Supergrass

Certain Songs #2578: Supergrass – “Sun Hits The Sky”

March 23, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: In It For The Money
Year: 1997

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Determined to prove that their instant success — in the U.K, of course — with I Should Coco wasn’t fluke, Supergrass reportedly turned down an offer from Steven Speilberg to become the 1990s version of the Monkees, a factlet that even when sourced back to an old SPIN Magazine article, I still don’t quite believe.

Certain Songs #2577: Supergrass – “Alright”

March 22, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: I Should Coco
Year: 1995

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Unlike their Britpop peers like Blur, Oasis or even The Verve, Supergrass never came close to having a fluke U.S. hit, even as they were utterly massive over in their native U.K. I was going to do a whole thing about comparing them to The Kinks versus Oasis and Blur being the Beatles and The Stones, but it didn’t quite scan properly, for any number of reasons, so just know this: between 1992-1998, Supergrass had eight straight singles in the U.K. top 20, which is most certainly something.