As well as the Lightning Seeds (but get sick of Three Lions and prefer the 98 remix involving France), I usually like the unplaylisted side of the Top 40 - late 1990s/early 2000s - generally the lowest new entries, so not really pop music after all even though they hit the pop charts - plus lots of songs that didn't get Top 40 it seems from late 1980s to mid 2000s - gives a very different perspective of what the Top 40 is. Mark Farrow's album cover featured the use of computer graphics to create an enormous strawberry and depicting seeds with superimposed human faces. His engineer saved the recording on a Digital Audio Tape (DAT) for reference, but that recording ended up on a demo Broudie sent to an industry type, a "kind of a '60s, cigar-smoking music biz guy. An instrumental version of the song later became better known as the BBC TV theme for the Goal of the Month competition. Interview: The Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie – "'Three Lions' Is Like a Christmas Carol", Carl Stanley, Live4ever.

Jollification - Wikipedia Jollification - Wikipedia

From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric. 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". In 1989 Ian Broudie began recording alone under the name Lightning Seeds and achieved success with the psychedelic and synthpop hit " Pure", from the album Cloudcuckooland, which reached the UK Top 20.S. track listing differs from the UK version with "God Help Them" replaced by the B-sides "Fools" and "Frenzy", and it was released on the MCA label rather than the indie label Ghetto. S. as a promo single on MCA Records, which included a cover of Tim Hardin's " Hang onto a Dream" and a version of " Flaming Sword", originally by Care, a former band of Broudie. If you haven't got a good idea, no matter how well you sing it, and whatever you do, it will never be a good idea.

The Lightning Seeds - Pure Lyrics | SongMeanings The Lightning Seeds - Pure Lyrics | SongMeanings

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. With the nostalgic sentiment and the overall tone of the song, I think Keane is attempting to express a Portuguese term known as 'saudade', which does not have a direct English translation but roughly means "that which we remember because it is gone. copies of the single were originally pressed, but after some radio play and attention at The Haçienda, the song soon sprang to mainstream consciousness. We've been asked whether "Somewhere Only We Know" is about a specific place, and Tim has been saying that, for him, or us as individuals, it might be about a geographical space, or a feeling; it can mean something individual to each person, and they can interpret it to a memory of theirs.

The album Jollification became a critical success [6] and the singles taken from this album, "Lucky You", "Marvellous" and "Perfect" made noticeable impact.

The Lightning Seeds Lyrics, Songs, and Albums | Genius The Lightning Seeds Lyrics, Songs, and Albums | Genius

Broudie Tweeted that to him it means "an eccentric view which recognises endless possibilities with no boundaries. i]t misses off one song from Cloudcuckooland ("Control the Flame") and two from Sense ("Where Flowers Fade" and "Marooned"). in the UK Singles Chart and became the first song to top the charts on two occasions with different sets of lyrics. By the end of 1993, Broudie had completed the third Lightning Seeds album Jollification, which included contributions from Terry Hall, Simon Rogers, Alison Moyet and Ian McNabb.So I think this song is about a guy who wears shades as a way of hiding his insecurity after learning that his girlfriend is cheating on him.