In the next of our series of guest columns in which musicians champion their favourite Merseyside songs, we have Liverpool singer/songwriter Moho singing the praises of Pure by The Lightning Seeds...
“Pure� loveliness from The Lightning Seeds.
One of my strongest memories of the 1989 “Summer of Love: Part 2�, is stretching out in a friend’s backyard, drunk on sunshine, the radio soothing our (almost) teenage minds.
One snare roll and three note motif later and my ears were pricked, I felt happy and sad all at once. Propped up on one elbow, trying to sift brilliance from sunstroke I heard the beautiful opening couplets “night time slows, raindrops splash rainbows/perhaps someone you know could sparkle and shine�.
I was in love with a band whose name I knew not.
“as the daydreams slide to colour from shadow/picture the moon-glow there in your eyes�, and then the line that’s twisted about and over poeticized by people too afraid to keep it simple “and I love you…�
ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC.
To this day that song transports be back and I’m on the cusp of teenage-hood, amidst a golden age of music; Nirvana, The Farm, Stone Roses etc…
The Lightning Seeds are all too often dismissed as the band behind Baddiel & Skinner on “3 Lions�, but in his time Ian Broudie has written some beautifully simple melodies. In recent years Broudie been responsible for producing almost everything that came out of the Bandwagon/�Cosmic Scouse� spurt of local activity.
You can keep your 'ferries over the Mersey', and your 'never walking on your own', just give me some twang and jangle, and leave me “Lying smiling in the dark�.
Spot On!"
For more information on Moho, see www.myspace.com/moho001
Comments (1)
Posted by Katy | May 19, 2008 10:02 PM
Posted on May 19, 2008 22:02