I Should Coco sleeve
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I Should Coco

At a glance

Artist
Supergrass
Released
15 May 1995
Label
Parlophone
Catalogue number
7243 8 33350 2 2
Format
CD
Country
UK
Tracks
13, 40:25

In the issue

Britpop
For the obsessed · 1992-1997

Supergrass's debut was recorded in Cornwall with producer Sam Williams and released by Parlophone in May 1995. It was the label's best-selling debut album since the Beatles' Please Please Me, spent three weeks at number one that summer and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Its single "Alright" reached number two.

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The original cd: Parlophone 7243 8 33350 2 2, 1995.

Track list

  1. 1I’d Like to Know4:02
  2. 2Caught by the Fuzz2:17
  3. 3Mansize Rooster2:35
  4. 4Alright3:01
  5. 5Lose It2:38
  6. 6Lenny2:43
  7. 7Strange Ones4:20
  8. 8Sitting Up Straight2:20
  9. 9She’s So Loose3:00
  10. 10We’re Not Supposed To2:04
  11. 11Time3:11
  12. 12Sofa (of My Lethargy)6:19
  13. 13Time to Go1:57

The label

Parlophone
London · Tony Wadsworth · Britpop

Released Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish and Supergrass's I Should Coco, the latter the label's best-selling debut album since the Beatles' Please Please Me. Parlophone's Tony Wadsworth was involved in the decision, alongside Food and Blur's camp, to release 'Country House' on the same day as Oasis's 'Roll with It'.

Notes: the original release and its track list come from MusicBrainz. Everything else on this page is from the issue above.