Track listing:

1. The Life Of Riley (Writers: Ian Broudie )
2. Sense (Writers: Ian Broudie / Terry Hall)
3. Blowing Bubbles (Writers: Ian Broudie)
4. Pure (Writers: Ian Broudie)
5. Sweet Dreams (Writers: Ian Broudie / Richard Jobson)
6. All I Want (Writers: Ian Broudie / Peter Coyle)
7. A Small Slice Of Heaven (Writers: Ian Broudie / Terry Hall)
8. Love Explosion (Writers: Ian Broudie)
9. Don't Let Go (Writers: Ian Broudie)
10. Joy (Writers: Ian Broudie)
11. The Price (Writers: Ian Broudie)
12. A Cool Place (Writers: Ian Broudie)
13. Happy (Writers: Ian Broudie / Ian McNabb)
14. Tingle Tangle (Writers: Ian Broudie)
15. God Help Them (Writers: Ian Broudie / Paul Simpson)
16. Bound In A Nutshell (Writers: Ian Broudie)
17. The Nearly Man (Writers: Ian Broudie)
18. Thinking Up Looking Down (Writers: Ian Broudie)

ALBUM CREDITS

Tracks 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16 and 17 taken from the album "Cloudcuckooland" and produced by Ian Broudie.

These tracks share the same credits listed as on Cloudcuckooland

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 7, 12, 13, 14, and 18 taken from the album "Sense" and produced by Ian Broudie and Simon Rogers

These tracks share the same credits listed as on Sense

Pure Lightning Seeds was released back in 1996 by Virgin. By this time, Lightning Seeds were signed to new record label Epic.

So, why were Virgin releasing something when the band are no longer on their label? Well, read it like this (or like that, depending on what position you are sitting in, but that's not important right now :-). The Lightning Seeds were orignally signed to Ghetto for the first album, but the company sunk and they were sold to Virgin by Dick Leahy. Cloudcuckooland was re-released on Virgin mid price, and later the new album, Sense, was released on Virgin.

At the end of 1992, Virgin were not particularly happy with the Lightning Seeds' performance in the charts, with the album Sense stalling at number 54. So Virgin sack the Lightning Seeds.

Epic signed them up and Ian Broudie changed his attitude entirely toward the Lightning Seeds, in that they would occupy 95% of his time instead of producing around.

Virgin could probably have kicked themselves, because the first album under Epic did rather well, selling 600,000 copies in Britain. Because of this, Virgin decided to cash in on the Lightning Seeds success and try to grab success that Cloudcuckooland and Sense did not get first time around. They released an album that was a compilation of the first two albums, with some tracks missing. It is quite a poor package, and they can't even spell Ian Broudie's name correctly.

To those Virgin public relation peole , if you are reading this, it's BROUDIE, not "BRODIE". You could have also made a proper booklet for something costing £14 instead of one that looks like it comes from a £4 budget CD. Oh, and Love Explosion was produced by Ian Broudie, not Ian Broudie and Simon Rogers. A bit of quality control would not go amiss.

And whilst I'm nit-picking, even thought it has a good cross selection of tracks from both albums, i just can't help feeling that it would have been so much better if some b-sides and the re-recorded All I Want were on the compilation. The artwork is good though