Classic Album: Supergrass - "Supergrass"

I always feel that Supergrass will be one of those bands that will be kind of forgotten, nothing to do with their talent or output, but just because they just got on with making music. When their first album I should Coco came out in 1995 they had to contend with Blur and Oasis and even Radiohead, when In it for the Money came out in 1997 The Verve, Portishead and the Stereophonics had been added to the previous list, and despite the quality of the music, they began to be happy just sitting behind the first row of whoever was selling records at that time.
Such was the feeling when Supergrass slipped out their Eponymous third album (sometimes called the X-Ray album due to its cover).
Despite its sort-of muted response at the time, it remains one of the few albums i constantly come back to. As well as having one of my favourite songs ever (Eon), It's one of the few albums i can leave on in the background and enjoy all the way through. It also contains some pretty weirdly-fantastic singles - The brilliant album opener Moving is basically two choruses stapled together and Mary has one of the best i-don't-care-how-dumb-this-sounds refrain in music. That's probably another thing i love about it, they sound like they're just making music for the enjoyment of it - just listen to Pumping On Your Stereo or the backing vocals in Jesus Came from Outer Space and there's so much unrefined fun there it can't help but be transmitted.

Have a watch of the disturbing video for Mary...