There's a reason why I'm drawn to things from the 1990s. I was a teenager in the 1990s and that's the music I sunk my teeth into. The music you listen to and choose to buy in your formative years you'll find later on to be the most important music in your life. Chances are... Continue Reading →
It's here! Tomorrow's finally here. Today. This is a retrospective compilation spanning the 35 year career of the band from debut single Pure right up to the last single Emily Smiles. And this time, rather than leave it 12 months before reviewing an album, I'm reviewing it 2 days after it has been released. I've... Continue Reading →
A review of See You In The Stars from my other blog Extra Soft Blog Roll I love writing about cars and music, and when I write something about music, or an album I like, I tend to write about it quite a while after the initial release. That gives me time to get to... Continue Reading →
Best known for the Pure hit of 1989, Lightning Seeds is effectively bespectacled Liverpudlian producer Ian Broudie, once of Care, makers of the luscious Flaming Sword. Sense follows the moderately familiar format of Broudie's plaintive voice set against effortlessly memorable tunes. It's a simple formula and it works well, conjuring up visions of a more... Continue Reading →
Paul Davies, Q, Feb 1990. From the book "Encyclopedia of Albums". Liverpudlian Ian Broudie had been at the centre of Merseyside music for a decade, firstly as guitarist and songwriter with Big In Japan and later of Echo and the Bunneymen before this, his first "solo" album albeit under a group name. It emerged on... Continue Reading →
The third instalment of Ian Broudie's five-year plan to reshape pop music is every bit as strong as both predecessors Cloudcuckooland and Sense. His softly spoken pop vignettes have stealthily lockpicked the oak-panelled doors of mainstream acceptance and it can only be a matter of time before Broudie is swapping dressing rooms with Marti Pellow.... Continue Reading →
Pure Lightning Seeds Ian Broudie is proof positive that if you've got it, and you keep using it, eventually you'll get somewhere. Paying dues in Big In Japan and Care, he found acclaim as a producer (The Fall, Echo & The Bunnymen etc), formed the Lightning Seeds as a one-man-in-a-studio project in 1989, and set... Continue Reading →
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