The Lightning Seeds Cloudcuckooland Songs

I bought the cassingle of pure back in 1990 but having the cd gets you the official liner lyrics and of course better sound.

The lightning seeds cloudcuckooland songs.

Discover more music concerts videos and pictures with the largest catalogue online at last fm. Cloudcuckooland is the debut album by british band the lightning seeds released in 1990 pure was the band s first hit in the united kingdom and their only top 40 entry in the united states liverpool scene peers andy mccluskey and ian mcnabb frontmen of omd and the icicle works respectively appeared in guest roles. All songs written by ian broudie except where stated. The songs on this album bring to mind omd pet shop boys thompson twins etc synth pop sounds of the mid eighties and it s great.

Cloudcuckooland contains distant hints of echo especially in the guitar track on pure but this album is much more liquid than anything the. The lightning seeds are actually a single seed ian broudie who sprouted from the same scene in liverpool england as echo the bunnymen and icicle works.