That first Supergrass album

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It's the absolute canine's cajones, is it not? Sharply melodic, vividly life-affirming pop music that grabbed the mid-90s by the scruff of the neck. Britpop's finest hour. Why does no-one else agree with me?

― Venga, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Because the guy's voice sounds like the singer from that OTHER band with the same first five letters in their name.

― tarden, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Supertramp?

Supersuckers?

There's been a lot of "Super" bands so I'm not too clear on that one. I do sort of like the first Supergrass album, it's before they got too entranced with being serious.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That would be Superchunk.

― Bob C, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Because the guy's voice sounds like the singer from that OTHER band with the same first five letters in their name.

That would be Superchunk.

But it can't be...can it? They sound nothing at all alike. And the two bands are even more dissimilar. Right??

― Larms, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Excuse me, but Supergrass and Superchunk sound *NOTHING* like each other. I can see the simillarity between Supergrass and Supertramp, but c'mon....Superchunk? Someone's really not paying attention.

― alex in nyc, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've never been a fan of their first one. I heard Richard III and immediately bought the 2nd LP - and loved it - but I hadn't heard them before that. The first one seemed a little dissapointing after that - too brash, not as melodic...or something like that.

― philT, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yep, clearly I am not. The high shrieks were the first thing that popped into my mind, but Supertramp makes much more sense (now that I'm fully awake).

Proceed...

― Bob C, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Total godhead of an album. I had heard "Alright" a few times, most memorably at the end of my copy of that movie Clueless, and didn't think much of it. Then "Cheapskate" from the 2nd album was a very small radio hit on my fave station, and I went crazy for it. Listened to WOIIFTM daily. But then I got the first album from a friend, and really disliked it for about six months. It did click in the end, though, so much that it is definitely one of my all-time favourite records. The drummer reminds me of Mitch Mitchell in his over- complicated sloppiness and shaky time, but Mitchell's playing complemented Hendrix's explosions better than a drummer playing metronomic time ever could. Supergrass' guy (whose name I can't even remember) is all over the place, but it gives the songs this furious intensity. Agreed, it was Britpop's finest hour, and holds up better than the Blur and Oasis in my collection. The record's a grower, but once you get it you'll never go back.

― Dave M., Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sometime in the summer of 1995, watching the Big Breakfast. The chart rundown (or Snap Crackle Pop or whatever the hell it was then) had just finished with (I think) Never Forget by Take That. Cut back to female presenter in the garden, talking to the usual mass of teenyboppers over the fence.

FP: So what do you think of Take That at Number 1? (General disagreement from crowd) FP: So what would you rather see at the top? Crowd: ALRIGHT!

I'm quite shocked to find that I don't actually own I Should Coco, as well as a few other key albums from that time, despite the fact that I must have heard it almost every day that summer. It just didn't seem necessary to buy it then, seeing as everyone else had it and we were going to be together forever...

― John Davey, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This fine record was many a post-club bonding session's soundtrack back in those heady days (everyone seemed more optimistic in 1995 - not rose-tinted nostalgia, I felt it at the time).

"Coco" makes the listener feel happy and glad to be alive and it reflected its times better than any similar record of the period.

― Venga, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jesus, this is weird. The presence of this album on the board surprised me in a "What? People still have opinions on this?" sort of way. Not only did I never really think about it this album even when it was new, I didn't believe it could still register on anybody's radar, and forgot the whole thing. Then I went to somebody's house and somebody, entirely unprompted, reached into the 'crap CD' (i.e. unplayed for months)pile and put it on! How strange is that?Anyway...
Supergrass=the English Ween.Unless they didn't intend to be, which makes them the English Black Crowes. Unless they REALLY intended to be the English Black Crowes, which would make them...the English Rolling Stones.(That's intentional. Work that one out.)

― tarden, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

tarden, you're wrong.

― gear (gear), Monday, 31 October 2005 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ween? Yer avin a larf, aintcha? There's something very British, very chopper bikes and cord flares (before the 70s nostalgists reduced such things to cliche by droning on about them endlessly) that can't hold up to a Ween comparison.

Don't know Superchunk at all, but they have oodles more humour and irony than the sodding Black Crowes. And I loved this album. I was 13 in '95, bought it at 15 and used to put it on all the time that year when getting ready to go out.

― Mippy (Mippy), Monday, 31 October 2005 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Their 'In It For The Money' is one of the all-time greatest most perfect albums ever made.

But that's for another thread.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Surely tarden's original post was referring to Super Furry Animals?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

(which I don't agree with, but just sayin')

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

this record & the elastica one were really the most fun rock 'n' roll moments of britpop, i think.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Classic album. Best thing they've ever done by far.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 31 October 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

"grabbed the mid-90s by the scruff of the neck".

Jesus Christ. Can I just pretend that I never EVER wrote those words?

(Still love the 'grass record, mind.)

― Venga (Venga), Monday, 31 October 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Fritz otm, by the way, if you also include Pulp.

― Venga (Venga), Monday, 31 October 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

None of the comparisons in this thread are even remotely accurate.

― cdwill, Monday, 31 October 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think of Pulp as "rock n roll" - and that's not a bad thing -but, yeah, different class is a a lot of fun too.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 31 October 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

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