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The album was a follow-up to the successful Moseley Shoals, and is in a similar style. The songs were taken from the band's catalogue that they had built up since forming several years earlier.
 
The single "Hundred Mile High City" was used in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Nodding a reference to northern soul, P.P. Arnold appears on "Traveller's Tune" and "It's a Beautiful Thing". "Traveller's Tune" originally appeared as a B-side to "The Day We Caught the Train".
 
The album knocked Oasis' Be Here Now off the top spot in the UK Albums Chart - Noel Gallagher sent Ocean Colour Scene his congratulations through a plaque on which he had inscribed, "To The Second Best Band In Britain". OCS frontman, Steve Cradock, famously said "it's an honour to be described as Britain's second best band, ahead of Oasis but behind the Beatles".
 
It sold 1.5 million in its first year and by the end of the year had achieved triple-platinum status in the UK.
 


Verenigd Koninkrijk
Rock
Label: Universal


1. "Hundred Mile High City" – 3:58
 2. "Better Day" – 3:45
 3. "Travellers Tune" – 3:41
 4. "Big Star" – 3:11
 5. "Debris Road" – 3:09
 6. "Besides Yourself" – 3:14
 7. "Get Blown Away" – 4:42
 8. "Tele He's Not Talking" - 3:01
 9. "Foxy's Folk Faced" - 2:10
 10. "All Up" - 2:48
 11. "Spark and Cindy" - 4:00
 12. "Half a Dream Away" - 4:21
 13. "It's a Beautiful Thing" – 6:30