General Article name: Songs for the Front Row: The Very Best of Ocean Colour Scene
Genre: Pop englischsprachig Label: Island UK Number of tracks: 17 Duration: 66:19 Tracklist CD - 1 1. Ocean Colour Scene - Riverboat Song 4:58 2. Ocean Colour Scene - Day We Caught the Train 3:11 3. Ocean Colour Scene - One for the Road 3:43 4. Ocean Colour Scene - Circle 3:43 5. Ocean Colour Scene - You've Got It Bad 3:44 6. Ocean Colour Scene - Hundred Mile High City 3:57 7. Ocean Colour Scene - Better Day 3:46 8. Ocean Colour Scene - Travellers Tune 3:39 9. Ocean Colour Scene - Get Blown Away 4:46 10. Ocean Colour Scene - Profit in Peace 3:36 11. Ocean Colour Scene - So Low 3:54 12. Ocean Colour Scene - July 3:28 13. Ocean Colour Scene - Up on the Downside 5:02 14. Ocean Colour Scene - Mechanical Wonder 4:31 15. Ocean Colour Scene - Huckleberry Grove 2:59 16. Ocean Colour Scene - Robin Hood 3:42 17. Ocean Colour Scene - Crazy Lowdown Ways 3:40   Description Description

Ocean Colour Scene was never a big concern in the U.S., although they were among the leading lights of British trad rock in the '90s -- the post-Oasis return to the real, memorably dubbed "Noel-rock" by the British press. So it's a little strange that their first hits collection, Songs for the Front Row, was initially released in the U.S., but that's the way these things go. In any case, Songs for the Front Row remains a pretty good overview of OCS's peak, skipping the first album entirely and offering a heavy dose of their best album, Mosely Shoals, balanced by a good dose of Marchin' Already and selections from their other two records, plus the brilliant B-side "Huckleberry Grove." This results in a good, accurate overview with no big songs missing, so on that level it's a good introduction, but if you really want to know why British audiences went crazy for this group, check out Mosley Shoals, which is the best neo-classic rock this side of Lenny Kravitz in the '90s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Contributors Artist: Ocean Colour Scene Record Label: Universal/Island Guest Artist: Paul Weller Guest Artist: Rico Rodriguez