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“The Day We Caught the Train” by Ocean Colour Scene
From the album Moseley Shoals (1996)
“The Day We Caught the Train” by Ocean Colour Scene appears on 5 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1996 and 2025. It was first released in 1996 on the album Moseley Shoals. Its best result is #3 on the Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #146 alternative song of 1996 and #6,227 alternative song of all time.
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"The Day We Caught the Train" chugged out of Moseley Shoals, the second Ocean Colour Scene album, on 3 June 1996, the third single from a record that put the band squarely in the Britpop sun. Steve Cradock, Simon Fowler, Oscar Harrison and Damon Minchella wrote it together, and Brendan Lynch produced it with them, giving it a warm, rolling, beery swagger, all big chords and a singalong chorus made for crowded pubs.
It ran all the way to number four in the UK and has since gone platinum, with sales and streams past 600,000. Island put it out on two CDs, the second carrying an acoustic take alongside B-sides including a re-recorded "Justine" and "Travellers Tune", which later landed on Marchin' Already.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | Virgin Radio United Kingdom | Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1996 | 10 |
| 1997 | 101 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1997 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 370 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2003 | 15 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio VR10x10 (April 2003) | 100 |
| 2025 | 7 | Absolute Radio | Absolute Radio 100 Ultimate Britpop Anthems | 100 |
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