Title: The Very Best of The Lightning Seeds
Release date: 12th November 2006
Label: Sony BMG
Catalogue number. 82976848002
Formats: CD, MP3 Download
Highest UK chart position: No. 33

Track listing:

1. Lucky You (Writers: Ian Broudie / Terry Hall)
2. The Life Of Riley (Writers: Ian Broudie)
3. Change (Writers: Ian Broudie)
4. Feeling Lazy (Writers: Ian Broudie / Ian McNabb)
5. Life's Too Short (Writers: Ian Broudie)
6. Pure (Writers: Ian Broudie)
7. Song For No One (Writers: Ian Broudie)
8. You Showed Me (Writers: Gene Clark / James McGuinn)
9. Be My Baby (Writers: Phil Spector / Ellie Greenwich / Jeff Barry)
10. Sugar Coated Iceberg (Writers: Ian Broudie / Stephen Jones)
11. Ready or Not (Writers: Ian Broudie)
12. Lucifer Sam (Writers: Syd Barrett)
13. What If... (Writers: Ian Broudie / Terry Hall)
14. If Only (Writers: Ian Broudie / Mike Pickering)
15. Perfect (Writers: Ian Broudie)
16. What You Say (Writers: Ian Broudie / Terry Hall)
17. Tables Have Turned (Writers: Ian Broudie)
18. Sense (Writers: Ian Broudie / Terry Hall)
19. Marvellous (Writers: Ian Broudie)

20. Three Lions (Writers: Ian Broudie / David Baddiel / Frank Skinner)

Tracks 6, 7, 9, 17 and 20 produced by Ian Broudie

Track 16 produced by Ian Broudie, Jonathan Quarmby and Kevin Bacon. Mixed by Dave Bascombe.

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 14, 15, 18 and 19 produced by Ian Broudie and Simon Rogers.

Tracks 8, 10, 11, and 13 produced by Ian Broudie, Dave Bascombe and Simon Rogers.


Author's (who???) Note

Another year passes, and another compilation. We don't really need another Like You Do, and essentially this is what this album is with a few extras to make up the numbers. Inclusion of new song Tables Have Turned is a nice feature as it's a great song. Could have been left off though and kept for Four Winds. The re-recording of Song For No One is unncesscary and doesn't improve on the original in any way.

Cover versions Lucifer Sam (Pink Floyd) and Be My Baby (The Ronnettes) break it up a bit, as do album tracks If Only and Feeling Lazy.

However, this is yet another missed opportunity - the omission of All I Want from the compilation, and no single version of Ready Or Not either. Ideally, the cover versions should be left off to accomodate All I Want (preferably the single version), Joy and single versions of Marvellous and Ready Or Not.

Still, the quality of the songs themselves more than make up for the fact that this is a cash-in by the record company. And it's a damn good compilation to have in the car!