Put The Needle On The Record - Week #88

Put The Needle On The Record Week #88 The Lightning Seeds - Cloudcuckooland

For this weeks feature we go back to January 1990 and The Lightning Seeds album "Cloudcuckooland".

"Cloudcuckooland" was the debut album by The Lightning Seeds, who are from Liverpool, and features the brilliant track "Pure", it is a fantastic album with plenty of pop nuggets, my favourite tracks are "Pure", "All I Want" (which was re-recorded for its single release), "Joy", "Bound In A Nutshell" and "Don't Let Go" ( as good as "Pure").

The album features contributions by fellow Liverpool artists, Andy McCluskey (OMD) plays keyboards, Ian McNabb (Icicle Works) provides some vocals and Henry Priestman (The Christians) who plays piano and organ.

Ian Broudie is a very talented guy and well respected and it was excellent to watch them on TV live at Glastonbury a few years back.... his son is now in the band!

Three singles were released off the album "Pure" (which reached number 16 in the UK Singles Chart), "Joy" (which failed to chart in the UK) and "All I Want (which also didn't chart in the UK singles chart), how those 2 singles failed to chart is beyond me.

As this was a remix album no singles were released.

The album, reached Number 50 in the UK chart album chart.

Track Listing

All I Want
Bound in a Nutshell
Pure
Sweet Dreams
The Nearly Man
Joy
Love Explosion
Don't Let Go
Control The Flame
The Price

If you have this album in your collection, dig it out and give it a spin!