Hundred Mile High City
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"Hundred Mile High City" is a rock
Rock music
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 song
Song
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 by Ocean Colour Scene
Ocean Colour Scene
Ocean Colour Scene are an English Britpop band formed in Moseley, Birmingham in 1989. They have had five Top 10 albums and six Top 10 singles to date.-Early days :...

 (OCS).

The song was released in 1997 and reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
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. It is taken from their 1997 album Marchin' Already
Marchin' Already
Marchin' Already is a 1997 album by Ocean Colour Scene.The album was a follow-up to the successful Moseley Shoals, and is in a similar style. The songs were taken from the band's catalogue that they had built up since forming several years earlier....

and was the first single to be released from the album. The single was used as the theme tune to the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime film directed and written by Guy Ritchie. The story is a heist film involving a self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag...

and the computer game Three Lions
Three Lions (video game)
Three Lions is a video game developed by Z‑Axis, Ltd and published by Take-Two Interactive. around the game of football . It was released for the PC, Playstation and Game Boy Color on 17 April 1998 as the official video game of the English Football Association....

. It is also the theme tune used for the six nations rugby on BBC one and two.
It is the band's joint most successful single in chart placement (#4) and also their 2nd most successful in terms of number of weeks spent in the top 75 of the singles chart, with a total of 7 weeks.

Track listing

  1. "Hundred Mile High City"
  2. "The Face Smiles Back Easily"
  3. "Falling To The Floor"
  4. "Hello Monday"
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