The Very Best of The Lightning Seeds

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The Very Best of The Lightning Seeds

Greatest hits album by

The Lightning Seeds

Released

12 June 2006

Recorded

1989–2006

Genre

Alternative rock, indie pop

Length

78:39

Label

Sony BMG (684800)

Producer

Ian Broudie

The Lightning Seeds chronology

Life of Riley: The Lightning Seeds Collection
(2003)

The Very Best of The Lightning Seeds
(2006)

Four Winds
(2009)

Singles from The Very Best of the Lightning Seeds

"Three Lions"
Released: 5 June 2006 (reissue)
"Song for No One"
Released: 26 June 2006

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

The Very Best of The Lightning Seeds is the second official greatest hits album by British alternative rock band The Lightning Seeds. It was released on 12 June 2006, peaking at number 33 on the UK Album Chart.

The compilation is essentially an update of the group's first greatest hits album 1997's Like You Do... Best of The Lightning Seeds. The compilations share 12 tracks between them. The Very Best drops the group's third single "All I Want" and replaces the original recording of "Three Lions" with the 1998 re-recording. The compilation includes a pair of b-side covers ("Be My Baby", "Lucifer Sam"), two songs from 1998's commercial failure Tilt, "Song for No One" - a remix of a song from Broudie's solo-album - and the new recording "Tables Have Turned".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ian Broudie; except where indicated

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album/single	Length
1.	"Lucky You"	Broudie, Terry Hall	Jollification	4:19
2.	"The Life of Riley"		Sense	4:03
3.	"Change"		Jollification	4:00
4.	"Feeling Lazy"	Broudie, Ian McNabb	Jollification	3:55
5.	"Life's Too Short"		Tilt	4:00
6.	"Pure"		Cloudcuckooland	3:48
7.	"Song for No One" (new remixed version)		Tales Told	2:54
8.	"You Showed Me"	Gene Clark, James McGuinn	Dizzy Heights	4:07
9.	"Be My Baby"	Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Phil Spector	"What You Say" (b-side)	3:44
10.	"Sugar Coated Iceberg"	Broudie, Stephen Jones	Dizzy Heights	3:50
11.	"Ready or Not"		Dizzy Heights	3:47
12.	"Lucifer Sam"	Syd Barrett	"Marvellous" (b-side)	3:05
13.	"What If..."	Broudie, Hall	Dizzy Heights	3:22
14.	"If Only"	Broudie, Mike Pickering	Tilt	4:53
15.	"Perfect"		Jollification	3:28
16.	"What You Say"	Broudie, Hall	Like You Do... Best of The Lightning Seeds	4:23
17.	"Tables Have Turned"		previously unreleased	3:24
18.	"Sense"	Broudie, Hall	Sense	4:06
19.	"Marvellous"		Jollification	5:33
20.	"Three Lions '98"	David Baddiel (lyrics), Frank Skinner (lyrics), Broudie (music)	non-album single	3:58

Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart	33

References

^ Mawer, Sharon. "The Lightning Seeds: The Very Best of The Lightning Seeds > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 6 August 2010.

v t e The Lightning Seeds
Ian Broudie Riley Broudie Martyn Campbell Chris Sharrock Paul Hemmings Keith York Mathew Priest Zak Starkey
Studio albums	Cloudcuckooland Sense Jollification Dizzy Heights Tilt Four Winds See You in the Stars
Compilations	Pure Like You Do... Best of the Lightning Seeds Life of Riley: The Lightning Seeds Collection The Very Best of The Lightning Seeds
Singles	"Pure" "The Life of Riley" "Three Lions" "You Showed Me"
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