Updated July 14, 2008

On a bi-monthly basis I will pick one of my Top 200 artists at random and highlight every track that the artist has placed on my Music Library. Artist discography is listed below tracklist, along with interesting facts about the artist.
Library No. and Track in bold indicates that it appears on either "
Best Of" "Decade" "Year End" and/or "500" series.

 

Ian Broudie 
Lightning Seeds
ranked #38 with 763 points; 57 tracks

Library No.
Track Title
Album
Date Rec'd
116

Joy

Cloudcuckooland

01.26.91
116

All I Want

Cloudcuckooland

01.26.91
117

Don't Let Go

Cloudcuckooland

02.08.91
125

Pure

Cloudcuckooland

08.29.91
134

Thinking Up Looking Down

Sense

03.04.92
134

Marooned

Sense

03.04.92
135

The Life Of Riley

Sense

03.19.92
136

Sense

Sense

04.11.92
136

Happy

Sense

04.11.92
136

A Small Slice Of Heaven

Sense

04.11.92
137

A Cool Place

Sense

05.23.92
139

Flaming Sword

CD single

07.11.92
147

Blowing Bubbles

Sense

02.14.93
159

Bound In A Nutshell

Cloudcuckooland

09.17.93
181

Why Why Why

Jollification

09.18.94
181

Telling Tales

Jollification

09.18.94
181

Perfect

Jollification

09.18.94
181

Punch & Judy

Jollification

09.18.94
181

Lucky You

Jollification

09.18.94
182

Change

Jollification

09.26.94
182

Marvellous

Jollification

09.26.94
182

My Best Day

Jollification

09.26.94
183

Open Goals

Jollification

10.23.94
183

Feeling Lazy

Jollification

10.23.94
197

Howl

CD single

08.07.95
209

Whole Wide World

CD single

03.10.96
209

Ready Or Not

CD single

03.10.96
221

What If...(Leuroj's Slo 'n' Easy Mix)

CD single

11.02.96
221

What If...

Dizzy Heights

11.02.96
221

The Nearly Man

Cloudcuckooland

11.02.96
222

You Showed Me

Dizzy Heights

11.30.96
222

Wishaway

Dizzy Heights

11.30.96
222

Touch And Go

Dizzy Heights

11.30.96
222

Ready Or Not (Album Version)

Dizzy Heights

11.30.96
223

Like You Do

Dizzy Heights

01.11.97
223

Sugar Coated Iceberg

Dizzy Heights

01.11.97
223

Waiting For Today To Happen

Dizzy Heights

01.11.97
224

Why Why Why (Group Version '97)

CD single

02.01.97
224

You Bet Your Life

Dizzy Heights

02.01.97
224

Porpoise Song

CD single

02.01.97
224

This Power

CD single

02.01.97
230

Fishes On The Line

Dizzy Heights

06.21.97
231

Imaginary Friends

Dizzy Heights

07.19.97
237

What You Say (7" Version)

CD single

01.18.98
278

Life's Too Short

Tilt

01.14.00
278

Cigarettes & Lies

Tilt

01.14.00
278

If Only

Tilt

01.14.00
278

I Wish I Was In Love

Tilt

01.14.00
278

Tales Of The Riverbank

Tilt

01.14.00
279

Sweetest Soul Sensations

Tilt

02.24.00
280

All The Things

Tilt

02.24.00
280

Happy Satellite

Tilt

02.24.00
286

Get It Right

Tilt

05.22.00
286

City Bright Stars

Tilt

05.22.00
302

Crowdpleaser

Tilt

01.29.01
472

Tables Have Turned

The Very Best of the Lightning Seeds

07.11.06
473

Song For No One

The Very Best of the Lightning Seeds

07.11.06

 
Lightning Seeds
discography

Year Of Release
Album
Year Of Release
Album
1989

Cloudcuckooland

1995

Like You Do..Best of the Lightning Seeds

1992

Sense

1999

Tilt

1994

Jollification

2004

Life of Riley: The Lightning Seeds Collection

1996

Pure (compilation)

2006

The Very Best of the Lightning Seeds

1996

Dizzy Heights

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Lightning Seeds
facts

 

Lightning Seeds are an alternative pop/rock band, largely the brainchild of writer, singer and guitarist Ian Broudie. The group has its origins in the English city of Liverpool.

 

Ian Broudie's brother Rob, a solicitor in Liverpool, died of unusual circumstances in the early hours of October 17, 2006, after apparently falling from the tower of Liverpool Cathedral.

 

"The Life Of Riley" is named after Ian Broudie's son, Riley.

 

"Sense" would mark Broudie's first Lightning Seeds songwriting collaborations with former Specials singer Terry Hall. In years to come, it would prove a fruitful partnership. The album's title track "Sense", co written with Hall, would achieve some chart success, reaching #31 in the UK. Despite this, Virgin began to lose interest in the band as a result of poor sales of the album, which stagnated at #53 on the charts. The Lightning Seeds were subsequently dropped from the label.

 

On October 11, 2004 Broudie released his debut solo effort, "Tales Told," which was embraced by critics and fans alike, despite the fact that "Tales Told" saw Broudie move into folk rock territory and away from the chirpy pop tunes of The Lightning Seeds. However, the album performed very poorly in terms of sales and Broudie's hope that "word of mouth" would help to shift copies of the work never quite transpired.

In 2007, Broudie appeared on Ken Bruce's PopMaster BBC Radio 2 show during which he announced that he was writing and producing more material. He did not confirm whether this would be a solo project or under the Lightning Seeds name, though he strongly suggested that he would be releasing new material in 2008.

Despite receiving airplay on college and alternative radio, the Lightning Seeds placed only two singles on the US charts. "Pure" reached #31 in 1990, and "The Life of Riley" reached #98 in 1992.

 

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