Cloudcuckooland (album)

Cloudcuckooland
Studio album by The Lightning Seeds
Released	10 February 1990
Recorded	1989, England
Genre	Alternative rock, indie pop
Length	46:34
Label	Ghetto (GHETT 3)
Producer	Ian Broudie
The Lightning Seeds chronology
Cloudcuckooland (1990) Sense (1992)
Singles from Cloudcuckooland
"Pure" Released: 28 July 1989 "Joy" Released: 31 October 1989 "All I Want" Released: 30 April 1990

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Cloudcuckooland is the debut album by the British musical project The Lightning Seeds. It was released in 1990. "Pure" was the debut UK hit for The Lightning Seeds and the band's only Top 40 hit in the USA.^[2]

Release and reception

"All I Want" has been covered by Susanna Hoffs, formerly of The Bangles, on her 1996 album Susanna Hoffs. It was a minor US hit and a UK hit at #33 for 2 weeks.

Track listing

The CD version of Cloudcuckooland included an extra track, "God Help Them", which was originally a B-side and not on the LP version. The US track listing differs from the UK version with "God Help Them" replaced by two other B-sides, "Fools" and "Frenzy", and it was released on the MCA Records label rather than the indie label Ghetto. The re-release of the US album includes a new recording of "All I Want".^[3]

All songs written by Ian Broudie (except where stated).

1. "All I Want" – 2:50 (Broudie/Peter Coyle)
2. "Bound in a Nutshell" – 4:29
3. "Pure" – 3:45
4. "Sweet Dreams" – 4:25 (Broudie/Richard Jobson)
5. "The Nearly Man" – 3:06
6. "Joy" – 4:13
7. "Love Explosion" – 4:10
8. "Don't Let Go" – 3:54
9. "Control the Flame" – 3:22 (Broudie/Coyle)
10. "The Price" – 4:20

Bonus tracks

UK CD bonus track

11. "God Help Them" – 3:44 (Broudie/Paul Simpson)

U.S. bonus tracks

11. "Fools" – 4:08
12. "Frenzy" – 3:56

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