Track Listing

1. Profit In Peace
2. So Low
3. I Am The News
4. No One At All
5. Families
6. Step By Step
7. July
8. Jane She Got Excavated
9. Emily Chambers
10. Soul Driver
11. The Waves
12. I Won't Get Grazed

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29594 in Music
• Released on: 2003-08-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 43 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Want to relive the past? For heaven's sake, learn restraint. Don't mar your production with fancy digital frills. Be like Ocean Colour Scene. OCS know when to pitch a note, and when to stand back. They might've been unfairly tarnished with the "Dad Rock" badge because of their association with mentor Paul Weller (Weller sings back-up on one song here, the blissfully low-key "No One at All"), but they have the authentic, rootsy feel of the 60s white-boy beat groups down pat. On songs like the anti-war, defiant "Profit in Peace" and solipsistic "Emily Chambers", OCS prove that the lessons they've learnt at the hands of The Small Faces, The Spencer Davis Group and The Yardbirds, they've learnt well. One From the Modern is a mini-masterpiece of restraint and passion, albeit passion displayed through a rosy-tinted, time-distorted lens. Half the songs here could be mistaken for Pebbles-era garage classics. And that's some compliment. --Everett True

Customer Reviews

Flawed genius
This album, in my opinion is greater than the sum of any of it's parts.

It has it's flaws, some of the recording, the levels and the mastering is a little off. Perhaps there are some lesser tracks. There are flaws.

But it doesn't matter. The songs are great and that's what counts. Profit in Peace and So Low open up the able and set the mood. These are instant classics. The middle of the album is made up of rock, folk and soul, with great musicianship thrown in.

The last song, "I won't get grazed", is a haunting tune to finish the album. If left on repeat it also becomes the perfect intro back into track 1.

When I listen to this I feel that it was perhaps not the easiest album to record, an album created from a 'third album' struggle, which gives it a unique sound and place in Ocean Colour Scene's discography.

Surprisingly charming and how you say beguiling in places
OCS are not band that generate much affection in many quarters but on 1999's "One From The Modern" they actually sound interesting.
Opener "Profit In Peace" is a shouty chugger that should be discarded. "So Low" is where it starts to become interesting. It soars and swirls and is irrefutably lovely-sounding. "No One At All" is soft and wonderful. "Emily Chambers" is quintessentially English folk-pop and is most beguiling. "I Won't Get Grazed" is one of the most affecting things this often brash-sounding band have ever put down.

Not a ground-breaking album but a very good one.

Verisimilar to the past
Since when did replicating the past become synonymous with art or quality?

This is the complete antithesis of modernity and the principles of the Modern era to which the title alludes. The band's earnest approach suggests that they didn't intend to be ironic either.

If your tastes simply require some nice tunes, fine, but don't try and pass this off as anything other than retrogressive rubbish.