Song · Supergrass
“Alright” by Supergrass
From the album I Should Coco (1995)
“Alright” by Supergrass appears on 12 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1995 and 2025. It was first released in 1995 on the album I Should Coco. Its best result is #6 on the Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #92 alternative song of 1995 and #4,050 alternative song of all time.
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Supergrass put "Alright" out in July 1995 as a double A-side with "Time", pulled from their debut I Should Coco, and it bounced out of the speakers like a kid let loose on the last day of school. Gaz Coombes pounds a jaunty piano and sings lead, Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey hold down bass and drums and pile in on the backing vocals, and all three share the writing credit. Sam Williams produced and mixed it with engineer John Cornfield.
With Coombes just 19, the song got hailed as the sound of Britpop youth, but he pushed back: it was never meant as a generational rallying cry, just a memory of being 13 or 14 and finding out about girls and booze. Landing on the Clueless soundtrack helped make it a hit, and Dom and Nic shot the video at Portmeirion in North Wales.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 13 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1995 | 50 |
| 1995 | 6 | Virgin Radio United Kingdom | Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1995 | 10 |
| 1995 | 79 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1995 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 274 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2003 | 52 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio VR10x10 (April 2003) | 100 |
| 2004 | 389 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
| 2005 | 445 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 500 |
| 2006 | 372 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) | 500 |
| 2022 | 874 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2023 | 518 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2025 | 13 | Absolute Radio | Absolute Radio 100 Ultimate Britpop Anthems | 100 |
| 2025 | 488 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs | 800 |
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