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That's Not My Name
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Get yourselves an education in....
... The Lightning Seeds, one of the best and most underrated British bands of all time. From 1989-1999, they produced some of the best 'pop' songs ever made. Trouble is, when people think of 'pop' they think of manufactured boy bands, wafer-thin girl bands and cheesy productions. Ian Broudie and the crew created perfect three-minute pop songs with genuine musical talent and ability, yet get overlooked for seemingly more "credible" music.
It's not to everybody's tastes, but check out these videos. (And I guarantee you that you will recognise at least one of these songs in the "I Know That Song But I Never Knew Who It Was By" category.) |
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Triple A
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Aye always enjoyed the Seeds, another in a long line of fantastic bands to come from the land of Scouse
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Liverpool has produced some great bands (The Seeds, Beatles), great soaps (Brookside!!) and some great birds (Ellison). You know what I think I might move there.
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Is Gemma Atkinson a scouser? Well she was in Hollyoaks so she is an honourary one.
Another great thing to come from the land of scouse would be my middle-aged former workmate, the best joke teller in the world, he's from (hmm, I wanna say Runcorn?) and has an ENORMOUS Everton tattoo on his arm. How bout dat? |
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Triple A
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A lot of people from Runcorn sound fairly generically scouse so yeah probably.
Atkinson is a Manc, there's no doubt about that! Also whatever happened to Cast? |
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hey chris remember when I sang karokee to lightning seed in France when we went on the school trip
![]() But yeah I think they definatly are under-rated |
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Triple A
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Yeah you were all the rage for a few days after that son
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Only heard the Life Of Riley by them, but it was pretty good.
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Triple A
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You mean MOTD Goal of the Month/Season theme tune
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Quote:
And of course you MUST have heard Three Lions? |
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Haven't heard any of the songs I listened to, butI stopped halfway trhrough. Not bad, but nothing special.
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#12 |
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By the way, I forgot to label the songs, so this is the name of the song in the order they appear above.
LIFE'S TOO SHORT YOU SHOWED ME (cover of The Turtles) SENSE PURE ALL I WANT JOY WHAT IF... LUCKY YOU MARVELLOUS (from Renault ads, well I think it was Renault anyway) PERFECT THE LIFE OF RILEY CHANGE (from Clueless soundtrack) READY OR NOT SONG FOR NO-ONE (Ian Broudie solo, also featured in The O.C.) SUGAR COATED ICEBERG |
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If I had to recommend one or two, I'd say check out 'Lucky You', 'Perfect' and 'Song For No-One'.
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Yes, I do now realise that's three.
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THREE LIONS ON A SHIRT
JULES RIMET STILL GLEAMING THIRTY YEARS OF HURT NO MORE NEED FOR DREAMING |
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But seriously Song For No-One is fucking awesome.
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Yep. Quality.
There was supposed to be a new Seeds album late last year, but no news since. I did hear that Broudie's brother died (suicide from the top of Liverpool Cathedral) so maybe that understandably held things up. In the words of Peter De Lane: thoughts with the family. |
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