The album Jollification became a critical success [7] and the other singles taken from this album ("Lucky You", "Marvellous" and "Perfect") all made noticeable impact.

Pure (The Lightning Seeds album) - Wikipedia

This list of chart entries here proves that there's so much more to the Lightning Seeds than that "3 Lions" song, which I'm tired of. The single "Life's Too Short" was heralded by BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles as "one of the band's strongest singles to date" and rose to No.In 1998, The Lightning Seeds also performed on the Main Stage at both the Glastonbury Festival and the V Festival in the UK. An instrumental version of the song later became better known as the BBC TV theme for the Goal of the Month competition. if you listen to any modern-day song, often you will find they are just a group of words jumbled together so that they rhyme, and some dont rhyme at all, but with the lightning seeds its different.

Pure (song) - Wikipedia

The name derives from a misheard lyric from Prince's 1985 hit single " Raspberry Beret", in which Prince sings the line "thunder drowns out what the lightning sees". Peel's American counterpart, Rodney Biggenheimer of the Los Angeles radio station KROQ, got a hold of an imported copy and started playing it, and the song found its way to college radio stations throughout California.Four tracks from the album were released as singles in the UK: "Lucky You", "Marvellous", "Change" and "Perfect". The group experienced commercial success throughout the 1990s and are well known for their single " Three Lions", a collaboration with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner which reached No. I was surprised to read that Broudie wrote this warm and romantic song(almost a poem of Byron-esque dimensions)in spite of his highly realistic attitude to life in general. Just forget Christina Aguilera, Robbie Williams (wrong version), anything else I can't remember that would have been on the charts for ages that I never heard since I no longer tuned into the radio except just the new entries that I liked, none of them playlisted, each week. Liverpool scene peers Andy McCluskey and Ian McNabb – frontmen of OMD and the Icicle Works, respectively – appeared in guest roles.

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The first Lightning Seeds single release, "Pure" is significant in that it was the first song Ian Broudie had "completely written and sung, ever".

Broudie performed all vocals and instruments on the band's first album, 1989's Cloudcuckooland, which he also produced.