Supergrass - I Should Coco poll

lenny

this album is so good. five singles were released and all are great.

can't wait to listen to this again and voting. right now i would say "Caught By the Fuzz."

I kept hoping they'd top this on subsequent records. Sadly, they never even matched it. I'm going with "Caught By The Fuzz" for some of the best (and only) neo-Moon drumming of the 90s.

mansize

haven't listened to this record in probably 15 years, thanks to how much i hate 'alright'. should probably revisit it one of these days.

Caught By The Fuzz!

Yeah love this album. It reminds me of my mum singing along and being silly in the car.

I went with She's So Loose, Lost it and Caught By The Fuzz would be close behind. Still love this album but In It For The Money is even better. I actually don't think they made a bad album.

Oops that's Lose it not Lost it.

Lose It

Was there an In It For The Money poll yet?

no, not yet almost did that one instead. ILM has only done this so far: POLL: Pick your favorite Supergrass single (based on the tracklisting of 'Supergrass is 10')

i like In It for the Money more but wanted to do this poll first...

caught by the fuzz

by god i loved In It For The Money. from this one though yeah gotta be Caught By The Fuzz.
ex EMI head honcho Tony Wadsworth was on the Word mag podcast last week and said that the one band he regretted not making it bigger than they did while he was at the label was Supergrass.

She's So Loose, then Lose It. An album I could never really get into for some reason.

I got Caught By The Fuzz when it was rereleased on Parlophone, saw them down the After Dark club in Reading not long after, was genuinely excited by them (I was 18) in comparison to most of the emerging Britpop stuff that was coming out then. They really lost me with Alright though. I still have never actually listened to this album although I have 3 of the singles off it.

caught by the fuzz. Saw them when they were the jennifers but don't remember anything about them except that they were called 'the jennifers'
mansize rooster perhaps second to fuzz.

Lenny or Mansize Rooster.

This would be a great album if not for "Alright". If that gets any votes I will learn to hack the server and find out who's responsible for a good SBing.

(ok, no I won't. And maybe it's not that great since I can't remember anything after "Sitting Up Straight". But still.)

probably in a minority but i think alright is, well, alright. Their monkees moment.
That said, they will never top Caught by the Fuzz because it captures an essential teenage moment
which just reminded me of danny being interviewed on Radio 1, mid 90s, when he paused momentarily to inhale sharply.
"Are you smoking there?" asks the DJ
"might be", says Danny, nonchalant.

the fuzz, caught by

Got rid of this album 12 or so years ago in a dodgy Britpop CD purge, really regretted it soon after. "Mansize Rooster" gets my vote.

I remember them doing a "not stupid" version of "We're not supposed to" on some music show back then. Poor old song, didn't deserve that LP version really.

Was I the only one disappointed by "in it for the money" ? Guess so.

ONTHEBACKOFTHEBUS!!!!

Voting "sofa"

i always sing 'time to go' to myself whenever i am leaving somewhere

found this on Wiki:

"Caught by the Fuzz" was based on a real-life event: lead singer Gaz Coombes' arrest and caution for possession of cannabis at age fifteen. In a 2004 interview, Coombes said "It wasn't trying to be a real statement, but at the time we knew that it was a big deal. Kids all around England were getting nicked for having a bit of hash on them. In Oxford that kind of thing happened quite a lot. It's all true so it was easy to write. It was a funny experience - not too funny at the time 'cause I was only 15 and shitting myself. The song has that disturbing energy. It's comparable to your heart racing. The adrenaline rush you get when your mum walks into the police station is similar to the energy of the song."
"Mansize Rooster" is said to be about a young boy with a large penis, although this is not obvious from the lyrics. Gaz Coombes once stated in an interview that "the most embarrassing moment in pop is on our album where it goes: 'Oi Mum! Got any mandies?'"

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She's So Loose.

This is my favourite britpop album.

Like, every song is good.

Was I the only one disappointed by "in it for the money" ? Guess so.

Not at all. It's decent, but marked the decent into stodgy 70s rock stylings.

Second 'decent' should be 'descent'.

didn't have a chance to re-listen to this, going to vote for "Strange Ones."

oh man i love this album

I've got the Lose It single on Sub Pop somewhere. That were a tune. It had a lovely thick brown cardboard sleeve.

the guitars sound so great on this album.

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Not hugely surprising, apart from I can't recall the second-placing song at the mo.