When I was 15 or so (and king of the mods) I liked anything with a guitar really. It obviously wasn't long until I became a huge OCS. I saw them loads of times, notably as part of their 5 night stint (5 nights!) at the Astoria and the time they sold out Wembley Arena (Wembley Arena!). All a bit unimaginable these days.
Of course by they time I got to sixth form/uni my tastes to a change for the more extreme and bands like OCS were left behind.
Anyway, I spent most of yesterday at work listening to the 5 albums of theirs that I own. And you know what, they were/are a great band. ALright, it's a bit dad rock, but they are great musicians and great songwriters. I don't think they ever made a perfect album, but they have at least 20 really really great individual songs, and not just the singles, they have quite a few 'lost classic' album tracks.
So here's to OCS, the forgotten band that don't deserve the amount of ridicule they get these days.
Nope
Still shit, derivative bland rock.
ditto
.
You became a huge OCS?
That's dedication gone TOO FAR.
And I disagree. They deserve all the ridicule they get. You disappoint me.
Chumbawamba.
Your opinion has been null and void.
Until you've heard at least two Chumbawamba albums
then I shall dismiss that dismissal.
I used to own
Slap! by Chumbawamba, great album. OCS on the other hand deserve shooting, at the very least for the Riverboat Song..
He got shot down...
..but he'll get up again.
:}
Please good you go to a gardening or cross stictching forum
you have no taste in music. Its pointless you continuing to listen to music.
I know this sounds harsh and that you think you have rather good taste actually but let me assure you thats you are wrong.
please go
^Named after a Fall song.
Pot kettle black.
see I told you, that you have no taste
why are you still here?
What a sanctimonious prick
People can listen to whatever they want. Who are you to tell anyone to do anything
They're playing Peterborough
on 12th April. Interested?
I'M NOT
They played the Astoria just before Xmas
I was going to go but tickets were £25 (!), and it was sold out!
£25(!)
This means extortion...yes??
and that was £25 plus fees.
So you'd actually be looking at nearer £30.
i find it odd
that I only own their B-sides album and nothing else.
Do you want me to sing Huckleberry Grove? No?
Is the re-appraisal over?
Have we discovered they are still shit?
or shoul I get my pipe and slippers?
Somehow
I just knew that this thread would be started by GG. I just knew.
Is it because you love me?
Yes
.
i was oing to go buy tickets for that show
but instead i just went to a salvage yard and bought as much rusty metal as i could get for the ticket price. i then stuck it into the ground at varying heights and climbed onto a chair. when i jumped onto the spikes i made sure that the biggest one tore itself right through my rectal cavity and some of the smaller ones i made sure to puncture the back of my kneecaps.
while i was impaled i thought to myself yes, im really glad i didnt waste my money on ocean colour scene tickets
mosely b-sides high city
its derivative an overtly 'classic' and retro, but mosely shoals had some cracking tunes on it. The b-sides album also has some moments, robin hood, chelsea walk and some quitee nice folky moments. As a 15 year old i was so excited by 100 mile high city and i still reckon its okay for what it is. The album with it on and all the rest are rubbish though.
:)
Brutal, but somewhat amusing too...
In the time you spent writing that
You could've discovered a new band you might of loved. But no, keep on just writing tripe. I mean what was the point in that? Have you added anything to the cause of humanity?
No, just yet another indie point scoring exercise. I AM BECOME COOL I DISLIKE BAND THAT WAS POPULAR
well im sat at work with nothing else to do
so i think i will indulge my sarcasm as much as i want my dear, dear friend
and yes
i have added to the cause of humanity. maybe not in a particularly helpful or pleasant manner, but at least i have immortalised my words into the pantheon of human knowledge by writing them on the internet. just like you.
because after all, historians thousands of years from now will surely scour internet message boards, desperate for truth, and they will certainkly not appreciate sarcasm
...
Yesterday Today is a great song.
Man there are some people who really take things too seriously in this thread
"Ocean Colour Scene: A re-appraisal"?
To be fair what you've done here isn't a re-appraisal.
You liked a band when you were 15 and you've listened back to them and they've brought back all those feelings you has when you were 15, that fuzzy sense of excitement and youth.
I understand this is what is called 'nostalgia'. A feeling OCS were quite fond of themselves...
Regardless of what I think of this particular band, all of us have bands/music that we have no real critical opinion of as they will always be connected to a time of our lives.
I just don't tend to go on forums and make claims that I've made a critical re-evaluation of them, when in actual fact I've just had a think back to yester-year on a Thursday in March.
^
Lovely stuff
Get over yourself
Jeez louise, do you realise how pompous you sound?
ha,
all the time.
m'lord.
You un-educated oik.
Yeah, he's right though.
But he's not.
What i've done is re-appraise OCS.
And I'm the pompous one.....
riiiiight.
No, you're the un-educated one.
oh ok,
at least we've got that cleared up.
*all threads.
You seem to have a bee in your bonnet
ARE YOU PERCHANCE THE DRUMMER FROM OCEAN COLOUR SCENE?
Oscar? He was black.
Well, i'm assuming he still is.
Never assume.
He could be Birmingham, UK's, answer to Mickael Jackson.
Yes, a Danish Michael Jackson tribute artiste
SVEN, THE TWO OF US NEED SEARCH NO MORE.
I think he might have been
Chris Evans.
Are OCR currently Paul Wellers backing band?
No
They're a leading exam board! www.ocr.org.uk - recognising achievement.
I strongly urge
all Music GCSE students to concentrate on 60's aping retro tripe then.
If there's anything I can thank Radiohead and Manics for
It's for preventing my interest in Ocean Colour Scene as a youngster.
I have no opinion on OCS
because I woke up to 'The Riverboat Song' every day at school for 2 years, and not through choice, so bad or not it's implanted on my brain.
I also was a huge OCS.
I still think that B-sides Seasides and Free Rides was a great album. My fav OCS song was probably Debris Road.
I don't care for them much anymore, they are a tad bland, but when I do hear them it brings back great memories.
^
I wasn't obsessed with them, but I bought Mosely Shoals and listened to it a lot at the time. As with most bands around during britpop I have a soft spot for them.
exactly
There are some britpop era bands that stood the test of time for me and I feel were genuinely good, there are others that are tied up in memories. OCS might not have been amazing, but they weren't awful and did indeed have some classics.
...
I loved OCS in my teens, not ashamed of that. I liked the tunes, Steve Craddock's playing and Simon Fowler penned some good lyrics and had a great voice.
I still have a flush of nostalgia when i hear 'Day we caught the train', I like it.
Talking about OCS is a bit refreshing from the Youthmovies wank fest.
their best of
was/still is pretty good.
/\ LOL
You don't like them
We get it.
100 mile high city great tune
everything else complete and utter shite, especially that Moseley Shells LP : worst LP ever
Moseley Shoals
was a great album. There's loads of good songs on there. Admittedly, a lot of what they did was extremely derivitive, but it was done bloody well.
I was a big fan of OCS. Unfortunately the went a bit shit after One For The Modern but i've never understood why they came in for such criticism when most of the music that was popular at that time harked back to a different age.
Worst controversial thread ever
I thought you liked interesting bands anyway? But you keep going on about Cast and Ocean Colour Scene, I FEEL SO LET DOWN.
Hasn't the reappraisal already been done?
ie When they came out, people quite liked them and now, many years later, when their career can be considered more in the round, people generally don't.
Cast were pretty damn good too.
If you were between the age of 14 and 17 around 1996.
I was 13 in 1996
Which must explain why I think Cast were fucking shit.
Theory proved!
Hope those Spice Girls records worked out for you.
I was 14
and I was NOT a Cast fan (except Sandstorm, that was ok).
And I was! HUZZAH!
Well as I've only listened to two songs
(which were alright, I suppose), I can't really comment. But I'm sure there are a lot of people who just say they're shit because it's "the done thing", without so much as listening to them.
I listened to them the other day randomly...
They're quite good in a workman like way but very retrogressive. Still, pretty much everything is in some way and they're far from the worst band ever. Not terrific but competent.
The song 'Get Blown Away' from Marchin' Already is a bit of a classic!
"Not terrific but competent."
That's how my girlfriend describes my sexual skills.
ba-doom-cha!
Thank you, I'm here rarely...