Kessler, Ted (6 April 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals". NME. IPC Media. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000 . Retrieved 7 June 2017. Marchin’ Already confirmed their arrival as a major force with more original classics in the shape of “Hundred Mile High City”, “Better Day”, “Traveller’s Tune” and “It’s a Beautiful Thing” – the latter pair featuring P.P. Arnold and exuding a heady whiff of Northern Soul. Again we’d point you to their Deluxe and even Super Deluxe editions where their prolific but high-quality output can be heard spread across 3-CDs/DVD in the latter case, including live sets at Manchester Apollo and Stirling Castle. British album certifications – Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 23 January 2021. Thing is, over time I fell out of love with Moseley Shoals and Ocean Colour Scene as a whole. It wasn’t that they weren’t good at what they did, it was just that there were outside factors. While it was well known that they had had their career resurrected by Noel Gallagher hawking their demo tapes around every record company desperate to sign up any white boy guitar-toting four piece, the fact that they were more than happy to play a second sycophantic fiddle to a lesser act despite being musically much more diverse and infinitely more talented was a real shame.

The word Moseley is taken from a suburb of the same name in south Birmingham, UK. The album title as a whole is a punning nod to the city of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the location of several famous 1960s soul recording studios. [ citation needed] Krol, Eric (27 September 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals". Daily Herald. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021 . Retrieved 14 September 2019. The memorial by which the band can be seen standing on the front cover is the Jephson Memorial in The Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa, UK. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.

DeLuca, Dan (4 August 1996). "A guide to the explosion in pop music that's got the British all excited". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p.161.

Finally, we have The Collection (2007) a canny mixture of old and new, live and studio with a highlight being their live take on “Day Tripper” from the Electric Ballroom. In April, 2016, the album was re-released as part of the Record Store Day celebrations, on limited edition red vinyl, charting at No.5 on the vinyl album chart. Hernandez, Raoul (15 November 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene: Moseley Shoals (MCA)". The Austin Chronicle . Retrieved 27 October 2015. White, Adam (1 November 1997). "Jorgen Larsen's Universal Music International Emerges as a Global Force". Billboard. Vol.109, no.44. p.99 . Retrieved 17 October 2020.

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On the quirkily titled A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad OCS were forced to replace Minchella and the other three came up with the goods, aside from covering George Harrison’s “Wah Wah”(from his All Things Must Pass masterpiece) and Keith Anderson’s “My Time”. Another strong disc, this contains “Free My Name”, which restored them to the charts while the production skills of Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Idlewild, Kylie Minogue) kept them honest and fresh.

Larkin, Colin (2007). "Ocean Colour Scene". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5thed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.

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A few months later I am in town to spend a bit of birthday money, and there at the front of Virgin MegaStore was Moseley Shoals, despite the fact that it had been out for nearly six months by that point. Yeah, they were another Britpop band, but these guys were getting a big promo-push through festival season. The album was produced by Brendan Lynch, and was recorded and mixed at the band's studio in Birmingham (Moseley Shoals). Sullivan, Caroline (12 April 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene: Moseley Shoals (MCA)". The Guardian. p.41. One For The Road collates various live performances from 2004 with two new songs and a loving interpretation of the Small Faces “Wham Bam Thank You Mam”.

Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Moseley Shoals – Ocean Colour Scene". AllMusic . Retrieved 27 October 2015.Alongside Marchin' Already and One from the Modern, Moseley Shoals is an album that belongs in every serious Britpop collection. One of the better Britpop releases by a band that isn't one of the genre's "Big Four".