Marchin' Already
Encyclopedia
Marchin' Already is a 1997 album by Ocean Colour Scene
.
The album was a follow-up to the successful Moseley Shoals
, and is in a similar style. The songs were taken from the band's catalogue that they had built up since forming several years earlier.
The single "Hundred Mile High City" was used in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
. Nodding a reference to northern soul
, P.P. Arnold appears on "Traveller's Tune" and "It's a Beautiful Thing". A more subdued version of "Traveller's Tune" originally appeared as a B-side to "The Day We Caught the Train".
The album knocked Oasis
' Be Here Now off the top spot in the UK Albums Chart
- Noel Gallagher
sent Ocean Colour Scene
his congratulations through a plaque on which he had inscribed, "To The Second Best Band In Britain". Steve Cradock
, famously said "it's an honour to be described as Britain's second best band, ahead of Oasis but behind the Beatles".
It sold 1.5 million in its first year and by the end of the year had achieved triple-platinum status in the UK.
In 2007 the song "Get Blown Away" was covered by British indie band The Enemy as a b-side to their single It's Not OK, albeit just a piano and vocal version.
Ocean Colour Scene
Ocean Colour Scene are an English Britpop band formed in Moseley, Birmingham in 1989. They have had five Top 10 albums and six Top 10 singles to date.-Early days :...
.
The album was a follow-up to the successful Moseley Shoals
Moseley Shoals
Moseley Shoals is a 1996 album by the British rock group Ocean Colour Scene, that was released during the Britpop era. The album reached #2 in the UK charts, selling over 600,000 copies....
, and is in a similar style. The songs were taken from the band's catalogue that they had built up since forming several years earlier.
The single "Hundred Mile High City" was used in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime film directed and written by Guy Ritchie. The story is a heist film involving a self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag...
. Nodding a reference to northern soul
Northern soul
Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged from the British mod scene, initially in northern England in the late 1960s. Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound...
, P.P. Arnold appears on "Traveller's Tune" and "It's a Beautiful Thing". A more subdued version of "Traveller's Tune" originally appeared as a B-side to "The Day We Caught the Train".
The album knocked Oasis
Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
' Be Here Now off the top spot in the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
- Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician and singer-songwriter, formerly the lead guitarist, backing vocalist and principal songwriter of the English rock band Oasis. He is currently fronting his solo project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.Raised in Burnage, Manchester with his...
sent Ocean Colour Scene
Ocean Colour Scene
Ocean Colour Scene are an English Britpop band formed in Moseley, Birmingham in 1989. They have had five Top 10 albums and six Top 10 singles to date.-Early days :...
his congratulations through a plaque on which he had inscribed, "To The Second Best Band In Britain". Steve Cradock
Steve Cradock
Steve Cradock is an English guitarist, most notable for playing in the rock group Ocean Colour Scene. Cradock is also the second guitarist in Paul Weller's band, having appeared on all of Weller's solo records following Weller's self titled debut album.He is a distinctive guitarist, who has a...
, famously said "it's an honour to be described as Britain's second best band, ahead of Oasis but behind the Beatles".
It sold 1.5 million in its first year and by the end of the year had achieved triple-platinum status in the UK.
In 2007 the song "Get Blown Away" was covered by British indie band The Enemy as a b-side to their single It's Not OK, albeit just a piano and vocal version.
Track listing
- "Hundred Mile High CityHundred Mile High City"Hundred Mile High City" is a rock song by Ocean Colour Scene .The song was released in 1997 and reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart. It is taken from their 1997 album Marchin' Already and was the first single to be released from the album. The single was used as the theme tune to the film...
" – 3:58 - "Better Day" – 3:45
- "Travellers TuneTravellers Tune"Travellers Tune" is a rock song by Ocean Colour Scene .The song was released in 1997 and reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart. It is taken from their 1997 album Marchin' Already and was the second single to be released from the album, following "Hundred Mile High City".- Track listing :#...
" – 3:41 - "Big Star" – 3:11
- "Debris Road" – 3:09
- "Besides Yourself" – 3:14
- "Get Blown Away" – 4:42
- "Tele He's Not Talking" - 3:01
- "Foxy's Folk Faced" - 2:10
- "All Up" - 2:48
- "Spark and Cindy" - 4:00
- "Half a Dream Away" - 4:21
- "It's a Beautiful ThingIt's a Beautiful Thing (OCS song)"It's a Beautiful Thing" is a rock song by Ocean Colour Scene . The album and single versions are a duet, featuring P.P. Arnold on vocals ....
" – 6:30