TS: "I Should Coco" Vs. "Life On Other Planet"

""I Should Coco", however, I still consider one of the most overrated albums of the Britpop era." That's just ott. You've heard "Feel Alright," right?

That is one song. Certainly one of the best on the album, but a good single doesn't make a great album.

Their last two albums are pretty good, but they don't measure up to their first two.

I think the opening track is one of the most infectious openers of all time.

Clearly. In It For The Money IS their most consistant record in terms of everything that it seems Supergrass is shooting for - it's the perfect combination of the mod/rocking-out early material and the more melodic and supposedly "mature" material, although personally I don't think it's the slightest bit more mature. They're still kids at heart. I think LOOP better than the self-titled though.

Supergrass's career more closely follows the fabled Star Trek syndrome, where the even numbered releases far outweigh the quality of the odd numbered ones.

In It For The Money is one of those albums where if I didn't know, I wouldn't have guessed which songs were the singles, it's that solid. "Cheapskate" probably the pick, but also "You Can't See Me". Oh, and theremin, brilliance. Supergrass is a lot more tired and intricate and more leaden, but it works because they're still pop songs - and even when it gets a bit strange, like "Mary" it works because it's also the poppiest thing on there. Pop + creepy organ = good.

LOOP... some good things on there, definitely, like "Grace" and "Rush Hour Soul", but "Seen The Light" is plodding, "Za" is pastiche without a really good hook, "Never Done Nothing".. let's not even go there. I still like the first album a lot, but "Alright" never did it for me. "Mansize Rooster" really was much, much better.

That would be my order but truth be told I love all of them. The last one was really good but will admit that I didn't play it nearly as much as I have done for the three before that.

I even remember when they were called the Jennifers.

But I still think the improvement continued with their two next albums anyway.

The middle two have the best melodies, and the first is energetic and infectious. The last one - dull on both counts, and it shows all the more so when they try to go back to what worked in the past.

And when is their next album coming out anyway?