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Supergrass Diamond
11 votes
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by Alex Denney
  • Type: Single
  • Release date: 14/01/2008
  • Label: Parlophone

Correct me if I’m wrong, long-standing aficionados of the band, but it seems there was a moment where it all went a bit dadrock-pastiche for Supergrass. It’s like they’re The Stones of the Britpop era, with all the paucity of comparison that implies.

Not that we’d wish to sound too rude about the Oxford three-piece – their first album is practically what the word ‘ace’ was invented for, and the second was all mature and that so we’ll settle at ‘excellent’, but after that it went from giddy romp to joyless pump – on your stereo, naturally – and the band plotted a course that brought them here.

That’s ‘here’ as in ‘Diamond Hoo Ha Man’; a lumpen, bloozy slog redolent of ‘Blue Orchid’ with added Townshend power chords. As tragically ruinous, in its way, of beer bellies blighting the once rakish frames of indie pin-up boys.

  • Supergrass 5 / 10
Words: Alex Denney

Beer Bellies

A lot of people think you get fat by eating too much, not true. You get fat by being lazy.


I've not heard this

but the name makes me chew my fist


I think this track is funky...

a return to their days of 'I should coco' with a 70's twist... although I did really like the last album's direction which def isn't this!


Pants

This song will be forgotten. It's not so good. These guys need to quit whilst they are ahead


Are they...

...ahead?


they are awesome live

properly amazing

<3


"in it for the money", "supergrass", "road to rouen"

"life on other planets"... they were all brilliant. thank god they still exist. have you ever listen to "tales of endurence" ?


Lazy review

Dadrock and Pastiche- well yes, absolutely. Road to Rouen was AOR as fuck, and that's what's so great about it. Supergrass have surely earned the right to make that kind of record, having been around since 1993. Supergrass were always about pastiche and homage, but they're always cheeky with their referencing.

I think this song's great- especially the maracas groove at the beginning, the riffs aren't 'bloozy' or even bluesy, they're garage rock.

And I like their bon-vivant beer bellies.

National Treasures those guys.


we need to

get past 'once young, now not' as reference points, when a band decides to return to a sound after a few years.

lazy lazy lazy