Ocean Colour Scene (album)

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Ocean Colour Scene
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Studio album by
Released26 May 1992 [1]
Genre Madchester, R&B, shoegaze, soul [2]
Length47:16
Label Fontana
Producer Brendan Lynch
Ocean Colour Scene chronology
Ocean Colour Scene
(1992)
Moseley Shoals
(1996)
Singles from Ocean Colour Scene
  1. "Sway"
    Released: 12 November 1990 [3]
  2. "Sway (re-issue)"
    Released: 10 February 1992 [4]
  3. "Giving It All Away"
    Released: 23 March 1992 [5]
  4. "Do Yourself a Favour"
    Released: 4 May 1992 [6]
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Ocean Colour Scene is the 1992 debut album by the British rock group Ocean Colour Scene. [7] It was released during the early Britpop era with far less critical interest than their highly successful second album Moseley Shoals . Ocean Colour Scene themselves largely ignore this album, feeling that the band's and label's conflicting musical views led to a 'watered-down' debut which lacked the edge of the band's live popularity.[ citation needed ]

Contents

The first single from the album was "Sway" in February 1992, followed by "Giving it All Away" in March and finally "Do Yourself a Favour" in May. A remastered 2CD Deluxe edition of the album was released in February 2014 which included the original album together with A and B sides of early singles and a few outtakes.

Track listing

All songs written by Ocean Colour Scene except as indicated.

  1. "Talk On" – 4:07
  2. "How About You" – 3:14
  3. "Giving It All Away" – 4:11
  4. "Justine" – 3:32
  5. "Do Yourself a Favour" (Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright) – 3:48
  6. "Third Shade of Green" – 4:39
  7. "Sway" – 3:42
  8. "Penny Pinching Rainy Heaven Days" – 3:13
  9. "One of Those Days" – 4:13
  10. "Is She Coming Home" – 6:06
  11. "Blue Deep Ocean" – 4:56
  12. "Reprise" – 1:30

2014 Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc

  1. "One of Those Days" (Single Version) – 5:01
  2. "Talk On" – 4:33
  3. "Sway" (Original Version) – 3:55
  4. "Lullaby" – 1:49
  5. "One of These Days" – 5:37
  6. "Yesterday Today" – 3:18
  7. "Another Girl's Name" – 3:24
  8. "Fly Me" – 4:32
  9. "No One Says" – 5:01
  10. "My Brother Sarah" – 2:44
  11. "Mona Lisa Eyes" – 3:42
  12. "Bellechoux" – 3:23
  13. "Flowers" – 4:04
  14. "Don't Play" – 4:15
  15. "The Seventh Floor" – 5:05
  16. "Patsy in Green" – 2:24
  17. "Suspended Motion" – 3:55
  18. "Blue Deep Ocean" (Alt. Version) – 4:40
  19. "Is She Coming Home" (Alt. Version) – 6:07

Personnel

References

  1. https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1992/MW-1992-05-23.pdf (Page12)
  2. 1 2 "Ocean Colour Scene Ocean Colour Scene". AllMusic .
  3. https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1990/MW-1990-11-10.pdf (Page 49)
  4. https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1992/MW-1992-02-08.pdf (Page 26)
  5. https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1992/MW-1992-03-21.pdf (Page 27)
  6. https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1992/MW-1992-05-02.pdf (Page 37)
  7. Brothers, Stud (25 April 1992). "Ocean Colour Scene: From High Seas to Deep Six". Melody Maker. Vol. 68, no. 17. p. 39.