Blurb:
"Alright"/"Time" is a 1995 double A-side by British rock band Supergrass, released at the height of the Britpop movement. Both tracks were taken from their number 1 debut album I Should Coco.
"Alright" received a great deal of air-play in the UK. The "bona fide teen anthem" with its upbeat lyrics and cheerful piano tune seemed to epitomise the feeling in Britain at the time, when Britpop was at its height. The band's youthful appearance (lead singer Gaz Coombes had only just turned 19 when it was released) added weight to the lyrics.
The success of the record was helped by a lively promotional video featuring the band joyfully messing around on bicycles and a bed on wheels at Portmeirion in North Wales. Having seen the video, Steven Spielberg approached the band and proposed that they make work together on a television series in the style of The Monkees. The group turned him down, preferring to work on their second album In It For The Money.
Though it is one of their most popular songs, the band rarely play "Alright" in their live sets anymore, not because they dislike it, but because it would be wrong for a band whose members are now all in their 30s to sing a song of such youthful exuberance. In a 1999 interview, Coombes joked "We don't play "Alright" anymore. We should play it in a minor key, and in the past tense."
"Alright"/"Time" is a 1995 double A-side by British rock band Supergrass, released at the height of the Britpop movement. Both tracks were taken from their number 1 debut album I Should Coco.
"Alright" received a great deal of air-play in the UK. The "bona fide teen anthem" with its upbeat lyrics and cheerful piano tune seemed to epitomise the feeling in Britain at the time, when Britpop was at its height. The band's youthful appearance (lead singer Gaz Coombes had only just turned 19 when it was released) added weight to the lyrics.
The success of the record was helped by a lively promotional video featuring the band joyfully messing around on bicycles and a bed on wheels at Portmeirion in North Wales. Having seen the video, Steven Spielberg approached the band and proposed that they make work together on a television series in the style of The Monkees. The group turned him down, preferring to work on their second album In It For The Money.
Though it is one of their most popular songs, the band rarely play "Alright" in their live sets anymore, not because they dislike it, but because it would be wrong for a band whose members are now all in their 30s to sing a song of such youthful exuberance. In a 1999 interview, Coombes joked "We don't play "Alright" anymore. We should play it in a minor key, and in the past tense."
Scroll and Sing:
We are young, we run green,
Keep our teeth, nice and clean,
See our friends, see the sights, feel alright,
We wake up, we go out, smoke a fag,
Put it out, see our friends,
See the sights, feel alright,
Are we like you?
I can't be sure,
Of the scene, as she turns,
We are strange in our worlds,
But we are young, we get by,
Can't go mad, ain't got time,
Sleep around, if we like,
But we're alright,
Got some cash, bought some wheels,
Took it out, 'cross the fields,
Lost control, hit a wall,
But we're alright,
Are we like you?
I can't be sure,
Of the scene, as she turns,
We are strange in our worlds,
But we are young, we run green,
Keep our teeth, nice and clean,
See our friends, see the sights, feel alright,
----INSTRUMENTAL----
Are we like you?
I can't be sure,
Of the scene, as she turns,
We are strange in our world,
But we are young, we run green,
Keep our teeth, nice and clean,
See our friends, see the sights, feel alright
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