“Hundred Mile High City” by Ocean Colour Scene

"Hundred Mile High City" kicked the door open for Marchin' Already, the third Ocean Colour Scene album, as its first single in 1997, following "The Circle" and coming out swinging. Simon Fowler, Steve Cradock, Damon Minchella and Oscar Harrison share the writing credit, and the band produced and mixed it themselves with Brendan Lynch and Martin Heyes for MCA.

It shot to number four in the UK, level with their biggest hit, hung around the top 75 for seven weeks and gave them their first chart placings in Ireland and the Netherlands. Then the movies came calling: in 1998 it landed on the soundtrack of the black comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and once the film opened in America the next year, several US alternative stations picked it up in March 1999.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.