Dizzy Heights

Lightning Seeds | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 1997)
• Original Release Date: June 3, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002BX4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,918 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Imaginary Friends

2. You Bet Your Life

3. Waiting for Today to Happen

4. What If.....

5. Sugar Coated Iceberg

6. Touch and Go

7. Like You Do

8. Wishaway

9. Fingers and Thumbs

10. You Showed Me

11. Ready or Not

12. Fishes on the Line

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One superb track embedded in an enjoyable sugar coating..., June 15, 2000

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nicjaytee (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dizzy Heights (Audio CD)

Clever... take a song that the Byrds wrote and the Turtles turned into a minor hit, add some clicks & pops to create the required retro feel, mix in a more punchy and atmospheric arrangement and there you have it... a perfect missing 60's single. Full of the harmonies and chord structures that epitomise a wonderful period of music, the Lightning Seeds interpetation of "You Showed Me", just like the the Stone Roses' equally brilliant "Waterfall", captures the spirit of mid 60's music made all the better with the benefit of 30 years' hindsight. Such tracks are rare indeed.

But what of the rest?: skilfully produced & executed "tuneful" songs that will keep you whistling away for hours. Lightweight ? derivative ? - well yes, but they have that ability to keep grabbing space on your CD player despite the feeling that you really should be listening to something more serious. And... if or when you get bored with it all you're still left with one quite superb, time-warped and timeless track.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What an addiction !, December 13, 2001

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Dominic (Montreal, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dizzy Heights (Audio CD)

The Lightning Seeds are quite addictive and this cd is the best example to prove it ! I guess it is hard not to enjoy songs like "Like You Do", "Sugar Coated Iceberg", "Fingers & Thumbs" and "Ready Or Not"...This album is memorable only for the fact that there is simply no dull moment on it...The music could be described as being "sweet and melodic pop-rock for intellectuals"...A must-have for fans of the British pop scene...Believe me, buy this album and you'll soon find yourself wanting more...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Too Bad, January 31, 2002

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October (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dizzy Heights (Audio CD)

I discovered this album after hearing "You Showed Me" on an old episode of the MTV show Daria, actually. I thought the song was awesome, and I heard a little of the rest of the album, so I bought it pretty cheap.
Now, the first song, "Imaginary Friends" is really great, and of course, "You Showed Me", but the rest of the cd sort of blends together. At the end, you kind of wind up with same-sound overload, it's like one really long song punctuated by the two really good ones.

Fortunately, the afore-mentioned songs are good enough to make up for the lack of color in the rest of the songs, so I would say this album was worth buying if only for "Imaginary Friends" and "You Showed Me". If you don't mind the drawbacks and you're looking for good background music, then definitely, go for it.