Lightning Seeds: C/D

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For some reason I really want to ask this question, but I don't know why...

― Mr Swygart, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Initial impression: Classic

2 Months after owning the album: Dud

― paul, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the football song they did captured the imagination of the public in euro 96. A great summer single!

So in conclusion an absolute DUD!

― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

up through first three records(though jollification isn't really classic) classic, since then dud. sense is the best album and 'marooned' is the best song. major label wuss pop was a grand idea once upon a time.

― keith, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some great singles in there, like "Pure" (despite being insufferably precious and twee) and "Sugar-Coated Iceberg" and their cover of "You Showed Me."

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"just lying smiling in the dark" classic. cos it makes me think about being outside on a lawn at 4am with dew already beading around me.

life of riley reminds me of when match of the day first got into funky goal worship.

took me ages to find the cd again though - next to 'songs of the mongolian steppes'

― stevie mitch, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pure is sickening limpy hideousness. Sense is the best album by far, title track in particular is sprightly and infectious and genius. Nothing else really matches this, though Perfect is 'ahh-AHH-ahh-ahh' goodness and Change is bouncy and fine, and i quite liked the Alison Moyet one... sorry... Ian Broudie 'did' most of Essex by Alison Moyet, is actually very fine record, he should just get her in to her bellow and retreat to background and not be allowed to speak, ever.

― Alex Linsdell, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

People really are different. I think 'Pure' is a perfect pop song (melody, structure, lyrics, production etc). I think it would sound great covered by literally anybody. Maybe Broudie plays it too twee for some, but I'll always have a sickening, limpy and hideous spot in my heart for 'Pure' (and 'All I Want' for that matter).

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I listened to pure everyday, often more than once, for more than a year, and wasn't exactly bored of it. I know it off by heart (and not just the words). Take this how you will.

I never did buy Tilt.

― Graham, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tilt had that whole godawful Gomez-artwork thing going on. The sleeve was what made Jollification fairly loveable, and the flatness of Dizzy Heights could be overlooked when in generous mood cause of beauteous swirling-coloured-paperplanes. And then they went all sludgey and charted at number 46 because, given the choice, PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE MORE INCLINED TO BUY AN ALBUM THAT LOOKS NICE.

Initial copies of Jollification CD had strawberry-scented booklet, now this was a wonderful thing.

― Alex Linsdell, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A great singles band. Can write fantastic melodies, to a much higher standard than most actually. I was about 12-13 when they were at their height, and I thought the were fantastic. Only bought the Best Of mind. In those days, classic.

These days, I do find the Lightning Seeds to be dud, but Ican handle the over-cheeseyness of their music palatable in small doses. Much in the same way as the music of The Divine Comedy (who's music I prefer to TLS but now hate Neil Hannon on principle).

Overall, if your a believer in the theory that the only purpose of boyband/girlband stuff is to introduce youngsters to music with "more depth" or more musical or lyrical integrity, then surely The Lightning Seeds are THE band to bridge the gap between the two.

Therefore, surely, classic. But not in my back yard.

― Colin Cooper, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Classic, classic, classic and nothing but classic!

I agree they are/were more of a singles band, though, but I still love the "Dizzy Heights" album

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 27 October 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

I've gotten out "Dizzy Heights" tonight -- a World Cup-crazed pal mentioned something called "Three Lions" (cited above) and I produced this, the only thing I own by them. It's brilliant, as I remembered. "Sugar Coated Iceberg" is like the great lost collabo between Nick Lowe, Morrissey and the Pet Shop Boys, and "Touch and Go" is a hushed toast to every college friend who's long since receded into time.

I still haven't heard the soccer record, though.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

Kinda wonder what Colin Cooper's listening to these days.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

Might wanna kill out the word "college" from my first post -- I'm in my cups right now and it occurs to me I spent an hour on the phone Tuesday afternoon with Matos, who never matriculated and who (whom? dang) I really don't wanna insult, but then I know he's about context above all and maybe arrrgh.

Damn, that's a good record, though.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

"Three Lions" is so obviously the best football related record ever.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

nope

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

"Tilt" is mostly very good and underrated I'd say.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Scott Walker?

"Sugar Coated Iceberg" lyrics written by him off Babybird. A comment on the rest of Ian Broudie's lyrics? Hmmm.....

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

OK "Three Lions" then: I hate it, but cannot deny the proposition that it may well be the best fotball record made thus far... as it genuinely works as a football CHANT as well as a piece of melodic chart rock. Even "World in Motion" isn't as chant-catchy (too fey and puny)....

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Tilt by The Lightning Seeds, of course. The Scott Walker one is ridiculously overrated!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

what Mark E. Smith saw in Broudie I'm not entirely sure (tho I do like the Fall albums he produced - they just seem like people that wouldn't get along, have very diff't goals, tastes, etc.)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

'Life of Riley' is a pretty perfect slice of New Orderesque pop. Upbeat, jaunty, propulsive even but tinged with bittersweet melancholia.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 12 July 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

I remember when Cloudcuckooland was zanily promoted as an "organic" alternative to the "machine-driven" sounds of pop. The two singles were fine (Susannah Hoffs has a fine cover of "All I Want"), as was one song on the B called "Can't Control The Flame" or something.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

I'm getting sentimental w/ some Ian Broudie this afternoon & it occurred to me that the drum track & bass line to "Pure" would not be out of place in a Wesely Willis song & now I can't stop thinking about it. I still love the song & all, just sayin..

― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

ten years pass...

Just lying smiling in the dark
Shooting stars around your heart
Dreams come bouncing in your head
Pure and simple everytime

Now you're crying in your sleep
I wish you'd never learnt to weep
Don't sell the dreams you should be keeping
Pure and simple everytime

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 March 2021 03:44 (five years ago)

just nuts that Sense isn't on Spotify

― charlie brown from outta town (GM), Friday, 12 March 2021 07:22 (five years ago)

why should it be?

― armoured van, Holden (sic), Friday, 12 March 2021 08:18 (five years ago)

x-posts

Doesn't he sing "And I loved you" now?

― djh, Monday, 15 March 2021 22:52 (five years ago)

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