Supergrass

In the summer of 1995, as Britpop’s heavyweights traded barbs, three teenage upstarts from Oxford crashed the party with a debut album that smelled of stolen beer and untamed possibility. I Should Coco wasn’t just youthful—it was youth incarnate: "Caught by the Fuzz"’s breakneck tale of police mischief (inspired by Gaz Coombes’ real-life arrest), "Alright"’s sunburnt harmonies bottled like a summer afternoon, and "Lenny"’s frenetic punk snarl. Produced for £30,000, it out-sold The Bends that year, its scrappy energy ("Mansize Rooster") and piano-pounding glee ("Sitting Up Straight") making Blur and Oasis sound suddenly middle-aged. The Britpop era’s last true surprise—a record that didn’t chase trends but outran them, grinning all the way.