Sense

Title: The Lightning Seeds - Sense
Running Time: 42.23
Release date: 13th April 1992
Label: Virgin
Catalogue number. CDV 2690
Formats: CD, LP, Cassette,
Highest UK chart position: No. 54

Track listing:

1. Sense (Writers: Ian Broudie /Terry Hall)
2. The Life Of Riley (Writers: Ian Broudie)
3. Blowing Bubbles (Writers: Ian Broudie)
4. A Cool Place (Writers: Ian Broudie)
5. Where Flowers Fade (Writers: Ian Broudie / Terry Hall)
6. A Small Slice Of Heaven (Writers: Ian Broudie / Terry Hall)
7. Tingle Tangle (Writers: Ian Broudie)
8. Happy (Writers: Ian Broudie / Ian McNabb)
9. Marooned (Writers: Ian Broudie)
10. Thinking Up, Looking Down (Writers: Ian Broudie)

ALBUM CREDITS:

All instruments played by Ian Broudie and Simon Rogers

Additional musicians:
Mark L. Feltham - Harmonica
Alan Dunn - Accordian
Clive Layton - Hammond Organ
Roddy Lorimer - Trumpet

Album Engineered by Cenzo Townshend.
Additional engineering by Phil Ault, Simon Dawson
Album Produced by Ian Broudie and Simon Rogers.
Recorded in: Rob's Front Room, Liverpool, England.
Mixed at: Rockfield Studios, Wales.
Backing vocals: Ian Broudie, Terry Hall and Juliet Roberts and Ian McNabb

EXTRA NOTES:

Sense was the follow-up to the Lightning Seeds debut album, Cloudcuckooland. This album saw the beginning of Ian Broudie's song writing collaborations with Terry Hall, ex- Special, ex- Fun Boy Three and ex- The Colourfield member. The songs that came out of this were the track Sense, (which Terry later did a version of for his album, Home, backed by and produced by Broudie), A Small Slice of Heaven and Where Flowers Fade. A song writing credit with Ian McNabb (ex-Icicle Works) appears on the track Happy.

Sense was recorded in Ian Broudie's brothers front room, and, he bought a tape deck, a mixing desk and brought along some loops. This was also another first for the Lightning Seeds, and indeed a first for Ian Broudie. Tape loops and sampling. The percussion and the like on the great majority of the album are based around tape loops. All this work for nothing, though. Sense entered the charts at a very lowly position of 54 and was only in the charts for a week. There were two singles taken from the album. The first, the Life Of Riley was used as Match of the Day backing music, (and basis for the rip off on the Focus Do it All adverts).