The Lightning Seeds

With their sunny hooks and loosely psychedelic take on melodic indie pop, the Lightning Seeds emerged at the tail end of the 1980s as the solo venture of Liverpool producer and musician Ian Broudie. The former Big in Japan member and producer of Echo & the Bunnymen and the Fall landed a hit right out of the gate with 1989's "Pure" and spent much of the following decade building on his band's success with memorable cuts like 1992's "The Life of Riley" and 1994's "Change" from their platinum-certified third album, Jollification. During the height of the Britpop era, Broudie penn...