The other night I was on the last leg of my drive back from work, only moments from home, when I realized I'd forgotten my Supergrass CD at the office--after an illegal U turn and another half hour of driving I made it home. The last album I felt this strongly about was that band that starts with a Radio and ends with a Head.

This album has so much to recommend it I don't know where to start. Unlike RH's melancholy manifesto "O.K. Computer", "In It For The Money", is a good-time carnival ride through terrain so familiar, it sounds like an old favorite on your first listen.

While I won't go so far as to say it's a better album, it's got much more variety and would be very accessible to anyone who's ever liked a rock and roll song anywhere between the Beatles and Smashing Pumpkins. The downside of this is that it's so immediately likable that you may tire of it faster than an album that grows on you more slowly such as the new Pearl Jam.

It would be fair to call their music derivative, but every time you think "this part sounds like "so-and-so" you realize that it sounds better than "so-and-so". A number of the songs bear a strong resemblance to the short-lived Canadian band Jellyfish--but "Money" is vastly superior to any of their recordings.

"In It For The Money" is Brit-pop in the grandest sense of the word, and has a organic cohesion that makes it sound like a "so called" concept album of the same species as Sgt. Peppers and Abbey Road.

It's good to know there's a band out there that's every bit as good as Oasis thinks it is. "Money" is a pay day, Friday night, head-bobbin, party-time, rock and roll masterpiece. Don't let another weekend go by without it.