhampton Polytechnic back in the day, it was obvious they were a cut above the rest. Then the singer started getting a bit gobby in the music press, who turned on the band and killed them off temporarily. Then they re-emerged with the Britpop stuff.....quality songs
@stevecelticfan1888 god knows mate. That's crazy eh? I wish OCS would release an album, oasis and the stone roses would get back together (I'd accept the seahorses reforming as I doubt the roses will ever get back together) and Jim Morrison would come back from the dead. Apart from that I don't want much lol Hail Hail
Meh. I bought Mosley Shoals in 1996 when I was 15 - key Britpop target. After a month I sold it to a friend (only time I ever did this), because as catchy as the songs sound, there's not enough substance behind them for me. I like to listen occasionally as they remind me of this time, but musically they hold limited value. I'm not saying they're not good, but for me they rode the wave of britpop like no other band and on their own merits they may not have reached such heights at the time.
