Cloudcuckooland

Running Time: CD: 43.04 (LP: 39.20)
Release date: 29th January 1990
Date first charted: 10th February 1990
Highest UK chart position: No. 50
Weeks on chart: 2
Label: Ghetto (re-released on Virgin)
Catalogue number: Ghetto – GHETT3 / GHETTCD3 (Virgin: CDOVD436)
Formats: CD, LP, Cassette,
Cloudcuckooland Podcast episode available on Spotify and Youtube.

Personnel credits:
All instruments played by Ian Broudie, with:
– Additional programming: Simon Rogers, Steve Brown,
– Piano on Bound In A Nutshell and organ on Control The Flame: Henry Priestman
– Saxophone: Micky Kearns
– Backing vocals: Ian Broudie, Ian McNabb and Cate Shanks.

Produced by Ian Broudie
Engineered by Cenzo Townshend

Running order and writing credits:
1. All I Want (Ian Broudie / Peter Coyle)
2. Bound In A Nutshell (Ian Broudie)
3. Pure (Ian Broudie)
4. Sweet Dreams (Ian Broudie / Richard Jobson)
5. The Nearly Man (Ian Broudie)
6. Joy (Ian Broudie)
7. Love Explosion (Ian Broudie)
8. Don’t Let Go (Ian Broudie)
9. Control The Flame (Ian Broudie / Peter Coyle)
10. The Price (Ian Broudie)
11. God Help Them* (Ian Broudie / Paul Simpson)

My Notes:
“God Help Them” was at first a b-side. It was only available on the CD of Cloudcuckooland

Other releases of Cloudcukooland: Some years after it came out following the failure of Ghetto, Cloudcuckooland was re-released as a budget mid-price album on the Virgin label.

The USA had a different release of Cloudcuckooland. It was released on a major label, MCA Records, whereas it released on indie label Ghetto (and various distributors of) elsewhere. It featured the track Fools, which over here was the b-side of Pure. On the CD version, there was a bonus track, which was Frenzy, the b-side of Joy. The US version features the re-recorded version of All I Want, which only saw a release as a single in the UK. Interestingly, though, the cassette release on MCA records features the original version of All I Want. I’ll feature the USA release in the forthcoming rarities section in due course.

US version: