Cloudcuckooland is the debut album by rock group 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.

Release and reception

Track listing

The CD

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 version of Cloudcuckooland included an extra track, "God Help Them", which was originally a B-side and not on the LP

LP album

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 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

MCA Records

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 label rather than the indie label Ghetto. The re-release of the US album includes a new recording of "All I Want".

All songs written by Ian Broudie

Ian Broudie

Ian Broudie is a British singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from Liverpool, England. After emerging from the post punk scene in Liverpool in the late 1970s as a member of Big in Japan, Broudie went on to form the short-lived groups Original Mirrors and Care in the early 1980s as well...

 (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
   Richard Jobson (television presenter)
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   )
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

Personnel

The Lightning Seeds

• Ian Broudie
  Ian Broudie
  Ian Broudie is a British singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from Liverpool, England. After emerging from the post punk scene in Liverpool in the late 1970s as a member of Big in Japan, Broudie went on to form the short-lived groups Original Mirrors and Care in the early 1980s as well...
  
   – all instruments, vocals, producer

Production

• Cenzo Townshend – engineer
• Ian McFarlane – assistant engineer
• Paul Cobbold – additional engineer
• Pete Coleman – additional engineer
• Simon Rogers
  Simon Rogers
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   – additional programming
• Steve Brown – additional programming
• Greg Fulginiti
  Greg Fulginiti
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   – mastering

Additional musicians

• Henry Priestman
  Henry Priestman
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   – piano, organ
• Micky Kearns – saxophone
• Andy McCluskey
  Andy McCluskey
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   – keyboards
• Ian McNabb
  Ian McNabb
  Robert Ian McNabb is a British singer-songwriter and musician from Liverpool, England. He is known both for his work as leader and songwriter-in-chief of The Icicle Works in the 1980s, and his critically acclaimed solo career throughout from the early 1990s to date...
  
   – backing vocals
• Cate Shanks – backing vocals

Other personnel

• Peter Ashworth
  Peter Ashworth
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   – photography

Charts

Charts (1990)	Peak chart position
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U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	46

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