Just like Fluffy, Scruffy can acquire EXP to level up, growing stronger and providing bonuses. Click on it to view detailed information about Scruffy. Scruffy will always be available in U2, and he can be accessed by hovering or clicking on the purple box in the upper-right corner of the Trimps box, to the left of the message board. Said to be Fluffy's friend, Scruffy is met upon reaching the Radon Universe for the first time, and serves as the player's pet and aide for Universe 2. Downstairs at the back there was a very young group helping themselves to a crafty smoke and having a laugh, God bless ’em.Scruffy is the second special Trimp encountered by the player. Some good artefacts of time and place here, proving the Brit Pop scene wasn’t’ just the obvious guys^^ bickering and flaunting Union Jacks on the top deck of an open bus. The live track is an energetic and melodic take on one of the best tracks on the debut LP. The former is a tinkling Kinksian do, with some very nice Hammond playing and a bit of a wig out going on towards the end. Ok, just me then.įor B-sides we get ‘Melanie Davis’ and a live version of ‘Strange Ones’. The video was great, just the band playing in a bandstand, giving it loads – three excellent musicians there, drummer Danny Goffey in particular.Īnyone else out there think that the cover of Going Out reminds them of David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch? it looks like one of those deeply sinister typewriters. It is a magnificent track, loads of fun, with a real weight behind it and some excellent off-kilter harmonies. Going Out really made me sit up and take notice of the band’s song writing chops, it catches exactly the Beatles buzz that certain lesser Mancunian lights were bragging about capturing. The single Going Out was a bit of a stopgap release in February 1996, they didn’t start, the fraught process of, recording In It For The Money until April of that year. I really rate this tune as an exercise in park bench psychedelia which includes some rather choice sound effects. ‘Odd?’ takes us back to drink again from the well of Madness, in their massively underrated maudlin incarnation. I like the brio of it and I would have released it rather than ‘Mansize Rooster’, personally. The former is a classy number with a striking piano over quiet church bells intro, before it all goes very ADHD indeed, extoling the virtue of having a little smoke to pass the time. Turn the big cockerel over and we have ‘Sitting Up Straight’ and ‘Odd?’, one an album track the other not. It’s okay, but there’s a reason why it isn’t anyone’s favourite Supergrass tune. The lyrics sound fine in context but suffer from a touch of nothingmuchism if you actually read them thereafter^. Mansize Rooster, is a bouncy beastie with traces of Madness in its DNA and all manner of ludicrously high-pitched harmonising all over the shop. For me Supergrass just seemed to work better as a singles band** and that’s no slight, it is very much a compliment. I could never quite get into the album though, the brilliantly titled, I Should Co-Co and a couple of years later I struggled to truly love In It For The money although plenty more astute and worthy than I acclaim it to the rafters. I immediately went backwards to their excellent debut single Caught By The Fuzz, my favourite song ever about being caught smoking dope by the police and being told off by your mum. Like everyone it was the perky video to Alright that first pulled me in because it was all filmed at pretty much my favourite place in Wales*, Portmeirion and I just came to love the music too. No mean feat given how febrile the coverage of that whole scene was. I liked Supergrass, they were always the idiot bastard child of the Brit Pop scene, always there regularly frisbeeing great singles at us without ever quite being too obvious, without ever quite being too enmeshed in it all. Hailing from those far gone days of the mid 90’s. Here’s a jolly pair, Supergrass Mansize Rooster and Going Out.
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