Supergrass-Supergrass (1999)

 

Artist: Supergrass

Title: Supergrass

Label: Island

Format: CD

Cat #: 314 542 388-2

Year of Release: 1999

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2000

Sold Price: $3.99

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 10/8/20

Discogs Last Sold: 6/19/20 $1.50 VG+/VG+

Low: $1.00

Median: $1.50

High: $9.50 M/M sealed

Current low price: $1.50 NM/NM

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 35

Have/Want: 398/20

Where Sold: Bellingham, WA

Time it took to sell: 9 years

Where and When Bought: given

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B-

Sad To See It Go?: No

The spring cleaning collection given to the Reverse Collector 10 years ago continues to bear low money fruit with the third Supergrass album on CD.  

Although I bought the first two Supergrass full lengths in the 90's, I never bothered after that.  One of those bands in the "Brit pop I think is ok" but nothing that I live eat and breathe.  I finally got around to listening to it off my hard drive last Saturday, a month and a half after the sale shipped out.  The initial few tracks made me wonder what I've done to myself for the next hour, but I started to get into it around "Shotover Hill," the fifth track on the record and liked the next couple tracks as well, as the rest of the album played out into the void.  Hints of Stones influence psychedelia will usually make me overlook baseline things I instinctively dislike about the last twenty years of commercial music production.

I often brag that I can write a full page about any record, any time.  But the third Supergrass third album may very well be one that stumps me.  They definitely were a band I thought were worth playing at WFDU when "Caught By The Fuzz" was new, and I bought their first two as new bargain bin purchases sometime before this album existed, yet I never was particularly cognizant of this release or any subsequent Supergrass album.  The exception being Life On Other Planets which was played by others in the Tee Pee office when I worked there.  I remember the rainbow adorned cover sitting splayed out in the office CD pile more than I remember the music, but I'm sure a quick replay would trigger those memory banks.  Also, I never was motivated to see them live or asked to go by someone more enthused.  

I would've gone, if asked.